Rumours

album by Fleetwood Mac

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Rumours is a seminal 1977 album by the British-American pop-rock band Fleetwood Mac. It became one of the best-selling albums of all time, winning the Grammy Award for album of the year. The album's lyrical content was heavily influenced by the tumultuous romantic relationships within the band at the time, particularly the breakups of John and Christine McVie's marriage and Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks's relationship. Songs like Nicks's "Dreams" and Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way" directly reflect these personal struggles. The album is celebrated for its accomplished songwriting, vocal harmonies, and solid rhythm section.12

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…multimillion-selling Fleetwood Mac (1975) and Rumours. Evocatively reflecting the simultaneous breakups of the McVies’ marriage and Buckingham and Nicks’s relationship, Rumours—which won the Grammy Award for album of the year—epitomized the band’s accomplished songwriting, arresting vocal chemistry, and rock-solid rhythm section.
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…multimillion-selling Fleetwood Mac (1975) and Rumours. Evocatively reflecting the simultaneous breakups of the McVies’ marriage and Buckingham and Nicks’s relationship, Rumours—which won the Grammy Award for album of the year—epitomized the band’s accomplished songwriting, arresting vocal chemistry, and rock-solid rhythm section.
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…of Fleetwood Mac’s seminal album Rumours (1977), and their acrimonious split inspired much of the record’s content. “Dreams,” a song Nicks composed in ten minutes and that became the band’s lone U.S. chart-topping hit, describes Nicks’s wish to move on from the relationship. “Silver Springs,” released as the B-side of…
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…of Fleetwood Mac’s seminal album Rumours (1977), and their acrimonious split inspired much of the record’s content. “Dreams,” a song Nicks composed in ten minutes and that became the band’s lone U.S. chart-topping hit, describes Nicks’s wish to move on from the relationship. “Silver Springs,” released as the B-side of…
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In 1977 came Rumours, the Fleetwood Mac album that drew together strains of Los Angeles music and the Los Angeles music business—the rich, lush sound of endless overdubs, the drugs, the hubris, the merry-go-round of partners, the spiritual turn of the lyrics, and the cascade of therapists. In…
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In 1977 came Rumours, the Fleetwood Mac album that drew together strains of Los Angeles music and the Los Angeles music business—the rich, lush sound of endless overdubs, the drugs, the hubris, the merry-go-round of partners, the spiritual turn of the lyrics, and the cascade of therapists. In…
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