Dubbed “Harold,” the sex toy became something of a mascot during the pre-Buckingham/Nicks incarnation of the band. Cocaine played such a major role in the production of Rumours that the band seriously considered thanking their drug dealer in the album credits, until gangland violence apparently put a premature end to the idea. The recording sessions took place in the aftermath of several relationship breakups among the band members in addition to heavy drug use, both of which shaped the album's direction and lyrics. Immediately following the album’s 1977 release, a candid Nicks told Rolling Stone she didn’t “care that everybody knows me and Chris and John and Lindsey all broke up. Most band members complained about the studio and wanted to record at their homes, but Fleetwood did not allow any moves.

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In May 2011 it re-entered Billboard 200 chart at number 11, and the Australian ARIA chart at number 2, due to several songs from the album being used for the "Rumours" episode of the American TV series Glee.

That always put a shadow over “I Don’t Want To Know,” unfortunately – even though I love it and it came out great. Records with singles that never go away tend to evoke nostalgia for the time when the music soundtracked your life; in this case, you could've never owned a copy of it and still know almost every song.

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The musicians’ personal lives permanently fused within the grooves, and all who listened to Rumours become a voyeur to the painful, glamorous mess. Built from a handful of disparate musical fragments, “The Chain” has the distinction of being the only song credited to all five members of the late Seventies lineup. Full disclosure, this is my first copy of Rumours, so I have now point of direct comparison to other pressings. Dra- ma,” was how Christine McVie described the recording of Rumours to Rolling Stone shortly after its release on February 4th, 1977.The Guardian collated worldwide data in 1997 from a range of renowned critics, artists, and radio DJs, who placed the record at number78 in the list of the 100 Best Albums Ever. When you combine a huge recording budget with sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, then add in jealousy, infidelity and divorce – between members of the band, no less – it hardly sounds like a recipe for a successful album. before the thing came out,” Fleetwood wrote in his 1990 memoir Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac.

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Fleetwood Mac's female members lived in two of Sausalito's seafront properties, while the men resided at the Record Plant's hillside accommodation. She took the stage baring a tambourine festooned with lengths of lavender ribbon; people said she was a witch. They settled on an ominous 10-note bass passage played by John McVie over a slow crescendo of Fleetwood’s drums. The couple's work became "bittersweet" after their final split, although Buckingham still had a skill for taking Nicks' tracks and "making them beautiful". As a surprise for Christine, I had requested that a bouquet of roses be placed on her piano with three colored spotlights to illuminate them from above.Considered by many fans and critics as the band’s best release, Rumours was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry. He could accent with guitars, he could accent with toms [and] he could accent with Naugahyde chairs. On 28 February 1977, after rehearsing at SIRStudios in Los Angeles, Fleetwood Mac embarked on the Rumours Tour, which visited North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia.

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This inner turmoil surfaced in brutally honest lyrics, transforming the album into a tantalizing he-said-she-said romantic confessional.A one-off March performance at a benefit concert for United States Senator Birch Bayh in Indiana was followed by a short European tour of the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Germany in April.