![]() However, Caillat said, “with Lindsey’s contribution … everyone in the world who’d ever heard a song on the radio would eventually know who Fleetwood Mac was by the time ‘Rumours’ had run its course.” ![]() ![]() 1 hit, “Dreams.”)Ĭaillat described Buckingham, who often clashed with band mates, as “extraordinarily talented” as well as “unpredictable,” “brilliant but difficult.” “Ultimately, her ethereal songwriting and vocals added a dimension … that was every bit as essential as any other band member’s contributions.” (Incidentally, Nicks wrote the band’s only No. “She was somewhat of a sweet hippie chick, and she didn’t have a lot of technical knowledge about music and instrumentation,” he said. Before we even released ‘Rumours,’ that had changed dramatically.”Īlthough Nicks arguably became the best-known member of Fleetwood Mac, when they first started recording “Rumours,” many involved with the project thought she was the band’s weakest link, Caillat said. “That day in Sausalito, when we walked into the studio to start recording, they were an established band, but you could hardly say they were rock stars. ![]() “What’s ironic is that throughout the ‘Rumours’ journey, Fleetwood Mac went from one end of the fame spectrum to the other,” Caillat noted. Twelve days earlier, Caillat had never even heard of the band, but that would soon change because 1975’s eponymous “Fleetwood Mac” album (“Rhiannon,” “Say You Love Me”) was beginning to climb the charts. Recording began on “Rumours” on January 28, 1976, at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California. In the book, Caillat described “Rumours,” Fleetwood Mac’s second album with Nicks and Buckingham, as “a journey that a handful of people … took during the mid-1970s.” It was “made out of flaws in the human spirit, sometimes through agonizing determination, love, lust, and a force of will that made failure unthinkable.” By the time Buckingham and Nicks joined, Fleetwood Mac had put out 10 albums but had yet to have a big hit in the U.S. Welch, who took his own life earlier this month, resigned in December 1974 and was replaced by guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks. The group relocated to California in 1974. ![]() Spencer left that same year, and the late guitarist Bob Welch joined. In 1970, Green left the group and McVie’s wife, keyboardist/vocalist Christine McVie, joined. And as fate would have it, the only two members who were with the group from the start are its namesakes: Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.įleetwood Mac was originally a blues-format group formed in England in 1967 by Fleetwood, McVie, Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer. “It’s the perfect ride for the perfect time.”īut Fleetwood Mac’s story began in another decade on another continent. “Rumours,” Caillat said, is the “perfect album because it had this really great combination of lyrics and … well-thought-out musical components,” he told CNN. ![]()
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