Rumours - Fleetwood MacI was 14 when this was released, and in total thrall to The Pistols. If someone would have told me back then that 46 years later I’d be listening to this album on a regular basis, I’d have said that there’s no way I’m going down the same road as my older sister. She was a massive T Rex fan, but as she got older, and married, out went the glitter and feather boas, and in came quite frankly a boring lifestyle that she’s maintained to this very here day. So safe to say that the 14yr old me wouldn’t have been caught dead listening to this. The 14yr old me was an idiot.
When most couples break up, they go their own way (pun intended), and quietly loathe one another in their own little world. Most couples however aren’t members of Fleetwood Mac. Imagine if your wife had just left you, and the first thing she did was to write a song about her new lover entitled ‘
You Make Loving Fun’, how would that make you feel? Or if you’d asked your long term partner to marry you and she declined. Would you have written a lyric that included the line ‘
Shacking up is all you want to do’? How about after you’d split up from the aforementioned partner, you hook up with someone else and you write a song called
‘Never Going Back Again’.
It’s a fantastic album. A genuine classic. The playing on it is extraordinary, especially the drumming. Listen to
‘Go Your Own Way’, the drumming is out of this world. Mick Fleetwood is a brilliant player, and he’s never bettered this. Likewise the guitar of Lindsey Buckingham, devilishly handsome, a great musician and an outstanding songwriter, bastard that he is.
The songwriting is shared between Buckingham, the late Christine McVie, and Stevie Nicks, and to their credit, all the musicians involved play out of their skins irrespective of whether they wrote the song, or if the song is slagging them off.
It’s an outstanding album. Just don’t tell the 14 year old Gers.
Best track -
Never Going Back Againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i3ZfrVY9iU
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