Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album - Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel

Written by Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel
Read by Fred Berman with Ken Caillat
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.

Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for 31 weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album’s co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours - from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record “You Make Loving Fun,” “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” “The Chain,” and other timeless tracks.

Making Rumours is filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s screaming match while recording “You Make Loving Fun”; how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success; how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass.

Despite the attention to sonic detail, the book doesn’t scrimp on the soap opera and includes plenty of episodes of bickering for the voyeurs.

Date of release: 2013
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes