Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th 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, from 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 story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen:
- Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun."
- The band's struggles with increasing success,
- How the album almost never happened when the master tape nearly disintegrated
- 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.
In 1977, Fleetwood Mac's members were guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham, vocalist Stevie Nicks, drummer Mick Fleetwood, vocalist Christine McVie, and bass guitarist John McVie.
Making Rumours shows how Fleetwood Mac created one of the greatest albums of all time, amidst heartbreak, divorce, addiction, and betrayal.
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Steven Stiefel has written several books, including contributions to two by LL Cool J. He also works as a magazine writer and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review and McSweeney's.
"Engineer Ken Caillat's richly detailed account of the arduous and complicated creation of the classic Fleetwood Mac album reads like a novel. He winds together the personal and creative narratives that were tangled up in the months-long creation of this epic work, while the two couples in the band came apart and personal relations suffused the process. Calliat himself was conducting an affair with the studio manager. It was all sex, drugs, and rock and roll."-Joel Selvin, American Music Critic
"Caillat writes in studio speak, his affable prose including the reader rather than excluding, and that's the real pleasure of Making Rumours: sitting next to him for the recording, drama, and next line of cocaine."--The Austin Chronicle
"Caillat and co-writer Steve Stiefel maintain a brisk pace throughout Making Rumors... Recalling the highs (in all senses of the word) and many lows of creating a unique piece of pop culture history, Making Rumours is a fascinating--and illuminating--read." --Mix Online
"Ken tells us the story of making this album, in his engaging, candid, and casual way... Not surprising were the accounts of the breakups, arguments, cocaine, pot, and Lindsey Buckingham being difficult... I devoured it faster than anything I've read recently." --Tape Op
"Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album might just be the best rock and roll biography I have ever read... an insightful and thorough read about a pivotal time in rock and roll."--Vintage Rock
