Rumours (album)
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Released | 4 February 1977 | |||
Recorded | February–August 1976 | |||
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Length | 38:55 | |||
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Rumours is the eleventh studio
Recorded with the intention of making "a pop album" that would expand on the commercial success of the 1975 album Fleetwood Mac, the music of Rumours has a mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation, accented rhythms, guitars, and keyboards; its lyrics concern personal and often troubled relationships. Its release was postponed by delays in the mixing process. The band promoted the album with a worldwide concert tour. Rumours became the band's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart and also topped the US Billboard 200. The songs "Go Your Own Way", "Dreams", "Don't Stop", and "You Make Loving Fun" were released as singles, all of which reached the US Top 10, with "Dreams" reaching number one.
Rumours was a commercial success, selling 13 million copies worldwide by 1980.
Often considered Fleetwood Mac's
Background
After guitarist Bob Welch left Fleetwood Mac in 1974, drummer Mick Fleetwood, keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie, and bass guitarist John McVie were joined by guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks.[8] In July 1975, Fleetwood Mac released its eponymous tenth album to great commercial success, reaching No. 1 in the U.S. in 1976; the record's singles "Over My Head", "Rhiannon" and "Say You Love Me" all reached the Top 20 there.
But the band's success belied turmoil amongst its members. After six months of non-stop touring, the McVies divorced, ending eight years of marriage.[9][10] The couple stopped talking to each other socially and discussed only musical matters.[11] Buckingham and Nicks were having an on/off relationship that led them to fight often. The duo's arguments stopped only when they worked on songs together.[12] Fleetwood faced domestic problems of his own after discovering that his wife Jenny, mother of his two children, was having an affair with his best friend.[13]
Press intrusions into the band members' lives led to inaccurate stories. Christine McVie was reported to have been in the hospital with a serious illness, while Buckingham and Nicks were declared the parents of Fleetwood's daughter Lucy after being photographed with her. The press also wrote about a rumoured return of original Fleetwood Mac members Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and Jeremy Spencer for a 10th-anniversary tour.[14] Despite false reports, the band did not change its lineup, although its members had no time to come to terms with the separations before recording for a new album began.[11] Fleetwood has noted the "tremendous emotional sacrifices" made by everyone just to attend studio work.[15] In early 1976, Fleetwood Mac crafted some new tracks in Florida.[16] Founding members Fleetwood and John McVie fired producer Keith Olsen, because he favoured a lower emphasis on the rhythm section. The duo formed a company called Seedy Management to represent the band's interests.[17]
Recording
In February 1976, Fleetwood Mac convened at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with hired engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. The three parties shared production duties, while the more technically adept Caillat was responsible for most of the engineering; he took a leave of absence from Wally Heider Studios in Los Angeles on the premise that Fleetwood Mac would eventually use their facilities.[18] The set-up in Sausalito included several small recording rooms in a large, windowless, wooden building. Most band members complained about the studio and wanted to record at their homes, but Fleetwood did not allow any moves.[19] Christine McVie and Nicks decided to live in two condominiums near the city's harbour, while the male contingent stayed at the studio's lodge in the adjacent hills.[20] Recording occurred in a six-by-nine-metre (20 by 30 ft) room equipped with a 3M 24-track tape machine, a range of high-quality microphones, and an API mixing console with 550A equalisers; the latter were used to control frequency differences or a track's timbre. Although Caillat was impressed with the set-up, he felt that the room lacked ambience because of its "very dead speakers" and large amounts of soundproofing.[18]
The record's
As the studio sessions progressed, the band members' new intimate relationships that formed after various separations started to have a negative effect on Fleetwood Mac.
"Trauma, Trau-ma. The sessions were like a cocktail party every night—people everywhere. We ended up staying in these weird hospital rooms ... and of course John and me were not exactly the best of friends."[9]
—Christine McVie, on the emotional strain when making Rumours in Sausalito
Nicks has suggested that Fleetwood Mac created the best music when in the worst shape,
Following over two months in Sausalito, Fleetwood arranged a ten-day tour to give the band a break and get fan feedback. After the concerts, recording resumed at venues in Los Angeles,
Composition
Lyrics
Fleetwood Mac's main songwriters—Buckingham, Christine McVie, and Nicks—worked individually on songs but sometimes shared lyrics. "The Chain" is the only track on which all members, including Fleetwood and John McVie, collaborated. All songs on Rumours concern personal, often troubled relationships.[25] According to Christine McVie, the fact that the lyricists were focusing on the various separations became apparent to the band only in hindsight.[36] "You Make Loving Fun" is about her boyfriend, Fleetwood Mac's lighting director, whom she dated after splitting from John.[26] Nicks' "Dreams" details a breakup and has a hopeful message, while Buckingham's similar effort in "Go Your Own Way" is more pessimistic.[37] After a short fling with a New England woman, he was inspired to write "Never Going Back Again", a song about the illusion of thinking that sadness will never occur again once content with life. The lines "Been down one time/Been down two times" refer to the lyricist's efforts when persuading the woman to give him a chance.[25]
"Don't Stop", written by Christine McVie, is a song about optimism. She noted that Buckingham helped her craft the verses because their personal sensibilities overlapped.[25] McVie's next track, "Songbird", features more introspective lyrics about "nobody and everybody" in the form of "a little prayer".[38] "Oh Daddy", the last McVie song on the album, was written about Fleetwood and his wife Jenny Boyd, who had just got back together.[39][40][41] The band's nickname for Fleetwood was "the Big Daddy".[25] McVie commented that the writing is slightly sarcastic and focuses on the drummer's direction for Fleetwood Mac, which always turned out to be right. Nicks provided the final lines "And I can't walk away from you, baby/If I tried". Her own song "Gold Dust Woman" is inspired by Los Angeles and the hardship encountered in such a city.[25] After struggling with the rock lifestyle, Nicks became addicted to cocaine; the lyrics address her belief in "keeping going".[42]
Music
Featuring a
Side two of Rumours begins with "The Chain", one of the record's most complicated compositions. A Christine McVie demo, "Keep Me There",
Promotion and release
In autumn 1976, while still recording, Fleetwood Mac showcased tracks from Rumours at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.[9] John McVie suggested the album title to the band because he felt the members were writing "journals and diaries" about each other through music.[36] Warner Bros. confirmed the release details to the press in December and chose "Go Your Own Way" as a December 1976 promotional single.[48][49] The label's aggressive marketing of 1975's Fleetwood Mac, in which links with dozens of FM and AM radio stations were formed across America, aided the promotion of Rumours.[50] At the time, the album's advance order of 800,000 copies was the largest in Warner Bros.' history.[51]
Rumours was released on 4 February 1977 in the US, and a week later in the UK.
For their 2009 concert tour, the band proffered an expanded release of the album with "Silver Springs" included with the original album and an extra disk of "Roughs & Outtakes, Early Demos and Jam Sessions".[58][59] For the album's 35th anniversary in 2013, a deluxe edition of the album was released. In addition to "Silver Springs" and 2004's extra disk, this release added a disk of "More From The Recording Sessions", a 12-track disk of live songs from the Rumours Tour[a] and a DVD of The Rosebud Film, a 1977 documentary about the album.[60][61][62][63]
Critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 99/100 (deluxe version)[64] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [65] |
Blender | [66] |
Christgau's Record Guide | A[67] |
Entertainment Weekly | A[68] |
The Independent | [69] |
Mojo | [70] |
Pitchfork | 10/10[71] |
Rolling Stone | [72] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [73] |
Uncut | [74] |
Rumours has been acclaimed by
In a retrospective review, AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave Rumours five stars and noted that, regardless of the voyeuristic element, the record was "an unparalleled blockbuster" because of the music's quality; he concluded, "Each tune, each phrase regains its raw, immediate emotional power—which is why Rumours touched a nerve upon its 1977 release, and has since transcended its era to be one of the greatest, most compelling pop albums of all time."[65] According to Slant Magazine's Barry Walsh, Fleetwood Mac drew on romantic dysfunction and personal turmoil to create a timeless, five-star record,[82] while Andy Gill of The Independent claimed it "represents, along with The Eagles Greatest Hits, the high-water mark of America's Seventies rock-culture expansion, the quintessence of a counter-cultural mindset lured into coke-fuelled hedonism".[69] In 2007, the BBC's Daryl Easlea labelled the sonic results as "near perfect", "like a thousand angels kissing you sweetly on the forehead",[83] while Patrick McKay of Stylus Magazine wrote, "What distinguishes Rumours—what makes it art—is the contradiction between its cheerful surface and its anguished heart. Here is a radio-friendly record about anger, recrimination, and loss."[84]
Commercial performance
Rumours was a huge commercial success and became Fleetwood Mac's second US number-one record, following the 1975 eponymous release.
By 1980, 13 million copies of Rumours had been sold worldwide.[4] As of 2017, sales were over 40 million copies.[94][39] As of November 2023[update], Rumours has spent over 1,000 weeks in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart.[95] It is the 11th-best-selling album in UK history, and is certified 14× platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, the equivalent of 4.2 million units shipped.[91] The record has received a Diamond Award from the Recording Industry Association of America for a 20× platinum certification or 20 million copies shipped, making it, as of 2021[update], tied for the 11th-highest certified album in US history (by number of copies shipped).[96] Rumours was the UK's bestselling album on vinyl during 2020, with the Official Charts Company confirming 32,500 annual sales in the format.[97]
Legacy
Mick Fleetwood has called Rumours "the most important album we ever made", because its success allowed the group to continue recording for years to come.
Other acts influenced by Rumours include baroque pop artist Tori Amos,[102] hard rock group Saliva,[103] indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie,[104] and art pop singer Lorde, who called it a "perfect record".[105]
"There was a time when Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was just seen as an album that sold incredibly well; over the past five years, though, it's become more acceptable to classify Rumours as great in and of itself."[99]
—Chuck Klosterman in 2004, on recognition for the record
Rumours has frequently been called one of the greatest albums of all time. In 1998,
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Second Hand News" | Lindsey Buckingham | Buckingham | 2:43 |
2. | "Dreams" | Stevie Nicks | Nicks | 4:14 |
3. | "Never Going Back Again" | Buckingham | Buckingham | 2:02 |
4. | "Don't Stop" | Christine McVie | C. McVie with Buckingham | 3:11 |
5. | "Go Your Own Way" | Buckingham | Buckingham | 3:38 |
6. | "Songbird" | C. McVie | C. McVie | 3:20 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "The Chain" |
| Buckingham with Nicks and C. McVie | 4:28 |
2. | "You Make Loving Fun" | C. McVie | C. McVie | 3:31 |
3. | "I Don't Want to Know" | Nicks | Nicks with Buckingham | 3:11 |
4. | "Oh Daddy" | C. McVie | C. McVie | 3:54 |
5. | "Gold Dust Woman" | Nicks | Nicks | 4:51 |
"Silver Springs", written by Stevie Nicks, has been included on some reissues as either track 6, 7 or 12 of the album, depending on the pressing.
Many cassette releases swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know".
Personnel
Adapted from the album's credits, AllMusic and MusicRadar.[25][65][118]
Fleetwood Mac
- Lindsey Buckingham – guitars, percussion, vocals
- Stevie Nicks – vocals
- Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals, vibraphone
- John McVie – bass guitar
- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion, harpsichord
Production
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Artwork
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications and sales
‹See Tfd›Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[212] | 13× Platinum | 950,000[211] |
Canada (Music Canada)[213] | 2× Diamond | 2,000,000^ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[214] | 3× Platinum | 60,000‡ |
France ( SNEP)[215]
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Platinum | 300,000* |
Germany (BVMI)[216] | 5× Gold | 1,250,000^ |
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[217] | Platinum | 20,000* |
Iceland (FHF)[218] | Platinum | 10,000‡[219] |
Ireland 2020–2021 vinyl sales |
— | 2,000[220] |
Italy (FIMI)[221] sales since 2009 |
Gold | 25,000‡ |
Netherlands (NVPI)[223] | Platinum | 165,000[222] |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[224] | 13× Platinum | 195,000^ |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[225] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[226] | 15× Platinum | 4,500,000‡ |
United States (RIAA)[227] | 21× Platinum | 21,000,000‡ |
Summaries | ||
Worldwide | — | 40,000,000[39] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[228] | 2× Platinum | 30,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[229] | 2× Platinum | 10,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[230] | Gold | 25,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
See also
Notes
- ^ Songs were recorded in the U.S. cities of Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville, and Columbia.
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External links
- Rumours lyrics at Rhapsody
- Rumours promotion at the 12 February 1977 [Vol. 89, No. 6] issue of Billboard via Google Books