goatAlmighty t1_j9zebyc wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:13 PM

Fleetwood Macs' "Rumours".

As far as I know, there were several broken (or breaking?) relationships in the band around that time, and that turmoil went into a few of the songs. Like "Go your own way", written by Lindsey Buckingham over his broken relationship with Stevie Nicks. Or "Don't stop" written by Christine McVie, concerning her separation from her former husband John McVie. At least that is how I remember it.

DIWhy-not t1_ja05xap wrote on February 25, 2023 at 9:18 PM

It’s even more insane and salacious than that. Christine wrote “You make loving fun” about the affair she was having with the band’s lighting director. Her husband, Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie, recorded it thinking it was about their dogs.

After Stevie Nicks and Buckingham broke up, and Nicks was dating Don Henley (who’s it’s rumored she was seeing before her divorce from Lindsey), she cheated on Henley with Mick Fleetwood. Keeping in mind, her angry and hurt ex husband is still part of the band she and her new affair partner are in. Oh, and while she’s banging Mick, he’s in the middle of trying to fix things with his ex wife Jenny Boyd, who’d had an affair with the former lead guitar player Bob Weston, who Fleetwood fired. Buckingham wrote “go your own way” as a fuck you to Nicks.

I sincerely doubt there’s another band out there with as much utterly insane soap opera internal drama.

Kismet: as I was typing this comment, “The Chain” started playing on the radio

goatAlmighty t1_ja0cyur wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:08 PM

Thanks for the clarification. Very interesting. I didn't know that many details about it. I really should check if there is some kind of official biography available. Though I guess many of these juicy details would be left out intentionally. :-)

Edit: "The Chain" is one of the many songs from them I really like.

Malice_n_Flames t1_j9zkz4q wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:56 PM

There is a great magazine article from about 15 years ago that detailed the recording sessions. The band would arrive to the studio in the evening. There would be a huge spread of food. They would eat a little then drink and snort cocaine until they were so messed up they couldn’t speak. Then they’d start recording.

goatAlmighty t1_j9zux7o wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:03 PM

Sounds crazy, but typical for a band of this area. I would love to read that article.