Sunday, 4 January 2026

Fleetwood Mac

 When you consider that the Rumours album was largely about the breakups and relationship problems the band was going through at the time

 Lindsey and Stevie breakup 

Stevie affair with Mick may have started as early as this

 Lindsey started seeing "a young lady" saying "and that put some wind in my sails" - which he attributes why Never Going Back Again ended up being a more upbeat song that it originally might have been 

Christine and John splitting up and later divorcing 

Christine seeing that engineer and John not wanting him around 

Mick splitting up with his wife Jennie 

Sideline - Jenny is the sister of Patty Boyd, wife of George Harrison, who had the affair with Clapton, and who Leyla is written about . 

Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "Second Hand News" Lindsey Buckingham Buckingham 2:43 2. "Dreams" Stevie Nicks Nicks 4:14 3. "Never Going Back Again" Buckingham Buckingham 2:02 4. "Don't Stop" Christine McVie Buckingham and C. McVie 3:11 5. "Go Your Own Way" Buckingham Buckingham 3:38 6. "Songbird" C. McVie C. McVie 3:20 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "The Chain" BuckinghamMick FleetwoodC. McVieJohn McVieNicks Buckingham with Nicks and C. McVie 4:28 2. "You Make Loving Fun" C. McVie C. McVie 3:31 3. "I Don't Want to Know" Nicks Nicks with Buckingham 3:11 4. "Oh Daddy" C. McVie C. McVie 3:54 5. "Gold Dust Woman" Nicks Nicks 4:51 Total length: 39:03

 "Silver Springs", written by Stevie Nicks, has been included on some reissues as either track 6, 7 or 12 of the album, depending on the pressing. 

Many cassette releases swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know".