Mirage

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Richards, Sam (25 July 2016). "Fleetwood Mac – Mirage". Uncut. Archived from the original on 26 July 2016 . Retrieved 8 December 2017. Top 100 Albums 82". RPM. Vol.37, no.19. 25 December 1982. p.19. ISSN 0033-7064– via Library and Archives Canada. British album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Mirage". British Phonographic Industry. 27 November 1989 . Retrieved 17 July 2021. Ultratop.be – Fleetwood Mac – Mirage (2016 Reissue)" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 July 2022.

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I just went with the flow,” McVie says, when asked if she had misgivings about Tusk. “In the studio I said, ‘Whatever.’ And at that time, there was an awful lot of drugs and alcohol being consumed, and I’d just met Dennis Wilson from the Beach Boys, and I was going out with him and in love with him, and one thing led to another. And if Lindsey wanted to go into the bathroom and do drums on an empty Kleenex box, fine. Why not?” McVie had only recently left Dennis Wilson, the once golden but now burnt-out Beach Boy who would drown while drunk on December 28, 1983, a year after Mirage’s release. His self-destruction had been too extreme for her to tolerate. Her love songs on Tusk and Mirage were based on their difficult, full-on months together. a b Benitez-Eves, Tina (4 August 2022). "The Making Of: Fleetwood Mac's 'Mirage' (1982)". American Songwriter . Retrieved 31 July 2023. Many 70s superstars struggled in the 80s pop landscape. If Fleetwood Mac wobbled at the decade’s start, by 1987 they seemed almost as imperious as they had been circa Rumours thanks to songs such as Little Lies, co-written by McVie and her then-husband, Eddy Quintela. While the keyboardist-singer was keen to emphasise its blues roots, to everyone else it just sounded like impeccable pop music. 20. Seven Wonders (1987)

Despite the band holding a prominent place in popular British music, and despite Peter Green’s dalliances with LSD, Fleetwood Mac never really embraced psychedelic music when it became all the rage towards the tail end of the 1960s. Still enamoured with the blues, but falling apart due to Green’s fragile mental state, Then Play On finds the Mac at their first major crossroads. By now, the story of Bob Welch is well told, and it is not a feel-good one. Arriving in Fleetwood Mac at their lowest, he had the unenviable task of radically reinventing the group’s sound, sometimes in opposition to other singer/guitarists who were hired for the same purpose. He allowed the band to survive and even thrive, set the template for their eventual success, and bowed out with enough momentum to establish the beginnings of a solid solo career. Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that makes automated requests to our server and causes problems.Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Jones, Alan (1983). "The Top 100 UK Albums". Chart File Volume 2. London: Virgin Books. pp.82–83. ISBN 0-907080-73-1. Collis, Clark (April–May 2002). "Fleetwood Mac: Mirage". Blender. No.7. Archived from the original on 19 October 2006 . Retrieved 9 December 2017. There’s a few songs about him, for sure,” she agrees. “ Never Make Me Cry. Yeah, a lot of them are about Dennis.” Ultimately, Mirage fell victim to the same inflated expectations that loomed over everything else the band would try to do in the immediate wake of their late-'70s sales peak. Though it was the type of hit most other bands would kill for, it suggested Fleetwood Mac's biggest days were behind them.

There’s always an element of that with him. ‘Gee, what-ever,’ you know. ‘O-kay…’ But then he gets sparked and excited about something. Like we were just doing a few songs a year ago in the studio, because we’re starting another album. And when you see the tears come into his eyes, you know it’s genuine. That he really is enjoying himself. I’ve never heard him say that [about a day job] – but as you say it, I can see it. Yeah, I’m sure a lot of it was quite pedestrian.”There have been many rough times," Christine McVie conceded. "But we’ve always ended up on some high note, standing around and jamming, or whatever, just really getting a charge out of playing together. It’s a joyous situation, and that takes over the bad points." As such, you can detect its faint influence on everyone from REM to Prefab Sprout. When modern-day folk-pop acts like Bat For Lashes or Vampire Weekend want to add a little ’80s sparkle to their music, this is the album that they plunder. Even on autopilot, Fleetwood Mac’s brilliantly unique permutation of singers and players were able to spin gold from the barest of ingredients. Santana’s slinky, conga-heavy cover version is more famous, but Fleetwood Mac’s first Top 40 hit is darker, more raw and exciting. It feels live, as if someone pressed record during a rehearsal; the mood is ominous, and it’s punctuated with frequent pregnant pauses. Nevertheless, it’s commercial. 26. Only Over You (1982) Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (in Spanish) (1sted.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. Green quit the band in May 1970, his mental health damaged by drug use. A second guitarist, Jeremy Spencer, also afflicted by drug-related trauma, vanished 10 months later in the middle of a US tour, after saying he was popping out to get a magazine. He later resurfaced as a member of American religious cult The Children Of God. And a third guitarist, Danny Kirwan, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being fired in 1972. A fourth, Bob Weston, was also fired after he had an affair with Fleetwood’s wife.

American album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Mirage". Recording Industry Association of America. 22 October 1984 . Retrieved 1 October 2013. More typical was the time McVie returned to her LA home on her birthday and found her manic boyfriend had excavated a hole in her garden in the shape of a heart. “That’s true. I didn’t react very well. My gardeners didn’t, either. Especially when I got the bill!” She laughs heartily at the memory of Wilson’s foolishness now. “He had everybody standing around the edge of the heart, holding a candle, while sinking in the mud, waiting for me to come up so they could sing Happy Birthday. That didn’t go down too well.”

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It was supposed to be Neil Sedaka-esque,” McVie says of Oh Diane’s vintage style. “And Lindsey’s always been a huge fan of the Kingston Trio. He loves all that stuff – folk, early Elvis songs, slap bass, the Everly Brothers. He loves the harmonies.” Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Fleetwood Mac; 'Mirage ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 1 October 2013.