Word: fleetwoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although Fleetwood Mac has a troubled history, in the past its difficulties have all been occupational. Starting as a British blues band, its only claim to notoriety was guitarist Peter Green's authorship of Santana's hit "Black Magic Woman." Even an intimacy with witchcraft failed to spirit them to the top of Billboard, so they initiated a personnel change. Upon Green's departure, keyboard player Christine McVie joined the group, but while her marriage to bassist John McVie sailed smoothly, her betrothal to Fleetwood Mac did little to improve their fortunes. Once again the group shifted its roots, this...
...music started to coalesce, the marriages started to fall apart. The album reflects their personal anguish; its lyrics read like a copy of "True Confessions." Yet Rumours exhibits a pied beauty in its revelations, as it combines rock with pop, acoustic with electric, and solo with harmony. Listening to Fleetwood Mac is like attending an outdoor carnival; with such a variety of attractions there is something appealing for everyone...
Complementing the eerie lyrics, the feline guitar purrs in the background; this perfect integration of music and vocals makes Fleetwood Mac exceptional...
This album's only major problem is its occasional stumble into banality, which arises out of the repetition of the theme of "paradise lost." While Nicks should be lauded for her imagistic lyrics, Fleetwood Mac's strength does not lie in its verse. Rather, the band's perfect timing and harmony establishes its professionalism. Luckily, only McVie's disco "You Make Loving Fun" curtseys to commercialism...
Rumours proves that personal tragedy need not restrict artistic achievement--maybe it even encourages it. On "Gold Dust Woman," Stevie Nicks questions whether the group can "pick up the pieces and go home." Not only picking up the pieces, Fleetwood Mac has fit them together into a neat jigsaw puzzle. Nicks may believe that "rulers make bad lovers," but Rumours shows that bad lovers are capable sovereigns in the realm of music...