Fleetwood Mac have detailed much of their personal life through music — including the “soap opera”-like breakup between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. According to Buckingham, this is partly why the 1977 album, rumours, was popular.
Fleetwood Mac released ‘Rumors’ featuring ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Go Your Own Way’ and ‘Dreams’
Fleetwood Mac is the rock band behind ‘Landslide’ and ‘Gypsy’. All five members wrote and produced the band’s songs, reuniting for the 1977 album. rumours.
Part of the appeal of this album was its emotional connection with the band members. When Buckingham and Nicks broke up, some songs detailed their real-life experiences, including “Go Your Own Way.” (Although, as Nick pointed out, the lyric “Go Your Own Way” wasn’t exactly accurate.)
“There was fighting, breaking up, drinking, drugs…we were all doing substances,” producer Ken Caillat said, according to Music Radar. “But I got to be a therapist and a record producer. When things were crazy, I had to be sane. If there were rules, nobody gave them to me.”
Records from this collection made it to Fleetwood Mac’s greatest hits An album that became popular on social media decades after its release. “Dreams” contains more than one billion Spotify plays.
Lindsey Buckingham Shares What Made Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumors’ So Popular With Fans
rumours It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and remains a fan favorite. Buckingham reflected on the success of the 1977 release, Sharing why songwriters connect with listeners.
“rumours It had that subtext and there was a point where the appeal and popularity of that album started to become less about the music and more about the success,” Buckingham said in an interview with Louder Sound.
“Obviously, there was a big appeal to the fact that we were opening up about our personal lives through the songs,” he added, “but also that we were living together as a band, two couples who had broken up. It was a musical soap opera.”
Lindsay Buckingham has added emotional elements to her solo projects, including her 2021 album.
Buckingham contacted rumours A personal connection through music to his solo work, especially his 2021 self-titled collection. As a solo artist, that element of “subtext” still came through, even if he “didn’t necessarily mean it.”
Lindsay Buckingham This will not be the first solo project of this composer. In 1981, he released Law and Order. In 2017, he partnered with Christine McVie and released an album. He went on to perform with Fleetwood Mac for decades.
As a solo artist, Nicks premiered “Edge of Seventeen,” “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” and “Silver Springs.” In 2022, he headlined concerts including Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival and Connecticut’s Sound on Sound Music Festival.