佛利伍麦克 (1975)

Fleetwood Mac is the tenth studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 11 July 1975 in the United States and on 1 August 1975 in the United Kingdom by Reprise Records. It is the band's second eponymous album, the first being their 1968 debut album, and is sometimes referred to by fans as the White Album. It is the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as a vocalist, after Bob Welch departed the band in late 1974. It is also the band's last album to be released on the Reprise label until 1997's The Dance; the band's subsequent albums until then were released through Warner Bros. Records, Reprise's parent company.

The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart on 4 September 1976, 58 weeks after entering the chart, and spawned three top-twenty singles: "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", and "Say You Love Me", the last two falling just short of the top ten, both at number 11; it also features the song "Landslide", which has been included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The album has been certified 9× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 9 million copies in the United States. Peaking at number 23 on the UK Albums Chart, it was the start of a run of hugely successful albums for the band in Britain, with four number ones starting with Rumours (1977) and ending with Behind the Mask (1990).

Background

In 1974, Fleetwood Mac relocated to California from England so they could better manage the band's affairs. In California, they recorded an album, Heroes Are Hard to Find, and set out on tour. Shortly after finishing the tour, Bob Welch (guitarist, singer, and composer) left the band, ending Fleetwood Mac's ninth lineup in eight years, to form the band Paris.

Prior to Welch's departure, Mick Fleetwood was advised to visit Sound City Studios by an employee who worked at the facility. Fleetwood arrived at Sound City Studios and met with producer Keith Olsen, who showed him some demos for the purpose of demonstrating the studio's sonic capabilities. There, Olsen played Fleetwood an album he had recently engineered, titled Buckingham Nicks. Fleetwood particularly enjoyed the guitar solo on the album's final song, "Frozen Love", and decided to "take a mental note" of the duo.

Once Welch had departed from the band, Fleetwood contacted Olsen about hiring Lindsey Buckingham for Fleetwood Mac. Olsen informed Fleetwood that Buckingham was unlikely to accept the invitation to join Fleetwood Mac unless Buckingham's musical and romantic partner, Stevie Nicks, could join as well. During his conversation with Fleetwood, Buckingham reaffirmed that he would be unwilling to join the band without Nicks.

After Fleetwood played the rest of the band the Buckingham Nicks album, Christine McVie insisted that they meet with Buckingham and Nicks before officially accepting them as members of Fleetwood Mac. An informal interview was held at the Mexican restaurant El Carmen to determine if Buckingham and Nicks would be suitable for the band. Before they met up, Fleetwood and John McVie agreed that Christine McVie would make the final determination on whether Nicks would join Fleetwood Mac due to her initial apprehension about having another woman in the band. Nicks, who was the first to arrive at El Carmen for the informal interview, was still dressed in a flapper dress from her shift at the restaurant. After the interview, Fleetwood invited Buckingham and Nicks to join Fleetwood Mac, and this tenth lineup of the band proved to be its most successful. Within three months, the band had recorded the album Fleetwood Mac, with recording sessions beginning in February 1975.

Composition

Several songs on Fleetwood Mac were written before Buckingham and Nicks joined the band. The duo had recorded demos for "Rhiannon", "I'm So Afraid", and "Monday Morning", which were initially slated to appear on a second Buckingham Nicks album. "Crystal" was recycled from the first Buckingham Nicks album and was given a different arrangement for Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album. Fleetwood praised these songs as "show stoppers, even as rough sketches recorded on Lindsey's four-track.

McVie wrote several of her compositions on a Hohner Pianet in her Malibu apartment, including "Warm Ways" and "Over My Head". She mentioned that it was "tough to compete" with the compositions that Buckingham and Nicks brought into the recording sessions and that she placed additional effort into improving her songwriting on the album. Commenting on her song "Sugar Daddy", McVie said that she did not "recall it being about anybody. I just dreamed it up".