folk rock duo made up of boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham and girlfriend Stevie Nicks. While scouting new recording spaces for the band later that year, Mick Fleetwood heard “Frozen Love” by Buckingham-Nicks, a L.A.
After relocating to Los Angeles in 1974, the band found themselves without either and in desperate need of both. For the next several years, Fleetwood Mac would cycle through a number of guitarists and vocalists. In 1970, just as the song that would expose Tedesco to his first taste of Fleetwood Mac - Santana’s cover of “Black Magic Woman” – began dominating US airwaves, Peter Green left the band. Be that as it may, in 1970, Tedesco, much like the rest of the U.S., didn’t really know who Fleetwood Mac was. Music became a sort of rallying place for all of these people who were basically misfits.”įor Tedesco, Fleetwood Mac’s music would become one of these intimate places of solace. I think it was that way for most of the so-called ‘classic rock generation.’ A lot of them are disaffected people, people who weren’t getting along with their families – the products of broken homes and so on. My mom was always working, so music really became my sort of substitute parents,” said Tedesco. “My dad left when I was four, and my mom had six kids. Tedesco said understanding the significance of Fleetwood Mac’s radical about-face from underground radio staple to mainstream, multi-platinum hitmaker involves recognizing the distinct role music (and, especially, underground music) played in the identity formation of many of his generation. This Fleetwood Mac, often referred to precisely as “Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac” because of Peter Green’s influence, is the band Michael Tedesco, Ohio University IT support specialist and WOUB volunteer DJ, became fleetingly aware of as a preteen in the early ‘70s. Early on, Fleetwood Mac developed a largely British cult following with their cerebral, psychedelia-infused interpretation of the blues shaped heavily by founding member and legendary guitarist, Peter Green. Ten years prior to Rumours, Fleetwood Mac was formed in London as a part of the thriving British blues revival scene, alongside groups like Cream, Savoy Brown, and The Yardbirds. While those songs remain almost dangerously infectious to this day – it is inarguable that the sound so many associate with Fleetwood Mac because of their most famous release is many light years away from the sound the group cultivated during their early years. Culturally, the album’s singles, “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” and “You Make Loving Fun” became cemented as the soundtrack for a generation of Baby Boomers cautiously stepping into adulthood in the late ‘70s. Within a month after its Februrelease, Rumours sold a jaw-dropping 10 million copies, catapulting it to the top of the US and UK charts.
The film examines the notoriously arduous Rumours recording sessions, the band’s meteoric rise in the wake of its popularity, and the personal price each of the band members paid as a result. ET, WOUB-TV will broadcast Fleetwood Mac: Rumours, an installment of PBS’ Classic Albums documentary series. Rumours would not only be the band’s most commercially successful album – it would go on to be one of the most commercially successful albums in the history of popular music.įriday, July 30 at 10 p.m. In November of 1976 a bedraggled Fleetwood Mac completed the famously difficult recording of Rumours.Īlthough the personal lives of the band members were in shambles, devastated by infidelity and drug use, the once underground group was on the precipice of something huge.