Fleetwood Mac Rumours 1977 Warner Bros. Records Vinyl LP 1st Pressing VG+/EX

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Fleetwood Mac – Rumours

Label: Warner Bros. Records - BSK 3010

Format: Vinyl  LP Album

Country: US Release, 1977

Genre: Rock,  Pop

Vinyl VG+ with very light and minimal surface wear under glare of light. Clean and unmarked labels. Sleeve is EX, intact edges, no splitting, no cut-outs, clean and unmarked, no writing, no stains, no price stickers, some light surface wear from age, use, storage and handling. Original lyrics gatefold included.

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Fleetwood Mac  were a British-American  rock  band formed in London in 1967 by singer and guitarist  Peter Green. Green named the band by combining the surnames of drummer  Mick Fleetwood  and bassist  John McVie, who have remained with the band throughout its many line-up changes. Fleetwood Mac have sold more than 120 million records worldwide, making them one of the  world's best-selling musical acts. Primarily a  British blues  band in their early years, Fleetwood Mac achieved a UK number one single in 1968 with the instrumental "Albatross" and had other UK top ten hits with "Man of the World", "Oh Well" (both 1969), and "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" (1970). Green left the band in May 1970 and McVie's wife,  Christine McVie, joined as an official member on vocals and keyboards two months later, having previously contributed to the band as a session musician. Other key members during the band's early years were  Jeremy Spencer,  Danny Kirwan, and  Bob Welch. By the end of 1974, these members had departed, which left the band without a guitarist and male singer. While Fleetwood was scouting studios in Los Angeles, he heard the American  folk rock  duo  Buckingham Nicks, consisting of guitarist and singer  Lindsey Buckingham  and singer  Stevie Nicks. In December 1974, he asked Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac, with Buckingham agreeing on the condition that Nicks could also join. The addition of Buckingham and Nicks gave the band a more  pop rock  sound, and their 1975 album  Fleetwood Mac  topped the  Billboard  200  chart in the United States. Their next album,  Rumours  (1977), reached number one in multiple countries around the world and won the  Grammy Award for Album of the Year  in 1978.

The line-up remained stable through three more studio albums, but by the late 1980s began to disintegrate. After Buckingham left in 1987, he was replaced by  Billy Burnette  and  Rick Vito, although Vito left in 1990 along with Nicks. A 1993 one-off performance for the  first inauguration of President Bill Clinton  reunited the classic 1974–1987 line-up for the first time in six years. A full-scale reunion took place four years later, and Fleetwood Mac released their fourth U.S. No. 1 album,  The Dance  (1997), a live album marking the 20th anniversary of  Rumours  and the band's 30th anniversary. Christine McVie left in 1998 after the completion of The Dance Tour, but rejoined in 2014 for their  On With the Show Tour. Fleetwood Mac released their final studio album,  Say You Will, in 2003. In 2018, Buckingham was fired and replaced by  Mike Campbell, formerly of  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and  Neil Finn  of  Split Enz  and  Crowded House. After Christine McVie's death in 2022, Nicks stated her belief in 2024 that the band would not continue without her. In 1979, Fleetwood Mac were honoured with a star on the  Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1998, they were inducted into the  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame  and received the  Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2018, Fleetwood Mac received the  MusiCares Person of the Year  award from  the Recording Academy  in recognition of their artistic achievement in the  music industry  and dedication to  philanthropy.

Studio albums:

• Fleetwood Mac  (1968)

• Mr. Wonderful  (1968)

• Then Play On  (1969)

• Kiln House  (1970)

• Future Games  (1971)

• Bare Trees  (1972)

• Penguin  (1973)

• Mystery to Me  (1973)

• Heroes Are Hard to Find  (1974)

• Fleetwood Mac  (1975)

• Rumours  (1977)

• Tusk  (1979)

• Mirage  (1982)

• Tango in the Night  (1987)

• Behind the Mask  (1990)

• Time  (1995)

• Say You Will  (2003)