Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel

John Wiley & Sons, Mar 5, 2012 - Music - 384 pages

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 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 "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," 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 "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
• Includes eighty black-and-white photographs

What people are saying

Review: Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

User Review  - Alfred - Goodreads

A good and thorough insight into the making of a great album. Just technical enough to still be interesting.

Review: Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

User Review  - Donald Loeffler - Goodreads

Okay book, a bit short on some details, overly long on others. Probably could have been 50-70 pages shorter with some judicious editing. It does do a good job a detailing the efforts of making the Rumours album, as well of the mindset of people in the music/recording business in 1976.

Contents

• Kens Wild Ride: 1
• Starting Rumours: 23
• Go Your Own Way: 50
• Oh Daddy: 73
• You Make Lovin Fun: 101
• Songbird and Gold Dust Woman: 118
• Dont Stop: 136
• Fleetwood Mac Comes Alive: 160
• I Quit: 193
• The Boys Are Back in Town: 209
• Youre Fired: 233
• Fleetwood Mac Explodes: 267
• Keep Us Together: 299
• The Final Mix: 324
• Epilogue: 345

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
• Authors: Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012
• ISBN: 1118282361, 9781118282366
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Music / General