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Each member has writing credits on The Chain.One of the days, McVie threw a glass bottle of vodka at Buckingham’s head. McVie and Buckingham were not getting along during the sessions.Go Your Own Way was heavily inspired by The Rolling Stones’ Street Fighting Man.

Stevie Nicks wrote Dreams in ten minutes while sitting on Sly Stone’s bed.

Apparently, more than 1 in every 6 households in America owns a copy of Rumours.

They planned the album to be a “no filler” where each song could be released as a single.

The “balls” that hang between Mick Fleetwood’s legs on the album’s cover were actually toilet chains that were stolen from a club they played in their early days.

To celebrate the album’s birthday, here are some fun facts about Rumours you may not have known: With John McVie and Christine McVie undergoing a divorce, Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham breaking up, and Mick Fleetwood splitting with his wife, the record was sure to be jam-packed with drama. Famous not only for its massive success with titles such as Go Your Own Way, Don’t Stop, and You Make Loving Fun, but also because of the relationship turmoil behind its creation. In addition to Rumours, Calliat went on to co-produce Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Fleetwood Mac Live, and Mirage albums - along with their career-spanning box set, The Chain.On February 4th 1977, Fleetwood Mac released one of the most iconic albums in history. Making Rumours talks about the creative process, general debauchery, and romantic breakdowns which took place during the 1976 recording sessions between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, John and Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood and wife Jenny Boyd - the kid sister of Pattie "Layla" Boyd, wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

Calliat, who wrote the book with co-author Steve Stiefel, tells the story behind all the 1977 album's classic tracks - as well as the songs that were bumped from the final lineup. The "Deluxe Edition" tags on a second disc of outtakes, a remastered vinyl version of the album, and the vintage concert doc, titled, The Rosebud Film.Īlso out now is the book Making Rumours: The Inside Story Of The Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, by the Mac's legendary co-producer, Ken Calliat. The set has been issued in an "Expanded Edition" featuring the original album, the Stevie Nicks-written B-Side "Silver Springs," a live collection of tracks from 1977, and a full disc of session outtakes. Recently released are Fleetwood Mac's expanded and deluxe versions of Rumours. the band really)Ĭhristine McVie told us that the members of Fleetwood Mac are connected by a bond that transcends time and distance: SOUNDCUE (:17 OC. Mick Fleetwood told us that Fleetwood Mac - and particularly with Rumours - was always able to connect with its fanbase on a pretty intimate level: SOUNDCUE (:33 OC. addicted to it)Īlthough it's been over 45 years since Buckingham and Nicks parted ways as lovers, Lindsey Buckingham says that the public at large can't really grasp how tough it was for him to continue being a bandmate and producer with his former longtime live-in girlfriend during the Rumours sessions: SOUNDCUE (:16 OC. As cocaine took over the industry, Nicks says that most people believed it was entirely non-addictive: SOUNDCUE (:32 OC. Stevie Nicks said that the emotional trauma of everyone in the band suffering through a romantic breakup during the album's sessions pushed the group towards cocaine - which kick-started a decade-long addiction that nearly killed her. Lindsey Buckingham understands that the psychodrama between him and former lover Stevie Nicks - not to mention the divorce of Christine and John McVie - was the gasoline that ran the engine of the band, especially during the legendary Rumours album: SOUNDCUE (:24 OC. Rumours spawned four Top 10 singles - Lindsey Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way," which hit Number 10 Stevie Nicks' "Dreams" - which remains to this day the band's sole chart-topping single Christine McVie's "Don't Stop," which peaked at Number Three and "You Make Loving Fun" - which topped out at Number Nine According to the RIAA's current list, Rumours is now tied for the eighth best-selling album in history alongside 1977's Saturday Night Fever soundtrack Shania Twain's 1997 collection, Come On Over. To date, the album, which spent 31 non-consecutive weeks on top of the Billboard 200 albums chart, has sold over 40 million copies globally. It was 45 years ago today (February 4th, 1977) that Fleetwood Mac released their masterpiece, Rumours.