![]() Easier than est, safer than Synanon, Rumours seemed as Californian as the new quasi-religious texts like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance or the collected works of L. By doing so, it established once and for all the viability of what now has become known as AOR-Adult Oriented Rock.Īppropriately enough for Me Generation mid-’70s California-the state with the highest divorce rate in the world-Fleetwood Mac’s position became something like the group-as-group-therapy. ![]() Rumours rather simply discussed the romantic problems of many people in their late twenties or early thirties. Incorporating as many emotional buzz-words and buzz-areas as possible. A very glamorous record really, a sort of musical Dallas. The romantic traumas it dealt with, though, were those of wealthy, Beautifully Tanned People. Rumours was a musical soap opera detailing the emotional chaos within the group following the breakthrough Fleetwood Mac album. In Washington Fleetwood Mac is invited to the White House for social chit chat with President Jimmy Carter.īy now they are so rich that Mick Fleetwood tells a friend he knows he need never work again in his life. Within three years of moving to America they have become part of the aristocracy to which you are granted entry in the United States by virtue of your material rather than your blood. Within a year, following closely the WASP work ethic, their fortunes change for the better. ![]() Operating within rock ‘n’ roll’s picaresque tradition, a surprise encounter teams up the three Britishers with two down-and-out American natives, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. ![]() Traveling as far west as possible, these humble immigrants settle on the most advanced technological frontier in the world, Los Angeles. The band’s success story is the stuff of which the mythology of modern day America is made: Mick Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, down on their luck in the Oulde Country, make the decision to move to the Promised Land. ![]() OF COURSE, Fleetwood Mac is the American Dream. ![]()
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