#fleetwood-mac

#fleetwood-mac

Almost fifty years after its release in 1977, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is somehow still one of the most popular albums in the world. Created in a cauldron of intraband romantic turmoil and fueled by voracious drug intake, this very week, it sits at Number 19 on Billboard's album chart. In 2023, Rumours was the most streamed album of the twentieth century on Spotifymore than any Beatles album, more than Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, more than Nirvana's Nevermind or Dr. Dre's The Chronic or anything else.

If you ask playwright David Adjmi, he was merely inspired by Fleetwood Mac and the story of the band's emotionally fraught and drug-fueled experience recording at the legendary Record Plant in Sausalito in 1976. But his play, , is not about the five specific members of that band, just about fictional members of a band who happen to look and sound a lot like Fleetwood Mac, having a tumultous, fictionalized experience in Sausalito in 1976.

A representative told Rolling Stone that the story was categorically false and not in the realm of true. The band last played together in November 2019. Both the death of Christine McVie in 2022 and Lindsey Buckingham's earlier firing, in 2018, were assumed to have made any reunion impossible. Without Christine, no can do, Stevie Nicks told Mojo last year. There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn't work.

"And if you go forward ..." reads Nicks's post. "I'll meet you there," responds Buckingham's. The quote is a lyric from their 1973 song "Frozen Love," off their album Buckingham Nicks."