{"id":792702,"date":"2019-02-04T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=787722"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:09:53","slug":"flashback-fleetwood-mac-play-a-poignant-dreams-in-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-fleetwood-mac-play-a-poignant-dreams-in-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Fleetwood Mac Play a Poignant \u2018Dreams\u2019 in 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stevie Nicks<\/a> was sitting on Sly Stone\u2019s bed one afternoon in early 1976 when she wrote \u201cDreams.\u201d Stone\u2019s studio \u2014 inside the Record Plant in Sausalito, California \u2014 was down the hall from where she and the rest of Fleetwood Mac<\/a> were recording Rumours<\/a><\/em>, and she\u2019d often go there for a break. She\u2019d bring in her electric piano, journals and art and hang out on the funk king\u2019s black-curtained bed. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t my room, so it could be fabulous,\u201d she recalled in the 1997 Classic Albums\u00a0<\/em>documentary on Rumours<\/em>. \u201cI knew when I wrote it that it was really special. I was really not self-conscious or insecure about showing it to the rest of the band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac just a year prior, along with her bandmate and romantic partner Lindsey Buckingham<\/a>. After their psychedelic band Fritz broke up, the two had found minor success as the duo Buckingham Nicks when they were asked to join the blues band from England that had been struggling ever since founding guitarist Peter Green left in 1970. The pair\u2019s first album with the band, 1975\u2019s Fleetwood Mac<\/em>, found widespread commercial success thanks to Nick\u2019s witchy track \u201cRhiannon.\u201d And now they were ready to record a follow-up that would bring them an even bigger audience.<\/p>\n

Complete with waterbeds, nitrous-oxide gas masks and a 10-foot deep recording hole dubbed \u201cthe Pit,\u201d Record Plant was the epitome of 1970s<\/a> excess. The Mac spent nine weeks recording there in the midst of interpersonal turmoil and marital strife. Nicks and Buckingham were splitting, singer Christine McVie and bassist John McVie were divorcing after eight years of marriage, and Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce of his own. \u201cEverybody was pretty weirded out,\u201d Christine McVie told Cameron Crowe in 1977. \u201cSomehow Mick was there, the figurehead: \u2018We must carry on \u2026 let\u2019s be mature about this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Released in March 1977, \u201cDreams\u201d became the second single off Rumours<\/em>. You can watch the band perform it here that same year, with Nicks giving a powerhouse vocal performance in a black dress. \u201cLike a heartbeat, drives you mad\/In the stillness of remembering what you had\/And what you lost,\u201d she sings, a mere two feet away from the man she\u2019s singing about. Buckingham would return the favor with \u201cGo Your Own Way,\u201d in which he fires back, \u201cPacking up\/Shacking up is all you want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rumours<\/em>, which turns 42 today, transformed Fleetwood Mac into international superstars. According to\u00a0Buckingham<\/a>, the album\u2019s success was due to the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. \u201cYou had these dialogues shooting back and forth between members of the band about things that were happening to all of us while we were recording these songs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood Mac recently launched another leg of their ongoing world tour, their first without Lindsey Buckingham since he rejoined the band in 1996. The guitarist was fired<\/a> and replaced by the Heartbreakers\u2019 Mike Campbell and Crowded House\u2019s Neil Finn. \u201cOur relationship has always been volatile. We were never married, but we might as well have been,\u201d Nicks told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last year. \u201cThis is sad for me, but I want the next 10 years of my life to be really fun and happy. I want to get up every day and dance around my apartment and smile and say, \u2018Thank God for this amazing life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stevie Nicks was sitting on Sly Stone\u2019s bed one afternoon in early 1976 when she wrote \u201cDreams.\u201d Stone\u2019s studio \u2014 inside the Record Plant in Sausalito, California \u2014 was down the hall from where she and the rest of Fleetwood Mac were recording Rumours, and she\u2019d often go there for a break. She\u2019d bring in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 10:35:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}