Cocaine use was so rampant the band even considered thanking their dealer in the album credits, but such recognition never came to pass. “Unfortunately, he got snuffed – executed! – before the thing came out,” Fleetwood wrote in his 1990 memoir Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac. Rumours became one of the band’s most successful albums The Berkeley Community Theatre was unavailable, so Caillat booked the University’s Zellerbach Auditorium for March 3rd, 1976, complete with orchestra shell and a nine-foot Steinway. “As a surprise for Christine, I had requested that a bouquet of roses be placed on her piano with three colored spotlights to illuminate them from above. I really wanted to set the mood!” he wrote in his book, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album. “When Christine arrived, we dimmed the house lights so that all she could see were the flowers and the piano with the spotlight shining down from the heavens. She nearly broke into tears. Then she started to play.”

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The song itself consists of kind of a Scottish Irish folk influences, and when we first started cutting it, we started doing something that was maybe a literal translation of that, like maybe a march time on snare with brushes,” he recalled in the Classic Albums documentary. “But we were also very interested in keeping the pop element, because it was going to be the first song, and it was a pop album.” ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2020". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 15 January 2021. Austriancharts.at – Fleetwood Mac – Rumours" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 September 2023. The final results were pure perfection, except for one problem. “When Lindsey went to sing, he realized that he played all of his guitar parts in the wrong key. Oh, man! So we recorded everything all over again the next day, dispensing with the changing of guitar strings – we had to lose all of that so we could get Lindsey singing in the right key.”

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