Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Formed somewhere in London around the mid sixties, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Bob Brunning (later axed for Jon McVie) and Jeremy Spencer drove a rough old van around the lesser known delights of The Swan in Fulham and The Toby Jug in Tolworth hoping for something better. It was probably far from their minds that it would take Fleetwood Mac a line up change and another ten years to finally reach the dream of sky high success. And this was it…. ...
...Mac released in February 1977 following the success of 'Fleetwood Mac', the first album introducing Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, the lovers of both themselves, each other as well as songwriters and performers in their own right. The controversy surrounding the long awaited 'Rumours' was not of the usual political sense like their contemporaries, but born out of the emotion traumas of the personal kind. At the very start of the back breaking ...

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...sense of the word. Rumours hit the shops in 1977, a year that was to see the death of The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. The US space shuttle Enterprise flew for the first time and cinema was changed forever with the release of Star Wars. Across the UK street parties were celebrating the Queens Silver Jubilee and me well I celebrated a day off and got absolutely bloatered while listening to Rumours and ended up shouting for huey and to day ...
...eleven tracks of pure gold, Rumours remained at No1 in the US billboard charts for a mammoth 31 weeks, listen to it if you can and you will I hope understand why. If not let me guide you through it, or if you are curious go to one of the many sites such as Amazon were you can preview the album before buying. <<< Second hand News >>> “I know there’s nothing to say Someone has taken my place” “I’m just second hand news” Without a doubt the weakest ...

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...band has been dogged with rumours about animosity within the group, arguments, fallings-out, but still they manage to stand the test of time and have recently released a new album “Say You Will”, but that’s another review. “Rumours” was released in 1977, and if you don’t have a copy, the chances are, you will have heard at least song from it. The album can be purchased from Amazon for £11.99. At the time of release ...
...Lindsey Buckingham: Guitars, Vocals Stevie Nicks: Vocals Mick Fleetwood: Drums/Percussion Christine McVie: Keyboards, Synthesizer TRACK LISTING ************* 1. Second Hand News 2. Dreams 3. Never going back Again 4. Don’t Stop 5. Go your own Way 6. Songbird 7. The Chain 8. You make loving Fun 9. I don’t want to know 10. Oh Daddy 11. Gold dust Woman "Dreams" is my favourite track from the album and is sung by Stevie Nicks, ...

Lizard_Lover 18.07.2003 (19.07.2003) · Read full review
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By the mid seventies Fleetwood Mac had metamorphosed from the Peter Green led blues / metal monster that spawned such great songs as “The Green Manalishi”, “Black Magic Woman” and “Need Your Love So Bad” into the perfect AOR pop band that was to produce “Rumours”, at the time the biggest selling platter of all time , I believe, though I’m willing to be corrected. The background of the album were ...
...Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Mick Fleetwood was well out of it, literally. Buckingham and Nicks had produced at least one album together before joining Fleetwood Mac and brought perfect pop sensibilities into the band’s writing., complementing Christine McVie’s songs to produce this all devouring monster of an album. The previous album “Fleetwood Mac” had given some indications of what was to come, but this must have made ...

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...those not yet exposed to Rumours invest? The band at the time of writing the album included Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass, the two who gave the band its name. McVie's wife Christine (formerly Christine Perfect) and American singer songwriter Stevie Nicks, with her talented song writing partner Lindsey Buckingham made up a team whose personal lives were going through turmoil. That turmoil, highlighted by the breakdown of the two main ...
...extraordinary song writing that presented Rumours to an audience that was beginning to leave mainstream music and find the joys of punk. Each of the eleven tracks tells its story. As an extremely talented writer herself, it is perhaps a shame that Nicks only gives us two glimpses of her abilities on Rumours, but Dreams, recently covered by The Corrs, is of the highest quality. Telling the tale of a woman accepting a need for freedom in her man but ...

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Fleetwood Mac of the early 70’s were a hard-jamming British blues outfit, having established themselves with their 1975 self-titled album. However by the end of the decade they had dramatically changed there sound and style, thanks largely to the introduction of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who complemented John and Christine McVie, and Mick Fleetwood perfectly. Both musically and commercially, “Rumours” is one of the finest albums ever recorded. ...
...the session in which it was recorded, embrace all of the personal tortures and anguish that each band member was feeling when they laid down the track. At the time Christine and John McVie were going through a bitter divorce, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had recently split and Mick Fleetwood found out that his wife was having and affair with his best friend. You couldn’t write this stuff in a soap opera! But these actual events were played ...

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Fleetoood Mac - Rumours Produced in 1977 , this is the ultimate modern Mac album , such is the complexity , raw emotions and quality . To put this album into context , people should realise that of the five members of the group , only Mick Fleetwood was happy in his relationship or was it just the drugs ? . John and Christine McVie were throughout this time in the process of a bitter divorce between themselves . Lyndsey Buckingham was dramatically ...
...So what have you got 4/5ths’s of a group at war with each other - hardly an inspiration for music let alone performing . Yet despite all this , they continued , each using words and music to vent their anger on each other , to produce a superb biography , so rich in verse that it went on to receive many a reward . If you were to ever only own one Mac record , then it would be this , although check out my op ( yes a blatant plug ) on ‘Tusk’ . The ...

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It's easy to knock "Rumours" purely because of its continuing success - in over 20 years, it's rarely been out of the album chart. But by any standards, the songs are excellent. Interestingly they deal with a downbeat subject, the falling apart of the group members' marriages and personal relationships, but by avoiding maudlin self-pity they pulled off the concept superbly. Who can resist the appeal of infectious numbers like "Don't Stop", "Go Your ...
...lead breaks), or the not so well-known "Second Hand News"? The subtle "Dreams" and "Gold Dust Woman" are just as neat, and the more adventurous "The Chain", so beloved by TV motor racing programmers, is like two pieces of music welded together - song and guitar riff. If you're bored with those, there's always the acoustic "Never Going Back Again", and the wistful "Songbird". Often the most popular albums suffer prejudice from sheer over-exposure ...

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At over twenty years old, this album remains one of the bands best selling works and one of there best. Having being leant a copy by a friend, pretty son i had bought my own copy on vinyl and recently on cd. Stevie Nicks has never sounded so sweet or powerful as she does at the start of dreams, and the corrs version is pale by comparison dont stop will be known by more people than they think as it was used in a presidential campaign by bill clinton ...

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This album really is a classic. The type you would listen to time and time again. Several of the songs on this album will be immediately recognisable to you, even if you cant remember the name. For F1 fans, the tune from F1 when it was on bbc (I think)is from "The Chain". Several bands have done covers of songs from this album. Must recently, The Corrs covered "Dreams", The Goo Goo Dolls covered "I Dont Want To Know" and Matchbox 20 covered "Never ...

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You can listen to this album and appreciate the terrific vocals, the changes in mood, the wonderful guitar playing, but all of that is forgotten when halfway through The Chain you hear it! Yes, the theme music from the BBC Grand Prix programme!!! Alas, now the F1 Grand Prix’s races are shown on ITV we don’t hear the “real” music, but I know for most of us F1 fans this is still the one and only theme for F1. If you are listening ...
...at least 20mph to any speed you are driving, if on the open road. You will automatically reach for the volume control and turn it right up. Alas, the “good” bit is less than one minute long, but that is why they included rewind buttons on cassette players. Wait for the green light, it’s go, go go! ...

daseaford 25.05.2001 · Read full review
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