Rumours
Studio album by Fleetwood Mac
Released	February 4, 1977
Recorded	February-August 1976, Record Plant Studios, Sausalito Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles Criteria Studios, Miami Davlen Recording Studio, North Hollywood
Genre	Rock
Length	40:03
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat & Richard Dashut
Professional reviews
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Fleetwood Mac chronology
Fleetwood Mac (1975)	Rumours (1977)	Tusk (1979)

Rumours is a rock and roll album released by Fleetwood Mac in 1977. It was the second album recorded with this lineup, following the successful self-titled Fleetwood Mac album. In December 1976, prior to the release of the album, Reprise released the single "Go Your Own Way". Download high resolution version (650x638, 51 KB)Cover of the Fleetwood Mac album Rumours. ... A Studio Album is an album of regular studio recordings. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Record Plant Studios (also known as just The Record Plant) is a famous recording studio, first opening in New York City at 321 West 44th Street map, in 1968. ... Sausalito is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area situated in Marin County, California, United States. ... Wally Heiders Studio was located at 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco, between Turk and Eddy Streets, with the Blackhawk Jazz Club across the street. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ... Criteria Studios is a music studio in Miami, Florida started in 1958 by Mack Emerman. ... Nickname: The Magic City Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida. ... North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, California. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Rock is a form of popular music from the mid 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Warner Bros. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... Ken Caillat is a record producer, probably best known for producing the albums of Fleetwood Mac. ... Richard Dashut is a record producer who produced Fleetwood Macs albums. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Robert Christgau (sometimes abbreviated in print to Xgau), born April 18, 1942, is an American essayist, music journalist, and rock critic. ... Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music, politics and popular culture. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Fleetwood Mac (sometimes referred to as The White Album) was released by the band Fleetwood Mac in 1975. ... Tusk was a double album released in 1979 (see 1979 in music) by Fleetwood Mac. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Fleetwood Mac (sometimes referred to as The White Album) was released by the band Fleetwood Mac in 1975. ... Go Your Own Way is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham and performed by Fleetwood Mac. ...

History

In the two years since the previous album, things had become rather difficult within the group. Mick Fleetwood separated from his wife Jenny. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who were in a relationship when they joined the group, were separated, and John McVie and Christine McVie also separated, although all five remained in the band. This meant that, as Stevie Nicks later pointed out, long hours were spent and some very awkward times were had between people who would otherwise not be in each others' lives. Christine McVie later remarked that they were all writing about each other, hence the title of the album. They didn't realize this immediately, but finally realizing that they had created such a good album together lifted them out of their misery. Michael John Kells Mick Fleetwood, born in Redruth, Cornwall, on June 24, 1942, is a British musician best-known for his role as the drummer with the rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. ... Lindsey Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist and singer for the musical group Fleetwood Mac. ... Stephanie Lynn Stevie Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and a long solo career, which altogether has produced over 20 Top 40 hits. ... John McVie (born November 26, 1945) is best known as the bass guitarist for the rock group Fleetwood Mac. ... Christine McVie on the cover of her 2004 solo album In The Meantime. ...

"Go Your Own Way" was believed by Nicks to be a gloomy reference to the anticipated break-up of this line-up, and she and Buckingham argued about it. "Dreams" was her attempt to be more optimistic. "You Make Loving Fun" referred to an affair between Christine McVie and the group's lighting director. "Gold Dust Woman" was a reference to cocaine. "Oh Daddy" was almost certainly a reference to Mick Fleetwood, the spiritual father of the group who largely held it together, and the only member who was a parent at the time. "Songbird" Christine McVie described as "a little anthem" and said it was for "all of us". It took a long time to record because it had to be one continuous take. "The Chain" was an oddity. The final section, the last minute and a quarter or so, was written first, but at that point there wasn't a song for it to be the end of. Stevie Nicks had written that quite separately, and as she put it "gave it to them". Lindsey Buckingham then had an idea about how it should begin and the first section was re-recorded.

^[1] Rumours won a Grammy award in 1978 for Album of the Year for 1977, and spent 31 weeks at the top of the Billboard Music Charts, in spite of critical panning for perceived pandering to mainstream tastes. By 2003, the album had sold more than nineteen million copies in the United States alone and was certified by the RIAA as the third-highest selling single-disc album in history. Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... The RIAA Logo. ...

In the 1990s, the Rumours song "Songbird" was covered by the late Eva Cassidy, an American singer popular in Britain. Her version became very popular in the United Kingdom. Eva Cassidy Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 in Washington, DC – November 2, 1996 in Bowie, Maryland) was an American vocalist described by the British newspaper The Guardian as one of the greatest voices of her generation. ...

In 2006, Q magazine readers voted Rumours the 68th greatest album of all time; in 2001, the TV network VH1 placed it at number 16. In 2003, the album was ranked number 25 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Q magazine is a music and entertainment magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... VH1 (spelled VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. It and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks... Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music, politics and popular culture. ... The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ...

2001 DVD-Audio

The DVD-Audio release adds "Silver Springs" (as track 6) after "Go Your Own Way", and moves "Songbird" to the end (track 12); all the other songs retain their original numbering. The DVD-Audio logo. ...

This version features 96 kHz/24 bit surround sound and stereo mixes as well as a photo gallery, exclusive to DVD-Audio players; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, exclusive to DVD video players; and "The Making of 'Rumours'," a 37-minute set of behind-the-scenes audio interviews detailing the writing and recording of each song in order, available on all players. Surround sound is the concept of expanding the spatial imaging of audio playback from one dimension (mono/Left-Right) to two or three dimensions. ... STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a solar observation mission which was launched on 26 October 2006 at 00:52 GMT.[1] Two identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to (respectively) pull further ahead and fall gradually behind the earth. ... Dolby Digital logotype Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ...

2004 Re-issue

On March 23, 2004, Warner Bros. released a remastered album, with a bonus disc of rough mixes, outtakes, early demos, and session jams. March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Warner Bros. ...

Track listing

Original LP and CD

Side one

1. "Second Hand News" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 2:43
2. "Dreams" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:14
3. "Never Going Back Again" (Buckingham) – 2:02
4. "Don't Stop" (Christine McVie) – 3:11
5. "Go Your Own Way" (Buckingham) – 3:38
6. "Songbird" (C. McVie) – 3:20 Recorded at Zellerbach Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley, March 3, 1976

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Side two

1. "The Chain" (Nicks, Buckingham, C. McVie, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood) – 4:28
2. "You Make Loving Fun" (C. McVie) – 3:31
3. "I Don't Want to Know" (Nicks) – 3:11
4. "Oh Daddy" (C. McVie) – 3:54
5. "Gold Dust Woman" (Nicks) – 4:51

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Track listing (2004 Reissue)

1. "Second Hand News" (Buckingham) – 2:43
2. "Dreams" (Nicks) – 4:14
3. "Never Going Back Again" (Buckingham) – 2:02
4. "Don't Stop" (C. McVie) – 3:11
5. "Go Your Own Way" (Buckingham) – 3:38
6. "Songbird" (C. McVie) – 3:20
7. "Silver Springs" (Nicks) – 4:33
8. "The Chain" (Buckingham, Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Nicks) – 4:28
9. "You Make Loving Fun" (C. McVie) – 3:31
10. "I Don't Want to Know" (Nicks) – 3:11
11. "Oh Daddy" (C. McVie) – 3:54
12. "Gold Dust Woman" (Nicks) – 4:51

Track notes: the song "Silver Springs" (Nicks) – 4:33, was released as a B-Side to "Don't Stop" and "Go Your Own Way". The song, originally intended for release on the LP, was not included because of its length. The shorter Nicks song "I Don't Want To Know" was its replacement. The standard version of Rumours now includes "Silver Springs."

Bonus disc (2004 reissue)

1. "Second Hand News" (Buckingham) – 2:47
2. "Dreams" (Nicks) – 4:21
3. "Brushes (Never Going Back Again) (instrumental)" (Buckingham) – 2:50
4. "Don't Stop" (C. McVie) – 3:33
5. "Go Your Own Way" (Buckingham) – 3:06
6. "Songbird" (C. McVie) – 3:11
7. "Silver Springs" (Nicks) – 6:07
8. "You Make Loving Fun" (C. McVie) – 4:56
9. "Gold Dust Woman #1" (Nicks) – 5:02
10. "Oh Daddy" (C. McVie) – 3:58
11. "Think About It" (Nicks, Roy Bittan) – 2:55 Re-recorded later for Nicks' first solo album Bella Donna
12. "Never Going Back Again" (Buckingham) – 1:56
13. "Planets of the Universe" (Nicks) – 3:18 Re-recorded later for Nicks' Trouble in Shangri-La
14. "Butter Cookie (Keep Me There)" (C. McVie) – 2:11 chord progression was used in "The Chain"
15. "Gold Dust Woman" (Nicks) – 5:01
16. "Doesn't Anything Last" (Buckingham) – 1:10
17. "Mic the Screecher (jam)" (Fleetwood) – 0:59
18. "For Duster (The Blues) (jam)" (Buckingham, J. McVie, C. McVie, Fleetwood) – 4:26

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Personnel

• Stevie Nicks – vocals
• Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals
• Christine McVie – keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
• John McVie – bass
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

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Production

• Producers: Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
• Engineers: Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
• Mastering: Ken Caillat, Ken Perry, Charlie Watts
• Concept: Fleetwood Mac
• Design: Desmond Strobel
• Hand Lettering: Larry Vigon

Charts

Album

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Awards

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Certifications

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References

1. ^ DiMartino, Dave (2004). Fleetwood Mac. In Rumours Deluxe Edition [CD liner notes]. Los Angeles: Warner Bros.