“I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me,” Nicks recalled to Blender in 2005.
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The Record Plant room included a sunken pit, Victorian drapes and a black velvet bed upon which Nicks set up shop with a portable electronic piano. Nicks had much free time during the recording of Rumours, which she spent alone in an empty studio down the hall built for Sly Stone. It became a my-way-or-the-highway thing with him, which he perfected on the Tusk album.” This was the start of him really calling the shots. Lindsey had a grand plan in his head, and he got his way. "It took him a while, but eventually, while John was on vacation, he put down his own bass line, one that was very simple, just quarter notes," co-producer Ken Caillat told Music Radar in 2012. John McVie's original bass part was also scrapped, replaced by a part Buckingham wrote himself. The guitarist was reportedly inspired by Bee Gees' "Jive Talkin'," and, when Mick Fleetwood couldn't nail the rhythm, Buckingham played the beat on an office chair to achieve the effect he was looking for. Not every song written by a scorned lover has to sound so sad. The upbeat opening track makes one thing clear: Lindsey Buckingham is doing just fine in the tall grass with women who aren't Stevie Nicks. Dra- ma." The band members channeled all that into one of music's greatest triumphs.īelow we outline a track-by-track guide to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. When asked at the time by Rolling Stone what the recording process was like, Christine McVie replied, "Drama.
But dig deep into the work you'll uncover a dire, mischievous and dramatic album - a musical soap opera featuring songs written in the aftermath of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's breakup, Christine and John McVie's divorce, Mick Fleetwood's extramarital affairs and widespread drug use.
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