With my 4th round pick Hot Banana Thrust is ecstatic to select one of my favorite albums of all time.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
In 1978, it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. As of 2007 the album has sold more than 30 million copies, and is on the list of best-selling albums of all time.
In the two years since the previous album, things had become rather difficult within the group. Mick Fleetwood separated from his wife Jenny. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who were in a relationship when they joined the group, were separated, and John McVie and Christine McVie also separated, although all five remained in the band. This meant that, as Stevie Nicks later pointed out, long hours were spent and some very awkward times were had between people who would otherwise not be in each others' lives. Christine McVie later remarked that they were all writing about each other, hence the title of the album. They didn't realize this immediately, but finally realizing that they had created such a good album together lifted them out of their misery.
"Go Your Own Way" was believed by Stevie Nicks to be a gloomy reference to the break-up of her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham.
"Dreams" was Stevie Nicks attempt to be more optimistic. The song was the only U.S. number one hit for the group, and remains one of their best-known songs.
"You Make Loving Fun" referred to an affair between Christine McVie and the group's lighting director.
"Gold Dust Woman" was a reference to Stevie Nicks's own struggle with drugs.
"Don't Stop" was written by Christine McVie after her divorce with John McVie, and it provided an optimistic outlook on their newly-separated lives.
"Oh Daddy" was almost certainly a reference to Mick Fleetwood, the spiritual father of the group who largely held it together, and the only member who was a parent at the time.
"Songbird" Christine McVie described as "a little anthem" and said it was for "all of us". It took a long time to record because it had to be one continuous take.
The final section of "The Chain" was written first, but at that point there wasn't a song for it to be the end of. Stevie Nicks had written that quite separately, and as she put it "gave it to them". Lindsey Buckingham then had an idea about how it should begin and the first section was re-recorded.
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