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Buckingham used open D tuning on the studio version and also kept a Fender Stratocaster with the same tuning onstage for early live performances. [ 6 ] In the U.S., Reprise Records selected "Over My Head" as the lead single from the 1975 LP Fleetwood Mac , a decision that surprised McVie, who believed that "Over My Head" was an unlikely choice ...
Fleetwood Mac was released on 11 July 1975. [14] [27] Though the band experienced only modest success immediately after the release, they were determined to promote their new album, and after touring for several months, they started to see the results of their hard work. [14]
Live consists of recordings taken primarily from the 1979–1980 Tusk Tour and a Buckingham Nicks track, "Don't Let Me Down Again", from the 1975 Fleetwood Mac Tour. The deluxe edition also includes a few recordings from the earlier Rumours Tour of 1977 and the later Mirage Tour of 1982.
"I'm So Afraid" is the final track of the album, and was released as the B-side to the song "Over My Head". It is a hard rock song, atypical of Fleetwood Mac's songs (at least following the Peter Green era), but it quickly became a live staple showcasing Lindsey Buckingham's guitar skills. [4]
Rumours Live is the first album released by Fleetwood Mac since the death of Christine McVie in November 2022. [1]The album's tracks were recorded during the band's opening night at the Forum, on 29 August 1977, by Ken Caillat using amobile recording truck from Record Plant, the studio where the band recorded most of Rumours.
The album sold over 89,000 copies in the UK in 2013 having reached as high as #34 on the album chart earlier in the year. The Very Best reached No. 1 on the Australian ARIA Catalogue Chart in December 2009, and achieved platinum status in New Zealand within only five weeks of release.
In July 1975, Fleetwood Mac released its eponymous tenth album to great commercial success, reaching No. 1 in the U.S. in 1976; the record's singles "Over My Head", "Rhiannon" and "Say You Love Me" all reached the Top 20 there. But the band's success belied turmoil amongst its members.
50 Years – Don't Stop is Fleetwood Mac's most recent career-spanning collection. It features liner notes by veteran music writer David Wild. [4] The Belfast Telegraph said of the album, "The 50-track compilation is the sound of a band pulling themselves apart, and putting themselves back together, over the course of half a century."