Video: Fleetwood Mac - The Truth Behind Rumours

Fleetwood Mac - The Truth Behind Rumours

Video: STEVIE NICKS "You Can't Fix This"

STEVIE NICKS "You Can't Fix This"

Hollywood Palladium - January 31, 2013

Sound City Players Live

Thanks @EricPahls 

New Tune from Stevie... Will be released on the upcoming 
Real to Reel Sound City Soundtrack March 12th.

Review: Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' The album that made divorce cool

Stevie Nicks, that five-foot-one-inch rock goddess in a floppy hat, one-time lover of cocaine, tranquilizers, Lindsey Buckingham, Don Henley and Mick Fleetwood, a woman who doesn’t just live in California but embodies that state with every fibre of her tiny, glittering, ragged-voiced, flat-ironed blond being, once said that “to be in Fleetwood Mac is to live in a soap opera.” And so it proved to be.

She went on to add, in a much more recent interview, that 2013 would be “the Year of Fleetwood Mac.” Here, again she was correct.

LEAH MCLAREN

The Globe and Mail

While classic-rock reunions come and go – a tedious conveyor belt of pot-bellied boomers in pleather pants desperately cashing in on youthful glory – this year’s much-anticipated reunion of Fleetwood Mac could not have been better timed. It’s been three and a half decades since the band members overcame their toxic web of mutual heartbreak, divorce and addiction, crammed themselves into a sweaty studio, and emerged with Rumours, quite possibly the most uplifting collection of breakup songs ever written. Just rereleased as a digitally remastered box set, the album, which produced four Top 10 U.S. singles, is the eighth-highest-selling album of all time.

In addition to the new release, the band is preparing for its most ambitious North American tour since the eighties. It won’t be a full reunion – Christine McVie, ex-wife of bassist John McVie (whose name accounts for the “Mac” in Fleetwood Mac) and one of the band’s best songwriters, will not be taking part, having long ago scooped up her royalties and permanently retired to the English countryside.

Full Review at The Globe and Mail

Mick Fleetwood: Christine McVie will visit with Stevie Nicks in LA after Hawaii Holiday with Mick

Mick Fleetwood: We miss Christine.. I'm hoping I can get her to rejoin
Jacqui Swift
The Sun

IT was one of the top-selling albums of the Seventies which turned Fleetwood Mac into the biggest superstars in the world.

But with all the broken hearts, tempestuous affairs and excessive drink and drugs, the making of 1977’s Rumours came at a price.

This week, almost 36 years after the seminal record hit shelves, an expanded and deluxe version of the album is released including original B-side Silver Springs, unreleased live recordings, outtakes, and documentary The Rosebud Film.

Rumours was huge, selling more than 40million copies, and made the entangled lives of Brits Mick Fleetwood, husband and wife John and Christine McVie and US couple Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, one of rock ’n’ roll’s legendary stories.

Songs such as Don’t Stop, Go Your Own Way, You Make Loving Fun, The Chain and Dreams are as popular as ever today. With a world tour opening in the US in April and a UK tour planned for September, Fleetwood Mac are winning over a new generation of fans as well as their hardcore devotees.

When we meet in a west London hotel, 6ft 5in Fleetwood says: “There are young people who are so happy this tour is happening.”

Now 65, the drummer has a healthy tan after years of living in Hawaii but has retained his English accent.

He says: “It’s a new generation that have been turned on to our music. Rumours is our most famous album but it leads to all the others. It’s like someone finding a Neil Young album and going, ‘What? There’s more?’

“Sonically it’s a very clean, un-gizmoed record which has been a huge blessing. We didn’t call in a slick, Hollywood producer and there were none of the sound effects you hear in music today.

Video / Review: Stevie Nicks - Sound City Movie L.A. Premiere and Live Gig

Sound City Movie L.A. Premiere and Live Gig

The Sound City Movie made it's official debut in theatres around the world last night (January 31st) and on-line... If you pre-ordered the flick through the Sound City website, the download and streaming of the movie became available last night.  If you haven't watched it... You should!  Really well put together documentary on the famous studio and its console (Congratulations Mr. Grohl!).  Tons of Rock Stars in the feature with Stevie, Lindsey, Mick and Keith Olsen featured quite heavily in interview segments. Stevie has a great segment where she's shown recording her new song "You Can't Fix This" which sounds really great!  She even reads a letter (on Sound City stationery) she wrote to her family while she and Lindsey were in the studio recording Buckingham Nicks.

Plus there are a lot of really great photos of early Buckingham Nicks and early Fleetwood Mac in the studio. 

Little known fact: 

Buckingham Nicks' "Crying In The Night" was the first ever track 

recorded on the Neve console at Sound City.

 Anyway, if you like music, and or listening to stories on how some of the really great music of our time was made... Check out the movie, you'll enjoy it!  Buy and download from Sound City direct, or look for it in a theatre near you using the threatre listing at the Sound City website.  The DVD and Sound Track will both be released March 12th.

After the LA premiere at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, The Palladium rocked for a further 3 1/2 hours with many in the film playing live to a sold out crowd.

Foo Fighters joined by Stevie Nicks, Slipknot and Nirvana members for Sound City gig in LA
The gig followed the LA premiere of Dave Grohl's Sound City documentary

Stevie Nicks was the final guest musician, performing 'Stop Draggin' My Heart Around', with Grohl filling in Tom Petty's role. She sang new song 'You Can't Fix This', from the soundtrack, which she told the crowd was about her late 18-year-old godson, who last year died of an overdose at a frat party. "In our day, we made a pact not to dance with the devil," she explained before the intense, gothic track.

Nicks also sang Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' and 'Landslide'. The evening came to a close with a heavy, nearly 10 minute long version of 'Rumours' track 'Gold Dust Woman'.

Show Review: NME

Landslide

Dreams

Gold Dust Woman.. Wow!

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

Photos: Stevie Nicks arriving for the "Sound City" Los Angeles Premiere

Red Carpet Arrivals at "Sound City" Movie Premiere

at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.
January 31, 2013

Photos by Kevin Winter

Watch the movie online at www.soundcitymovie.com

DVD & CD in Stores March 12th - Amazon

CD includes Stevie's "You Can't Fix This"

STEVIE NICKS: "The truth about Rumours," she says, "is that Rumours was the truth." #Fleetwoodmac

Fleetwood Mac on 'Rumours,' Breakups and a 50th Anniversary Concert
by Chris Epting
Spinner.ca

They remain one of the world's most beloved bands, an eclectic blend of Englishmen and Americans called Fleetwood Mac. This spring they will hit the road once again, embarking on a significant North American tour that will run until late summer.

They also have just released an expanded version of their magnum opus, 1977's Rumours. The sprawling edition goes way beyond the basic album, which since its release has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.

Great interview below from Spinner.ca - 10 minutes in length.  The entire article can be read at Spinner.ca

The art of falling apart

John Robinson
The National

The only group composition on an album made by self-obsessed individuals, it is The Chain that best articulates Fleetwood Mac's situation at the time - its three discrete elements articulating the band's estrangement from one another. As you can hear over the course of this set, one part comes from a rather sleepy Nicks song called The Chain. The concluding guitar blowout comes from an outro to a McVie composition called Keep Me There. The verse comes from a reworked old song by Buckingham. It's not called The Chain because of some cosmic understanding between band members. It's called The Chain because it comprises three utterly separate elements that have been pragmatically stuck together by Lindsey Buckingham. Hence, one presumes, his exasperated swearing on the lead-in.

Time has made it an anthem, but the expedient composition of the song reveals an important truth about the pragmatism at the heart of Fleetwood Mac. Once a stalwart hard rock band, necessity had forced them to change so often that by the time they arrived at the line-up that made Rumours, the band were in their third distinct phase. Fronted by the mercurial Peter Green, at the end of the 1960s the band had enjoyed chart success with an eerie and lyrical take on the blues. When Green left, mellower songs were written to diminishing commercial returns by another guitarist, Bob Welch. When Welch departed, Mick Fleetwood (the drummer for and sergeant major of the band) doggedly searched again for new musicians.

Full Review at The National


'Rumours' – pop-rock perfection

REVOLVER: BRIAN BOYD on music
Irish Times

If you’re looking for full-on drink and drugs debauchery, celebrity psychosis, überdysfunctional inter-band relationships, lashings of money and ego, and extremities of fear and loathing, you have to look past the usual suspects (Zeppelin, Mötley Crüe et al) and steady your gaze on Fleetwood Mac. Going into the recording of Rumours – still one of the bestselling albums of all time – things weren’t pretty. Bass player John McVie and keyboardist Christine McVie had just divorced and weren’t on speaking terms. Singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham were in the middle of breaking up but still on speaking terms – if shouting at each other in ferocious rage counts as speaking terms. Drummer Mick Fleetwood had just got divorced, the group had just sacked their manager and their producer, and they were doing enough cocaine “to turn horses into unicorns” as the saying went. For good measure, Nicks and Mick embarked on a shortlived and very drunken affair.

These five people – all of whom had been romantically/sexually engaged with another band member at some time – had to sit in a room together and come up with 11 songs for a record companyimposed deadline. The only other time this kind of situation had occurred with a major band was with Abba – and they used the adverse circumstances to record some of their biggest hits. As did the Mac. But just to give some idea of the level of tension, suspicion, hatred, insecurity and paranoia that prevailed at the songwriting sessions, Christine McVie brought a new song to the table called You Make Loving Fun.

It was written about her new postdivorce boyfriend (who was also the band’s lighting director) and was seen as a personal attack on her erstwhile ex-husband. At around the same time, Mick Fleetwood started going out with Stevie Nicks’s best friend. The blizzard of cocaine was such that the band, seriously, wanted to give their dealer a credit on the album. The label demurred and a stand-off was only averted when said dealer was shot dead, allegedly by an organised crime gang.

Given all that went on, Rumours should have been a mess. The songs were recorded in a small, wooden, windowless studio with the band arriving at 7pm each night, getting off their collective heads until the early hours and only putting down music and vocals when they were too whacked out to keep on partying. Yet it’s as close to a near perfect pop-rock artefact as you could ever hope to hear, and its appeal lies in the fact that we are listening in to love breaking down. How did the band manage to stay together to finish the album?

Stevie Nicks now recalls it was a case of “I’m not the problem, I’m not quitting. You’re the problem, you should quit.” With no one prepared to give in, they effectively stayed together out of spite. Rumours is 35 years old now and there’s a special commemorative, expanded edition of the album just released. Pure music reality TV.

Fleetwood Mac 35th Anniversary Expanded and Super Deluxe Editions Available Now.

@CBSNews Video: Fleetwood Mac still spreading "Rumours"

Fleetwood Mac has just re-released their 1970s mega-hit album, "Rumours," with a deluxe edition. CBS News' Teresa Garcia talked to the band in Los Angeles.

Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" being used in Super Bowl Commercial

The star of this years Budweiser Super Bowl commercial will be a newborn Clydesdale.  

The 60-second Super Bowl ad chronicles the bond a Clydesdale foal shares with his trainer. It marks the 23rd Super Bowl ad featuring the Clydesdales.

Budweiser has launched its first-ever Twitter account that went live this past Sunday, and used the occasion to tweet the first photo of the newborn and are taking name suggestions.

CBS this evening (1/30) aired a show featuring Super Bowl Ads you'll be able to see this Sunday and one of them was a short clip of this ad with "Landslide" playing in the background. I'm assuming that "Landslide" will follow in the full ad when it airs on Sunday.

Kinda cool!  Watch The Super Bowl this Sunday for the 60 sec. spot.

(Photos: Budweiser)

Thanks @N8Curlen and @MYarr for the heads-up!



Video: Super Bowl Ad Preview With Usher, Fleetwood Mac, Flaming Lips and More
Billboard

Advertisers are paying upwards of $3.7 million just to air their spot during the big game, major synchs can fetch anywhere from $100,000 to upwards of $1 million, depending on the artist, number of territories airing the ad, the length of the commercial "flight," or airtime, and whether the song has been synched previously.

One synch likely on the upper tier of that spectrum is Stevie Nicks’ “Landslide,” which was commercially licensed for the very first time for Budweiser’s "Clydesdale" spot, which debuted online early Thursday. “We knew she was very protective,” Paul Chibe, Budweiser’s VP of marketing, says of Nicks’ tentative approach to synchs, “but when she saw the script she felt it was an appropriate presentation, that it was an elevation of the music and not something that would take away from it.”

The spot, directed by Jake Scott, shows the animal growing older—until its breeder must hand it over to the folks at Budweiser. The ad then jumps ahead three years, as the breeder reads in the newspaper that the Clydesdales will be visiting his area.

Hoping for a reunion, he goes to the parade. You can guess what happens from there.

It's a poignant and well-shot commercial—in keeping with some of the better Budweiser ads through the years—made all the more evocative by the use of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide." from the 1975 "Fleetwood Mac" album.

Ad Week

Stevie Nicks on TV... Saturday!

Photo by Katie Cook

CMT Hot 20 Countdown

Katie Cook - Host of CMT's Hot 20 Countdown show will be interviewing Stevie Nicks with Lady Antebellum this Saturday, with a repeat of the show on Sunday... Check your local listings:

Great interview w/ @ladyantebellum & Stevie Nicks! We have a pregnancy update w/ Hillary on this weekend's Hot20 @CMT

Saturday, February 2nd - 11:30 AM
Sunday, February 3rd - 11:30 AM

DATE ANNOUNCEMENT

OPRAH'S MASTER CLASS

Oprah's Master Class with Stevie Nicks will air on March 24th on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

REVIEW + Q&A with Mick Fleetwood on Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" via @uncutmagazine

The game-changing ’70s AOR blockbuster turns 35 with a super deluxe boxset
by Piers Martin
Uncut

“Times were a lot crazier then – anything was possible. Budgets were not important and doing drugs was the norm. In the mid-’70s there was a sense that you could do no wrong.” So said an eyeliner’d Lindsey Buckingham, reminiscing in the 1997 Classic Albums documentary on the making of the ultimate classic album, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Thirty-six years after its release – and with more than 40 million copies sold (so far) in at least 80 official international editions – you would imagine that every last drop, every demo, druggy anecdote and hazy recollection, has been squeezed out of one of the biggest records of all time, the eighth best-selling LP in history. You’d assume that anything worthwhile that could add to the enjoyment and understanding of Rumours must have surfaced by now. For a start, Mac completists and even fairweather fans will already have the 2004 2CD reissue that came with a full set of rough mixes and outtakes from those fabled album sessions at the Record Plant in Sausalito, just north of San Francisco. Worryingly, that same disc is included in this “super-deluxe” 4CD+DVD+LP boxset – a package designed to celebrate the album’s 35th anniversary but which actually turns up, as if stoned, the following year.

Like Star Wars or Snickers, there’s never really a bad time to reissue Rumours. Sooner or later everyone finds a way in to it – or looks for a way out, if your parents raised you on Rumours and Tusk in the ’80s. It’s the evergreen baby boomer blockbuster that eased Bill Clinton into the White House and now finds itself a post-ironic hipster lifestyle accessory; Florence Welch, for one, is an eternal student of Stevie Nicks’ cosmic witchcraft. Today, 45 years after they formed, Fleetwood Mac’s twilight period – commencing with 2003’s reunion for Say You Will and drifting through two further “reunions” for world tours, including one this year – has lasted far longer than the band’s vital, late-’60s incarnation.

And it’s all because Rumours is as near perfect an album as anyone will ever make, and its lurid backstory of emotional turmoil and narcotic excess, endlessly recounted in prurient detail, is never less than fascinating. Though short on wildly revelatory material, this boxset ties up a number of loose ends from 1976-’77, focusing on the period when the Mac set about recording the follow-up to ’75’s Fleetwood Mac, a surprise US No.1 and the first album made by the group’s new line-up after fate had parachuted in two young Californian dreamers, Buckingham and Nicks, in late ’74 to rescue Mick Fleetwood’s rudderless British blues outfit.

The chemistry between the five was immediately apparent. Now there were three distinctive songwriters in the group, Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie, who would also complement each other in harmony. Buckingham, the firebrand guitarist and craftsman, began to develop an intuitive musical partnership with McVie on piano that started with “World Turning” and led to them fleshing out McVie’s Rumours cuts such as “You Make Loving Fun”. His lover Nicks cast her spell with “Rhiannon” and “Landslide”. John McVie and Fleetwood, solid but soft, glued it all together.

Continue to the full Review + Q&A with Mick Fleetwood at Uncut

UK Interview: Mick Fleetwood on Magic 105.4 Magic Breakfast Friday AM TUNE IN!

Mick Fleetwood Scheduled UK Media Appearances

Mick Fleetwood is on a UK Media Blitz next week.
With the 'Rumours' re-issue being released on Monday in the UK - Micks headed over to support the release with a round of interviews and press.  So far he'll be appearing on one TV program and one radio program, there will likely be more.

Rumour has it he'll also be picking up and old friend to bring back to Hawaii for a visit.


MAGIC 105.4FM (Feb 1st)
Mick Fleetwood will be on Magic Breakfast tomorrow morning! He'll be talking about the Rumours re-issue and Fleetwood Mac's 2013 World Tour! (What's interesting about this, is that Magic 105.4 was the station in the UK last weekend that initially posted the 4 UK tour dates along with a contest to win tickets (which they've subsequently taken down).  Maybe Mick will have some good news for the UK tomorrow Morning! Listen Live HERE


The Alan Titchmarsh Show - Friday, February 1st (3-4pm)
The host is joined by Mick Fleetwood, the drummer and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, and Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood for another edition of the programme featuring music and chat.
The Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV, STV, UTV  the STV Player will have the show on-line if you miss it

Top Gear - Episode 2 "Reasonably Priced Car" Feb 3rd (BBC 2)

The brand new series of the world's most popular car show continues with an epic road trip across the western side of the United States in three front-engined supercars. With Jeremy Clarkson in a Lexus LFA, Richard Hammond driving the new Dodge Viper and James May choosing the latest Aston Martin Vanquish a glorious soundtrack is guaranteed, as are furious arguments about which is best as the trio head from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and on to Palm Springs. Along the way, the three presenters take in racing circuits, airborne attacks and a race against the police before making a break for the Mexican border with a terrifying penalty for the last car to make it. Meanwhile, back in the studio, legendary Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood is the star in the Reasonably Priced Car.

BBC 2 - Sunday, February 3rd at 20:00

Be sure to catch these interviews... Hopefully Mick will give listeners more details on Fleetwood Mac in the UK and maybe Europe as well... Plus a more definite timetable.

BBC Radio 2 - Monday, January 28th  (2-5pm)
Jo Whiley sits in for Steve Wright in the afternoon on BBC Two, Mick Fleetwood joins Jo along with gardener Monty Don. Re-listen the program on the BBC iplayer here.  Micks bit starts about 36 minutes in.
BBC Radio 2 

The One Show - January 28th 7pm (BBC One)
With guests Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan and Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood. If you miss the show and you are in the UK, check the iplayer for the repeat.  If you are in the UK you can check out his interview here

Photo by Phillip J Holmes