Giveaway: WIN a copy of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours: 35th Anniversary Edition From Me!

WE HAVE A WINNER!
Congratulations to Mr. Ryan Ward on his name being drawn in this contest.  Look for your package within the next week.  

Had a ton of entries!  Just under 200, which was nice to see.  Thanks to everyone for participating and for the really kind words a lot of you said along with your entry... I appreciate it.

Cheers! 


To celebrate the 35th Anniversary of "Rumours" Rhino and Fleetwood Mac have re-released this landmark 1977 album in 3 disc expanded and 5 disc deluxe editions.

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.

Both versions available now:

Amazon

Rumours Deluxe (3-CD)

Rumours Deluxe (4-CD, 1-DVD, 1-LP)

iTunes

Rumours Deluxe (3-CD)

Rumours Super Deluxe (4-CD + Rosebud Film)

Here's your chance to WIN a copy of the 3CD expanded version from Fleetwood Mac News & Reviews!

To enter simply send an email to me at: thechain1966@gmail.com with the subject line "Win Rumours" and the answer to the following question:

What "Rumours" track replaced Silver Springs on the original album?

Contest open to residence of North America only.  Deadline for entries is March 8, 2013.
Draw date is March 9, 2013. Once a winner has been chosen, you will be notified by email and you'll need to provide your full name and mailing address and phone number (if outside the USA).

Good Luck!

World Charts Update: Fleetwood Mac are 'Everywhere'

The big news today is that Fleetwood Mac score their first Top 20 hit in the UK in 25 years with 'Everywhere' re-entering the top reaches of the chart this week jumping from #87 last week to #15 this week. Ironically it was 'Everywhere' that was their last top 20 hit reaching #4 in April, 1988.  Thanks to the Three Network Dancing Pony advert, the song has been enjoying a resurgence in popularity across the UK and Ireland.

'Rumours' hangs on for a sixth week in the top 20 moving down only slightly to #19 this week.  The 1998 'Greatest Hits' gets a bump on the chart because of 'Everywhere' jumping to #69 from below the Top 100 at #128 last week.  The Very Best Of also sees an increase in activity, likely because of 'Everywhere' just making it back inside the Top 100 at #99.  'Go Your Own Way' sees itself back within the Top 100 singles chart at #98 this week also placing just inside the Top 40 Catalogue Singles Chart at #40.

In Scotland and Ireland, much like the rest of the region, 'Everywhere' enters both the Top 40 Scottish Singles Chart at #13 and in Ireland the Top 100 Singles Chart at #46.

*Parenthesis indicates previous week
UK - March 16, 2012

TOP 100 SINGLES CHART

# 15 (87)  Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

# 98 (NEW) Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

TOP 40 DIGITAL SINGLES CHART
# 15 (86) Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

TOP 40 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART

# 37 (85) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 19 (17)  Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 69 (128) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 99 (156) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 40 CATALOGUE SINGLES CHART
# 3  Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
# 40 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 1 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

IRELAND - March 7, 2013
Fleetwood Mac's 1987 single "Everywhere" re-enters Ireland's top 100 singles chart this week at #46.

TOP 100 SINGLES CHART
# 46 (New) Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 42 (42) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 44 (35) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 97 (88) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

SCOTLAND- March 16, 2013
TOP 40 SINGLES CHART
# 13 (90) Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
# 16 (17) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

THE NETHERLANDS - March 9, 2013
TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 55 (49) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

BELGIUM - March 9, 2013
TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 43 (34) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

USA - March 16, 2013
BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART

Fleetwood Mac's 1988 'Greatest Hits' collection re-enters Billboard's top 200 this week (March 16th Chart date) at #128 on the strength of the $2.99 digital album sale that Amazon is currently running.  The album increased in sales over the previous week by 95% selling 3,883 units vs 1,989 the previous week.  Of the 3,883 units sold, 3,087 were digital copies.  Total sales in the U.S., since November, 1991 = 4,628,441.

Rumours drops 26% in sales this week to 2,952 units vs 3,996 last week dropping to #194 on the chart from #105.  This will likely be it's last week on the chart. Total U.S. sales since November, 1991 = 3.159,156.

On the Top 200 Catalogue Chart, Fleetwood Mac have four titles.  At #20 'Greatest Hits, up from #103 last week.  Rumours is #51 down from #9 last week.  Fleetwood Mac (1975 white album) is up to #159 from #182 last week with 1,793 units sold vs 1,526 the previous week.  The Very Best Of is down to #176 from #169 last week with 1,696 units sold vs 1,605 the previous week.  Total sales since November, 1991 for Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album = 903,981.  Total sales since it's release in November, 2002 for The Very Best Of = 1,548,765.  The Very Best Of is due for a re-certification from the RIAA. Currently it's certified platinum and reached that milestone once it sold 500.000 units.  Because it's a 2 cd album, it's eligible for platinum certification with every 500,000 albums sold. so at 1.5 million its eligible for triple platinum status.

TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 128 (NEW) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 194 (105)    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 20  (103)  Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 51   (9)    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 159 (182) Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
# 176 (169) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP DIGITAL ALBUMS
# 68 (167) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP PHYSICAL ALBUMS
# 149 (110) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

CANADA - March 3, 2013
TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 76 (63) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

AUSTRALIA - March 11, 2013
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 19 (14) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS
# 2   (2)   Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 17 (17) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 26 (37) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 40 DVD CHART
# 3 (7) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance (New chart peak)

Here's a run-down of Rumours charting in various countries.... Yellow indicates Top 20.

Song Reviews: Stevie Nicks 'You Can't Fix This' Sound City Real To Reel

"You Can't Fix This" Reviews: 
Sound City ‘Real to Reel’ Soundtrack

Crave Online
by Erik Norris

"Stevie Nicks’ “You Can’t Fix This” is a groovy, voodoo-trance dance that you can’t help swaying back and forth to. Her lyrics might be a bit oddball at times, with lines like “We never allowed the Devil to come to the party,” but it doesn’t really distract from the fantastic accompanying music from Foo Fighters alums Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Rami Jaffee."

Antiquiet
by Fernando Scoczynski Filho

"The mid-section of the album finds collaborations that don’t fare quite as well, and wind up costing the overall flow. The way that Stevie Nicks pushes her voice a bit too far on You Can’t Fix This is acceptable, but there’s no justification for stretching what could be a decent four minutes affair to an unreasonably long six minutes."

NME
FoosArchive

"When Stevie Nicks steps up to screech and whisper about how you should "never dance with the devil", Grohl and Taylor Hawkins faithfully recreate 1987 Fleetwood Mac with a little added Foos crunch"

Best Tracks: 'You Can't Fix This', 'Cut Me Some Slack', 'Your Wife is Calling'

BBC
by Mischa Pearlman

Key Track:
"You Can't Fix This"
Rolling Stone
FooArchives News

"Stevie Nicks’ vocals on the tremulous You Can’t Fix This are ominous and foreboding"

Vivoscene
by Brian Miller

"Key tracks – all of ‘em, but irresistibly and surprisingly, Stevie Nicks delivers a knockout performance of “You Can’t Fix This”.

Contact Music
by Hayley Avron

"One can only assume, for instance, that Lindsey Buckingham and the rest of Fleetwood Mac will be kicking themselves upon hearing 'You Can't Fix This,' because this is simply the greatest Fleetwood Mac song that never was. The Sound City Players have managed to recreate that perfect 'Rumours' era sound. With hints of 'Gold Dust Woman,' Nicks opens the track with the lines "they don't talk much about it / it goes back so many years / all the times we almost didn't make it / we stand clear / dancing with the devil / call it respect, call it fear / but we never allowed the devil to come to the party."

Given the demons that we all know Nicks and co. have faced in their time (very public relationship breakdowns, rumours of drug abuse and inter-band bitterness), it's a bold move for sure and one that pays off."

Something Else Reviews
by Nick DeRiso

"Stevie Nicks, for instance, is coaxed into one of her toughest recent vocals on “You Can’t Fix This,” leaving aside the witchy woman flourishes that have for too long defined/caricatured her. You get the sense, sadly rare, that you are seeing behind the veil — or, in Nicks’ case, the many veils — that she’s used as a defense against letting listeners in. It’s a remarkable performance, and (if this gutty attitude carries over) bodes well for a planned reunion with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac."

Tonedef
by Corey Tonkin

"Stevie Nicks adds the sole, yet sublime female vocals on ‘You Can’t Fix’ and the song stands out because of its Fleetwood Mac qualities."


Sound City: Real to Reel CD and DVD/Blu-ray available now in various countries... Out March 12th in North America.

Stream the Album

As Fleetwood Mac kicks off its first tour in four years, Lindsey Buckingham reflects on the band's drug-fueled nights

Surviving Fleetwood Mac
As Fleetwood Mac kicks off its first tour in four years, Lindsey Buckingham reflects on the band's drug-fueled nights, blowout fights, and unbreakable bonds.
By Brian Hiatt - Men's Journal [April, 2013 issue]

For Lindsey Buckingham, recording an album used to mean doing just enough coke to nail a guitar part at 3AM, getting in screaming fights with Stevie Nicks, and, in one case, allegedly throttling an engineer who erased the wrong track.  But that was all long ago.  These days, he wakes up at six, has breakfast with his three young kids, hits his home studio alone, and is done by dinner.  "It's a nice balance," says Buckingham, 63, who is reuniting with Fleetwood Mac for an arena tour beginning this month (and has a solo live album, One Man Show, out now).  "That's the whole lesson for me now.  For many years in Fleetwood Mac, it was a study in life out of balance."

You had your first child at 48.  Do you recommend late-life fatherhood?  

It depends on the man.  You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.  I went to a high school reunion a few years back, and all these people seemed 20 years older than me, physically and mentally.  So having kids late is good if you're the kind of person who needs to wait - though in 20 years, I may have a different perspective.

Your most recent studio album, Seeds We Sow, got great reviews but didn't sell.  Why?

There's a disconnect between the preconceptions that go with being the age I am and what the music is.  I sent the album to Daniel Glass, who runs [hip record label] Glassnote, and he loved it.  Then he played it for his staff, guys in their twenties, and they said, "Well, what are we going to do with it?"

What do you remember about the argument that led to your leaving Fleetwood Mac for a while in 1987?

All I recall is that Stevie ran after me crying and yelling and kind of beating on my back.  I don't remember any physical confrontation, not to say there wasn't.

Is it safe to say, though, that ou had a temper in the past?

Sure.  It's been well documented.  But we were doing all sorts of substances, too, that probably had something to do with blowing certain behaviors way out of proportion.

Has age calmed you down?

Some of it was situational.  You've got to understand, it was very difficult for me to have Stevie break up with me and to still be in a band with her, to never get a sense of closure.  It took its toll emotionally.

How come drugs never got too out of control for your?

The substances that were in the studio were not part of my lifestyle at home.  I had to take them so I could stay up till two our three, and even then, Mick [Fleetwood] would want to go later.  My MO if I really wanted to leave would be to say, "I'm going to the bathroom," and then walk out the door and drive away.

Now that pot is practically legal in California, are you tempted by it?

No.  I did a lot of that back then, and it was good for a certain kind of abstract thinking.  But we all thought we had to be altering our consciousness on a daily basis in order to be creative, which turns out to be crap.  It's just about finding your center, that quiet place.

You and Stevie broke up decades ago, but you have to deal with her forever. What's that like?

You get used to it. And for me, getting married and having children was a positive outcome.  I wonder sometimes how Stevie feels about the choices she made, because she doesn't have a relationship - she has her career.  But there are a few chapters to be written in the Stevie-Lindsey legacy.  There's a subtext of love between us, and it would be hard to deny that much of what we've accomplished had something to do with trying to prove something to each other.  Maybe that's fucked up, but this is someone I've known since I was 16, and I think on some weird level we're still trying to work some things out.  There will never be romance there, but there are other kinds of love to be had.

It's about as complicated as a relationship can be.

Oh, my Lord, yes.

Rolling Stone Spain | Rolling Stone Mexico March issues both Feat. Fleetwood Mac Multi-Page Spreads

Rolling Stone Spain - March, 2013 issue

Rolling Stone Mexico - March, 2013 issue

So far this year, we've seen Fleetwood Mac on the cover of the February, 2013 Germany issue of Rolling Stone (you can check it out here) with a multi-page spread inside.  The French edition of Rolling Stone in February covered the band across 11 pages (you can check it out here), now we have Mexico and Spain doing the same.  I think it's about time the U.S. version of the magazine stepped up the plate with some printed material. The english version of the above only ran on Rolling Stones website starting in December, 2012.  Check it out HERE, on Rolling Stone.  It's an interview by Andy Greene with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham - but done separately. It's pretty entertaining... Lindsey's kinda feisty!

WIN Stuff... Fleetwood Mac CD's | A Trip To Vegas | Concert Tickets

Win Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Expanded 3CD Edition!

Celebrate Fleetwood Mac's 35th anniversary with a fresh round of Rumours. Enter to win an expanded edition of the classic album featuring three CDs: the original album with the b-side "Silver Springs," a dozen unreleased live recordings from the group's 1977 world tour, and an entire disc filled with unreleased takes from the album's recording sessions, just for you!

That's a whole lot of music, and all you have to do to win is submit your name on the giveaways tabs on RentFoodBroke FaceBook fanpage by March 14 at 6pm and be a US resident to qualify. Win big!

WIN A COPY OF DAVE GROHL'S 'SOUND CITY' MOVIE ALBUM 'SOUND CITY - REAL TO REEL' 
From Stereoboard (UK)

Dave Grohl’s movie 'Sound City' is out on Blu-Ray and DVD formats next week, on Monday 11th March. The movie's accompanying album 'Sound City - Real to Reel' is out the very same day and you could be in with a chance of winning one of three copies Stereoboard has to give away in their new competition. (CD Features Stevie Nicks 'You Can't Fix This').

More details and how to enter

WIN A TRIP TO SEE FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE IN LAS VEGAS!

Oldies 101.7

Grand Prize Includes:

• Roundtrip airfare
• Two night’s hotel accommodations
• Tickets to see Fleetwood Mac live on May 26th, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena

More details and how to enter at Oldies101.7

Ready to ShamRock n’ Roll?!

Spokane Arena

Beginning Monday, March 11 Spokane Arena will be giving you 5 chances to snag 2 Fleetwood Mac tickets. 

Here’s how it works:

All next week Spokane Arena be hiding 5 Pots of Gold around the Spokane area – no rainbows necessary for this contest, folks. 

They will post a picture clue on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, and the first person to claim the chocolate gold also claims an entry into the contest.

Once every pot has been claimed, they will let their Facebook fans decide which of the 5 finalists they think should score the tickets. That’s right. Time to get your friends and family ready to VOTE, people!

SO, get on those running shoes, channel your Leprechaun roots and get ready to race for a chance to score tickets to one of the biggest concerts of the year!

Feeling lucky?! More details to come!  'Like' Spokane Arena on Facebook to stay up to date.