Making Rumours (eBook)

The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
384 Seiten
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-118-28236-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's RumoursFleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the twenty-fifth 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 "e;You Make Loving Fun,"e; "e;Don't Stop,"e; "e;Go Your Own Way,"e; "e;The Chain,"e; and other timeless tracks.Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "e;You Make Loving Fun,"e; 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 Includes eighty black-and-white photographs

Autor

Ken Caillat coproduced Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 album, Rumours, for which he won the Grammy for Album of the Year. He also produced the group's Tusk, Mirage, and Live albums, as well as their box set, The Chain. He has worked on albums with everyone from George Carlin, engineering his epochal Class Clown, to the London Symphony Orchestra. He is the father of Grammy-winning singer Colbie Caillat, and he produced her number one album, Breakthrough.Steven Stiefel has written several books, including contributions to two by LL Cool J. He also works as a magazine writer and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review and McSweeney's.

Inhalt

Foreword by Colbie Caillat ixForeword by John Shanks xiPreface xiii1. Ken's Wild Ride 12. Starting Rumours 233. Go Your Own Way 504. Oh, Daddy 735. You Make Lovin' Fun 1016. Songbird and Gold Dust Woman 1187. Don't Stop 1368. Fleetwood Mac Comes Alive! 1609. "I Quit!" 19310. The Boys Are Back in Town 20911. "You're Fired!" 23312. Fleetwood Mac Explodes 26713. The Chain: Keep Us Together 29914. The Final Mix 324Epilogue 345Acknowledgments 349Index 353

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: Album of the Year • American pop culture • American Rock Music • Behind the Scenes • Fleetwood Mac • Grammy Awards • Lindsey Buckingham • Music Criticism • Music History • music history and criticism • Pop culture • rock and roll stories • rock music • Rumours (album) • Stevie Nicks
• ISBN-10: 1-118-28236-1 / 1118282361
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-28236-6 / 9781118282366