"Steve Lukather said: ‘Here’s a record that some DJ turned into a No 1. I can’t stand it.’ He got 90% of the publishing rights, so he can’t have been that mad!": How Roger Sanchez turned an '80s Toto ballad into a 2001 dance anthem

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The ‘80s is surely one of the most liberally sampled decades in musical history, its perennially influential catalogue of timeless tracks finding a second life in countless hits of the ‘90s, ‘00s and beyond.

Reimagined in a new musical context, a sinuous funk bassline can anchor a head-nodding hip-hop beat and a well-placed snippet of a synth solo can become a thumping electro-pop hook. But among the canon of ‘80s-sampling gems, few have pulled off a transformation quite like Roger Sanchez’s Another Chance.