Rumours

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Fleetwood Mac during Rumours

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Fleetwood Mac during Rumours.

Like, holy crap, man.

Like, seriously.

Uh, uh, anyway, and we got to know Fleetwood Mac pretty well too, and it was really amazing to be able to play with a band like Fleetwood Mac, who was the biggest band in America at that time.

Yeah.

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Of course, one before, no other than Fleetwood Mac from the album, album Rumours, that was Never Going Back.

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[gentle music] So it's 1977, and Fleetwood Mac, uh, has this "Rumours" thing that comes out.

I think it sold a few, a few copies.

And you got some songs.

when they first joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974.

But then by the time their iconic record Rumors came out in 1977, they had broken up.

Yeah.

During the making of Rumors, which is an album famously about the personal strife within the band.

And

this song was originally supposed to be on Rumors, but it's not.

For sort of multiple reasons, you can obviously speculate that is a bit of a, I mean, all the songs are personal, very personal and like, you know, digs at these breakups.

So who's to say? But a big reason was that it was like a very long ballad.

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Fleetwood Mac put out Rumors on February 4th, 1977, recorded in Sausalito while both couples in the band were breaking up because that's always...

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have a band.

They've sold over... over 120 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling musical acts.

Their 1977 album, Rumours, is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with a reported 40 million sold, and it's near the top of pretty much global stuff on there.

In 1979 they were honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1998 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and then received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

In 2018 Fleetwood Mac received the Music Heirs Person of the Year Award from the Recording Academy in recognition of their artistic achievements in the music industry and dedication to philanthropy.

And of course it was, you know.

But I think, yeah, I think a certain degree of it has to be authentic because look at the art that comes from it.

Yeah, but, I mean, like, if we kind of, like, go into a bit more about the kind of, like, Silver Springs and the lyrics and stuff, I mean, I think, like, the kind of, the heightened emotion, I think, I think the heightened emotions that can probably, that can generate kind of art within people, it's, like, remarkable and stuff, and... and like I keep bringing up Rumours but I can't think of any other album where that that thing is highlighted more than Rumours because I can't think of any other album with that intensity in it but then and like then this is the bass side that wasn't on there I think I think to I think improvously actually I think I think the Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood kind of relationship kind of soured and probably never fully recovered because Fleetwood didn't want this on the album.

Yeah.