Fleetwood Mac's multimillion-selling Rumours was recorded by the band in Sausalito and Los Angeles in 1977, at a time of intense inner turmoil. Rumours eventually went on to sell 15 million copies worldwide, spending a staggering total of 433 weeks on the U.K. charts and 130 weeks on the U.S. Billboard album chart. It was also voted Album of the Year ar the 20th annual Grammy Awards (R) in 1978.
Fleetwood Mac had already been in existence for over a decade by the time of Rumours came out. After several personnel changes, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie were joined by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. It was 1974, and the stage was set for a new chapter in the band's career.
The eponymously titled Fleetwood Mac, the first album with the new lineup, went platinum in 1976 and gave birth to hits like "Rhiannon" and "Say You Love Me." However, its success was soon overshadowed by that of Rumours.
Released in February 1977, Rumours reached #1 in the U.S. album chart in April of that year and found equal success in the U.K. In January 1978, its hit singles included "Go Your Own Way," "Don't Stop", "Dreams" (which reached #1 in the Billboard Hot 100), and "You Make Loving Fun."
Ironically, Rumours was recorded during a period when John and Christine McVie were separating, and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's relationship was also breaking up. It was the album that almost never made it.
This is the definitive story of the making (of) Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, an album that has truly earned its place (in) the pantheon of rock music history.
Also featured are specially recorded versions of Christine McVie's haunting "Songbird" and Lindsey Buckingham's wonderful new acoustic version of "Never Going Back Again", along with "You Make Loving Fun," "Rhiannon," "Dreams," "Don't Stop," and "Gold Dust Woman."
Recounting the journey of a legendary music recording
Chapter Index:
1. Fleetwood Mac discuss life prior to Rumours
2. "Rhiannon"
3. Relationships start to dissolve.
4. "You Make Loving Fun"
5. The Record Plant
6. 'Dreams"
7. Second Hand News"
8. Album cover: the sponteneous hug
9. "Go Your Own Way"
10. "Gold Dust Woman"
11. Drugs and other '70s excessess
12. "Never Going Back Again"
13. "Don't Stop"
14. "Songbird"
15. Sold my soul to the company store
16. "Oh Daddy"
17. "Silver Springs"
18. "I Don't Want To Know"
19. "The Chain"
20. End Credits
Thanks To:
Rose Mann
Amy Berg
Andria Tay
John Fishburn
Nina Bombadier
Georgia Bergman
Guinness Publishing
Special Thanks To:
John Courage
Carl Stubner
Howard Kaufman
Steve Wax
Tony Dimitriades
Sheryl Louis
and
Ken Caillat
Richard Dashut
Publications: The Billboard Chart used was compiled by Billboard Copyrighted and used with permission of BPI Communications, Inc.
Performed by Fleetwood Mac Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. By arrangement with Warner Special Products
A coproduction with BBC, NCRV, VH-1, and Eagle Rock Entertainment.
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