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Players Only Love You When They’re Playing: How Stevie Nicks Wrote ‘Dreams’ in Ten Minutes on Sly Stone’s Bed
Players Only Love You When They’re Playing: How Stevie Nicks Wrote “Dreams” in Ten Minutes on Sly Stone’s Bed Early in 1976, in a recording studio in Sausalito, California, Stevie Nicks was not needed. The band was working in the main room, and she had nothing to do — which, in the middle of the…
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The McVies of Fleetwood Mac: The Quiet Heart of Rock’s Loudest Band
Every legendary band has a center of gravity — the person who holds the chaos together while everyone else flies apart. In Fleetwood Mac, the loudest, wildest, most gloriously dysfunctional band of the seventies, that person was Christine McVie: the keyboardist with the warm contralto, the writer of “Don’t Stop” and “Say You Love Me,”…
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How Fleetwood Mac Made Their Second Debut: The Story Behind the 1975 “White Album”
Before “Rumours” sold forty million copies, before the cocaine and the breakups and the legend, there was a quieter miracle: a struggling British blues band, eight years old and on its tenth album, walked into a studio in the San Fernando Valley with two unknown Californians and walked out with the record that saved its…
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The Untold Story of Fleetwood Mac: Breakups, Betrayals, and the Album That Turned Heartbreak Into Gold
No band in rock history has survived as much chaos as Fleetwood Mac — and no band has turned that chaos into art quite so profitably. They began as a British blues outfit, lost their founder to mental illness, lost a guitarist to a religious cult, and then, at the exact moment everything fell apart,…