I dare the hairs on your arm not to stand on end. I found a clip on YouTube that we watch again and again of Stevie Nicks singing Wild Heart backstage while she’s having her make up done. How had this eluded me?Įthan loved it too and I particularly enjoyed belting out the line “You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” at him and laughing at my own joke. It was around this time that I discovered my favourite Fleetwood Mac song - Silver Springs. Her vocals belted out on every track, none of your long drum solos there.įast forward to my mum days and my son Ethan, usually interested in whole genres of music of which I’d never heard, began listening to Rumours. As the years went on and new ways of finding music opened up to me, I discovered their Fleetwood Mac album and some of the songs on it matched the brilliance of the ones on Rumours. (Supertramp’s Breakfast in America was another one.) I struggled with Tusk though, how could they change their style so? I would listen to it every so often just in case I was missing something, but sadly I wasn’t. I’d been a fan since my teens, Rumours one of those albums that I would listen to again and again, knowing which song came next and singing the opening refrain before it had a chance to start. Imagine my joy when my uber cool teenage son began to share my love of Fleetwood Mac. Its constant injections of new talent and the band’s willingness to experiment and take risks have ensured that their success will continue for years to come. Fleetwood Mac is a band that has become legendary within it’s own lifetime. The band still tours regularly across the globe, constantly changing line-up just as fans have come to expect. While the various configurations of the group have all achieved success, the power line-up is still considered to be Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie. The band went on to release further successful albums throughout the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. “Rumours” was an album that seemed to appeal to everyone, and still does today it’s various singles, 'Go Your Own Way', 'Dreams', 'Don't Stop', 'You Make Loving Fun', 'Second Hand News', 'Gold Dust Woman' and 'The Chain' are considered iconic, and the album itself is the second highest selling album of all time. The raw emotion contained within “Rumours” rocketed the album to number one in both the UK and US, where it remained at the number one spot for 31 weeks. The band channelled their emotions into their work and produced the album “Rumours”.

The resulting pressure from this sudden success, combined with the rock and roll lifestyle such success bought, contributed to the breakup of John and Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and Mick Fleetwood and his wife Jenny. The album shot to number one on the US album charts and spawned legendary tracks 'Say You Love Me', 'Rhiannon' and 'Landslide'.

The new line-up soon released the album “Fleetwood Mac” (also known as “The White Album”) in 1975 and it proved to be a huge breakthrough success. Fleetwood Mac continued to steadily gain popularity throughout the early 70s, but their fame exploded with the recruitment of guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and his vocalist girlfriend Stevie Nicks in 1974. Frontman at the time, Peter Green, found his metal state deteriorating after the use of LSD, and he eventually left the band in 1970.įrom here the band went through a transitional period where Christine McVie, wife to the Fleetwood Mac’s bassist John McVie, was recruited and found the band additional success with her song-writing and vocal abilities. Popular in Europe, the band toured extensively and got involved in the alcohol and drug fuelled rock and roll lifestyle. Wonderful” did well in the UK, both achieving top ten positions in the UK album charts.Īs the band’s popularity began to rise, Fleetwood Mac decided to expand their style and play with a more rock and roll edge to their sound. Originally releasing blues-rock material, the band’s first two albums, “Fleetwood Mac” and “Mr. Since their inception in the late 60s, the band has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the most successful bands ever.įleetwood Mac has released an astonishing 17 studio albums to date and has gone through two distinct periods of success in two different rock genres. Fleetwood Mac, named after John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, is arguably one of the most successful and influential bands of the 20th century.

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