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Having won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978, Rumours has since sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time, and has received diamond certifications in several countries, including the United States, Canada, and Australia. The songs “Go Your Own Way”, “Dreams”, “Don’t Stop”, and “You Make Loving Fun” were released as singles, all of which reached the US top 10. Rumours reached the top of both the US Billboard 200 and the United Kingdom Albums Chart, and became the band’s most successful release.įleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know The members partied and used cocaine for much of the recording sessions, and its completion was delayed by its mixing process, but was finished by the end of 1976.īill Clinton’s (January 1993) Inaugural Ball.įollowing the album’s release, Fleetwood Mac undertook worldwide promotional tours. Recorded with the intention of making “a pop album”, the album’s music featured a pop rock and soft rock sound characterized by accented rhythms and electric keyboards such as the Fender Rhodes or Hammond B3 organ. The Rumours studio sessions were marked by interpersonal strife and hedonistic behaviour among all five band members: Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and John McVie. The band wanted to expand on the commercial success of their eponymous 1975 album, but struggled with relationship breakups before recording started. Largely recorded in California in 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. Rumours is the eleventh studio album by English-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros.