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Originally Posted by trackaghost
I really liked that it didn't just say, Rumours was successful because of the romantic break-ups in the band, etc, etc, it described the record industry at the time and showed how radio and the marketing and promotion was a huge, huge reason for why it went on to do so well.
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I was a goofy kid in late grade school/junior high at the time in Southern California, the home of Fleetwood Mac, & here's what I saw: "Rumours" & Fleetwood Mac weren't all that popular with kids my age, but they were popular with college-age people. And those songs were played on the radio all the time, too. But my generation at that point was listening to Cheap Trick ("Live at Budokan" was the big one), Aerosmith ("Dream On"), & Van Halen ("Running With the Devil"). (Also Journey, Styx, Foreigner ... all that crud.) Some of the hipper kids were listening to Pink Floyd or Steve Miller. But very few actually liked "Dreams" or "Don't Stop" or whatever. That was the college students (& older). Fleetwood Mac -- in its heyday -- was even more of a band for adults than it is today. A lot of people don't realize that.
That's my view of the 11 to 14 year olds in the Los Angeles 'burbs in 1977.