Fleetwood Mac All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

[WalkAThinLine.]

It looks like this book is set for release in spring 2025. Here's the blurb

Fleetwood Mac All the Songs dives deep into the unique and often fraught recording history of the mega-bestselling and hugely influential rock band. Packed with captivating photographs and fascinating behind-the-scenes details, it’s a must-have for any music history fan.

Fleetwood Mac is the one of the most enduring, endearing, and drama-filled bands in rock history whose triumphs, struggles, and music continue to resonate with generations of listeners. This thorough dissection of every album and every song ever released by the beloved rock group follows the band's many iterations from their self-titled debut in 1968 (when they were known as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac) to the classic Rumours era featuring the core line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks, all the way up to the passing of Christine McVie in November 2022. The writing and recording process of each and every track is dissected, discussed, and analyzed by authors Olivier Roubin and Romuald Ollivier, through the band's many breakups and shakeups.

Fleetwood Mac All the Songs draws upon years of research to recount the circumstances that led to the composition of every song the band ever wrote, as well as the details behind their in-studio recording process. Also featuring hundreds of photographs, including rare black-and-white publicity stills, images of instruments used by the band, and engaging shots of the musicians in‑studio, this is a must-have book for any true fan of classic rock.


https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fle...=9780762486304

[Villavic]

608 pages. It's enough to detail all the songs very well. We already know enough about the main hits, but it would be interesting to know about the not so well known songs. I hope all those have enough information. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth it.

[WalkAThinLine.]

Originally Posted by Villavic

608 pages. It's enough to detail all the songs very well. We already know enough about the main hits, but it would be interesting to know about the not so well known songs. I hope all those have enough information. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth it.

I'm most interested about the songs from the Bob Welch era and even some from Behind the Mask, where there's a general lack of information surrounding those recording sessions. 608 pages should cover a lot of ground though, so I will almost certainly purchase this book once it is released

[Penguin Emeritus]

very cool. I'll buy it just for the stills....i hope there's something new i haven't seen.

--Lis

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

and even some from Behind the Mask, where there's a general lack of information surrounding those recording sessions.

Yes! I'd like to read details about not some but all the BTM songs.

I hope it also describes the new songs they included in Live and The Dance.

[bombaysaffires]

Just who are the authors? The "about" on the B&N link says they are French journalists....so not anyone familiar who knows the band or who even talked to the band....so what they say a song is about is based on.....what, exactly? I'm guessing they combed thru interviews and things from over the years to put content together. Which is fair enough as far as it goes, but given that we have gotten different stories about what some songs were about over the decades from the writers themselves (just for example, we never knew Over my Head was about/inspired by Lindsey until Chris came back to the band and talked about it in an interview, like 40 years after the fact; Stevie has changed her version of the meaning of numerous songs over the years, etc. And Lindsey hasn't dived that deeply at all into many of his songs....) I do not see that this will be some definitive documentation....

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

The "about" on the B&N link says they are French journalists....so not anyone familiar who knows the band or who even talked to the band...

There is no video (short or long) of the Mirage recording at Château d'Hérouville, is there? I mean like those included in the Tusk documentary (while recording Angel for example).

And I agree this won't be a definitive documentation. But if it contains well detailed description of all songs, I think it would be an interesting book. It will be up to us to decide whether all the data is correct or not.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Just who are the authors? The "about" on the B&N link says they are French journalists....so not anyone familiar who knows the band or who even talked to the band....so what they say a song is about is based on.....what, exactly? I'm guessing they combed thru interviews and things from over the years to put content together. Which is fair enough as far as it goes, but given that we have gotten different stories about what some songs were about over the decades from the writers themselves (just for example, we never knew Over my Head was about/inspired by Lindsey until Chris came back to the band and talked about it in an interview, like 40 years after the fact; Stevie has changed her version of the meaning of numerous songs over the years, etc. And Lindsey hasn't dived that deeply at all into many of his songs....) I do not see that this will be some definitive documentation....

I had the same suspicions. I am open to learning more but many songs the hardcore fans speculate over for years. Only the artists know for sure. Unless there is a connection to the band we don't know about, I wonder how accurate this can be. But let's wait and find out.