{"id":289,"date":"2018-03-25T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/?p=289"},"modified":"2018-03-25T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:50:51","slug":"rumours-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/2018\/03\/25\/rumours-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rumours&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8220;Rumours&#8221; by Fleetwood Mac<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Rumours&#8221; by Fleetwood Mac, was released on February 4, 1977. It was the eleventh studio album released by the British-American rock band and it had a lot to live up to. The band&#8217;s tenth studio album, &#8220;Fleetwood Mac,&#8221; which had been released two years earlier, had garnered enormous success, and living up to it was something the band had to keep in mind <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"290\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/2018\/03\/25\/rumours-3\/ffff\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/files\/2018\/03\/FFFF.png?fit=220%2C223\" data-orig-size=\"220,223\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FFFF\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/files\/2018\/03\/FFFF.png?fit=220%2C223\" class=\" wp-image-290 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/files\/2018\/03\/FFFF.png?resize=302%2C307\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/files\/2018\/03\/FFFF.png?resize=207%2C210 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.edu\/ThroughTheDecades\/files\/2018\/03\/FFFF.png?w=220 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/>while recording.<\/p>\n<p>The recording sessions of &#8220;Rumours&#8221; were marked by great emotional strife. The members of Fleetwood Mac certainly liked to mix business with pleasure and several of the members were involved romantically. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/lists\/fleetwood-macs-rumours-10-things-you-didnt-know-w464360\">Rolling Stone<\/a>, &#8220;Stevie Nicks had just split with her longtime lover and musical partner, Lindsey Buckingham, while Christine was in the midst of divorcing her husband, bassist John McVie.\u00a0Meanwhile, Mick Fleetwood&#8217;s extra-band marriage was on the rocks, leading to an affair with Nicks before the year was out.&#8221; All of this emotional tension lead to brutally honest lyrics and because of it, the &#8220;Rumours&#8221; saga is still known as one of the biggest musical scandals in rock band history.<\/p>\n<p>One example of the intense lyricism on the album, would be in the song, &#8220;Songbird,&#8221; which happens to be my favorite song on the album. Christine McVie wrote, &#8220;For you, there&#8217;ll be no more crying \/ For you, the sun will be shining \/ And I feel that when I&#8217;m with you \/ It&#8217;s alright, I know it&#8217;s right&#8221; in the midst of her divorce about the beginnings of her relationship with her ex-spouse. Most of the songs on this album have just as much intensity in their lyrics, and the album is hailed as one of the best of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rumours&#8221; by Fleetwood Mac &#8220;Rumours&#8221; by Fleetwood Mac, was released on February 4, 1977. It was the eleventh studio album released by the British-American rock band and it had a lot to live up to. 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