Episode #88 | 9.28.21
Fleetwood Mac (Part 2): Going to #1, and Going Your Own Way
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In this episode
Fleetwood Mac’s mid-’70s merger with the musical duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks changed the course of the band forever, propelling them to Top 40 mega-fame and cocaine-fueled excess. At the core of it all were rampant Rumors — both the album and the literal gossip. Breakups, divorce, drama: the same intra-band personal dynamics that stressed the group simultaneously led to the creation of one of the top-selling albums of all time. For Fleetwood Mac, Rumors was how the truth came out. And over 40 years later, there’s still a lot that needs clearing up.
Sources
Paste: The 10 Best Books About Fleetwood Mac
Play On, by Mick Fleetwood & Anthony Bozza
Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks, by Stephen Davis
Man of the World: The Peter Green Story, directed by Dteve Graham
Wealthy Persons: Mick Fleetwood Net Worth 2021
LAD Bible: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ Hits Number 1 on the Charts Thanks to Viral TikTok
Rolling Stone: Fleetwod Mac’s ‘Rumours’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
New York Times: Bassists in Fleetwood Mac Group Arrested on Drug Charge on Maui
Ultimate Classic Rock: When Peter Green Was Arrested for Pulling a Gun on His Accountant
Rolling Stone: Fleetwood Mac’s John McVie Busted
Ranker: All of the Affairs and Backstabbing Behind Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’
Uncut: Fleetwood Mac: ‘Everybody was pretty weirded out’: The Story of ‘Rumours’
Daily Mail: The Rock Star who snorted a line of cocaine 7 MILES LONG!
BBC: Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop
Grunge: The Tragic Real Life Story of Fleetwood Mac
The Guardian: Tommy Nutter, 60s ‘rebel’ tailor of Savile Row, celebrated in exhibition
A Nervy Girl’s Guide: Luggala: A Defining Moment in the Sixties
Getty: The Seedy, Funky, and Fabulous Hollywood Boulevard of the 1970s
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.
Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
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