About that crystal ball

[Villavic]

I don't remember if this was asked before.

The crystal ball (from Rumours, The Dance,) appeared at first in the 1975 white album cover. Is there a story about that ball? Why they included it? I don't remember any comment in Mick's book. Actually I don't know how or why they did that cover. Mick said they used the ball again in Rumours, like following the good luck from the previous album, but don't know why they used it before.

[TrueFaith77]

Crystal Visions?

[Azzar]

i remember watching something on youtube about it being linked with satanism. but i dont think thats why it's there.

[DESTINYRU!ES]

Well Chris' mom was psychic and supposedly said fleetwood mac would find their future on orange grove which is where Stevie and Lindsey were living at the time...so yeah Chris-tal visions. Perhaps they included it as a symbol that the band was fated to meet...destiny rules...goes to find ipod and play "maybe we were together..."

[aleuzzi]

I think it was just an artsy move. Any talk of it symbolizing the bright future might be motivated purely from hindsight.

The Heroes cover (done by the same artist) as well as the Mystery cover are equally strange an open to all sorts of "readings."

[gldstwmn]

Supposedly all of the albums featuring the crystal ball on the cover went to number one. I read this somewhere around the time The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac (featuring just the crystal ball on the cover) came out.