
Fleetwood Mac – Rumors (1977)
To some, the most impressive thing about this album is that it spent over 30 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts. To others, perhaps it’s the fact this album to date is 40 times Platinum. Yes, that’s over 40 millions copies sold in some form or another.
Yet for me, the most impressive thing aboutĀ RumorsĀ is how something so great could come from such turmoil and tension. Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, partners since the ’60s, had recently broken up. John and Christie McVie, married since 1968, had recently divorced. Yet, these two couples were all still in the band! Add to this real life soap opera, the 5th wheel if you will, the band’s namesake….Mick Fleetwood, started seeing Stevie for a stretch in 1977. Well, who says nothing good comes from drama and stress? For Fleetwood Mac, this personal craziness produced the greatest album of their career and one of the all-time classic records in rock history. Who would’a thunk?