Artist:

Fleetwood Mac

Label:

RHINO WARNERS

Genre:

Rock, Pop

Format:Vinyl LPFormat:Vinyl LPFormat:CDReleased:8th September 2023Released:8th September 2023Released:8th September 2023Catalogue No:0603497860395Catalogue No:0081227827847Catalogue No:0603497833986Barcode:0603497860395Barcode:0081227827847Barcode:0603497833986

Description:

2 LP FLEETWOOD MAC RUMOURS LIVE 1977 Concert At The Forum Recorded During The Rumours Tour Debuts As Double Live Album Nearly 90 Minutes Of Previously Unreleased Music 2-CD And 2-LP Versions Arriving September 8 LOS ANGELES Fleetwood Mac was at the top of its game in August 1977 when the band returned to its adopted home in Southern California to play three shows at The Forum in Los Angeles. Rumours had only been out a few weeks when the band left in February to tour the world, returning six months later to play three shows at The Forum for nearly 50,000 fans. Rumours was the #1 album in America and well on its way to becoming one of the most successful ever released. Rumours eventually sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and has just been certified 21x platinum in the U.S. The record has also been certified 14x Platinum in the U.K., and 13x Platinum in Australia and New Zealand, all countries where the album reached #1. RUMOURS LIVE captures the energy and excitement of the bands opening night at The Forum on August 29, 1977. The nearly 90-minute performance includes live versions of most of the songs from Rumours and Fleetwood Mac, the groups first multi-platinum #1 album, which came out in 1975. The concert remained unreleased for decades until 2021, when Gold Dust Woman from the show was included as a bonus track on Live: Deluxe Edition, Rhinos expanded version of Fleetwood Macs 1980 concert album. The other 17 songs on the collection have never been released before. RUMOURS LIVE will be available on September 8 as 2-CD and 2-LP sets. The black-vinyl version has two 180-gram records in a gatefold jacket with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. The concerts setlist draws almost exclusively from Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, the first two albums recorded by the bands latest incarnation: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and the newest members, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham. The lone nod to Fleetwood Macs other nine studio albums is a performance of Oh Well, a rock-guitar masterpiece originally released in 1969 and written by the bands founder, guitarist Peter Green. Engineer Ken Caillat, who helped record Rumours, also recorded the concert at The Forum using the Record Plants mobile recording truck. He captured the bands impassioned performance at a moment of peak Rumours frenzy, including powerful versions of Landslide, Never Going Back Again, Songbird, and The Chain. In the liner notes from RUMOURS LIVE, Sam Graham observes: The songs are familiar: Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Say You Love Me, Over My Head, and on and on. But most of these live versions are more muscular, more ferocious, than the album recordings, driven by the powerhouse Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm section and Buckinghams febrile guitar playing; and instead of a rote recital of the hits, the group stretches out in concert, as songs like Rhiannon, World Turning, and Im So Afraid blossom into exuberant tours de force onstage. RUMOURS LIVE 2-LP Track Listing LP One Side One 1. Say You Love Me 2. Monday Morning 3. Dreams 4. Oh Well 5. Rhiannon Side Two 1. Oh Daddy 2. Never Going Back Again 3. Landslide 4. Over My Head 5. Gold Dust Woman LP Two Side One 1. You Make Loving Fun 2. Im So Afraid 3. Go Your Own Way 4. World Turning Side Two 1. Blue Letter 2. The Chain 3. Second Hand News 4. Songbird