Rumours

Rumours
Album by Fleetwood Mac
Released	February 4, 1977
Recorded	March 3, 1976
Genre	Rock
Length	38 min 03 sec
Record label	Reprise (1977) Rhino (2004, re-issue)
Producers	Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
Professional reviews
AMG	5/5	link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47D1ED847A47E20E0B11A40DEB561F61A8F1AACD83E284541D1B43844C30E79EC40A6D8B1E8B800E203E3FE2EBB5B09CCC8EE56F890673D3788E9AC633E2E2B7B&uid=MIDMR0410162257&sql=10:fifpxqy5ld0e~T1)
Fleetwood Mac Chronology
Fleetwood Mac (1975)	Rumours (1977)	Tusk (1979)

Rumours was a rock and roll album, released by Fleetwood Mac in 1977 (see 1977 in music)., following the success of their self-titled Fleetwood Mac album (the first with a new line-up). The album was recorded on March 3, 1976 in the year Fleetwood Mac released a hit "Rhiannon". Rumours won a 1978 Grammy award for Album of the Year, and spent 31 weeks at the top of the Billboard Music Charts, in spite of critical panning for perceived pandering to mainstream tastes. By 1998 the album had generated more than $18 million and was certified by the Recording Industry Association of America as the third highest selling single-disc album in history. Than there was the Legacy, a hard copy with different interpetations such as the Corrs (Dreams, it was a hit in 1999).

In 2003 the TV channel VH1 named Rumours the 16th greatest album of all time.

Track listing

1. "Second Hand News" (Buckingham) - 2:43
2. "Dreams" (Nicks) - 4:14
3. "Never Going Back Again" (Buckingham) - 2:02
4. "Don't Stop" (McVie) - 3:11
5. "Go Your Own Way" (Buckingham) - 3:38
6. "Songbird" (McVie) - 3:20
7. "The Chain" (Buckingham, Fleetwood, McVie, McVie, Nicks) - 4:28
8. "You Make Loving Fun" (McVie) - 3:31
9. "I Don't Want to Know" (Nicks) - 3:11
10. "Oh Daddy" (McVie) - 3:54
11. "Gold Dust Woman" (Nicks) - 4:51

Personnel

• Lindsey Buckingham - guitar, vocals
• Mick Fleetwood - percussion, drums
• Christine McVie - synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
• John McVie - bass
• Stevie Nicks - vocals

Production

• Producers: Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
• Engineers: Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
• Mastering  : Ken Caillat, Ken Perry, Charlie Watts
• Concept: Fleetwood Mac
• Design: Desmond Strobel
• Hand Lettering: Larry Vigon

Charts

Album

Awards

1977 Grammy Awards