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Rumours

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CONTENTS

Background

Recording

Promotion and release

Composition

Lyrics

Music

Reception

Commercial

Critical

Legacy

Track listing

Personnel

Chart positions

References

External links

Rumours
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Rumours

Studio album by Fleetwood Mac

Released

4 February 1977

Recorded

1976 at Criteria Studios, Miami; Record Plant Studios, Sausalito and Los Angeles; Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley; Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles; Davlen Recording Studio, North Hollywood

Genre

Rock

Length

39:03

Label

Warner Bros.

Producer

Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut

Fleetwood Mac chronology

Fleetwood Mac
(1975)

Rumours
(1977)

Tusk
(1979)

Singles from Rumours

1. "Go Your Own Way"
Released: January 1977

2. "Don't Stop"
Released: April 1977

3. "Dreams"
Released: June 1977

4. "You Make Loving Fun"
Released: September 1977

Rumours is the 11th studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Largely recorded in California during 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut and was released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records. The record peaked at the top of both the United States Billboard Top LPs & Tapes and the United Kingdom Albums Chart. "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Dreams", and "You Make Loving Fun" were released as singles. A Grammy Award winner, Rumours is Fleetwood Mac's most successful release with sales of over 40 million copies worldwide.

The band wanted to expand on the commercial success of the 1975 record Fleetwood Mac, but struggled with relationship breakups before recording started. The Rumours studio sessions were marked by hedonistic behaviour and interpersonal strife between Fleetwood Mac members; these experiences informed the album's lyrics. Influenced by pop music, the record's tracks were recorded using a combination of acoustic and electric instruments. The mixing process delayed the completion of Rumours, but was finished by the end of 1976. Following the album's release in 1977, Fleetwood Mac undertook worldwide promotional tours.

Rumours garnered widespread critical acclaim. Praise centred on its production quality and harmonies, which frequently relied on the interplay among three vocalists. The record has inspired the work of musical acts in different genres. Often considered Fleetwood Mac's best release, it has featured in several publications' lists of the best albums of the 1970s and the best albums of all time. In 2004, Rumours was remastered and reissued with the addition of an extra track and a bonus CD of outtakes from the recording sessions.

Background

In July 1975, Fleetwood Mac's second eponymous album was released to great commercial success, eventually selling over four million copies. The record's hit single "Rhiannon" gave the band extensive radio exposure. At the time, Fleetwood Mac's line-up consisted of guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham, drummer Mick Fleetwood, keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie, bassist John McVie, and vocalist Stevie Nicks. After six months of non-stop touring, the McVies divorced, ending nearly eight years of marriage.[1] The couple stopped talking to each other socially and discussed only musical matters.[2] Buckingham and Nicks—who had joined the band before 1975's Fleetwood Mac and after guitarist Bob Welch had left[3]—were having an on/off relationship that led them to fight often. The duo's arguments stopped only when they worked on songs together.[4] Fleetwood faced domestic problems of his own after discovering that his wife Jenny, mother of his two children, had an affair with his best friend.[5]

Press intrusions into the band members' lives led to inaccurate stories. Christine McVie was reported to be in hospital with a serious illness, while Buckingham and Nicks were declared the parents of Fleetwood's daughter Lucy after being photographed with her. The press also wrote about a rumoured return of original Fleetwood Mac members Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and Jeremy Spencer for a 10th anniversary tour.[6] Despite false reports, the band did not change line-up, although its members had no time to come to terms with the separations before recording for a new album began.[2] Fleetwood has noted the "tremendous emotional sacrifices" made by everyone just to attend studio work.[7] In early 1976, Fleetwood Mac crafted some new tracks in Florida.[8] Founding members Fleetwood and John McVie chose to dispense with the services of their previous producer, Keith Olsen, because he favoured a lower emphasis on the rhythm section. The duo formed a company called Seedy Management to represent the band's interests.[9]

Recording

Rumours was largely recorded in Sausalito's Record Plant, a wooden structure with few windows, located at 2200 Bridgeway.

Fleetwood Mac's female members lived in two of Sausalito's seafront properties, while the men resided at the Record Plant's hillside accommodation.

In February 1976, Fleetwood Mac convened at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with hired engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. Production duties were shared by the three parties, while the more technically adept Caillat was responsible for most of the engineering; he took a leave of absence from Wally Heider Studios in Los Angeles on the premise that Fleetwood Mac would eventually use their facilities.[10] The set-up in Sausalito included a number of small recording rooms in a large, windowless wooden building. Most band members complained about the studio and wanted to record at their homes, but Fleetwood did not allow any moves.[11] Christine McVie and Nicks decided to live in two condominiums near the city's harbour, while the male contingent stayed at the studio's lodge in the adjacent hills.[12] Recording occurred in a six-by-nine-metre room which included a 3M 24-track tape machine, a range of high-quality microphones, and an API mixing console with 550A equalisers; the latter were used to control frequency differences or a track's timbre. Although Caillat was impressed with the set-up, he felt that the room lacked ambience because of its "very dead speakers" and large amounts of soundproofing.[10]

The record's working title in Sausalito was Yesterday's Dreams.[13] Buckingham took charge of the studio sessions to make "a pop album".[14] According to Dashut, while most of Fleetwood Mac came from an improvisational blues-rock background, the guitarist understood "the craft of record making".[15] During the formative stages of compositions, Buckingham and Christine McVie played guitar and piano together to create the album's basic structures. The latter was the only classically trained musician in Fleetwood Mac, but both shared a similar sense of musicality.[16] When the band jammed, Fleetwood often played his drum kit outside the studio's partition screen to better gauge Caillat's and Dashut's reactions to the music's groove.[17] Baffles were placed around the drums and around John McVie, who played his bass guitar facing Fleetwood. Buckingham performed close to the rhythm section, while Christine McVie's keyboards were kept away from the drum kit. Caillat and Dashut spent about nine days experimenting with a range of microphones and amplifiers before deciding on the best methodology of recording the band.[10]

As the studio sessions progressed, the band members' new intimate relationships, formed after the various separations, started to have a negative effect on Fleetwood Mac.[18][19] The musicians did not meet or socialise after their daily work at the Record Plant. At the time, the hippie movement still affected Sausalito's culture and drugs were readily available. Open-ended budgets enabled the band and the engineers to become self-indulgent;[11][20] sleepless nights and the extensive use of cocaine marked much of the album's production.[7] Chris Stone, one of the Record Plant's owners, indicated in 1997 that Fleetwood Mac brought "excess at its most excessive" by taking over the studio for long and extremely expensive sessions; he stated, "The band would come in at 7 at night, have a big feast, party till 1 or 2 in the morning, and then when they were so whacked-out they couldn't do anything, they'd start recording".[21]

"Trauma, Trau-ma. The sessions were like a cocktail party every night—people everywhere. We ended up staying in these weird hospital rooms ... and of course John and me were not exactly the best of friends."[1]
—Christine McVie, on the emotional strain when making Rumours in Sausalito
Nicks has suggested that Fleetwood Mac created the best music when in the worst shape,[20] while, according to Buckingham, the tensions between band members informed the recording process and led to "the whole being more than the sum of the parts".[19] The couple's work became "bittersweet" after their final split, although Buckingham still had a skill for taking Nicks' tracks and "making them beautiful".[22] The vocal harmonies between the duo and Christine McVie worked well and were captured using the best microphones available.[10] Nicks' lyrical focus allowed the instrumentals in the songs that she wrote to be looser and more abstract.[23] According to Dashut, all the recordings captured "emotion and feeling without a middle man ... or tempering".[5] John McVie tended to clash with Buckingham about the make-up of songs, but both admit to achieving good outcomes.[24] Christine McVie's "Songbird", which Caillat felt needed a concert hall's ambience, was recorded during an all-night session at Zellerbach Auditorium, across San Francisco Bay in Berkeley.[25]

Following over two months in Sausalito, Fleetwood arranged a ten-day tour to give the band a break and fan feedback. After the concerts, recording resumed at venues in Los Angeles,[9] including Wally Heider Studios. Christine McVie and Nicks did not attend most of the sessions and took time off until they were needed to record any remaining vocals. The rest of Fleetwood Mac, with Caillat and Dashut, struggled to finalise the overdubbing and mixing of Rumours after the Sausalito tapes were damaged by repeated use during recording; the kick and snare drum audio tracks sounded "lifeless".[10] A sell-out autumn tour of the US was cancelled to allow the completion of the album,[1] whose scheduled release date of September 1976 was pushed back.[26] A specialist was hired to rectify the Sausalito tapes using a vari-speed oscillator. Through a pair of headphones which played the damaged tapes in his left ear and the safety master recordings in his right, he converged their respective speeds aided by the timings provided by the snare and hi-hat audio tracks.[10] Fleetwood Mac and their co-producers wanted a "no-filler" final product, in which every track seemed a potential single. After the final mastering stage and hearing the songs back-to-back, the band members sensed they had recorded something "pretty powerful".[27]

Promotion and release

Nicks and Buckingham, here photographed in 2003, were integral to Fleetwood Mac's songwriting on Fleetwood Mac in 1975 and Rumours two years later.

In autumn 1976, while still recording, Fleetwood Mac showcased tracks from Rumours at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.[1] John McVie suggested the album title to the band because he felt the members were writing "journals and diaries" about each other through music.[28] Warner Bros. confirmed the release details to the press in December and chose "Go Your Own Way" as a January 1977 promotional single.[29][30] The label's aggressive marketing of 1975's Fleetwood Mac, in which links with dozens of FM and AM radio stations were formed across America, aided the promotion of Rumours.[31] At the time, the album's advance order of 800,000 copies was the largest in Warner Bros.' history.[32]

Rumours was released on 4 February 1977 in the US and a week later in the UK.[33][34] The front cover features a stylised shot of Fleetwood and Nicks dressed in her "Rhiannon" stage persona, while the back has a montage of band portraits; all the photographs were taken by Herbert Worthington.[17] On 28 February 1977, after rehearsing at SIR Studios in Los Angeles, Fleetwood Mac started a seven month-long promotional tour of America.[33] Nicks has noted that, after performing mostly Rumours songs during gigs, the band initially encountered poor receptions from fans who were not accustomed to the new material.[35] A one-off March performance at a benefit concert for United States Senator Birch Bayh in Indiana was followed by a short European tour of the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Germany in April.[1][36] Nigel Williams of Uncut called Fleetwood Mac's performances "rock's greatest soap opera".[37] "Dreams", released in June 1977, became the band's only number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.[38]

Composition

Lyrics

Fleetwood Mac's main writers—Buckingham, Christine McVie and Nicks—worked individually on specific songs, but sometimes shared lyrics with each other. "The Chain" is the only track that all members, including Fleetwood and John McVie, collaborated on. All songs on Rumours concern personal, often troubled, relationships.[17] According to Christine McVie, the fact that the lyricists were extensively focusing on the various separations became apparent to the band only with hindsight.[28] "You Make Loving Fun" is about her boyfriend, Fleetwood Mac's lighting director, after she split from John.[18] Nicks' "Dreams" details a breakup and has a hopeful message, while Buckingham's similar effort in "Go Your Own Way" is more pessimistic.[39] After a short fling with a New England woman, he was inspired to write "Never Going Back Again", a song about the illusion of thinking that sadness will never occur again once feeling content with life. The lines "Been down one time/Been down two times" are in reference to the lyricist's efforts when persuading the woman to give him a chance.[17]

"Don't Stop"

The lyrics of "Don't Stop" are about having an optimistic outlook on life. Inspired by the triple step, the song contains music from both normal and prepared pianos.[17]

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"Don't Stop", written by Christine McVie, is a song about optimism. She noted that Buckingham helped her craft the verses because their personal sensibilities overlapped.[17] McVie's next track, "Songbird", features more introspective lyrics about "nobody and everybody" in the form of "a little prayer",[40] while the song "Oh Daddy" is a direct reference to Fleetwood, who the band considered "The Big Daddy".[17] McVie commented that the writing is slightly sarcastic and focuses on the drummer's direction for Fleetwood Mac, which always turned out to be right. Nicks provided the final lines "And I can't walk away from you, baby/If I tried". Her own song, "Gold Dust Woman", is inspired by Los Angeles and the hardship encountered in such a metropolis.[17] After struggling with the rock lifestyle, Nicks became addicted to cocaine and the lyrics address her belief in "keeping going".[41]

Music

Rumours is built around a mix of acoustic and electric instrumentation. Buckingham's guitar work and Christine McVie's use of Fender Rhodes piano or Hammond B-3 organ are present in all tracks. The record often includes stressed drum sounds and distinctive percussion such as congas and maracas. It opens with "Second Hand News", originally an acoustic demo titled "Strummer". After hearing Bee Gees' "Jive Talking", Buckingham and co-producer Dashut built up the song with four audio tracks of electric guitar and the use of chair percussion to evoke celtic rock. "Dreams" includes "ethereal spaces" and a recurring two note pattern on the bass guitar.[17] Nicks wrote the song in five minutes and led the vocals, while the band played around her. The third track on Rumours, "Never Going Back Again", was also created as a simple acoustic demo, titled "Brushes"; Fleetwood Mac then added further instrumental audio tracks to make it more layered. Inspired by triple step dancing patterns, "Don't Stop" includes both conventional acoustic and tack piano. In the latter instrument, nails are placed on the points where the hammers hit the strings, producing a more percussive sound. "Go Your Own Way" is more guitar-oriented and has a four-to-the-floor dance beat influenced by The Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man". The album's pace slows down with "Songbird", conceived solely by Christine McVie using a nine foot Steinway piano.[17]

"Gold Dust Woman"

"Gold Dust Woman" is influenced by jazz and features a dobro.[17] The song's lyrics focus on Nicks' struggle with cocaine addiction.[41]

Side two of Rumours begins with "The Chain", one of the record's most complicated compositions. A Christine McVie demo, "Keep Me There",[17] and a Nicks song were re-cut in the studio and were heavily edited to form parts of the track.[42] The whole of the band crafted the rest using an approach akin to creating a film score; John McVie provided a prominent solo using a fretless bass guitar, which marked a speeding up in tempo and the start of the song's final third. Inspired by R&B, "You Make Loving Fun" has a simpler composition and features a clavinet, a special type of keyboard instrument, while the rhythm section plays interlocking notes and beats. The ninth track on Rumours, "I Don't Want to Know", makes use of a twelve string guitar and harmonising vocals. Influenced by the music of Buddy Holly, Buckingham and Nicks created it in 1974 before they were in Fleetwood Mac. "Oh Daddy" was crafted spontaneously and includes improvised bass guitar patterns from John McVie and keyboard blips from Christine McVie. The album ends with "Gold Dust Woman", a song inspired by free jazz, which has music from a harpsichord, a Fender Stratocaster guitar, and a dobro, an acoustic guitar whose sound is produced by one or more metal cones.[17]

Reception

Commercial

Rumours was a huge commercial success and became Fleetwood Mac's second US number one record, following the 1975 eponymous release.[38] It stayed at the top of the Billboard 200 for 31 non-consecutive weeks,[13] while also reaching number one in Australia, Canada,[36] and New Zealand.[43] The album was certified platinum in America and the UK within months of release after one million units and 300,000 units were shipped respectively.[44][45] All three major US trade publications—Billboard, Cash Box, and Record World—named it Album of the Year for 1977.[46] After a debut at number three, Rumours peaked at the top of the UK Albums Chart in January 1978, becoming Fleetwood Mac's first number one in the country.[34] In February, the band and co-producers Caillat and Dashut won the 1978 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.[38] By March, the album had sold over 10 million copies worldwide, including over eight million in the US alone.[46]

By 1980, 13 million copies of Rumours had been sold worldwide,[47] a figure which increased to nearly 20 million by 1987.[48] By the time of Fleetwood Mac's reunion tour in 1997, it had sold 25 million copies worldwide.[49] The amount rose to 30 million by 2004, and to 40 million by 2009.[50][51] As of 2011[update], Rumours is the 13th best-selling album in UK history and is certified 10× platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, the equivalent of three million units shipped.[45] The record has received a Diamond Award by the Recording Industry Association of America for a 19× platinum certification or 19 million units shipped.[52] As of 2011[update], it is the 10th best-selling album in US history.[52] It is also certified 2× diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association after shipping two million units, it debuted at #1 in Canada when it was released with sales of 59,000,[53] and 12× platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association, the equivalent of 840,000 copies shipped.[54] By 2006 it was also certified 5× gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie for shipping 1,250,000 copies in Germany.[55]

Critical

Rumours has been acclaimed by the media since its release. Robert Christgau, reviewing in The Village Voice, described it as "more consistent and more eccentric" than its predecessor and thought that it "jumps right out of the speakers at you".[56] John Swenson of Rolling Stone explained that the interplay among the three vocalists was one of the album's most pleasing elements; he stated, "Despite the interminable delay in finishing the record, Rumours proves that the success of Fleetwood Mac was no fluke."[57] John Rockwell of The New York Times wrote that it is "a delightful disk, and one hopes the public thinks so, too",[58] while Dave Marsh of the St. Petersburg Times commented that the songs are "as grandly glossy as anything right now".[59] Robert Hilburn of Los Angeles Times was less receptive and called Rumours a "frustratingly uneven" record,[60] while Juan Rodriguez of The Gazette suggested that, while the music is "crisper and clearer", Fleetwood Mac's ideas are "slightly more muddled".[61] The album was listed at number four in The Village Voice's 1977 Pazz & Jop critics' poll, which aggregates the votes of hundreds of prominent reviewers.[62]

In a retrospective piece, Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that, regardless of the voyeuristic element, the record was "an unparalleled blockbuster" because of the music's quality; he concluded, "Each tune, each phrase regains its raw, immediate emotional power—which is why Rumours touched a nerve upon its 1977 release, and has since transcended its era to be one of the greatest, most compelling pop albums of all time."[63] In a 2004 review, Slant's Barry Walsh praised Fleetwood Mac for turning romantic dysfunction and personal turmoil into "classic, undying pop".[64] In 2007, BBC's Daryl Easlea labelled the sonic results as "near perfect", "like a thousand angels kissing you sweetly on the forehead",[65] while Patrick McKay of Stylus wrote, "What distinguishes Rumours—what makes it art—is the contradiction between its cheerful surface and its anguished heart. Here is a radio-friendly record about anger, recrimination, and loss."[66]

Legacy

Mick Fleetwood has called Rumours "the most important album we ever made", because its success allowed the group to continue recording for years to come.[67] Pop culture journalist Chuck Klosterman links the record's sales figures to its "really likable songs", but suggests that "no justification for greatness" is intrinsically provided by them.[68] The Guardian collated worldwide data in 1997 from a range of renowned critics, artists, and radio DJs, who placed the record at number 78 in the list of the 100 Best Albums Ever.[69] In 1998, Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was produced by Fleetwood and released. The record contained each song of the original Rumours covered by a different act influenced by it. Among the musicians involved were alternative rock bands Tonic, Matchbox 20, and Goo Goo Dolls, celtic rock groups The Corrs and The Cranberries, and singer-songwriters Elton John, Duncan Sheik, and Jewel.[70] Other diverse acts influenced by Rumours include baroque pop artist Tori Amos,[71] hard rock group Saliva,[72] and indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie.[73]

"There was a time when Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was just seen as an album that sold incredibly well; over the past five years, though, it's become more acceptable to classify Rumours as great in and of itself."[68]
—Chuck Klosterman in 2004, on recognition for the record
In 1998, Q placed Rumours at number three—behind The Clash's London Calling and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon—in its list of 50 Best Albums of the 70s.[74] In 1999, Vibe featured it as one of 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.[75] In 2003, VH1 ranked the record at number 16 during its 100 Greatest Albums countdown,[68] while Slant included it as one of 50 Essential Pop Albums.[76] The same year, USA Today placed Rumours at number 23 in its Top 40 Albums list,[77] while Rolling Stone ranked it at number 25 in its special issue of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", the highest Fleetwood Mac record.[78] In 2006, Time named it in its All-TIME 100 Albums shortlist,[79] while Mojo featured it in its unnumbered list of 70 from the 1970s: Decade’s Greatest Albums.[80] The record is included in both The Guardian's "1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die" and the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[81][82]

The american series Glee covered songs from the album in its episode called Rumours, including "Dreams", "Never Going Back Again", "Songbird", "I Don't Want To Know", "Go Your Own Way" and "Don't Stop", and also "The Chain" was used as a background song.

Track listing

Side one

No.

Title

Writer(s)

Length

1.

"Second Hand News"

Buckingham

2:43

2.

"Dreams"

Nicks

4:14

3.

"Never Going Back Again"

Buckingham

2:02

4.

"Don't Stop"

C. McVie

3:11

5.

"Go Your Own Way"

Buckingham

3:38

6.

"Songbird"

C. McVie

3:20

Side two

No.

Title

Writer(s)

Length

7.

"The Chain"

Buckingham, Fleetwood, C. McVie, J. McVie, Nicks

4:28

8.

"You Make Loving Fun"

C. McVie

3:31

9.

"I Don't Want to Know"

Nicks

3:11

10.

"Oh Daddy"

C. McVie

3:54

11.

"Gold Dust Woman"

Nicks

4:51

- The 2001 DVD-Audio version contains "Silver Springs" (4:48), a B-side of "Go Your Own Way" written by Nicks, in place of "Songbird", which is listed as track 12. The release includes short audio interviews with band members about the making of each song.

- The 2004 remastered reissue has "Silver Springs" between "Songbird" and "The Chain". The booklet insert features additional photography and detailed liner notes.

- The cassette release of Rumours switches "Second Hand News" with "I Don't Want to Know", altering the original album's running order.

Disc two: Remastered reissue outtakes and demos

No.

Title

Writer(s)

Length

1.

"Second Hand News"

Buckingham

2:47

2.

"Dreams"

Nicks

4:21

3.

"Brushes (Never Going Back Again)" (Instrumental)

Buckingham

2:50

4.

"Don't Stop"

C. McVie

3:33

5.

"Go Your Own Way"

Buckingham

3:06

6.

"Songbird"

C. McVie

3:11

7.

"Silver Springs"

Nicks

6:07

8.

"You Make Loving Fun"

C. McVie

4:56

9.

"Gold Dust Woman #1"

Nicks

5:02

10.

"Oh Daddy"

C. McVie

3:58

11.

"Think About It"

Nicks

2:55

12.

"Never Going Back Again"

Buckingham

1:56

13.

"Planets of the Universe"

Nicks

3:18

14.

"Butter Cookie (Keep Me There)"

C. McVie

2:11

15.

"Gold Dust Woman"

Nicks

5:01

16.

"Doesn't Anything Last"

Buckingham

1:10

17.

"Mic the Screecher" (Jam)

Fleetwood

0:59

18.

"For Duster (The Blues)" (Jam)

Buckingham, Fleetwood, C. McVie, J. McVie

4:26

Personnel

Those involved in the making of Rumours are:[17][63]

Band

- Lindsey Buckingham – vocals, guitar

- Christine McVie – vocals, keyboards

- John McVie – bass guitar

- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

- Stevie Nicks – vocals

Production

- Ken Caillat – producer, engineer, mastering

- Richard Dashut – producer, engineer

- Fleetwood Mac – producers

- Cris Morris – assistant engineer

- Ken Perry – mastering

- Charlie Watts – mastering

Artwork

- Desmond Strobel – design

- Larry Vigon – calligraphy

- Herbert Worthington – photography

Chart positions

Album

Chart (1977–1978)

Peak

Australian Albums Chart[36]

1

Austrian Albums Chart[43]

25

Canadian Albums Chart[36]

1

Netherlands Albums Chart[36]

1

New Zealand Albums Chart[43]

1

Norwegian Albums Chart[43]

17

South African Albums Chart[46]

1

Swedish Albums Chart[43]

19

UK Albums Chart[34]

1

US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes[38]

1

Singles

Song

Peak

UK
[34]

US
Hot 100
[38]

"Go Your Own Way"

38

10

"Don't Stop"

32

3

"Dreams"

24

1

"You Make Loving Fun"

45

9

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Footnotes

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2. ^ [a] [b] Classic Albums, c. 09:15–11:50

3. ^ Classic Albums, c. 01:25–02:35

4. ^ Classic Albums, c. 05:20–05:30

5. ^ [a] [b] Classic Albums, c. 22:20–23:45

6. ^ Brunning, p. 108

7. ^ [a] [b] Rooksby, p. 59

8. ^ Brackett, p. 118

9. ^ [a] [b] Brunning, p. 111

10. ^ [a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] Buskin, Richard (August 2007). "Classic Tracks: Fleetwood Mac 'Go Your Own Way'". Sound on Sound. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug07/articles/classictracks_0807.htm. Retrieved 30 December 2009.

11. ^ [a] [b] Classic Albums, c. 11:50–12:30

12. ^ Classic Albums, c. 31:30–32:55

13. ^ [a] [b] Rooksby, p. 60

14. ^ Classic Albums, c. 20:10–21:05

15. ^ Classic Albums, c. 04:40–05:00

16. ^ Classic Albums, c. 07:00–07:35

17. ^ [a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] [i] [j] [k] [l] [m] [n] Fleetwood Mac. (2001). Making Of Rumours. [DVD-Audio (Rumours)]. Warner Bros. Records.

18. ^ [a] [b] Classic Albums, c. 07:45–08:55

19. ^ [a] [b] Classic Albums, c. 12:45–13:40

20. ^ [a] [b] Classic Albums, c. 32:55–34:45

21. ^ Verna, Paul (8 November 1997). "Bay Area's Plant Marks 25 Years". Billboard: p. 45.

22. ^ Classic Albums, c. 16:00–17:15

23. ^ Classic Albums, c. 29:20–29:30

24. ^ Classic Albums, c. 19:10–20:10

25. ^ Classic Albums, c. 41:20–41:45

26. ^ Brunning, p. 110

27. ^ Classic Albums, c. 50:30–51:50

28. ^ [a] [b] Classic Albums, c. 06:00–06:30

29. ^ Hunt, Dennis (19 December 1976). "Melanie—Just Trying to Change Her Image". Los Angeles Times: p. V97.

30. ^ "Billboard's Top Single Picks: Pop". Billboard: p. 56. 8 January 1977.

31. ^ Gurza, Agustin (14 May 1977). "Number One With a Star: The Inside Of Making a Hit Record". Billboard: p. 40.

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Bibliography

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External links

- Rumours lyrics at Rhapsody

- Rumours promotion at Billboard via Google Books

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Stevie Nicks · Lindsey Buckingham · John McVie · Mick Fleetwood
Christine McVie · Peter Green · Jeremy Spencer · Bob Brunning · Danny Kirwan · Bob Welch · Bob Weston · Dave Walker · Billy Burnette · Rick Vito · Dave Mason · Bekka Bramlett

Studio albums

Fleetwood Mac · Mr. Wonderful · Then Play On · Fleetwood Mac in Chicago · Kiln House · Future Games · Bare Trees · Penguin · Mystery to Me · Heroes Are Hard to Find · Fleetwood Mac · Rumours · Tusk · Mirage · Tango in the Night · Behind the Mask · Time · Say You Will

Songs

"Need Your Love So Bad" · "Black Magic Woman" · "Albatross" · "When You Say" · "Man of the World" · "Oh Well" · The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" · "Dragonfly" · "Warm Ways"  · "Over My Head" · "Say You Love Me"  · "Rhiannon" · "Landslide" · "Go Your Own Way" · "Silver Springs" · "Dreams" · "Don't Stop" · "The Chain" · "You Make Loving Fun" · "Gold Dust Woman" · "Tusk" · "Sara" · "Sisters of the Moon" · "Angel" · "Hold Me" · "Gypsy" · "Oh Diane" · "Love in Store" · "Can't Go Back" · "Big Love" · "Seven Wonders" · "Little Lies" · "Everywhere" · "Family Man" · "Isn't It Midnight" · "As Long as You Follow"

Compilations

English Rose · The Pious Bird of Good Omen · Black Magic Woman · The Original Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits · Greatest Hits · 25 Years – The Chain · The Vaudeville Years · The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions · Show-Biz Blues · The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac · The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac · The Essential Fleetwood Mac

Live albums

Live at the BBC · Shrine '69 · Live in Boston · Live  · The Dance · Live in Boston

Related articles

Discography · Say You Will Tour · Clifford Davis · Stretch ("Bogus Fleetwood Mac")

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Fleetwood Mac

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CONTENTS

History

Formation and early years (1967–1970)

Transitional era (1970–1975)

Mainstream success (1975–1987)

Broken chain (1987–1997)

Re-connected chain (1997–2007)

Unleashed tour and future projects (2008–present)

Remasters

Tours

Discography

Personnel

Gallery

See also

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

Fleetwood Mac
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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac live on 3 March 2009, in Saint Paul, Minnesota (L-R) John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood

Background information

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Genres

Blues, blues-rock, pop rock

Years active

1967–present

Labels

Blue Horizon, Reprise, Warner Bros., Sire, CBS Europe, Epic, Sanctuary

Associated acts

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Eddie Boyd, Chicken Shack, Buckingham Nicks, Duster Bennett

Website

www.fleetwoodmac.com

Members

Mick Fleetwood
John McVie
Stevie Nicks
Lindsey Buckingham

Past members

See: Personnel section

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London.

The only original member present in the band is its namesake drummer, Mick Fleetwood. Despite band founder Peter Green naming the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood, McVie) from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist John McVie played neither on their first single nor at their first concerts. The keyboardist, Christine McVie, has, to date, appeared on all but two albums, either as a member or as a session musician. She also supplied the artwork for the album Kiln House.

The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with "Albatross"; and from 1975 to 1987, with more pop-orientation, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only U.S. number one) and remained at #1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the ninth highest selling album of all time.

The band enjoyed more modest success in the intervening period between 1971 and 1974, with the line-up including Bob Welch, and also during the 1990s which saw more personnel changes before the return of Nicks and Buckingham in 1997, and more recently, the departure of Christine McVie.

History

Formation and early years (1967–1970)

Fleetwood Mac were formed in 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar. Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood—"Peter B's Looners" and the subsequent "Shotgun Express" (which featured a young vocalist named Rod Stewart). John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band.

The Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie and Green recorded five songs. The fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, "Fleetwood Mac".

Green contacted Fleetwood to form a new band. The pair desperately wanted McVie on bass and even named the band 'Fleetwood Mac' as a way to entice him. However McVie opted for steady work with Mayall rather than the unknown of a new band. In the meantime Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood teamed up with talented slide player Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning, who was in the band on the understanding that he would leave if and when McVie agreed to join. The Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, Brunning version of the band made its debut on 13 August 1967 at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. Within weeks of this show, John McVie agreed to become the bassist for the band.

Fleetwood Mac's first album, Fleetwood Mac, was a no-frills blues album and was released on the Blue Horizon label in February 1968. In fact there were no other players on the album (except for the song "Long Grey Mare", which was recorded when Bob Brunning was in the band). The album was successful in the UK, hitting no.4, though it did not have any singles on it. The band soon released two singles "Black Magic Woman" (later a big hit for Santana) and "Need Your Love So Bad".

The band's second album, Mr. Wonderful, was released in August 1968. Like the first it was an all-blues album, but this time they made a few changes. The album was recorded live in the studio with miked amplifiers and PA system, rather than plugged into the board. This method provided the ideal environment for producing this style of music, and gave it an authentically vintage sound. They also added horns and featured a friend of the band on keyboards, Christine Perfect of Chicken Shack.

Shortly after the release of their second album Fleetwood Mac added guitarist Danny Kirwan, then just eighteen years old, to their line-up. Green had been frustrated that Jeremy Spencer had little desire to contribute to Green's songs. A mature and accomplished self-taught guitarist, Kirwan's signature vibrato and unique style added a new dimension to an already complete band. With Kirwan the band released their first number one single in Europe, "Albatross". Around this time they released their second American album, English Rose, which contained half of Mr. Wonderful, new songs from Kirwan, and their third European album called The Pious Bird of Good Omen, which was a collection of singles, B-sides, and a selection of some work the band did with Eddie Boyd.

When the band went to the United States in January 1969 they recorded many songs at the soon-to-close Chess Records Studio, with some blues legends of Chicago including Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy and Otis Spann. These would prove, however, to be Fleetwood Mac's last all-blues recordings. Along with their change of style the band was also going through some label changes. Up until this point they had been on Blue Horizon. With Kirwan in the band, however, the musical possibilities were too great for them to stay on a blues-only label. The band signed with the Immediate Records label and released "Man of the World", another British and European hit single. For the B-side Spencer fronted Fleetwood Mac as "Earl Vince and the Valiants" and recorded "Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite", typifying the more raucous rock 'n' roll side of the band. Immediate Records was in bad shape and the band shopped around for a new deal. Even though The Beatles wanted the band on Apple Records (Mick Fleetwood and George Harrison were brothers-in-law), the band's manager Clifford Davis decided to go with Warner Bros. Records (Reprise), the label they have stayed with ever since. Their first album for Reprise, released in September 1969, was the well-regarded Then Play On. The American release of this album contains the song "Oh Well", featured consistently in live performances from the time of its release through 1997 and then again starting in 2009. Then Play On, which was the band's first rock album, featured only the songs of Kirwan and Green. Jeremy Spencer, meanwhile, recorded a solo album (he was backed by the rest of the band) which consisted of many 1950s-style rock and roll songs.

In July 1969 Fleetwood Mac opened for Ten Years After at the Schaefer Music Festival at New York City's Wollman Rink. They re-appeared at the festival in 1970.

Fleetwood Mac were an extremely popular band in Europe at the time. However, Peter Green, the frontman of the band, was not in good health. He had taken LSD in Munich, which contributed to the onset of his schizophrenia.[1]

German author and filmmaker Rainer Langhans mentions in his autobiography that he and Uschi Obermaier met Peter Green in Munich, where they invited him to their "High-Fish-Commune". They were not really interested in Peter Green. They just wanted to get in contact with Mick Taylor: Langhans and Obermaier wished to organise a "Bavarian Woodstock". They wanted Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones to be the leading acts of their Bavarian open air festival. They needed the 'Green God' just to get in contact with The Rolling Stones via Mick Taylor.

Green's last hit with Fleetwood Mac was "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" (first recorded at the Boston Tea Party in February 1970 and later recorded by Judas Priest). Green's mental stability deteriorated, and he wanted to give all of the band's money to charity. Some other members of the band did not agree, and subsequently Green decided to leave the band. His last show with Fleetwood Mac was on 20 May 1970. During that show, the band went past their allotted time, and the power was shut off. Mick Fleetwood kept drumming.

Transitional era (1970–1975)

Kirwan and Spencer were left with the task of having to fill up Peter's space in their shows and on their recordings. In September 1970, Fleetwood Mac released Kiln House. Kirwan's songs moved the band in the direction of 70s rock. Meanwhile, Spencer's contributions focused on re-creating the country-tinged "Sun Sound" of the late 1950s. Christine Perfect, who had retired from the music business after one unsuccessful solo album, contributed to Kiln House, singing backup vocals, and drawing the album cover. Since Fleetwood Mac were progressing and developing a new sound, Perfect was asked to join the band. They also released a single at that time; "Dragonfly" b/w "The Purple Dancer" in the U.K. and certain European countries. Despite good notices in the press, the single was not a success and the B-side has only been reissued once, on a Reprise German-only "Best of" album, making it one of their most obscure songs.

1973 lineup with Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Bob Weston, John McVie, and Bob Welch.

Christine Perfect was married to bassist John McVie, and made her first appearance with the band as Christine McVie at Bristol University in May 1969 just as she was leaving Chicken Shack. She had had success with the Etta James classic, "I'd Rather Go Blind", and was twice voted female artist of the year in England. Christine McVie played her first gig as an official member on 6 August 1970 in New Orleans. Columbia Records, which now owned Blue Horizon (except in the US and Canada), released an album of previously unreleased material from the original Fleetwood Mac called The Original Fleetwood Mac. The album was relatively successful, and the band seemed to be gaining popularity again.

While on tour in February 1971, Jeremy Spencer said he was going out to "get a magazine", but never returned. After several days of frantic searching, the band discovered that Spencer had joined a religious group, the Children of God. Liable for the remaining shows on the tour, they convinced Peter Green to help finish the tour. He brought along his friend, Nigel Watson, who played the congas (twenty-five years later Green and Watson would collaborate again to form the Peter Green Splinter Group). Green, however, would only be back with Fleetwood Mac temporarily, so the band decided to search for a new guitarist.

In the summer of 1971, the band held auditions for a guitarist in their large country home, "Benifold", which they bought prior to the Kiln House tour. A friend of the band named Judy Wong recommended her high school friend, Bob Welch, who was living in Paris at the time. The band had a few meetings with Welch and decided to hire him, without actually playing with him or listening to any of his recordings.

In September 1971, the band released Future Games. This album was radically different from anything the band had done up to that point. There were many new fans in America who were becoming more and more interested in the band. In Europe, CBS released Fleetwood Mac's first Greatest Hits package, which was predominantly composed of songs by Peter Green, though there was one song by Spencer and one by Kirwan.

In 1972, six months after the release of Future Games, the band released the well-received album Bare Trees. Bare Trees featured Welch's "Sentimental Lady", which would be a much bigger hit for him five years later when he re-recorded it for his solo album French Kiss, backed with Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham. It also featured "Spare Me a Little of Your Love", a bright Christine McVie tune that would become a staple of the band's live act throughout the early-to-mid 1970s.

While the band were doing well in the studio, their tours were more problematic. Danny Kirwan developed an alcohol dependency and became alienated from Welch and the McVies. It wasn't until he smashed his Les Paul Custom guitar, refused to go on stage one night, and criticised the band afterwards that Fleetwood finally decided that he had no choice but to fire Kirwan.

The next two and a half years proved to be the most challenging for the band. In the three albums they would release in this period, they would constantly change line-ups. In September 1972, the band added guitarist Bob Weston and vocalist Dave Walker, formerly of Savoy Brown. Bob Weston was well known for playing slide guitar and had known the band from his touring period with Long John Baldry. Fleetwood Mac also hired Savoy Brown's road manager, John Courage. Mick, John, Christine, Welch, Weston, and Walker recorded Penguin, which was released in January 1973. After the tour, the band fired Walker because his vocal style and attitude did not fit in with the rest of the band.

The remaining five carried on and recorded Mystery to Me six months later. This album contained the song "Hypnotized" which got a lot of airplay on the radio and became one of the band's most recognisable songs to date. The band were justifiably proud of the new album and were poised to make it a hit. However, things were not well within the band. The McVies' marriage at this time was under a lot of stress, which was aggravated by their constant working with each other, and John McVie's considerable alcohol abuse. During the tour, Weston had an affair with Fleetwood's wife, Jenny Boyd Fleetwood, the sister of Pattie Boyd Harrison. Fleetwood soon fired Weston and the tour was cancelled. Due to lack of touring, the album sold less than its predecessor.

In what would be one of the most bizarre events in rock history, the band's manager, Clifford Davis, claimed that he owned the name Fleetwood Mac and put out a "fake Mac". Nobody in the "fake Mac" was ever officially in the real band, although some of them later acted as Danny Kirwan's studio band. Fans were told that Bob Welch and John McVie had quit the group, and that Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie would be joining the band at a later date, after getting some rest. Fleetwood Mac's road manager, John Courage, worked one show before he realised that the line being used was a lie. Courage ended up hiding the real Fleetwood Mac's equipment, which helped shorten the tour by the fake band. But the lawsuit that followed put the real Fleetwood Mac out of commission for almost a year. The issue was who actually owned the name "Fleetwood Mac". While it would seem obvious that the band was named after Fleetwood and McVie, they had signed contracts that showed the band forfeited the rights to the name.

During this period, Welch stayed in Los Angeles and connected with entertainment attorneys. Welch quickly realised that the band was being neglected by Warner Bros., and that if they wanted to change that, they would have to change their base of operation to Los Angeles. The rest of the band agreed immediately. Rock promoter Bill Graham wrote a letter to Warner Bros. to convince them that the "real" Fleetwood Mac were in fact Fleetwood, Welch and the McVies. While this did not end the legal battle, the band was able to record as Fleetwood Mac again. Instead of getting another manager, Fleetwood Mac decided to manage themselves.

The fake Mac consisted of Elmer Gantry (vocals, guitar), Kirby Gregory (guitar), Paul Martinez (bass), John Wilkinson (keyboards) and Craig Collinge (drums). Gantry and Gregory went on to become members of Stretch, Gantry would later join the Alan Parsons Project and Martinez would eventually become a bassist for Robert Plant's solo efforts.

After Warner Bros. made a record deal with the real Fleetwood Mac, the quartet released Heroes Are Hard to Find in September 1974. For the first time in its history, the band only had one guitarist. On the road, they added a second keyboardist. The first was Bobby Hunt, who had been in the band Head West with Bob Welch back in 1970. The second was Doug Graves, who was an engineer on Heroes Are Hard to Find. Neither lasted too long.

This tour proved to be the last one for Bob Welch. The constant touring had taken its toll on him. He felt that he had hit the end of his creative road with the band. While his tenure wasn't a commercial success, Bob Welch provided musical and professional direction to the group, helped the band through three major crises, and left it in a situation where it had a record contract, a direct line to the record company, connections to industry insiders, no pressure from the record company, and a management situation that would help foster creativity. Thus, many feel that Bob Welch had laid the foundations for Fleetwood Mac's future. Moreover, this last tour enabled the Heroes album to reach a higher position on the American charts than any of the band's previous records.

Mainstream success (1975–1987)

After Welch announced that he was leaving the band, Fleetwood began searching for a possible replacement. While Fleetwood was scouting Van Nuys, California, the house engineer for California's Sound City Studios, Keith Olsen, played him a track titled "Frozen Love" (from Buckingham Nicks, Polydor PD 5058, September 1973), which he had mixed there for an American band, Buckingham Nicks. Fleetwood liked it, and was introduced to the guitarist from the band, Lindsey Buckingham, who coincidentally was at Sound City that day recording some demos. Fleetwood soon asked him to join. Buckingham agreed, on the condition that his musical partner and girlfriend, Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks, also become part of the band; Fleetwood agreed.

In 1975, the new line-up released the eponymous Fleetwood Mac. The album proved to be a breakthrough for the band and became a huge hit, reaching #1 in the US and selling over 5 million copies. Among the hit singles from this album were Christine McVie's "Over My Head" and "Say You Love Me", and Stevie Nicks' "Rhiannon" and "Landslide" (actually a hit twenty years later on The Dance album).

"Landslide" (Fleetwood Mac)

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But in 1976, with the success of the band also came the end of John and Christine McVie's marriage, as well as Buckingham's and Nicks' long term romantic relationship. Even Fleetwood was in the midst of divorce proceedings from his wife, Jenny. The pressure put on Fleetwood Mac to release a successful follow-up album, combined with their new-found wealth, led to creative and personal tensions, fuelled by high consumption of drugs and alcohol.

The album the band members released in 1977 was Rumours, in which they laid bare the emotional turmoil experienced at that time. Critically acclaimed, it was the recipient of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for 1977. Hit singles included Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way", Nicks's U.S. #1 "Dreams" (

sample (help·info)), and Christine McVie's "Don't Stop" and "You Make Loving Fun". Buckingham's "Second Hand News", Nicks' "Gold Dust Woman" and "The Chain" (the only song written by all five bandmates) also received significant radio airplay. By 2003, Rumours had sold over 19 million copies in the U.S. alone (certified as a diamond album by the RIAA), and a total of 40 million copies worldwide, maintaining its status as one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.[2]

Buckingham was able to convince Fleetwood to allow his work on their next album to be more experimental and to work on tracks at home, then bring them to the band in the studio. His expanded creative role for the next album was influenced by an appreciation for New Wave music.[citation needed]

The result of this was the quirky 20-track double album, Tusk, released in 1979. It spawned three hit singles; Lindsey Buckingham's "Tusk" (U.S. #8), which featured the USC Trojan Marching Band; Christine McVie's "Think About Me" (U.S. #20); and Stevie Nicks' 6½ minute opus "Sara" (U.S. #7). The last of those three was cut to 4½ minutes for both the hit single and the first CD-release of the album, but the unedited version has since been restored on the 1988 Greatest Hits compilation and the 2004 reissue of Tusk as well as Fleetwood Mac's 2002 release of The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac. Original guitarist Green also took part in the sessions of Tusk, but his playing for the Christine McVie track "Brown Eyes" is not credited on the album.[citation needed]

Tusk remains one of Fleetwood Mac's most ambitious albums to date, although selling only four million copies worldwide. This, in comparison to the huge sales of Rumours, inclined the label to deem the project a failure, laying the blame squarely on Buckingham.[citation needed] Fleetwood, however, blames the album's relative failure on the RKO radio chain playing the album in its entirety prior to release, thus allowing mass home taping.[3] In addition, Tusk was a double album, with a high list price of $15.98.

The band embarked on a huge 18-month tour to support and promote Tusk. They travelled extensively across the world, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In Germany they shared the bill with reggae superstar Bob Marley. It was on this world tour that the band recorded music for the Fleetwood Mac Live album, which was released at the end of 1980.

The next album, 1982's Mirage, following 1981 solo turns by Nicks (Bella Donna) and Buckingham (Law and Order), was a return to the more conventional. Buckingham had been chided by critics, fellow bandmembers and music business managers for the lesser commercial success enjoyed by Tusk. Recorded at a château in France, Mirage was an attempt to recapture the huge success of Rumours. Its hits included Christine McVie's "Hold Me" and "Love In Store" (each song being co-written by Robbie Patton and Jim Recor, respectively), Stevie Nicks's "Gypsy", and Lindsey Buckingham's "Oh Diane", which made the Top 10 in the UK. A minor hit was also scored by Buckingham's "Eyes Of The World".

In contrast to the Tusk Tour, the band only embarked on a short tour of 18 American cities, the Los Angeles show being recorded and released on video. It also headlined the first US Festival, for which the band was paid $500,000 ($1,137,669 in current dollar terms). Mirage was certified double platinum in the U.S.

Following Mirage, the band went on hiatus, which allowed members to pursue solo careers. Stevie Nicks released two more solo albums (1983's The Wild Heart and 1985's Rock a Little), Lindsey Buckingham issued Go Insane in 1984, the same year that Christine McVie made an eponymous album (yielding the Top 10 hit "Got A Hold On Me" and the Top 40 hit "Love Will Show Us How"). All three met with success but it was Nicks who became the most popular. However, also during this period, Mick Fleetwood had filed for bankruptcy, Nicks was admitted to the Betty Ford Clinic for addiction problems, and John McVie had suffered an addiction-related seizure—all attributed to the lifestyle of excess afforded to them by their worldwide success. It was rumoured that Fleetwood Mac had finally broken up; however, Buckingham commented that he was unhappy to allow Mirage to remain as the band's last effort.[citation needed]

The Rumours line-up of Fleetwood Mac recorded one more album for the time being, Tango in the Night, in 1987. Initially, as with various other Fleetwood Mac albums, the material started off as a Buckingham solo album before becoming a group project. The album went on to become their best-selling release since Rumours, especially in the UK where it hit no. 1 three times over the following year. The album sold three million copies in the USA and contained four hits: Christine McVie's "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" (the former being co-written with McVie's new husband Eddy Quintela), Sandy Stewart and Stevie Nicks's "Seven Wonders", and Lindsey Buckingham's "Big Love". "Family Man" and "Isn't It Midnight" were also released as singles, with lesser success.

Broken chain (1987–1997)

1987–91 lineup of Fleetwood Mac

Following Buckingham's departure, Fleetwood Mac added two new guitarists to the band, Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. Burnette was mainly added for his singing and songwriting skills and Vito for his lead guitar abilities.

Burnette is the son of Dorsey Burnette and nephew of Johnny Burnette, both of The Rock and Roll Trio. He had already worked with Mick Fleetwood in Zoo, with Christine McVie as part of her solo band, did some session work with Stevie Nicks and even backed Lindsey Buckingham on Saturday Night Live. Furthermore, Fleetwood and Christine McVie played on his Try Me album in 1985. Vito, a Peter Green admirer, played with many artists from Bonnie Raitt to John Mayall, and even worked with John McVie on two Mayall albums.

The 1987–88 "Shake the Cage" tour was the first outing for this line-up, and was successful enough to warrant the release of a concert video (simply titled "Tango in the Night"), filmed at San Francisco's Cow Palace arena in December 1987.

Capitalising on the success of Tango in the Night, the band continued with a Greatest Hits album in 1988. It featured singles from the 1975–88 era, and included two new compositions: "No Questions Asked" written by Nicks, and "As Long as You Follow" written by McVie and Quintela, which was released as a single in 1988 but only made #43 in the US and #66 in the UK. It did, however, reach #1 on the US Adult Contemporary charts. The Greatest Hits album, which peaked at #3 in the UK and #14 in the US (though has since sold over 8 million copies there), was dedicated to Buckingham by the band, with whom they had now reconciled.

Following the Greatest Hits collection, Fleetwood Mac recorded Behind the Mask. With this album, the band veered away from the stylised sound that Buckingham had evolved during his tenure in the band (also evident in his solo works), and ended up with a more adult contemporary style from producer Greg Ladanyi. However, the album yielded only one Top 40 hit, McVie's "Save Me". Behind the Mask only achieved Gold album status in the US, peaking at #18 on the Billboard album chart, though it entered the UK Albums Chart at #1. It received mixed reviews, and was seen by some music critics as a low point for the band in the absence of Lindsey Buckingham (who had actually made a guest appearance by playing on the title track). However, Rolling Stone magazine said that Vito and Burnette were "the best thing to ever happen to Fleetwood Mac" and the British Q magazine also praised the album in their review. The subsequent "Behind the Mask" tour saw the band play sold out shows at London's Wembley Stadium, and on the final show in Los Angeles, the band were joined onstage by Buckingham. The two women of the band, McVie and Nicks, had decided that the tour would be their last (McVie's father died during the tour) though both stated that they would still record with the band. However, in 1991, both Nicks and Rick Vito announced they were leaving Fleetwood Mac altogether.

In 1992, Fleetwood himself arranged a 4-disc box set spanning highlights from the band's 25 year history, titled 25 Years – The Chain (an edited 2-disc set was also available). A notable inclusion in the box set was "Silver Springs", a Stevie Nicks composition that was recorded during the Rumours sessions but was omitted from the album and used as the B-side of "Go Your Own Way" instead. Nicks had requested use of the track for her 1991 best-of compilation TimeSpace, but Fleetwood had refused her request as he had planned to include it in this collection as something of a rarity.[citation needed] The disagreement between Nicks and Fleetwood garnered press coverage, and is believed to be the main catalyst for Nicks leaving the band in 1991.[citation needed] The box set, however, also included a brand new Stevie Nicks/Rick Vito composition, "Paper Doll", which was released in the US as a single. As both members had left the band by this point, the track was presumably a leftover from the Behind the Mask sessions. There were also two new Christine McVie compositions, "Heart of Stone" and "Love Shines", the latter of which was released as a single in the UK and certain other territories. Lindsey Buckingham also contributed a new song, "Make Me a Mask", which bore all the markings of an insular Buckingham studio creation, devoid of input from other band members. Mick Fleetwood also released a deluxe hardcover companion book to coincide with the release of the box set, titled My 25 Years in Fleetwood Mac. The volume featured many rare photographs and notes (written by Fleetwood himself) detailing the band's 25 year history.

Some months after this, the Buckingham/Nicks/McVie/McVie/Fleetwood lineup reunited at the request of U.S. President Bill Clinton for his first Inaugural Ball in 1993. Clinton had made Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" his campaign theme song. His subsequent request to perform it at the Inauguration Ball was met with enthusiasm by the band, however this lineup had no intention to reunite again.

Inspired by the new interest in the band, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie recorded another album as Fleetwood Mac, with Billy Burnette taking on lead guitar duties. However, just as they made the decision to continue, Billy Burnette announced in March 1993, that he was leaving the band to pursue a country album and an acting career. Bekka Bramlett, who had worked a year earlier with Mick Fleetwood's Zoo, was recruited. Solo singer/songwriter/guitarist and Traffic's Dave Mason, who had worked with Bekka's parents Delaney & Bonnie twenty five years earlier, was subsequently added. By March 1994, Billy Burnette, himself a good friend and co-songwriter with Delaney Bramlett, returned with Fleetwood's blessing.

The band, minus Christine McVie, toured in 1994, opening for Crosby, Stills, & Nash, and in 1995 as part of a package with REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar. The tour saw the band perform classic Fleetwood Mac songs from the initial 1967–1974 era. In 1995, at a concert in Tokyo, the band was greeted by former member Jeremy Spencer, who performed a few songs with them.

On 10 October 1995, Fleetwood Mac released the unsuccessful Time album. Although hitting the UK Top 60 for one week the album had zero impact in the US. It failed even to graze the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, a stunning reversal for a band that had been a mainstay on that chart for most of the previous two decades. Shortly after the album's release, Christine McVie informed the band that the album was her last. Bramlett and Burnette subsequently formed a country music duo, Bekka & Billy.

Re-connected chain (1997–2007)

Just weeks after disbanding Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood announced that he was working with Lindsey Buckingham again. John McVie was soon added to the sessions, and later Christine McVie. Stevie Nicks also enlisted Lindsey Buckingham to produce a song for a soundtrack.

In May 1996, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks made an appearance at a private party in Louisville, Kentucky prior to the Kentucky Derby (with Steve Winwood filling in for Lindsey Buckingham). A week later, the Twister film soundtrack was released, which featured the Stevie Nicks-Lindsey Buckingham duet, "Twisted", with Mick Fleetwood on drums. This eventually led to a full Rumours line-up reunion when the band officially reformed in March 1997. The result came in the form of a live concert recorded on a Warner Bros. Burbank, California soundstage on 22 May, which resulted in the 1997 live album The Dance, returning Fleetwood Mac to the top of the US album charts for the first time in 15 years. The album returned Fleetwood Mac to their superstar commercial status that they had not enjoyed since their Tango in the Night album. The album was certified a 5 million seller by the RIAA. A successful arena tour followed the MTV premiere of The Dance, which kept the reunited Mac on the road throughout much of 1997, the 20th anniversary of their Rumours album. However, this would be the final foray of the classic 1970s lineup with Christine McVie.

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham on the Say You Will Tour, 2003

In 1998, Fleetwood Mac (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed at the Grammy Awards program that year. They were also the recipients of the "Outstanding Contribution to Music" award at the BRIT Awards (British Phonographic Industry Awards) the same year.

In 1998, Christine McVie left the band and returned to the UK to retire from touring (though not from the music business entirely as she created a new album, In the Meantime, in 2004). Her departure left Buckingham and Nicks to sing all the lead vocals for the band's 2003 album, Say You Will, although Christine did contribute some backing vocals and keyboards. The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart (#6 in the UK) and yielded chart hits with "Peacekeeper" and the title track, and a successful world arena tour which lasted through 2004.

In interviews given in November 2006 to support his solo album Under the Skin, Buckingham stated that plans for the band to reunite once more for a 2008 tour were still on the cards. Recording plans have been put on hold for the foreseeable future. In a September 2007 interview Stevie Nicks gave to the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, she noted that she was unwilling to carry on with the band unless Christine McVie returned.[4] However in a more recent interview, Mick Fleetwood said "...be very happy and hopeful that we will be working again. I can tell you everyone's going to be extremely excited about what's happening with Fleetwood Mac."[5]

Unleashed tour and future projects (2008–present)

On March 14, 2008, the Associated Press reported Sheryl Crow as saying that she would be working with Fleetwood Mac in 2009. Crow and Stevie Nicks collaborated a great deal in the past and she has stated that Nicks has been a great teacher and inspiration for her.[6] In a subsequent interview with Buckingham, he said after discussions between the band and Crow, the potential collaboration with Crow "lost its momentum".[7] However, in a June 2008 interview, Nicks denied that Crow would be joining Fleetwood Mac as a replacement for Christine McVie. According to Nicks, "the group will start working on material and recording probably in October, and finish an album."[8] On October 7, 2008, Mick Fleetwood confirmed on the BBC's The One Show that the band were working in the studio and also announced plans for a world tour in 2009.

In late 2008, Fleetwood Mac announced that the band would tour in 2009, beginning in March. As per the 2003–2004 tour, Christine McVie would not be featured in the lineup. The tour was branded as a 'greatest hits' show entitled Unleashed, although they played album tracks such as "Storms" and "I Know I'm Not Wrong". The first show was on 1 March 2009, and in February they announced a slew of new dates.

According to Billboard, Mick Fleetwood said during a teleconference with reporters on 12 February 2009, "This is the first time we've gone on the road without an album. This is truly a new experience for Fleetwood Mac to go out and play songs that we believe and hope people are going to be familiar with and love."

Stevie Nicks stated that, with regard to a new Fleetwood Mac album, "There isn't any plan at this point... for any album. We're going to get through this tour before deciding what to do with an album."

During the concerts mentioned, Buckingham stated, "the time is right to go back to the studio—but only after a tour. I think maybe there was even a sense that we would make a better album if we went out and hung out together first on the road ... Maybe even sowing some seeds musically that would get us more prepared to go in the studio rather than just going in cold. It takes the pressure [off] from having to go in and make something cold."

During their show on June 20, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Stevie Nicks premiered part of a new song that she had written about Hurricane Katrina.[9][10]

In October 2009, the band began a tour of Europe which carried on into early November, followed by a tour of Australia and New Zealand in December.

Also in October The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac was re-released in an extended two-disc format (this format having been released in the US in 2002), premiering at number six on the UK Albums Chart.

On November 1, 2009, a new one-hour documentary, Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop, was broadcast in the UK on BBC One, which featured recent interviews with all four current band members.[citation needed] During the documentary, Nicks gave a candid summary of the current state of her relationship with Buckingham, stating "Maybe when we're 75 and Fleetwood Mac is a distant memory, we might be friends...". It also included outtakes from the Tusk recording sessions, not seen for many years since their availability on VHS cassette in 1981.

On November 6, 2009 Fleetwood Mac played the last show of the European leg of their Unleashed tour at London's Wembley Arena. Christine McVie was present in the audience, to Stevie Nicks paid a tribute from the stage to a standing ovation from the audience, stating that she thought about her former bandmate "every day", and went on to dedicate that night's performance of "Landslide" to McVie.[citation needed]

On December 19, 2009, Fleetwood Mac played the second to last act of their Unleashed tour to a sell-out crowd at what was originally intended to be a one-off event at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Tickets, after pre-sales, sold out within twelve minutes of public release, and another date (Sunday December 20), which also sold out, was added.[citation needed]

On October 19, 2010, Fleetwood Mac played a private show at the Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona for TPG (Texas Pacific Group).

Remasters

- The 1967–69 Blue Horizon albums (Fleetwood Mac, Mr. Wonderful, The Pious Bird of Good Omen and Fleetwood Mac in Chicago) and 1971 outtakes album The Original Fleetwood Mac have been fully remastered & reissued on CD, as have the 1975–79 Warner Brothers albums Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, and Tusk.

Then Play On, Kiln House, the Bob Welch era albums (Future Games, Bare Trees, Penguin, Mystery to Me and Heroes Are Hard to Find) and every release since 1980 (Fleetwood Mac Live, Mirage, Tango in the Night, Behind the Mask, Time and Say You Will) have all yet to be remastered.

Tours

- Penguin Tour - early 1973

- Mystery To Me Tour - Mid 1973

- Heros Are Hard To Find Tour - 1974

- Fleetwood Mac – 1975–1976

- Rumours Tour – 1977–1978

- Tusk Tour – 1979–1980

- Mirage Tour – 1982

- Shake The Cage Tour – 1987–1988

- Behind The Mask Tour – 1990

- Time Tour – 1994-1995

- The Dance – 1997

- Say You Will Tour – 2003–2004

- Unleashed Tour – 2009

Discography

Personnel

Fleetwood Mac personnel

(1967)

(When John McVie refused to join the newly formed band, they hired Brunning with the understanding that he was out if McVie changed his mind.)

- Peter Green – vocals, guitar

- Jeremy Spencer – vocals, guitar

- Bob Brunning – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1967–68)

(After a few weeks, McVie joined the band in time to record their debut album.)

- Peter Green – vocals, guitar

- Jeremy Spencer – vocals, guitar

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1968–70)

- Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals

- Peter Green – vocals, guitar

- Jeremy Spencer – vocals, guitar

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1970)

- Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals

- Jeremy Spencer – vocals, guitar

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1970–71)

- Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals

- Jeremy Spencer – vocals, guitar

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(Peter Green filled in on guitars for the remainder of the tour after Spencer abruptly quit the band.)

(1971–72)

- Bob Welch – vocals, guitar

- Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood - drums

(1972–73)

- Dave Walker – vocals

- Bob Weston – guitar

- Bob Welch – vocals, guitar

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1973–74)

- Bob Weston – guitar

- Bob Welch – vocals, guitar

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1974)

- Bob Welch – vocals, guitar

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1975–87)

- Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals

- Stevie Nicks – vocals

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1987–90)

- Rick Vito – guitar, vocals

- Billy Burnette – guitar, vocals

- Stevie Nicks – vocals

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1991–92)

- Billy Burnette – guitar, vocals

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

(1993–95)

- Bekka Bramlett – vocals

- Dave Mason – guitar, vocals

- Billy Burnette – guitar, vocals

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

(1997–98)

- Stevie Nicks – vocals

- Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals

- Christine McVie – keyboard, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

(1998–11)

- Stevie Nicks – vocals

- Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals

- John McVie – bass

- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Timeline

Gallery

- Danny Kirwan, 1970

- Danny Kirwan, 1970

- Jeremy Spencer, 1970

- John McVie, 1970

- John McVie, 1970

- Mick Fleetwood, 1970

- Mick Fleetwood, 1970

- Mick Fleetwood, 1970

- Peter Green, 1970

- Peter Green, 1970

- Peter Green, 1970

See also

- List of bands from England

- List of best-selling music artists

References

1. ^ "Links". Mskinnermusic.com. http://www.mskinnermusic.com/links.html. Retrieved 2010-08-29.

2. ^ "Stars Salute 'Rumours'". Billboard Bulletin, page 7. 6 February 1998. http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4386280-1.html. Retrieved 3 May 2009.

3. ^ Fleetwood, Mick; Davis, Stephen (1991). My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac. p. 219.

4. ^ Brown, Mick (2007-09-08). "Stevie Nicks: a survivor's story". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/08/sm_stevienicks.xml&page=1. Retrieved 2010-05-02. [dead link]

5. ^ Jan Freedland. "The Fleetwood Mac Legacy". Fmlegacy.com. http://www.fmlegacy.com/main.html. Retrieved 2010-08-29.

6. ^ "Sheryl Crow to sing with Fleetwood Mac". Associated Press. CNN. 17 March 2008. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/17/people.crow.ap/. [dead link]

7. ^ Graff, Gary (23 July 2008). "Sans Crow, Fleetwood Mac To Tour In 2009". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003830870.

8. ^ http://www.stevie-nicks.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1543&Itemid=242[dead link]

9. ^ "The Ledge - View Single Post - New Orleans Arena, NOLA - June 20, 2009". Ledge.fleetwoodmac.net. http://www.ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showpost.php?p=827021&postcount=14. Retrieved 2010-08-29.

10. ^ "Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks "New Orleans Song" Debut 6/20/09 New Orleans Arena". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9S9YOCJG9A&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eledge%2Efleetwoodmac%2Enet%2Fshowthread%2Ephp%3Ft%3D40172%26page%3D5&feature=player_embedded. Retrieved 2010-08-29.

Bibliography

- Bob Brunning, Blues: The British Connection, Helter Skelter Publishing, London 2002, ISBN 1-900924-41-2 - First edition 1986 - Second edition 1995 Blues in Britain

- Bob Brunning, The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, Omnibus Press London, 1990 and 1998, ISBN 0-7119-6907-8

- Martin Celmins, Peter Green - Founder of Fleetwood Mac, Sanctuary London, 1995, foreword by B.B.King, ISBN 1-86074-233-5

- Fancourt, L., (1989) British blues on record (1957–1970), Retrack Books.

- Dick Heckstall-Smith, The safest place in the world: A personal history of British Rhythm and blues, 1989 Quartet Books Limited, ISBN 0-7043-2696-5 - Second Edition : Blowing The Blues - Fifty Years Playing The British Blues, 2004, Clear Books, ISBN 1-904555-04-7

- Christopher Hjort, Strange brew: Eric Clapton and the British blues boom, 1965-1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone 2007, ISBN 1-90600-200-2

- Paul Myers, Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Vancouver 2007, GreyStone Books, ISBN 1-55365-200-2

- Harry Shapiro Alexis Korner: The Biography, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London 1997, Discography by Mark Troster, ISBN 0-7475-3163-3

- Mike Vernon, The Blue Horizon story 1965-1970 vol.1, notes of the booklet of the Box Set (60 pages)

Further reading

- Silver, Murray "When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama," (Bonaventure Books, Savannah, 2005) in which the author recounts his days as a concert promoter in Atlanta, GA., and having brought Fleetwood Mac to town for the very first time in December 1969.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic

- The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)

External links

- The Official Fleetwood Mac Site

- RBMA Radio On Demand – Sound Obsession – Volume 4 – Fleetwood Mac Special – Kirk Degiorgio (The Beauty Room, As One)

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Stevie Nicks · Lindsey Buckingham · John McVie · Mick Fleetwood
Christine McVie · Peter Green · Jeremy Spencer · Bob Brunning · Danny Kirwan · Bob Welch · Bob Weston · Dave Walker · Billy Burnette · Rick Vito · Dave Mason · Bekka Bramlett

Studio albums

Fleetwood Mac · Mr. Wonderful · Then Play On · Fleetwood Mac in Chicago · Kiln House · Future Games · Bare Trees · Penguin · Mystery to Me · Heroes Are Hard to Find · Fleetwood Mac · Rumours · Tusk · Mirage · Tango in the Night · Behind the Mask · Time · Say You Will

Songs

"Need Your Love So Bad" · "Black Magic Woman" · "Albatross" · "When You Say" · "Man of the World" · "Oh Well" · The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" · "Dragonfly" · "Warm Ways"  · "Over My Head" · "Say You Love Me"  · "Rhiannon" · "Landslide" · "Go Your Own Way" · "Silver Springs" · "Dreams" · "Don't Stop" · "The Chain" · "You Make Loving Fun" · "Gold Dust Woman" · "Tusk" · "Sara" · "Sisters of the Moon" · "Angel" · "Hold Me" · "Gypsy" · "Oh Diane" · "Love in Store" · "Can't Go Back" · "Big Love" · "Seven Wonders" · "Little Lies" · "Everywhere" · "Family Man" · "Isn't It Midnight" · "As Long as You Follow"

Compilations

English Rose · The Pious Bird of Good Omen · Black Magic Woman · The Original Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits · Greatest Hits · 25 Years – The Chain · The Vaudeville Years · The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions · Show-Biz Blues · The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac · The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac · The Essential Fleetwood Mac

Live albums

Live at the BBC · Shrine '69 · Live in Boston · Live  · The Dance · Live in Boston

Related articles

Discography · Say You Will Tour · Clifford Davis · Stretch ("Bogus Fleetwood Mac")

Stevie Nicks

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CONTENTS

History

Early life

Buckingham Nicks: 1972–1974

Fleetwood Mac and Rumours: 1975–1978

Tusk, Bella Donna and Mirage: 1978–1982

Wild Heart and Rock a Little: 1983–1986

Tango in the Night and The Other Side of the Mirror: 1987–1990

Timespace and Street Angel: 1991–1996

The Dance: 1997–1998

Enchanted and Trouble in Shangri-La: 1998–2001

Say You Will: 2001–2004

Crystal Visions and Soundstage Sessions: 2007–2009

In Your Dreams: 2010-present

Tours

Solo tours

Stevie Nicks' Band of Soldiers

Influence

Personal life

Image

Microphone and tambourine

Rumors of witchcraft

Discography

Solo

As Buckingham Nicks

With Fleetwood Mac

See also

References

External links

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Nicks performing in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 3, 2009

Background information

Birth name

Stephanie Lynn Nicks

Born

May 26, 1948 (1948-05-26) (age 62)

Origin

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Genres

Pop rock

Instruments

Vocals, percussion, guitar, piano

Years active

1967–present

Labels

Modern, Atlantic, Reprise

Associated acts

Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Don Henley Vanessa Carlton

Website

stevienicks.net

Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.[1]

Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only U.S. number one) and remained at #1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the ninth highest selling album of all time.

Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with the 8 million selling album Bella Donna, and she has produced six more solo studio albums to date. Her seventh solo studio album entitled In Your Dreams, and her first in ten years, has completed production with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame at the helm, and is due for release on May 3, 2011.

After the release of her first solo album, Rolling Stone deemed her "The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll".[2] Having overcome cocaine addiction, and dependency on tranquilizers, Nicks remains a popular solo performer. As a solo artist, she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations[3] and, with Fleetwood Mac, has a further five nominations (one of her nominations with Fleetwood Mac won the 1977/1978 award for Album of the Year for Rumours). As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

History

Early life

Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, to Jess Nicks, a corporate executive, and Barbara Nicks, a homemaker. Nicks' grandfather, Aaron Jess Nicks, a struggling country music singer, taught Nicks to sing, performing duets with her by the time she was four years old. Nicks' mother was very protective of her, keeping her at home "more than most people were" and fostering in her a love of fairy tales.[4][5] As a young child, Nicks had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, instead pronouncing it "tee-dee", which became the nickname "Stevie".[6] Nicks' father Jess's career as a food business executive necessitated frequent moves, and the family lived in Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco during Nicks' youth. With the Goya guitar that she received for her sixteenth birthday, Nicks wrote her first song called "I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad But Not Blue". She joined her first band "The Changing Times" while attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles.[7]

Nicks first met her future musical and romantic partner Lindsey Buckingham during her senior year at Menlo Atherton High School.[8] She attended a Young Life Christian social event, saw Buckingham playing "California Dreamin'", and joined in with the harmony.[9] Buckingham contacted Nicks a few years later and asked her to join him and his bandmates Javier Pacheco and Calvin Roper in a band called Fritz. Fritz became popular as a live act from 1968 until 1972, opening for popular musicians Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, among others, in the San Francisco Bay Area.[10] Both Nicks and Buckingham attended San Jose State University in Northern California, where Nicks majored in Speech Communication. They dropped out in 1968 and moved to Los Angeles together to pursue a career in music when Nicks' family moved to Chicago.[11]

Buckingham Nicks: 1972–1974

After Fritz disbanded in 1972, Nicks and Buckingham continued to write and record as a duo, producing demo tapes at the coffee plant belonging to Buckingham's father Morris.[12] They secured a deal with Polydor Records. Polydor used tracks from the demo tapes to release the album[clarification needed] Buckingham Nicks in 1973. The album was not a commercial success, despite the live shows that Nicks and Buckingham performed together to support it, and Polydor dropped the pair from the label. To support herself and Buckingham, who wrote music while recovering from mononucleosis, Nicks worked a variety of jobs, which included waiting tables and a stint cleaning engineer/producer Keith Olsen's house, where Nicks and Buckingham lived for a time.[13] Nicks says that she first used cocaine during this time.[14]

Nicks and Buckingham briefly relocated to Aspen, Colorado. While there, Buckingham landed a guitar-playing gig with the Everly Brothers, and toured with them while Nicks stayed behind. During this time, Nicks wrote "Rhiannon" after seeing the name in the novel Triad by Mary Leader, unaware at the time of the Mabinogi legend of Rhiannon. She also wrote "Landslide", inspired by the scenery of Aspen and her inner turmoil over her decision to pursue music.[15]

Fleetwood Mac and Rumours: 1975–1978

Nicks and Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, after Keith Olsen played their track "Frozen Love" for drummer Mick Fleetwood, who had come to Studio City in California, in search of a studio to record Fleetwood Mac's next album. Fleetwood remembered Buckingham's guitar work after guitar player Bob Welch's departure to pursue a solo career. Initially extending the offer only to Buckingham, Fleetwood later included Nicks in the offer when Buckingham insisted that they were "a package deal".

In 1975, the band achieved success with the album Fleetwood Mac. That same year, Nicks worked with clothing designer Margi Kent to develop Nicks' unique onstage look, with costumes that featured flowing skirts, shawls and platform boots.[16]

Following the success of Fleetwood Mac, increasing tension between Nicks and Buckingham began to take its toll on their creativity, and Nicks ended the relationship.[17][18] Fleetwood Mac began recording their follow-up album, Rumours, in early 1976 and continued until late in the year. Also, Nicks and Buckingham sang back-up on Warren Zevon's debut album.[19][20]

Among Nicks' contributions to Rumours was "Dreams", which became the band's only Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit single to date. Nicks had also written and recorded the song "Silver Springs", but it was ultimately not included on the album because of space limitations for studio albums on vinyl records, which were limited to 24 minutes per side. Instead, it was released as a B-side of the "Go Your Own Way" single, and would remain in some obscurity until it appeared on the 4-disc Fleetwood Mac retrospective 25 Years – The Chain in 1992. The song, the rights to which are owned by Nicks' mother Barbara, has always been very special to Nicks, and she was devastated when told about the omission after the decision had been made.[21]

In November 1977, after a New Zealand concert for the Rumours tour, Nicks and Fleetwood, who was married to Jenny Boyd, secretly began an affair.[22][23] The pair mutually decided to end the affair, because, according to Nicks, "we knew it would be the end of Fleetwood Mac."[24] Soon after, in October 1978, Mick Fleetwood left his wife for Nicks' best friend Sara Recor.[25] After the success of the Rumours album and tour in 1977–78, Fleetwood Mac began recording their third album with Buckingham and Nicks, Tusk, in the spring of 1978. That year, Nicks sang back-up on Walter Egan's "Magnet & Steel".

Tusk, Bella Donna and Mirage: 1978–1982

By 1978, Nicks had amassed a large backlog of songs dating back to her Buckingham Nicks days that she had been unable to record and release with Fleetwood Mac because of the constraint of having to accommodate three songwriters on each album.[26] Nicks wrote and recorded demos for the solo project during Tusk sessions in 1979 and the Tusk world tour of 1979–80. Nicks, Danny Goldberg, and Paul Fishkin founded Modern Records to record and release Nicks' material. Nicks recorded the hit duets "Whenever I Call You Friend" with Kenny Loggins in 1978, and "Gold" with John Stewart in 1979.

Fleetwood Mac's Tusk was released on October 19, 1979. During 1981, Nicks toured with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and New Zealand band Split Enz as a guest.

Nicks released Bella Donna on July 27, 1981 to critical and commercial acclaim. Bella Donna was the first album to feature Nicks' back-up singers, Sharon Celani and Lori Perry, who have contributed vocals to all of Nicks' solo albums since then.

The day that Bella Donna reached #1 on the Billboard 200, Nicks' best friend Robin Anderson was diagnosed with leukemia. Robin gave birth to a son, appointing Nicks as the child's godmother. Following Robin's death in 1982, Nicks married Robin's widower Kim Anderson. They divorced eight months later.[27]

In October 1981 Nicks embarked on the White Winged Dove tour, which she had to cut short to record the Mirage album with Fleetwood Mac. After the Mirage in 1982, Nicks prepared to record her second solo album.

Wild Heart and Rock a Little: 1983–1986

Nicks released The Wild Heart on June 10, 1983. The album introduced songwriter and performer Sandy Stewart as co-writer, vocalist, and musician. The Wild Heart went double platinum, reached #5 on the Billboard album chart, and featured three hit singles. Nicks performed at the second US Festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, California, and later toured the U.S. from June 1983 to November 1983. Nicks appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1983, performing "Stand Back" and "Nightbird".

Following the tour for The Wild Heart, Nicks commenced work on her third solo album. Originally titled Mirror Mirror, Nicks recorded songs for the album during 1984. However, Nicks was unhappy with the title track, and opted to record a new batch of songs in 1985.[28] Rock a Little, as it was re-titled, was released November 18, 1985 to commercial success, supported by two hit singles.

Nicks toured in 1986 with Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. The tour ended on October 10, 1986 in Sydney, Australia when Nicks was threatened by Australian authorities with expulsion from the country for not carrying a work permit.

The tour marked a turning point in Nicks' career: although she had achieved significant critical acclaim, drugs were taking a toll on her performing, affecting her vocals and changing her on-stage persona[citation needed]. In 1986, a plastic surgeon warned her of severe health problems if she did not stop using cocaine.[29] At the end of the Australian tour, Nicks checked herself into the Betty Ford Center to overcome her cocaine addiction.[30] Later that year, a doctor prescribed the tranquilizer Klonopin to help her avoid a cocaine relapse.[31]

Tango in the Night and The Other Side of the Mirror: 1987–1990

In 1985, Fleetwood Mac began work on Tango in the Night, which was released in April 1987. Nicks joined in the later stages of production in late 1986 after her stay in at the Betty Ford Clinic.

Creative differences and unresolved personal issues within the band led Buckingham to quit the group right before their world tour. A "physically ugly" confrontation between Nicks and Buckingham ensued when Nicks violently rejected Buckingham's decision to leave the band.[32]

The band embarked on the Shake the Cage tour in September 1987, with Buckingham replaced by Rick Vito and Billy Burnette. The tour was suspended during Nicks' bout with chronic fatigue syndrome and developing addiction to tranquilizers, though it resumed in 1988. Tango in the Night met with commercial success and was followed in 1988 by Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits album in November 1988.

Also in 1988, Nicks began work on a fourth solo album with British producer Rupert Hine. The Other Side of the Mirror was released on May 11, 1989 to commercial success. Nicks became romantically involved with Hine.[33]

Nicks toured the U.S. and Europe from August to November 1989, the only time she has toured Europe as a solo act. She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has "no memory of this tour" due to her increasing dependancy on the tranquillizer Klonopin[citation needed], prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.

In 1989, Nicks set to work with Fleetwood Mac on a new album, Behind the Mask, which was released in 1990 to moderate commercial success in the U.S. In the UK, however, the album entered the chart at #1 and has been certified Platinum there. The band went on a world tour to promote the album, on the last night of which Buckingham and Nicks reunited on stage to perform "Landslide".[34] After the tour concluded, Nicks left the group over a dispute with Mick Fleetwood, who would not allow her to release the 1977 track "Silver Springs" on her album Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks, because of his plans to release it on a forthcoming Fleetwood Mac box set.[35]

Timespace and Street Angel: 1991–1996

On the tenth anniversary of her solo career debut, Nicks released Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks on September 3, 1991.

Fleetwood Mac also released a four-disc box set, 25 Years – The Chain, which included "Silver Springs".

During the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign, Bill Clinton used the Fleetwood Mac hit "Don't Stop" as his campaign theme song, and Nicks joined her band mates to perform the song at Clinton's 1993 Inaugural Gala. No plans for an official reunion were made at that time. Nicks was criticized for her weight gain.[36]

In late 1993, while Nicks held a baby shower at her house, she tripped and cut her forehead near a fireplace. Not feeling any pain from the injury, Nicks realized she needed help and endured a painful 47-day detox from Klonopin in a hospital.[37] Her weight had also reached a peak at 175 lb (79.4 kg).

Nicks used material written mostly in previous years to record a solo album in 1992 and 1993 entitled Street Angel, which was ultimately released following her detox in May 1994. Nicks has expressed major disappointment with the album, claiming that a lot of production work took place during her second stint in rehab, meaning she had little to no say over the final product.[38]

Released May 23, 1994, Street Angel was poorly received. Despite praise from critics and fans for her vocals on the three-month Street Angel tour, Nicks was crushed by the focus on her weight and the poor reception of the album itself. Disgusted by the criticism she received during the tour for being overweight, Nicks vowed to never set foot on a stage again unless she slimmed down.[39]

In 1995, Nicks was reunited with Lindsey Buckingham and contributed the duet "Twisted" to the Twister movie soundtrack, while in 1996 the Sheryl Crow penned "Somebody Stand By Me" featured on the Boys on the Side soundtrack, and Nicks also remade Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" for Fox's TV hit Party of Five.

The Dance: 1997–1998

In 1996 Lindsey Buckingham, working on a planned solo album, enlisted the help of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, which eventually led to a reunion of the entire band. A newly invigorated and slimmed down Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac for The Dance, a highly successful 1997 tour that coincided with the 20th anniversary of the release of Rumours. Prior to the tour, Nicks started work with a voice coach, to lend her voice more control and protect it from the stress of lengthy touring schedules.

The live CD release, The Dance, was released to commercial and critical acclaim, earning the group a Grammy nomination. Nicks was nominated for a Rock Vocal Performance Grammy for the live performance of "Silver Springs" from the album. In 1998, Nicks joined the group for its induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This same year, she won the Outstanding Contribution at the BRIT Awards.

Nicks put work on a new solo album on hold when she was approached by Warner Music to release a solo career-spanning box set, to finish her contract with Atlantic Records in the US. After the culmination of the Fleetwood Mac reunion tour, Nicks settled down in Los Angeles and Phoenix with close friends and colleagues to devise a track list for this three-disc collection.

Enchanted and Trouble in Shangri-La: 1998–2001

The box set Enchanted was released to acclaim on April 28, 1998 with liner notes from Nicks, as well as exclusive rare photographs, and pages from her journals. Nicks supported the box set with a successful US tour. In 1998, Nicks contributed to the Practical Magic soundtrack and performed in Don Henley's benefit concert for the Walden Woods Project.

Nicks had begun writing actively for Trouble in Shangri-La in 1994 and 1995 as she came out of her Klonopin dependency. According to Nicks, friend and former musical partner Tom Petty was responsible for convincing her to write music again when he rebuffed her request that he write a song with her. Nicks resumed recording songs for the Trouble in Shangri-La album with Sheryl Crow, who produced and performed on several tracks. When a scheduling conflict forced Crow to drop out of the project, Nicks first approached R&B producer Dallas Austin, but these sessions have never surfaced. Nicks finally called on John Shanks to produce the remainder of the album, with additional contributions from David Kahne, Rick Nowels, Pierre Marchand, and Jeff Trott. Artists Natalie Maines, Sarah McLachlan, and Macy Gray contributed to some of the tracks.

Released May 1, 2001, Trouble in Shangri-La restored Nicks' solo career to critical and commercial success. "Planets of the Universe" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and Nicks was named VH1's "Artist of the Month" for May 2001. Nicks was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People, was featured in a well-received Behind The Music episode, and performed an episode of the VH1 Storytellers Concert Program. Nicks made several television appearances in support of the album and performed at the 2001 Radio Music Awards.

Nicks supported the album with a successful tour, although some shows were canceled or postponed because of Nicks' bout with acute bronchitis. Shows were also canceled because of the September 11 attacks in the U.S.

Say You Will: 2001–2004

during Fleetwood Mac's 2003 tour.

In 2001, Fleetwood Mac began work on a new studio album. After the end of her solo tour, Nicks convened with the other members of the band for recording during 2002.

Say You Will was released in April 2003 and met with commercial success but mixed reviews. Nicks joined the group to support the album with a world tour lasting until September 2004.

Nicks has subsequently stated in several interviews that she was not happy with the album or the successful world tour that followed, citing production disputes with Buckingham as a core factor, as well as the absence of fellow female band member Christine McVie.[40] A documentary of the making of the album, Destiny Rules, was released on DVD in 2004 and chronicles the sometimes turbulent relationships between band members, especially Buckingham and Nicks, during that time in the studio.

Crystal Visions and Soundstage Sessions: 2007–2009

On March 27, 2007, Reprise Records released Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks in the U.S. The album debuted at #21 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart.

The compilation includes her hit singles, a dance remix, and one new track, a live version of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll". There are two versions of this album, one with just the audio CD and another version with an included DVD featuring all of Nicks' music videos with audio commentary from Nicks, as well as rare footage from the Bella Donna recording sessions.

A tour with Chris Isaak, opening in Concord, California on May 17, 2007 supported the release.

Reprise Records initially released two radio only promos, the live version of "Landslide" with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and "Rock and Roll". Both tracks failed to garner much airplay and made no impact on the charts. Reprise Records released "Stand Back" (issued with club mixes) on May 29, 2007. "Stand Back", which peaked at #5 on the pop singles chart in 1983, reached #2 on the "Billboard Club Chart". Nicks previously reached #1 on this chart, with "Planets Of The Universe" (from Trouble in Shangri-La) in 2001. The remix single of "Stand Back" debuted on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales Chart on September 15, 2007 at #10 peaking at #4 the following week. It also debuted on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales Chart at #3 peaking at #1.

On March 31, 2009, Stevie released the album, The Soundstage Sessions, via Reprise Records. The album debuted at #47 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. The first single from the album was "Crash Into Me" and was released as a digital download, along with "Landslide" (orchestra version) as a B-side, on March 17, 2009.

Along with the CD, Nicks also released a DVD titled Live In Chicago. Both are of her October 2007 Soundstage performance which was filmed and recorded before an intimate audience at Grainger Studio in Chicago. The DVD features special guest Vanessa Carlton.

In Your Dreams: 2010-present

In late February 2010, David A. Stewart (musician and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics) revealed, using his Twitter account, that he was working with Nicks on at least four new songs, including one called "Everybody Loves You".[41][42]

In one of the tweets, Stewart stated that he, Nicks, Waddy Wachtel, Mike Campbell (of the Heartbreakers), Mike Rowe, and Steve Ferrone were all working on the album, and that Mick Fleetwood has also contributed drums to at least one track. Waddy Wachtel has been Nicks' lead guitarist for most of her solo career, featuring prominently on all of her albums to date.

In a July 26 interview for the Santa Barbara Independent, Nicks had mentioned a new song on the album, entitled "Italian Summer", whichy she wrote in 2009 while on vacation in Italy.[43] Later, in a July 29 interview with the Ventura County Star, Nicks gave an in-depth interview about her career, her new album, and the August "mini tour" she's embarking on.[44] She had this to say about the new songs:

There is an Italian love song I wrote when I was in Italy last summer. There is a crazy, wild rock 'n' roll song called "The Ghosts Are Gone". There is a song about a novel called "Wide Sargasso Sea", the precursor to Jane Eyre. It was a crazy movie in the '80s that I loved. There are two tracks that Michael Campbell wrote that I wrote songs on top of, and they are just magical. There are love songs, hard rock 'n' roll songs, really contemplative songs and very Bob Dylan-y songs and there are lots of good poems.

She also mentioned that the series of shows she is doing in August ("it's not really a tour," she said) will not contain any of her new music, because she doesn't want it to end up on Youtube. The Santa Barbara show will benefit a little girl she knows in Los Angeles with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer. A documentary was shot and was directed by Dave Stewart, which may come packaged with the new album.

On January 13, via the Reprise website, it was announced that the upcoming album is entitled In Your Dreams and was released on May 3.

Stevie has announced a US and Canadian tour with Rod Stewart called the "Heart & Soul Tour" which will begin in March 2011.[45]

The single, "Secret Love", was released on February 8.[46][47]

Tours

Nicks on the 2008 leg of her "Crystal Visions" tour.

After a few months' respite from the Say You Will tour, Nicks did a four-night stint in May 2005 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and then did a 10-show tour with Don Henley. During the summer of 2005, Nicks continued the tour solo with pop singer Vanessa Carlton as the opening act, playing over 20 dates nationwide.

In October 2005, she attended the Melbourne Cup Week in Australia, and one of the horse racing stakes was named after her: The Stevie Nicks Plate. She used this opportunity to launch her promotion of an Australian/New Zealand extension to her Gold Dust Tour in February and March 2006. Nicks toured in Australia and New Zealand with popular Australian performer John Farnham.[48] She also appeared in concert with Tom Petty in June near Manassas, Virginia and at the Bonnaroo Music Festival that same month.[49]

In 2006, Nicks performed with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the first leg of their tour in the summer, and later in the year returned as a guest performer for a number of songs on the tour celebrating Petty's 30th anniversary since his debut album. Tom Petty's Homecoming Concert in Gainesville, FL, which contained performances with Stevie Nicks, was filmed for PBS Soundstage as well as DVD release for March 2007. Nicks was also the featured performer for Bette Midler's benefit function, Hullaween, in October 2006.[50]

Beginning in May 2007, Nicks began touring with pop/rock artist Chris Isaak. The last Stevie Nicks/Chris Isaak show was June 17, 2007 at the Tweeter Center in Boston, MA. Nicks continued the tour solo, with Vanessa Carlton opening on some dates. The tour finished at The Borgata in Atlantic City on August 24, 2007.

In 2009, Fleetwood Mac embarked on a global hits tour. The Unleashed Tour took place in arenas on multiple continents. The tour ended in December with two sell-out shows of 35,000 people at the New Plymouth TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Zealand.

Rod Stewart and Nicks will be co-headlining The Heart & Soul Tour. Launching March 20, 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the tour will unite the two singers for a series of arena concerts throughout North America – with performances already confirmed in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Tampa, Montreal and more.[51]

Solo tours

- Buckingham Nicks Tour: 1974-1975 (with Lindsey Buckingham)

- White Winged Dove (Bella Donna) Tour: 1981

- The Wild Heart Tour: 1983 (with Joe Walsh)

- Rock A Little Tour: 1986

- The Other Side of the Mirror Tour: 1989

- Whole Lotta Trouble (Timespace) Tour: 1991

- Street Angel Tour: 1994

- Enchanted Tour: 1998

- Holiday Millenium Tour: 1999-2000

- Trouble In Shangri-La Tour: 2001 (on select dates with Sheryl Crow)

- Two Voices Tour: 2005 (with Don Henley)

- Gold Dust Tour: 2005–2006 (with Vanessa Carlton)

- Highway Companion Tour: 2006 (on select dates as guest of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)

- Crystal Visions Tour: 2007-2008

- Soundstage Sessions Tour: 2008 (with Chris Isaak)

- Heart & Soul Tour: 2011 (with Rod Stewart)

Touring band

(2011)

- Sharon Celani – Backing vocals (1981–present)

- Waddy Wachtel – Lead guitarist, Musical director(1981–1986, 2001–present)

- Lori Nicks – Backing vocals (1981–1989, 1996, 2007–present)

- Carlos Rios – Rhythm guitar (1988–present)

- Al Ortiz – Bass guitar (2001–present)

- Lenny Castro – Percussionist ( 1998-2001; 2011)

- Jimmy Paxson – Drums (2005–present)

- Darrell Smith – Keyboardist (2005–present)

- Ricky Peterson – Keyboardist (2007–present)

Stevie Nicks' Band of Soldiers

In late 2004, Nicks began visiting Army and Navy medical centers in Washington, D.C. While visiting wounded service men and women, Nicks became determined to find an object she could leave with each soldier that would raise their spirits, motivate, and give them something to look forward to each day. She eventually decided to purchase hundreds of iPod Nanos, load them with music, artists, and playlists which she would hand select, and autograph them. She now regularly delivers these tokens of her appreciation, bringing her closest friends to share the experience.[52]

In 2006, Nicks held a get-together to raise money for her charity work. Many of her peers made contributions. Nicks continues to develop this philanthropic endeavor.[53]

“

I call it a soldiers' iPod. It has all the crazy stuff that I listen to, and my collections I've been making since the '70s for going on the road, when I'm sick...Or the couple of times in my life that I have really been down, music is what always dances me out of bed.

„

—Stevie Nicks, The Arizona Republic

“

So, as Mick [Fleetwood] and I went from room to room delivering their tiny iPod, they told us their stories. Mick became his tall, loving, father figure, English self, taking in every word they said, remaining calm (at least on the outside) inspiring them. We floated from room to room down thru the halls of the 2 hospitals over a three-day period. We gave out all our iPods. Right before I left for D.C., Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry dug into their pockets and came up with $10,000 for me. In my eyes they went from the coolest rock stars to generous great men; as my press agent Liz Rosenberg said, every returning wounded soldier should be given an iPod. It will be an integral part of their recovery.

„

—Stevie Nicks, Journal Entry

Influence

Courtney Love, Michelle Branch, Belinda Carlisle, the Dixie Chicks, Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Nadia Ali, Taylor Swift, Laura Branigan, Sarah McLachlan, Kelly Clarkson, Vanessa Carlton, Georgi Cussick, Tori Amos, Michelle Hotaling, Jennifer Hanson, and Delta Goodrem have all cited Nicks as an inspiration. She has participated in duets or provided guest vocals for several of their albums and some have returned the favour, notably Crow and the Dixie Chicks. The Dixie Chicks covered her 1975 classic "Landslide", which became a Top 10 hit (#1 on the Adult Contemporary chart) and a #1 Hit on the Country Chart. Alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins made an acoustic cover of the song that was featured on their 1994 B-side collection Pisces Iscariot. The cover was a hit and made it to the top three on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U.S. that year. She recorded a duet of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" with Chris Isaak on his 2004 Christmas album Chris Isaak Christmas and sang with Isaak on his PBS Christmas television special. Other successful covers have included The Corrs' "Dreams", and Courtney Love's band Hole with "Gold Dust Woman". "Edge Of Seventeen" was sampled on Destiny's Child's 2001 #1 single "Bootylicious". Nicks appeared in the video for "Bootylicious" and in an episode of MTV's Making The Video that featured it, in which she expressed her admiration for both the song and the group. Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys has expressed extreme interest in working with Nicks. Lindsay Lohan covered "Edge of Seventeen" on her 2005 album, A Little More Personal. Deep Dish fulfilled their "Dreams" of working with Nicks in 2005 when Nicks offered to re-record vocals on a remix of her #1 penned song, "Dreams". The Deep Dish version went on to reach #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay Chart, as well as providing Nicks with her third UK top 40 hit. Nicks provided additional vocals and writing on Vanessa Carlton's 2007 album Heroes and Thieves. Carlton had previously been on tour with Nicks in 2005 and 2006.

The Dixie Chicks' cover of Nicks' 1975 song "Landslide" also earned her a BMI Songwriters Award in 2003 when it won "Song of the Year" (the award is given to the songwriter of the track, regardless of the performer). According to BMI, "Landslide" also earned Nicks the 35th Robert J. Burton Award as "Most Performed Country Song of the Year". This distinction is given to the song tallying the most feature US broadcast performances during the eligibility period. Included on the Dixie Chicks' platinum Monument album Home, "Landslide" was a Country, Adult Top 40, Hot 100 and AC Billboard charts smash. Nicks previously collected a Pop Award in 1998 for Fleetwood Mac's recording of the song, which has achieved Million-Air status with over three million airplays.[54]

On January 31, 2010, Nicks performed with Taylor Swift at the 52nd Grammy Awards. Swift, who describes Nicks as one of her childhood heroes, introduced her to the audience by saying "It's a fairy tale and an honor to share the stage with Stevie Nicks."[55]

Personal life

During the Rumours tour, Nicks had a relationship with singer/songwriter Don Henley of the Eagles. Nicks ended her relationship with Henley at the beginning of the Tusk tour in 1979.

Her only marriage was to Kim Anderson, the widower of her friend Robin Anderson, soon after Robin died of leukemia while Bella Donna was on the top of the charts. Stevie and Kim were soon divorced: "We didn't get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything."[27][56]

Until July 2007 Nicks lived in Paradise Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix in a home she had built in 1981 and shared with brother Chris, his wife Lori and their daughter Jessica. She announced in mid-2007 that her Paradise Valley home would be put up for sale, citing her aspirations to "downsize" and focus more on her charity work, and the fact that in the last year she had only "spent about two weeks there." The house was put on the market for a reported $3.8 million, and many fans, feeling it was the end of a major era in her life and career, tagged it as a "Kingdom Up For Sale", a line from the song "Gold Dust Woman". She also owns a home in Pacific Palisades, California.

According to a September 2007 article in the Daily Telegraph (UK), Nicks says she is again selling her home, her recently purchased Pacific Palisades home (purchased two years before by Nicks, right down the street from a rental home she had for years in Pacific Palisades). She has said it is a "house for adults", "And even though I'm pushing 60 I don't feel that I'm that old yet." She will be moving to a penthouse apartment on the beach and the old house is already on the market.[57]

Beginning in 2007, reports surfaced concerning Lindsay Lohan's interest in buying the rights to Nicks' life story and developing a motion picture in which she planned to play Nicks. In March 2007, while promoting her album Crystal Visions, Nicks was asked about this rumor. Nicks told Access Hollywood, "That is completely insane and crazy. There is no movie in the works on my life. Nobody can do a movie about my life without me being involved, because nobody knows what really happened in my life until I tell them. So, nobody can make a movie about my life. And if anybody ever went and made a movie about my life without my permission and my being involved, I would slam it so hard to the press that it would never do anything." Nicks has gone on record to the New York Times as being strongly opposed to the prospect, and was quoted in 2009 as saying "Over my dead body. She needs to stop doing drugs and get a grip. Then maybe we'll talk."[58]

Image

Stevie Nicks is known for her mystical image, her billowing chiffon skirts, shawls, layers of lace and long blonde hair. Margi Kent, a designer from California, has worked with Nicks since the 1970s to perfect her style. Perhaps the most famous part of Nicks' wardrobe is her platform boots. Nicks has worn suede platform boots in various colors, usually black, cream, tan or maroon in almost all of her performances since 1975. Standing at 5 feet 1 inch (1.55 m), Nicks has stated she felt a little ridiculous standing next to the much taller Mick Fleetwood.[59] For this reason she developed a penchant for 6-inch (15 cm) platform boots. "Even when platforms went completely out of style, I kept wearing them because I didn't want to go back to being 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) in heels", she told Allure magazine in 1995.[60] Over the years, Nicks has developed a style which she calls her "uniform",[61] which is best exemplified by the outfit worn on the cover of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, perhaps the base inspiration for many of her costumes. Another trademark of Nicks' is a Dickens-style gentleman's formal top hat, which she began wearing in the late 1970s. During the early 1980s she wore Renaissance poets' velvet berets with plume feathers (as shown in the vintage photo used on the cover of her March 2007 CD release Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks). In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she wore fashionable ladies hats on stage and to this day, often still sports a black top hat adorned with giant plumes.

Many of Nicks' shawls and capes also have an association with her songs in her live performances, many becoming as signature in live performances as the songs themselves. These include a red/crimson shawl for "Sara", white for "Edge of Seventeen", gold for "Gold Dust Woman" and black with round gold circles for "Stand Back". One of her trademarks is twirling across the stage with shawls flying during the interlude of her classic songs, notably "Stand Back" and "Gypsy".

Nicks has said that her vocal style and performance antics evolved from female singers like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. She admitted inspiration when she saw Joplin perform live (and opened for with her first band "Fritz") shortly before Joplin's death. Nicks owns a strand of Joplin's stage beads. She also commented that she once saw a woman in her audience dressed in dripping chiffon with a Gibson Girl hairstyle and big boots and Nicks knew she wanted something similar. She took the look and made it her own.[62] Another important part of Nicks' image is her jewelry. Nicks typically introduces one signature piece of jewelry during each tour. Such items have included silver bracelets, crescent moon pendant, pyramid-shaped pendant, winged-heart pendant, gold crosses and, most recently, a Tiffany pendant with diamonds meaning "longevity." The crescent moon pendant is arguably the most iconic of all Nicks' jewelry – the original was bought while she was in England on tour with Fleetwood Mac during the Tusk era. Nicks then had her personal jeweler, Henri David of Philadelphia, make replicas of the moon pendant which have become treasured gifts to her friends. In recent years, celebrity pals such as Bette Midler and ice-skating star Tai Babilonia have been photographed wearing their "Stevie moons".

Nicks has even commented in interviews recently that she never would have dreamed that her trademark "Bella Donna/Witchy Woman" image would have been taken so seriously by her fans, often joking that she doesn't live her private life in her stage clothes and "Stevie garb" as many people seem to think. However, she greatly credits her career/stage image for its role in giving her a trademark that has made her unique and "timeless."

Microphone and tambourine

Stevie Nicks is known for her use of the Sennheiser MD-441-U5 microphone.[63] It was a frequent sight in Nicks' early tours. Also synonymous with Nicks' microphone are the items with which she chooses to decorate her microphone stand. Over the years, such items have included roses, ribbons, chiffon, crystal beads, scarves and small stuffed toys.[64]

Upon being asked in a question forum on her official website about playing the tambourine, Nicks stated that she began playing the tambourine upon joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, feeling the need to do something onstage during songs that featured Lindsey or Christine. Like her microphone, her tambourine usually features scarves and/or streamers. Nicks' trademark tambourine since the early 1980s is in the shape of a black half-moon. The tambourine is sometimes silenced using tape. She has spoken of being embarrassed about handing President Bill Clinton a silenced tambourine when he joined Fleetwood Mac on stage.

Rumors of witchcraft

A rumor that has trailed Nicks through the years is that she is a witch and is heavily involved in Wicca. While she admits to having a high regard for the mythic and gothic, she denies any solitary dedication to any one religion, including Wicca. She speaks about this erroneous image in a 2006 interview.[65] Nicks' music is copyrighted under the name Welsh Witch Music, a reference to her song Rhiannon, which she introduced as "a song about a Welsh witch" in concerts between 1975 and 1978. In a Yahoo! interview on April 28, 1998, Nicks said of the rumor: "I have no idea what precipitated those rumors… I am not a witch. Get a life!" Nicks also stated in a 1983 Entertainment Tonight interview: "I spent thousands of dollars on beautiful black clothes and had to stop wearing them for a long time because a lot of people scared me. And that's really unfair to me, I think, for people – other people – to conjure up their ideas of what I am or what I believe in." In a 1998 Redbook magazine article, Nicks spoke of her faith, stating that she believes in angels and knows that she is alive today because "there was a God looking out" for her during her years of addiction.

Discography
Further information: Stevie Nicks discography
Solo

- Bella Donna (1981)

- The Wild Heart (1983)

- Rock a Little (1985)

- The Other Side of the Mirror (1989)

- Street Angel (1994)

- Trouble in Shangri-La (2001)

- In Your Dreams (2011)

- The Soundstage Sessions (2009)

- Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks (1991)

- Enchanted (3 CD box set) (1998)

- Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks (2007)

- Stevie Nicks: Live in Concert (VHS) (1984)

- I Can't Wait: The Music Video Collection (VHS) (1986)

- I Can't Wait: The Music Video Collection (VHS) (1992 - Reissue on Light Year Video)

- Live at Red Rocks (VHS) (1995)

- Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks (Deluxe Edition – Disc 2) (2007)

- Soundstage: Stevie Nicks Live (Sears-exclusive Blu-Ray) (2008)

- Live in Chicago (2009)

As Buckingham Nicks

- Buckingham Nicks (1973)

With Fleetwood Mac

- Fleetwood Mac (1975)

- Rumours (1977)

- Tusk (1979)

- Live (1980)

- Mirage (1982)

- Tango in the Night (1987)

- Greatest Hits (1988)

- Behind the Mask (1990)

- 25 Years – The Chain (2 CD & 4 CD Boxset) (1992)

- The Dance (1997)

- The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002)

- Say You Will (2003)

- Live in Boston (2004)

See also

- List of number-one dance hits (United States)

- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

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Christine McVie · Peter Green · Jeremy Spencer · Bob Brunning · Danny Kirwan · Bob Welch · Bob Weston · Dave Walker · Billy Burnette · Rick Vito · Dave Mason · Bekka Bramlett

Studio albums

Fleetwood Mac · Mr. Wonderful · Then Play On · Fleetwood Mac in Chicago · Kiln House · Future Games · Bare Trees · Penguin · Mystery to Me · Heroes Are Hard to Find · Fleetwood Mac · Rumours · Tusk · Mirage · Tango in the Night · Behind the Mask · Time · Say You Will

Songs

"Need Your Love So Bad" · "Black Magic Woman" · "Albatross" · "When You Say" · "Man of the World" · "Oh Well" · The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" · "Dragonfly" · "Warm Ways"  · "Over My Head" · "Say You Love Me"  · "Rhiannon" · "Landslide" · "Go Your Own Way" · "Silver Springs" · "Dreams" · "Don't Stop" · "The Chain" · "You Make Loving Fun" · "Gold Dust Woman" · "Tusk" · "Sara" · "Sisters of the Moon" · "Angel" · "Hold Me" · "Gypsy" · "Oh Diane" · "Love in Store" · "Can't Go Back" · "Big Love" · "Seven Wonders" · "Little Lies" · "Everywhere" · "Family Man" · "Isn't It Midnight" · "As Long as You Follow"

Compilations

English Rose · The Pious Bird of Good Omen · Black Magic Woman · The Original Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits · Greatest Hits · 25 Years – The Chain · The Vaudeville Years · The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions · Show-Biz Blues · The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac · The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac · The Essential Fleetwood Mac

Live albums

Live at the BBC · Shrine '69 · Live in Boston · Live  · The Dance · Live in Boston

Related articles

Discography · Say You Will Tour · Clifford Davis · Stretch ("Bogus Fleetwood Mac")

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Studio albums

Bella Donna · The Wild Heart · Rock a Little · The Other Side of the Mirror · Street Angel · Trouble in Shangri-La · In Your Dreams

Live albums

The Soundstage Sessions

Compilation albums

Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks · Enchanted · Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks

Singles

"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" • "Leather and Lace" • "Edge of Seventeen" • "After the Glitter Fades" • "Stand Back" • "If Anyone Falls" • "Nightbird" • "Talk to Me" • "I Can't Wait" • "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You" • "Rooms on Fire" • "Long Way to Go" • "Two Kinds of Love" • "Whole Lotta Trouble" • "Sometimes It's a Bitch" • "Love's a Hard Game to Play" • "I Can't Wait" • "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" • "Blue Denim" • "If You Ever Did Believe" • "Reconsider Me" "Every Day" • "Planets of the Universe" • "Sorcerer" • "Stand Back" • "Crash into Me" • "Secret Love"

Videos and DVDs

Stevie Nicks: Live in Concert · Live at Red Rocks · Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks · Soundstage: Stevie Nicks Live · Live in Chicago

Related articles

Discography • Buckingham Nicks • Fleetwood Mac

Persondata

Name

Nicks, Stevie

Alternative names

Nicks, Stephanie Lynn

Short description

Singer-songwriter

Date of birth

May 26, 1948

Place of birth

Phoenix, Arizona

Date of death

Place of death

Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song)

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Background

Political significance

Music video

Cover versions

Appearances in other media

Notes

Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song)
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"Don't Stop"

Single by Fleetwood Mac

from the album Rumours

B-side

"Never Going Back Again" (USA) / "Gold Dust Woman (UK)

Released

July 6, 1977 (USA) / March 1977 (UK)

Format

7"

Recorded

1976

Genre

Rock

Length

3:13

Label

Warner Bros.

Writer(s)

Christine McVie

Producer

Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut & Ken Caillat

Fleetwood Mac singles chronology

"Go Your Own Way"
(1976 UK)

"Dreams"
(1977 USA)

"Don't Stop"
(1977)

"Dreams"
(1977 UK)

"You Make Loving Fun"
(1977 USA)

"Don't Stop" is a song by the rock group Fleetwood Mac, written by vocalist and keyboard player Christine McVie. Sung by Christine McVie and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, it was a single taken from the band's 1977 hit album, Rumours. It is one of the band's most enduring hits, peaking at number three on the Billboard singles chart. In the UK market, "Don't Stop" followed "Go Your Own Way" as the second single from Rumours and it peaked at #32. In the U.S, it was the third single released, with "Dreams" having been an intervening #1 hit.

Background

"Don't Stop" reflects Christine McVie's feelings after her separation from Fleetwood Mac's bass guitarist, John McVie, after eight years of marriage. "'Don't Stop' was just a feeling. It just seemed to be a pleasant revelation to have that 'yesterday's gone'," she remembers in The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, "It might have, I guess, been directed more toward John, but I'm just definitely not a pessimist."[1]

Political significance

It was used by U.S. presidential candidate Bill Clinton as the theme for his first campaign, most notably at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Upon winning the election, President Clinton persuaded the then-disbanded group to reform to perform it for his inaugural ball in 1993. At the 2000 DNC, he ended his speech by saying, "Keep putting people first. Keep building those bridges. And don't stop thinking about tomorrow!" Immediately after this sentence, the song began playing over the loudspeakers.

The theme was played again for Clinton's appearances at the 2004 and 2008 events.

Music video

A live performance of the song was used as a music video.

Cover versions

A cover by Elton John was included on the 1998 compilation Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

Included as one of the many songs in the 2009 childen in need medley single.

Appearances in other media

- In the early 1990s, family restaurant/arcade Chuck E. Cheese had a show featuring animatronic characters that "danced" and "played" "Don't Stop".

- The song features in the film Accepted (2006).

- This song has featured twice in The Simpsons, in the episodes The Twisted World of Marge Simpson and Brother's Little Helper.

- The song appeared in 2009 as a downloadable track for the music video game Rock Band.

Notes

1. ^ Brunning, Bob .(2001). Rumours And Lies: The Fleetwood Mac Story. ISBN 978-1844490110. Retrieved January 2, 2007.

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Studio albums

Fleetwood Mac · Mr. Wonderful · Then Play On · Fleetwood Mac in Chicago · Kiln House · Future Games · Bare Trees · Penguin · Mystery to Me · Heroes Are Hard to Find · Fleetwood Mac · Rumours · Tusk · Mirage · Tango in the Night · Behind the Mask · Time · Say You Will

Songs

"Need Your Love So Bad" · "Black Magic Woman" · "Albatross" · "When You Say" · "Man of the World" · "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" · "Dragonfly" · "Warm Ways"  · "Over My Head" · "Say You Love Me"  · "Rhiannon" · "Landslide" · "Go Your Own Way" · "Silver Springs" · "Dreams" · "Don't Stop" · "The Chain" · "You Make Loving Fun" · "Gold Dust Woman" · "Tusk" · "Sara" · "Sisters of the Moon" · "Angel" · "Hold Me" · "Gypsy" · "Oh Diane" · "Love in Store" · "Can't Go Back" · "Big Love" · "Seven Wonders" · "Little Lies" · "Everywhere" · "Family Man" · "Isn't It Midnight" · "As Long as You Follow"

Compilations

English Rose · The Pious Bird of Good Omen · Black Magic Woman · The Original Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits · Greatest Hits · 25 Years – The Chain · The Vaudeville Years · The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions · Show-Biz Blues · The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac · The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac · The Essential Fleetwood Mac

Live albums

Live at the BBC · Shrine '69 · Live in Boston · Live  · The Dance · Live in Boston

Related articles

Discography · Say You Will Tour · Clifford Davis · Stretch ("Bogus Fleetwood Mac")

Go Your Own Way

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CONTENTS

All appearances

Cover versions

Sampling

Appearances in other media

References

External links

Go Your Own Way
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"Go Your Own Way"

Single by Fleetwood Mac

from the album Rumours

B-side

"Silver Springs"

Released

December 1976

Format

7"

Recorded

1976

Genre

Rock

Length

3:36

Label

Warner Bros.

Writer(s)

Lindsey Buckingham

Producer

Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat

Fleetwood Mac singles chronology

"Say You Love Me"
(1976)

"Go Your Own Way"
(1976)

"Don't Stop"
(1977 UK)

"Dreams"
(1977 USA)

Audio sample

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"Go Your Own Way" is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham and performed by Fleetwood Mac. It was released in late 1976, the first single from their then forthcoming Rumours (which would be released in February 1977) and peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. It is ranked number 119 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.

All appearances

- Rumours (1977)

- Live (1980)

- Greatest Hits (1988)

- 25 Years - The Chain (1992)

- Casino soundtrack (1995)

- The Dance (Live Album) (1997)

- Forrest Gump Special Collector's Edition soundtrack (2001)

- The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002)

Cover versions

- Biffy Clyro - Glitter and Trauma DVD (2004)

- NOFX – S&M Airlines (1989)

- Seaweed – Clerks soundtrack (1994)

- The Cranberries – Legacy: a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (1998)

- Jennifer Brown – Home (2003)

- Wilson Phillips – California (2004)

- Carrie Underwood and Lindsey Buckingham - Fashion Rocks (2007)

- Carrie Underwood and David Cook - The American Idol Experience Live (2009)

- Snow & Voices

- Faye Hamlin - Swedish MQ commercial (2009)

- Silverstein - A Shipwreck in the Sand [iTunes only] (2009)

- Bobby and The Crew - Jindando (2009)

- Gloriana - Fearless Tour (2009)

- Jellyfish - Fan Club (2002)

- Keane (band) - BBC Radio 2 (2010)

- Jets to Zurich (2010-present)

- Glee Cast - (2011)

Sampling

- MC Mario – Most Wanted 2007 (2007)

Appearances in other media

- The song appeared as a playable track in the 2008 music video games, Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour.

- In Martin Scorsese's 1995 film, Casino and Robert Zemeckis' 1994 film Forrest Gump.

- The song was used in a season review for the 1989 Formula One Season made by the BBC.

- The song was covered by Lea Michele (Rachel Berry) in the 2011 Glee episode "Rumours".

References

External links

- CLASSIC TRACKS: Fleetwood Mac 'Go Your Own Way'

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Studio albums

Fleetwood Mac · Mr. Wonderful · Then Play On · Fleetwood Mac in Chicago · Kiln House · Future Games · Bare Trees · Penguin · Mystery to Me · Heroes Are Hard to Find · Fleetwood Mac · Rumours · Tusk · Mirage · Tango in the Night · Behind the Mask · Time · Say You Will

Songs

"Need Your Love So Bad" · "Black Magic Woman" · "Albatross" · "When You Say" · "Man of the World" · "Oh Well" · The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" · "Dragonfly" · "Warm Ways"  · "Over My Head" · "Say You Love Me"  · "Rhiannon" · "Landslide" · "Go Your Own Way" · "Silver Springs" · "Dreams" · "Don't Stop" · "The Chain" · "You Make Loving Fun" · "Gold Dust Woman" · "Tusk" · "Sara" · "Sisters of the Moon" · "Angel" · "Hold Me" · "Gypsy" · "Oh Diane" · "Love in Store" · "Can't Go Back" · "Big Love" · "Seven Wonders" · "Little Lies" · "Everywhere" · "Family Man" · "Isn't It Midnight" · "As Long as You Follow"

Compilations

English Rose · The Pious Bird of Good Omen · Black Magic Woman · The Original Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits · Greatest Hits · 25 Years – The Chain · The Vaudeville Years · The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions · Show-Biz Blues · The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac · The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac · The Essential Fleetwood Mac

Live albums

Live at the BBC · Shrine '69 · Live in Boston · Live  · The Dance · Live in Boston

Related articles

Discography · Say You Will Tour · Clifford Davis · Stretch ("Bogus Fleetwood Mac")

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Studio albums

Wilson Phillips (1990)  • Shadows and Light (1992)  • California (2004)  • Christmas in Harmony (2010)

Compilation albums

Greatest Hits (2000)

Singles

"Hold On" • "Release Me" • "Impulsive" • "You're in Love" • "The Dream Is Still Alive" • "Daniel" • "You Won't See Me Cry" • "Give It Up" • "Flesh and Blood" • "Go Your Own Way" • "Already Gone" • "Get Together"

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The Chain

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Personnel

Re-releases

Television

Other uses

References

The Chain
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"The Chain"

Song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours

Released

February 4, 1977

Recorded

1976

Genre

Rock

Length

4:28

Label

Warner Bros. Records

Writer

Lindsey Buckingham
Mick Fleetwood
Christine McVie
John McVie
Stevie Nicks

Producer

Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat & Richard Dashut

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"The Chain" is a song from Fleetwood Mac's best-selling album Rumours. "The Chain" is unique in being the only song credited to all five members of the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac lineup: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks; this is partly because John McVie and Mick Fleetwood are generally not songwriters. The band has used the song as a signature, citing the lyric, "Never break the chain."

According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the final section of "The Chain"—beginning with a bass progression—was created by John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. It seemed like an ending, not a beginning. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they would be a good match; she and Christine McVie did some reworking to create the first section of the tune. To complete the song, Lindsey Buckingham recycled the intro from an earlier song from his duo with Nicks, "Lola (My Love)", originally released on their self-titled 1973 album. Thanks to its use as a popular TV theme tune (for the BBC's Formula One coverage),[1] the ending bass line is highly recognisable, and although not released as a single, it does get air play.

The song itself has a basic rock structure, although it has two distinct portions: the main verse and chorus, and the outro. The song shows influences of hard rock, folk, and country. The song also uses a banjo to play the famous riff.[citation needed]

Personnel

- Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals

- Stevie Nicks – vocals

- Christine McVie – keyboards, background vocals

- John McVie – bass guitar

- Mick Fleetwood – drums

Re-releases

- In 1992, Warner Bros released a 4-CD Fleetwood Mac retrospective boxed set titled 25 Years - The Chain.

- In 1997, Fleetwood Mac released a live concert CD/DVD package called The Dance, which featured the reunion of the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac members. The rendition of "The Chain" reached number 30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

- In 2002, Warner Bros. released the 2-CD set The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac, including "The Chain".

- In 2009, Three Days Grace originally recorded The Chain for their album Life Starts Now but was one of the few not put on the record. However, since September 22, 2009, they have been playing The Chain at their concerts throughout their tour.

- On 29 March 2009, "The Chain" entered the UK Chart at #94 through downloads, following confirmation from the BBC that it would be used in the title sequence of their Formula One coverage, having regained broadcasting rights from ITV.

- On 20 March 2011, "The Chain" reached #81 in the UK chart due to a campaign on Facebook to try to get the song to number 1 for the start of the 2011 Formula One season.

Television

The ending bass line from The Chain

- The ending bass line and guitar solo of "The Chain",[2] was used as the theme song for the BBC's Formula One coverage (the programme was called Grand Prix) from 1978 until the BBC's loss of TV rights to ITV Sport in 1997. ITV did not continue its use as the opening theme. However, "The Chain" returned in 2009 as the F1 theme song after the BBC regained the broadcasting rights to Formula One from ITV.[3] The full programme of Grand Prix was broadcast worldwide, and thus "The Chain" is associated with F1 not just in Britain but across the world.

"The Chain (ending)"

Sample of the ending and bassline of The Chain by Fleetwood Mac.

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- The ending bass line was also featured in a British advertisement for the Fiat Supermirafiori in 1982, perhaps in recognition of the popularity of the song on BBC Sports programmes.[4]

- A cover of the song by the band Tantric was used as the theme song for the HBO Documentary series Family Bonds.[5]

Other uses

- This song was sampled by rap artists Bone Thugs-n-Harmony in the song "Wind Blow" off their album Strength and Loyalty, and rapper Project Pat used the bass line in the last section of the song on his song "Don't Save Her" off his album Mista Don't Play.

- "The Chain" is also sampled in Sway DaSafo's debut single titled "Up Your Speed".

- Shawn Colvin performed a cover of the song for Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

- Rock band Tantric covered this on their second album After We Go. It was also released as one of their singles.

- Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have a feature on their BBC Radio 2 show called The Chain which is a list of songs, each track having something in common with the one before it, beginning with "The Chain".

- Hurt included a short reference to the song in their single "Ten Ton Brick" by including the lyrics "I could never break the chain" and a melody nearly identical to the original.

- 1980s rock band Shark Island included a cover of "The Chain" on their 1989 album Law of the Order, notable for not including the famous bass solo in the song.

- Canadian heavy metal band Kick Axe performed a cover of "The Chain" on Rock the World, their third studio album, released in 1986.

- A tune heavily based on the ending bass line (and BBC F1 theme) was used in the video game Formula One Grand Prix.

- The hard rock band Taking Dawn performed a cover of "The Chain" on their debut album titled "Time to Burn". They regularly perform the song as part of their live sets.

- Country music band Little Big Town has performed a cover of "The Chain" at live concerts.

- Florence and the Machine performed a cover of "The Chain" at the Glastonbury Festival 2010. Introducing the performance, Florence Welch stated that it was a one-off and that they would never play it again.

- The Canadian rock band Three Days Grace played the song at IHeartRadio in December 2009.

References

1. ^ "BBC Formula One coverage to bring back Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'". Daily Telegraph. 24 February 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/4800505/BBC-Formula-One-coverage-to-bring-back-Fleetwood-Macs-The-Chain.html. Retrieved 19 March 2011.

2. ^ BBC h2g2. "BBC Sporting Theme Tunes". http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A8623884.

3. ^ "BBC unveils 2009 F1 coverage – and return of The Chain". crash.net. 2009-02-24. http://www.crash.net/Formula+One/News/143325/1/bbc_unveils_2009_f1_coverage__and_return_of_the_chain.html. Retrieved 2009-02-24.

4. ^ http://gramourshots.com/2008/12/28/timing-chain-keep-us-together/

5. ^ Zahlaway, Jon Tantric takes another swing on U.S. club circuit LiveDaily.com (August 26, 2004). Retrieved March 22, 2008.

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Stevie Nicks · Lindsey Buckingham · John McVie · Mick Fleetwood
Christine McVie · Peter Green · Jeremy Spencer · Bob Brunning · Danny Kirwan · Bob Welch · Bob Weston · Dave Walker · Billy Burnette · Rick Vito · Dave Mason · Bekka Bramlett

Studio albums

Fleetwood Mac · Mr. Wonderful · Then Play On · Fleetwood Mac in Chicago · Kiln House · Future Games · Bare Trees · Penguin · Mystery to Me · Heroes Are Hard to Find · Fleetwood Mac · Rumours · Tusk · Mirage · Tango in the Night · Behind the Mask · Time · Say You Will

Songs

"Need Your Love So Bad" · "Black Magic Woman" · "Albatross" · "When You Say" · "Man of the World" · "Oh Well" · The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" · "Dragonfly" · "Warm Ways"  · "Over My Head" · "Say You Love Me"  · "Rhiannon" · "Landslide" · "Go Your Own Way" · "Silver Springs" · "Dreams" · "Don't Stop" · "The Chain" · "You Make Loving Fun" · "Gold Dust Woman" · "Tusk" · "Sara" · "Sisters of the Moon" · "Angel" · "Hold Me" · "Gypsy" · "Oh Diane" · "Love in Store" · "Can't Go Back" · "Big Love" · "Seven Wonders" · "Little Lies" · "Everywhere" · "Family Man" · "Isn't It Midnight" · "As Long as You Follow"

Compilations

English Rose · The Pious Bird of Good Omen · Black Magic Woman · The Original Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits · Greatest Hits · 25 Years – The Chain · The Vaudeville Years · The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions · Show-Biz Blues · The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac · The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac · The Essential Fleetwood Mac

Live albums

Live at the BBC · Shrine '69 · Live in Boston · Live  · The Dance · Live in Boston

Related articles

Discography · Say You Will Tour · Clifford Davis · Stretch ("Bogus Fleetwood Mac")

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Hugo Ferreira · Richie Monica · Joe Pessia · Erik Leonhardt · Marcus Ratzenboeck
Todd Whitener · Jesse Vest · Joey Stamper · Kevin McCreery · Matt Taul · Kevin Miller · Bruce LaFrance

Studio albums

Tantric · After We Go · The End Begins · Mind Control

Singles

"Breakdown" · "Astounded" · "Mourning" · "Hey Now" · "The Chain" · "After We Go" · "Down and Out" · "Fall Down" · "Mind Control" · "Coming Undone"

Live Albums

Broken Down...Live In The Poconos

Other Appearances

NASCAR: Crank It Up

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