I bought this awsome record in Budapest when I was 18 in 1978 during my first trip abroad from EastGermany to Hungary. I thought I couldn't believe my eyes when I found my absolute favourite record at this Hungarian record store, because it was really not available in my country. I scraped together my last Forints and bought the record. But I didn't know how to carry my treasure on my EastGerman 150ccmMotorBike. I kept it warm and safe in one of my saddlebags and hoped it wouldn't break or wouldn't be confiscated by Chech or EastGerman customs. But though I crashed the bike twice a little on this 1000km tour home, my record remained unharmed. Today my favourite record has a place of honor in my record collection... When I open my record box it's just in front and number one to see. Sweet memories ! Thank You Fleetwood Mac !
I too love this record. I made my first trip abroad from the US in 1971, and at that time, record stores allowed you to listen to a vinyl disc before purchase!! I thought this was amazing...not the only thing different in Germany, but it helped me understand how different things are in other countries (Canada, at that time, was more like the US). I found a new Neil Young album (Harvest) that had not been released in the US. Not directly a Fleetwood Mac story...but I think you understand, it was a similar experience to you finding your favorite record outside of E. Germany! Rumours reminds me of a different period in my life...an equally transformative, and this album takes me right back there.
Incredible story. I am so glad you were able to keep this record and bring it with you home. It's one of my favorite albums of all time. All songs are excellent...and who can say that of many groups out there... This is one for the history books for sure. Thanks for your nice comment!!
0:01 second hand news 2:56 dreams 7:14 never going back again 9:28 don’t stop 12:41 go your own way 16:26 songbird 19:46 silver springs 24:38 The chain 29:06 I don’t want to know 32:24 oh daddy 36:22 gold dust woman
I was 12 years old when this came out. I am now 59, and I still listen to it regularly. A great album by a great band during an era filled with great music…
I’m 13…I get home with this album and immediately, as I’m listening, taking in every detail of the pictures of the band. I immediately go to my drawers looking for any long skirts, scarves, bandanas I could find to wear. The magic that unfolded from this one album made it just as much a part of my DNA as any family member. I’m 60 now…..nothing’s changed.
Hey girl, Cool story. I was really into Fleetwood mac and still am. I was 17 when my older sister bought this LP in 1975. I loved it and listened to it for years. It reminds me of new years eve 74, 75 when I got to kiss my all time flame that night. Never got to date or marry her darn lol! But I did get married and had 3 kids. I'm divorced for 16 years now, her idea not mine. I'm 65 and I must say I'm in pretty good shape. So I just thought I'd throw that out there. Don't expect a reply, have a good life and don't forget about the past! It was some really good times!!!
@@Camaroguy69I’m on my wife’s phone. I had a chance to kiss her in 79 but I didn’t. She is my everything. She was my first and me hers but we broke up in 82 I married her in 17 and been together ever since. She lost her leg in 19 and is in the hospital with the other one. So it’s not a fairy tail.
I came here too. Just going to sit and listen to this gem of an album. One of the soundtracks of my youth. Very sad day indeed RIP Christine. Your music will live on forever for all future generations to enjoy. 😢
Yesterday, my young-adult daughter and I went to a vintage record store. She got herself a few MJ and Jackson 5 records, and I got this one 🥰 I was very excited to have found it; I've always loved it but never bought it at that time, for whatever reason... So happy!!!!! 💖
That's a nice memory and thanks for sharing. I saw FM in 77 at Calder Raceway. I still have the ticket stub. I never bought rumours because it was being played to death on the radio. I got Tusk the week it came out. I also went to that tour in 1981.
my mother loved this band and throughout my childhood she listened to this album on repeat...every single one of these songs I know the lyrics for. unfortunately she passed away when i was 11, but these songs....i see why she loved them so much. this whole album is actually a masterpiece.
One of My dad's favorite bands. I grew up on Fleetwood Mac. I play them (and Stevie ) in my office almost daily. Every song takes me back.....exactly what great music is supposed to do....
Don't you see? She left an album for you to sing along to with her for your whole singing life. So sing with the memory of a mother who sang the coolest songs in the world to her baby. I wish you Peace.
This album is a masterpiece. Not only are the songs beautiful but the order they are in is perfection. As a very nearly 50 year old who's mum played this this all the time , I am so happy my children listen to it too. Hoping my Grandchildren to come will love it too. Xx
I'm 28yo, my late father always used to play this album on Sundays and Saturdays when we'd be around the house. Definitely has influenced my music taste. It's timeless, every track on it is either poppy and catchy or beautiful.
When this album was released in early 1977, I had just turned 16. The following year, I was a senior, and one of my high school classmates who loved rock and soft rock introduced me to the genre by loaning me this album, a few by Queen, Styx, and a few others. As a Black girl growing up in the northeast Bronx, I sang in a gospel choir, in the choral group and gospel choir in school, and R&B and some pop music at home for fun. I listened to top-40 radio so that was the Osmond Family, the Jackson 5, Diana Ross, and also Barbara Streisand etc. When I heard Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" album, I ran it into the ground and had to go out and by my own. IN LOVE with them. Their music has withstood the test of time and will continue to do so. There are artists who have risen to phenomenal heights of success on the strength of one album and no matter what else they record, or how many awards they get, or how many successful tours they do, EVERYBODY wants to hear the music from that one album. For me, it's Fleetwood Mac "Rumours." I'm sure I'm not alone. There isn't a bad song on the album. There isn't a mediocre song on the album. It's like they were channeling angels or something when they wrote and recorded this thing.
I love your story. I was 15 on the west coast when this came out but grew up with Jackson 5, osmonds, all of it. Rock the boat! Oh 7th grade lol. I hope you still sing 😊
I love your story. I'm a 50 plus bloke from the UK and like all kinds of music...except jazz..but i never get tired of listening to this album. I know every word and beat of the drum. Its like a favourite blanket😂. Much love from over the pond.
@@chrisbennett8870 Peace, Light and Love to you from Manhattan - allegedly the heart of NYC! So funny - both of my parents are jazz pianists and I sing jazz and blues too! But it's all good. Music is the one universal language that connects all people on the planet - and I'm grateful about that!
I remember hearing this album for the first time when it was released in the 70s. A friend played it for me. I was stunned because, as you have pointed out, yes, EVERY song on this album is a gem. We sat and listened to the entire LP, fully both sides all in one sitting.
I asked for this album for Christmas and I remember looking at it wrapped up under the tree knowing what it was and couldn't wait to open it !! One of the best albums ever ....
If you were around when this album was released - you certainly appreciate it's enormous importance. If you are younger and you hear it - you must appreciate how brilliant it is. Peace!
@@bettyhottenrott1974 But it wasn't on the album in 1977. It was too long for analog technology of the time, so it was replaced with I Don't Want to Know. Stevie was furious. So Silver Springs was released on the B side of Go Your Own Way.
Born in 1991, just finished reading 'making rumours' by ken callait. What a luxury to be able to come listen to this masterpiece of an album. Life is good.
Fall of 77'... It's like yesterday, I was walking down the street with this album tucked under my arm on my way to see my girl, Teri at one of her babysitting jobs. Kids were in bed so we just cuddled on the couch loving touching & squeezing. These songs transport me back to that night in time and makes me wanna go back. Damn!
This was the first album I bought after I'd broke up with my first love. Many years later - back with her - I'm playing it again. For me, the greatest albums of all time!
Dear beautiful souls, All my familyl live on Maui, Hawaii, Lahaina and all their homes burnt down in the fires. Please send prayers and positive energy so my family and all the people and all the animals and the beautiful land. Love your soul, sister Bonnie 💖🙏😻🐾🪽🌈🌺
With the 33. A lot of bands try them but nobody can sound like them. I been wit them since '75. Godspeed...Stay safe everyone. Cold in Phoenix today? Oh yeah! 🤠🏜🏝
Bought the album after seeing an advertisement on SNL back in 77. Such classic tracks. Perfection and not one bad track. Finally got to see them live in 1980, thankfully.
The year & summer this album came out, friends invited me into their home to listen. We were all kids. It was hot & humid that day, so we closed the curtains, all found a spot either on beds or on the floor, laid on our backs & listened with our eyes closed & drifted off into a musical wonderland. It was simply brilliant. A memory that has stayed with me all these years. Christine Mcvie RIP we love you & are heartbroken at hearing the news of your passing. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔🎸🎵🎶🕯
Este álbum é de 1977, neste mesmo ano teve o Animals do Pink Floyd, duas obras primas daquele ano para não citar aqui outras...A década de 70 foi fantástica para a música!👍🇧🇷
Fine picks. There was no shortage of exceptional albums released during the 70's but two other standouts for me were Teaser and the Firecat (Cat Stevens) and Strung Up (Sweet).
Have a listen 2 and add Rory Gallachers Irish Tour 1974 live,but I agree with your choices. I was fortunate to see Floyd at Knebworth Dark side live. '75 I'm sure .
I bought this on a 8 track .This became my boyfriend and i favorite tape.ovèr the past 45 years from cassette, cd,and playlist.Never gets old like our love,and lovè of this group RIP Christine ❤❤ Thanks for the wonderful memories ❤❤
RIP Christine. I hadn’t listened to this album since I was very young and I still remember all the words to all the wonderful songs. What an album! Not one bad song on it.
This is my first time listening to Fleetwood Mac. I was surprised at the number of songs that I recognised, but it was even more surprising how much I enjoyed the entire album
They put out a bunch of albums with different musicians, all of them were great. Blues at first then a transition period then this more popular stuff. All of it is great!
I was there when it dropped & I am here now. Rumours has always been just as it is - perfect, personal and timeless. If you have this music moving in your soul, you owe a debt of gratitude to this incredible group of artists.
Such a perfect album. Every song great! And a special nod to Christine's beautiful, soulful Songbird. Farewell angel. I'm 73 but the music from the sixties and seventies keeps me young in my head. Go Your Own Way still a favorite song, the drums, the vocals and Lindsey's guitar...he's such a great talent in every way! Perfection. ❤
When this album was released in the spring of '77 I was in junior high & I thought I was extremely sophisticated because I listened to it. All these years later I still think I'm extremely sophisticated because I still listen to it.
I was 11 when this came out and my mom loved Fleetwood Mac. I have so many memories of driving all over Fort Worth, Texas with my mom blaring her 8-track with these awesome songs. Such great times!
The music world has lost a unique talent. R.i.P Christine McVie. You were truly a unique, and one of a kind. You will be missed. Passed away on 11/30/2022
A flawless album in my humble opinion. The songs still sound relevant after all these years and they are masterfully crafted and 41:15 performed. Rest in peace Christine, your legacy in the music world will be secure for many years to come. ❤
We had a good friend who absolutely loved this album. He lived next door to my husband and me, and every day when he came home from work, he would be blasting this song on his 8-track in his big silver van. You could hear him all the way down the street! He passed away a couple of years ago, but I'll think of our dear friend Carl forevermore whenever I hear these songs.
Dreams... probably the best piece of music written in Lydian Mode. This mode (as opposed to key) gives the song something really special, it never gets old. Thunder still only happens when it's raining...
I've Lindsey Buckingham live twice. He both times he ended with Go Your Own Way. Everyone was was on their feet, hands in the air, singing every word with many people, including myself, crying. This album means so much to so many.
I bought this album when first released, I still have it , I'm almost 71 hadn't listened to it in years, till today, and my god it still towers over anything you want to put up. Brilliant album by musicians hell bent on killing each other, how does that happen, magic.
i think, I'm the first visitor in 2024 ... I love this album, but don't miss the beautiful, great concert "The Dance". (DVD) RIP Christine McVie and a happy New Year to Fleetwood Mac and all Fleetwood Mac - fans. Greetings from Germany. (a fan, just 70 years old)
I shall never ever forget, riding along with my friends, this album playing as loud as it could, we all singing along, 1977, I was 25 and boy those were the days my friends! Carefree, working and living for the weekend! This album will forever remind me of those days..and all of whom I was around then..I will never forget y'all..and thanks to music of this incredible album, can be transported if only for a while, to those glorious days! ❤💋🥂🌈❤
Those definitely were the days! I was born in 1976 but my mum loved Fleetwood. But since I grew up in the 80's, those were carefree memorable days of my life. Thanks for sharing your awesome comment! ✨
Born in "52 as well. Loved the Mac from the days of Peter Green until... They evolved, I grew up, and the world definitely changed! Miss those times and old friends who aren't around anymore.
RIP lovely Christine. I just saw you in concert three years ago right before the pandemic. I see I'm not the only one curling up with Rumours in the wake of her sudden passing.
All of them truly found their reason of existence and destiny in this life, and we were all fortunate enough to have shared it with them, the great Fleetwood Mac.....
One of the moments in time when magic happens, once you make an album like this it's both a blessing and a curse. Great songwriting, music, and vocals. Absolutely the peak of Fleetwood Mac..
In my opinion, Rumors is one of THE BEST ALBUMS EVER!!! 40+ years after these songs were written and recorded, they are STILL Incredible and relevent! I don't even listen to rock anymore, haven't in many years, but I will NEVER change the station if I hear a Fleetwood Mac song!! Christine was a friggin LEGEND!! I Pray she rests peacefully, and KNEW just how many lives she touched! And continues to touch!! I am blessed to have grown up when artists were TRULY artists! They sounded incredible live, and didn't even need all that studio equiptment to sound great! Watch Christine sing SONGBIRD...LIVE! Just her and a piano!
Like so many others, I was in high school when this album came out. It quickly reached number on the charts and stayed there all spring, all summer (as we drove around), and into the fall...magical time indeed. Now, all these years and miles later, I think beyond the great music, these songs show the pain that these five people were going through and also, let us know that we have never been alone as we grew up and experienced similar pain. Magical music, magical band, magical people. Thank you Fleetwood Mac.
I was sixteen when this album came out. At seventeen I saw them 14 rows back on the floor. Indescribable! My fave band of all time and I love alot of music❤️
My mother wants this album played throughout her funeral.... That's how good it is! You'll never get away from the voice of someone who loves you... inspired
i had no idea what an amazing album this was until recently. i didnt even know some of these were FM! My folks had this album and more, and i remember birthdays in SOCal growing up. After ppl went home, my family drank and danced into the night. I was born in 77 and am so grateful for FM. This album is perfect and such a nostalgic blast. i was door dashing last year and listened to Gold Dust Woman the bio while driving and heard all these back stories to the songs and themselves and fell in LOVE with all of them, even Lindsay. lol They somehow got up there thousands of times and its just staggering, the music. It WAS and IS real music. instruments and lyrics detailing the stories on a record, literally recording their lives. And giving us the gift and sharing those pieces with us out here who will never understand what its like on their side, but we see pieces in books and records. Thank god for youtube and folks back then carrying clunky ass video cameras hahaha RIP Christine McVie! You are so appreciated.
I remember this album opened up and it came with a picture of the group. My God Stevie Nicks was a Goddess with that Farrah Fawcett hairdo. Every young man was mesmerized by her Beauty. But the Music from 3 different lead vocals was enthralling. 4 top ten hits from this album. I was young and this album gave me hope and a spirit from that era that helped me through all my life. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. Bless the band and their families
I was 27 & a new widow with a 3yo and 5yo when I bought this. The "Landside" hit me in my heart. My bff had a huge poster of them, yep Stevie is a goddess, she is Rhiannon ❤🥲🕊and I can listen to the Chain forever & a day🌞
One of the great albums we got on vinyl and would put it on the phonograph to go to sleep on. These were the early days of FM and often a station would play a whole album with no commercials in the late evening, after 10, and this would be one of them.
Right ? the radio station in south lake Tahoe would play the album through after midnight.. I had a pocket radio under my pillow every night.. Rumours was only the third album that I had on vinyl... 47 years now.
This album came out when I was dating my future wife. This added and still does bring happiness, along with lyrics in these songs brings joy, plus fond memories welling up on a regular basis. Christine McVie will be missed.
My first makeout session in a car with a girl down the road was with this 8 track playing. ( Made it to 2nd base) ha ha The 8 track far outlasted our interest in each other. But hey it played with several other girls because it was so great and we all loved it.
Born in '84 here, always regarded Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp and the likes as "dad's music" now I'm listening to this whole album for the first time and I'm swelling up! These guys were DAMN GOOD! =One Love= -A
I'm your age and I've gotten into the habit of looking backwards in time for "new" good music. There you ll find. The music of nowadays is not even worth to mention isnt it.
You know when I was a kid I thought she sounded like a muppet. Her low register just made me cringe. As I've gotten older, I realize now that she's the best singer of the band and one of the best ever. Saw them in 2019 and she was the star of the show for me. I have a major crush on her. Beautiful person with an amazing voice.
This is the quintessential 70's top album! I loved that the 70's had the greatest music I know of, and ,miss still love every song as if for the first time, I can still smell the autumn leaves on UCONN campus and the kids From E.O. Smith High School on Pot hill behind the college theater with peace signs and long hair and bell bottoms rocking out to the greatest era of music and then the song ends and disappears like a mist of smoke on the wind, leaving me aching to go back to a better era surrounded by a hope and love
Convinced that this is the best album of all time. It's like a Greatest Hits collection. A group of talented musicians that took ugly personal tragedies and created a masterpiece.
I used to listen to this as my first CD in the eigthies, when I was a teenager :) Today I listened to it for the first time in years, thanks to that video, and it brings many memories :) Anyway, this is indeed a masterpiece, and I have to say (would you believe it ???) I had forgotten the insane emotional power (so moving !) of the sublime "Songbird" !! :)
I listened to this as a kid on headphones. Iiked music like this as my parents played this and other music alot. My dad died 22 years ago my mum is still alive and getting dementia. They were not perfect but I miss them and will go to look after my mum in awhile when her current partner gets surgery and will be their for both of them as I was lucky and got a great step dad. I'm slowly building my mums vast music collection. She has inspired me .
WOW just, WOW. I was 16 when this came out and it was on full rotation in our house. I haven't listened to the complete album in too long a time. Wonderful scenes and memories I had completely forgotten, came flooding back, hitting me deep in the feels. Perfection.
Yep, some great albums in the 70's. To think this and Eagles Hotel California came out the same year. I am the same age as you and to think of all the classic albums that came out that decade. Cheers!
My biggest memory of this album was when I was about 8 visiting a friend's place and their parents had this album playing everytime I visited. I was too you to know who it was and what they were singing about but new the sound was ahead of its time. In fact later when I was old enough I was surprised it was recorded when it was. Brilliant
Just joined the British army when this came out it felt great back there just as it does nowdays now I'm 60 music brings me so many happy memories ain't that a wonderful gift these artists have
I was 14 mibi 15 when I first heard this and discovered I loved this band since whenever I was in ma sisters I'd beg her to play it for me. She's with the angels now. So this is for u hen
