An interesting review of Rumours from 1977

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Originally Posted by PenguinHead

Buy 'Rumours' in vast quantities -- you'll get more from it than the insular, contrived and even sanctimonious attitudes of one of LA's other recent offerings, The Eagles' 'Hotel California.' Fleetwood Mac on 'Rumours' are in very good shape indeed.

Eagles, Eagles, Eagles. I've read several articles joining or comparing Rumours with Hotel California. Even Mick in his book mentions Eagles a lot, specially on many roads they went together. Here are just two of those mentions:

The high hopes and countless hours we had poured into Rumours were completely validated when the album slipped into the number one album chart position on May 21, 1977, displacing Hotel California by our colleagues and friendly rivals the Eagles. Rumours stayed at number one on the Billboard and Cashbox charts for the next eight months, a total of thirty-one straight weeks.....

....Rolling Stone put us on the cover (me in lascivious cheerleader drag) to commemorate our receiving their reader awards for Artist of the Year, Band of the Year, Best Album, and Best Single ("Dreams"). To my great satisfaction, the Eagles and Hotel California came in second in all categories. Many theories again appeared in the press to explain Fleetwood Mac's enormous new audience. One held that our three singer/songwriters and their different voices kept the public from getting bored with a monolithic Big Mac sound. Another postulated that the group fulfilled various deeply ingrained Anglo-American archetypes, with myself as the Public School Aristocrat, McVie as the British Cloth-Cap Working-Class type, Christine as an English Rose from the Midlands, Stevie as the California Girl, and Lindsey as Byronic Rock Star.