Making Rumours, livre ebook

Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the twenty-fifth greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks.

• Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen
• Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun," how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success, how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass
• Includes eighty black-and-white photographs

Foreword by John Shanks xi

Preface xiii

1. Ken's Wild Ride 1

2. Starting Rumours 23

3. Go Your Own Way 50

4. Oh, Daddy 73

5. You Make Lovin' Fun 101

6. Songbird and Gold Dust Woman 118

7. Don't Stop 136

8. Fleetwood Mac Comes Alive! 160

9. "I Quit!" 193

10. The Boys Are Back in Town 209

11. "You're Fired!" 233

12. Fleetwood Mac Explodes 267

13. The Chain: Keep Us Together 299

14. The Final Mix 324

Epilogue 345

Acknowledgments 349

Index 353