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SIDE 1:
“MONDAY MORNING”
“WARM WAYS”
“BLUE LETTER”
“RHIANNON”
“OVER MY HEAD”
“CRYSTAL”
SIDE 2:
“WORLD TURNING”
“SUGAR DADDY”
“I’M SO AFRAID”
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(“Fleetwood Mac” is the 10th studio album by British-American rock band ‘fleetwood mac’, released in ‘July 1975’ by “Reprise Records”)
(it was the band’s second eponymous album; the first was their 1968 debut album)
(among ‘Fleetwood Mac’ fans, the album is often referred to as the “White Album”)
(this is the first Fleetwood Mac album to feature ‘Lindsey Buckingham’ as guitarist and ‘Stevie Nicks’ as vocalist, after ‘Bob Welch’ departed the band in late 1974)
(the album was also the band’s last to be released on the Reprise label until 1997’s The Dance (the band’s subsequent albums until then were released through Warner Bros. Records, Reprise’s parent company))
The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 over a year after entering the chart, spent 37 weeks within the top 10, and more than fifteen months within the top 40.
It was the second biggest album of 1976 (behind Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton) and the tenth biggest album of 1977.
It launched three top twenty singles: “Over My Head”, “Rhiannon” and “Say You Love Me”, the last two falling just short of the top ten, both at No. 11.
(in 1986, it was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA representing shipments of five million units in the United States)
“Warm Ways” was the first single lifted from the album in 1975 in the UK.
It was not released as a single in the United States, where Over My Head was released instead.
Initially, the album generated limited interest in the UK, as the first three singles released by the new lineup failed to chart.
(“Say You Love Me” charted on the UK Singles Chart and it reached #40)
Following the massive success of Rumours two years later, interest in the band re-ignited and Fleetwood Mac was re-released in 1978, along with the single “Rhiannon” which peaked just outside the Top 40 at No. 46.
(the album eventually peaked at No. 23 on the UK Albums Chart but was a prelude to a run of hugely successful albums for the band in Britain, including four multi-platinum number ones: Rumours, Tusk, Tango in the Night and “Behind the Mask”)
(a live version of “landslide” was eventually released as a single in the US in 1998 after it became one of the most popular tracks from the live reunion album ‘The Dance’)
(it reached #51 on the Billboard ‘Hot 100’)
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