How big? Well, in 2021, 44 years after its release, it’s still on the charts (thanks to a viral video on TikTok). ‘Dreams,’ both the second single and second track on the record, went on to become the band’s only #1 single. Originally an acoustic folk song, Buckingham was inspired by the Bee Gee’s ‘Jive Talking’ to give it a more disco-like groove. Opening with the line “I know there's nothing to say/Someone has taken my place,” ‘Second Hand News’ sets the tone for the album. John McVie came up with the title as he felt the members were writing journals and diaries to each other via the songs. Besides for the broken relationships, the album was fuelled by cocaine, and a lot of it. All killer, no filler on this one (which is exactly what they’d intended). All of this would destroy most bands, but Fleetwood Mac used these experiences to write an album of solid masterpieces. Fleetwood and his wife separated after he discovered she’d been cheating on him, John and Christine McVie (bass and vocals/keyboard) got divorced after 8 years of marriage, and the relationship of the band’s newest members would implode. Following that, things started to fall apart for the band. The pair would take the sound of the Blues Rock group into a new, more poppy direction resulting in the subsequent album charting at #1 in the US. The guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, said he’d only join on condition that his musical partner and girlfriend, Stevie Nicks could join the band too. Fleetwood was in awe of the guitar playing and immediately invited him to join the group. The chance meeting lead him to Sound City Studios where producer, Keith Olsen, played him snippets of a new album he’d been working on, something called Buckingham Nicks. Having relocated to LA, and needing a new guitarist, Mick Fleetwood randomly bumped into an old friend while out shopping with his kids. Bob Welch would then join the band for 5 albums, leaving in 1975. First finding success as Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, Green left the band after 3 albums. In the lead up to this record, Fleetwood Mac had seen multiple lineup changes.
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