Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Get ready for Fleetwood Mac Friday tomorrow, celebrating the re-release of Rumours.


Get ready for Fleetwood Mac Friday tomorrow, The Sound in Australia is celebrating the re-release of Rumours and they'll be playing back-to-back tracks from the album PLUS un-released audio from the albums recording sessions and un-released live audio from their 1977 world tour and more. Starts at midnight! (Australian time) Listen Live Around The World at The Sound. AND enter the contest on their site to win a copy of the album.

Remember: If you are in North America, Australia can be anywhere from 16 to 19 hours ahead... consult google for the current time in Australia and count back from midnight depending on your location. 

New Photo of Fleetwood Mac + New CBS Interview Scheduled For 1/29

CBS News Correspondent Teresa Garcia just tweeted this photo saying "Just wrapped Fleetwood Mac interview. Band going on 34-city US tour Lindsey, Stevie & Mick".

When asked when or where we would see or read the interview Teresa responded with:

"Broadcast story scheduled for Tuesday January 29th on CBS affiliates nationwide, & possibly international TV affiliates in U.K., Australia, Japan, etc."

Japan?  Really?!... Could that mean their are tour plans for Japan? [just speculating here]. Would be cool, it's been decades since they've been!

They all look great!!  But they're missing John! (He's not a fan of the promotional wheel).

UK: Win a Deluxe Edition of Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' from @planetrockradio

All next week at Planet Rock in the UK are giving away daily copies of the Deluxe edition re-release of Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours', one of which is SIGNED by Mick Feetwood himself!

Full details at Planet Rock.  Scroll down all the way to the bottom to enter.

Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' Expanded and Super Deluxe will be released January 28th in the UK


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THE RUMOURS ARE TRUE!
FLEETWOOD MAC TO REISSUE LANDMARK ALBUM
Expanded And Deluxe Versions Of Fleetwood Mac’s Pop Masterpiece Include Unreleased Session Recordings And Live Performances   

LOS ANGELES – Fleetwood Mac, one of rock’s most enduring, beloved and successful bands, will circulate a fresh round of Rumours next year with expanded and deluxe versions of the album in celebration of it’s 35th anniversary. Rumours made the band one of the most iconic bands of the 1970s and garnered wide critical praise, earned the Grammy® for Album of the Year, and has now sold more than 40 million copies worldwide since its 1977 debut.

In  celebration of the release, the current lineup of the band, Mick  Fleetwood and John McVie, both original members since 1967, and Lindsey  Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who joined the band in 1975, will kick off  and their first U.S. tour since 2009 in April. The 34-date jaunt  features stops in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Chicago and a  special appearance at the historic Hollywood Bowl in Los  Angeles. Tickets for the first run of shows are on sale now at LiveNation.com.

The expanded edition’s three CDs includes the original album and  the b-side “Silver Springs,” a dozen unreleased live recordings from the  group’s ’77 world tour, and an entire disc filled with unreleased takes  from the album’s recording sessions. The deluxe edition includes all of  the music from expanded version, plus an additional disc of outtakes a  DVD that features “The Rosebud Film,” a 1977 documentary about the  album, and the album on vinyl. RUMOURS will be available January 29 from  Rhino as the expanded edition ($24.98) and the deluxe edition ($99.98).  Digital versions will also be available.

Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded Rumours  against a backdrop personal turmoil, chronicling their raw emotions in  songs like “Go Your Own Way,” “Gold Dust Woman” and “Dreams,” the latter  becoming the band’s first number one smash.

The disc of 12 unreleased live recordings from the band’s 1977 Rumours tour  features performances from concerts in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville  and Columbia, S.C. The songs include album tracks like “The Chain,” “Oh  Daddy” and “Songbird” as well as “World Turning” and “Rhiannon,” two  tracks from the group’s 1975 eponymous release.

Producers also have compiled a selection of  16 unreleased recordings from the album’s sessions including early takes  of “Go Your Own Way,” “I Don’t Want To Know” and the popular b-side “Silver Springs.” There are also several demo recordings, including one  for the outtake “Planets of the Universe,” plus an instrumental version  of “Never Going Back Again.”

The deluxe edition of Rumours features three additional pieces. First is an 18-track compilation of session outtakes originally released in the 2004 reissue of the album. Next is the original album on 140-gram vinyl. Finally, there is a DVD with “The Rosebud Film.” This 1977 documentary  by Michael Collins includes interviews, rehearsal footage and live  performances of: “World Turning,” “Rhiannon,” “Say You Love Me,” “Go  Your Own Way,” “You Make Loving Fun” and “I’m So Afraid.” 

RUMOURS: DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing

Lindsey Buckingham's Go Your Own Way and Stevie Nicks' Dreams were clearly telling both sides of the same story


Photo by Sam Emerson
At 35, Rumours is still one album you can believe in

Mention the year 1977 to lads of a particular musical bent and you're likely to be regaled with a torrent of memories about the excitement surrounding new releases by the Pistols, Buzzcocks and The Clash, seeing the latter in Trinity and watching our own Radiators from Space develop into the best Irish band of their generation.

All of that did take place, of course, as well as Bowie releasing the iconic single Heroes (UK chart placing No 24 and didn't feature in the US charts at all, so it's taken a while for the song's significance to become apparent) but in the wider world the album charts were dominated by the Eagles' Hotel California and Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.

Both of those records were inescapable for most of that year, with Rumours emerging in January and dominating the airwaves and in-store plays for 12 months or more. The story of Rumours and Fleetwood Mac in general is now the stuff of rock'n'roll legend. Although big sellers in their blues-rock incarnation in the mid-Sixties, by the early Seventies Fleetwood Mac were a busted flush, until bassist John McVie's notion of incorporating the Californian duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks opened the key to the golden door. An eponymous 1975 album cracked the million-mark Stateside but the band themselves were cracking up by the time they started work on the much-anticipated follow-up. McVie and his wife Christine were splitting up, as were Buckingham and Nicks and big bags of cocaine were sitting beside the recording console -- what could possibly go wrong?

Chaos

What eventually emerged from the madness and chaos was a record which seemed like glossy but slightly left-field west coast pop-rock on the outside but contained a bitter, fractious undertow.

Buckingham's Go Your Own Way and Nicks's Dreams were clearly telling both sides of the same story, while The Chain, despite providing the BBC's Formula 1 theme for decades, just sounded plain weird.

And what's more, 35 years later the album still sounds great.

The 35th anniversary edition of Rumours is released next Friday

- George Byrne
Herald.ie (Ireland)


NEUE MUSIK | MEHR FLEETWOOD MAC MIT JUBILÄUMSEDITION UND US-TOUR 2013
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Jornal Do Commercio (Brazil)
Kingfm.net (Germany)


(Audio) RUMOURS VAN FLEETWOOD MAC
Rumours, de legendarische plaat van Fleetwood Mac, komt opnieuw in een geremasterde versie uit. Luc De Vos is fan.
'Rumours' was een wereldwijd succes. Er werden meer dan 40 miljoen exemplaren van verkocht. De plaat wordt beschreven als een 'ellendig mooie' plaat, of ook wel 'dé echtscheidingsplaat'. You can go your own way was het eerste singletje dat Luc De Vos kocht.
Radio1.be (Netherlands)


O Fleetwood Mac volta para celebrar 35 anos de Rumours
A banda começa em maio uma turnê de 35 shows nos EUA
Jornal Do Commercio (Brazil)



Fleetwood Mac 'The Road To Rumours' UK Acoustic Magazine February, 2013 Issue On Sale Now!

We Celebrate The 35th anniversary Of One Of Music's Most Iconic Albums

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is an album heard in the homes, cars and on the computers of more than 40 million people. To mark its 35th anniversary, this landmark album is being re-released with a package of demos and studio out-takes. Andy Hughes looks back at his own personal discovery of this iconic recording, and assesses its enduring appeal.

Acoustic Magazine February issue on sale in the UK as of January 17th.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Video: First Look: STEVIE NICKS on Season 3 of Oprah's Master Class - Oprah Winfrey Network

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Watch the season premiere of Oprah's Master Class on Sunday, March 3, at 10/9c.

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