Picture if you will, the moment the three-part vocals had to be recorded: in a silent, darkened, studio room stood Stevie, Christine and Lindsey huddled inches apart around the same microphone and pouring their heartaches into it, no doubt in that very moment the heartache was being added to – frankly, it’s hard to imagine a performance under any more emotional duress.Īnd yet, it is that very vulnerability combined with the cathartic so-screw-it liberation of great rock music that lends ‘Dreams’ its vibrant and emotive immediacy. ‘Dreams’ is the perfect tableau for Fleetwood Mac’s existence. That was simply all you could fit on a standard 12 inches worth of vinyl, thus unless the record label was willing to foot the sizable bill of a double-album, thus ‘Silver Springs’ tragically ended up on the cutting room floor. As the album’s co-producer Richard Dashut once said, “The best song that never made it to a record album”.

Back in the day was that a standard album was limited to around 45 minutes of audio. The Rumours period proved to be so much of a purple patch for songs about love and hate that some tracks were forced off the album by logistics alone. The 10 best Fleetwood Mac songs written about each other: 10. Here, we’re taking a look at ten of the best and the stories behind them ( and yes, of course, it’s Rumours heavy).

As Lindsay Buckingham once said himself, the beauty of a lot of Fleetwood Mac songs was that they were infused with the visceral edge of the soap opera surrounding them. Although it has to be said that not all the songs they penned about one another are documents of love and hates tug-of-war, some are uprooted from far more stable soil. However, from that hellfire came some gilded pieces of pop perfection that proves a short cut to creative prosperity is a very messy break-up.

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