Excerpt from Montreal Gazette Article about Big Spenders -- albums that were expensive to make:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazett...f-ab0583f89f21
1979
After placing a copy of Rumours in every pair of hands in the Western world, Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham overreaches the grasp of his audience with Tusk, a singularly different double album said to have cost $1 million in 1979 dollars.