Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)
Occupation
- Vocals / Keyboard: Stevie Nicks
- Guitar / piano / vocals: Lindsey Buckingham
- Bass Guitar: John McVie
- Keyboard / Vocals: Christine McVie
- Drums / percussion: Mick Fleetwood
- Guitar at the Sugar Daddy: Waddy Wachtel
Fleetwood Mac is the title of an album by the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
History
Fleetwood Mac is the album that musically led the group to the mainstream. With Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were two new band members as a songwriter in the center of the band. The album reached for one week the top of the Billboard charts and three uncoupled singles reached the Top Twenty. The album sold 4.5 million times. In 1986, the album was awarded for the fifth time with platinum. Overall, it was after the chart entry 148 weeks in the U.S. album charts. This success was overtaken only by the follow-up album Rumours. Fleetwood Mac established himself with this album as one of the most prominent mainstream rock band of the 1970s. The magazine Rolling Stone voted the album on the 183 site of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Title list
Bonus Tracks
On the 2004 release CD Fleetwood Mac following bonus tracks are included:
Rhiannon
Rhiannon was the first song Stevie Nicks brought in with the band. She had written him with Fleetwood Mac already ahead of time. The song was released in the U.S. in 1976 as a single and reached 11th place on the charts. However, the single version is a re-mix and not identical to the version on the album. Only with the CD release came this version added as a bonus. The name of the deity Welsh Rhiannon comes from the novel Triad by the U.S. author Mary Leader. Stevie Nicks read the novel on a long flight and found the name very well, so they decided to write a song about a girl named Rhiannon. Nicks wrote several texts on Rhiannon, but until a few years later appeared on the album Tusk with the song Angel another song of this series.
The country singer Waylon Jennings coverte the song in 1985 for his album Turn the Page. In 2000, the punk band Zeke him coverte for their album Dirty Sanchez. Rolling Stone chose the song on the 488th place in the list of the 500 best songs of all time.
Over My Head
Christine McVie wrote the song Over My Head, which was the first hit of Fleetwood Mac in the United States. The single was ranked 20th of the singles charts and established the foundation for a successful sale of the album.
Landslide
Stevie Nicks wrote this song in 1974 during a stay in Aspen, Colorado.
Landslide has been widely gecovert. The Smashing Pumpkins played the song in the 1990s. Tori Amos played the title live at concerts, and so was born on 1 January 1996, a live recording. In 2002, the Dixie Chicks who covered the song for their album Home. John Frusciante, the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, played the song during his solo concerts.