Zurich, Hallenstadion October 13, 2013

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[Christine McVie just did not like? Well, how dare she? How DARE she?]

Updated at 10:26 by Stefan Künzli

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The biggest soap opera in rock history will be listed again

Fleetwood Mac to make her big comeback tour on Sunday at the Hallenstadion in Zurich stop by Stefan Künzli

That would hardly anyone thought possible. Four out of five members of Fleetwood Mac (Christine Mc Vie just did not like) have once again a viable working relationship for a tour and even working on new songs. Reason for the comeback is the 35-year anniversary of "Rumours", the album that defined the sound of the time.

1977 reached the terrorism links with the kidnapping and murder of employers President Hans Martin Schleyer by the RAF its peak. In the United States Jimmy Carter was elected president, John Travolta danced through "Saturday Night Fever" and "Star Wars" premiered. The revenue of the music industry grew explosively and as if by magic pop was the dominant and all-illuminating music. Pop was the land of plenty with glamor, glamor and luxury.

In this atmosphere of elation "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac, with over 40 million records one of the most successful albums in pop music history was born. The band was founded in England in 1967 as Blue Ribbon (then with Peter Green) regrouped and moved to Los Angeles in 1974. To couple John (bass) and Christine McVie (key) and the eponymous founding member and drummer Mick Fleetwood joined the American pair Lindsey Buckingham (guitar) and Stevie Nicks (vocals). The two new coined as a result the band and they headed in a new direction.

Euphoria, drugs and decadence

"It was a different time. At that time, everything seemed possible, "says Buckingham in" Rolling Stone "," we lived in a bubble, there was no life. Coated budgets are irrelevant, drugs and alcohol were, of course. " In this euphoric time of "take-it-easy" the carefree Californian folk-rock of Fleetwood Mac and Eagles was the soundtrack of the hour.

But where there is shine, it also has its drawbacks. The Hippie Solutions of Love, Peace and Happiness resulted not only in well- emotionally, but also in carelessness, self-sufficiency, self-esteem and decadence. The excesses were felt even in Fleetwood Mac. As "Rumours" was, Christine had just separated from John and drove it to the boy the last tour. Stevie Nicks also parted with a roar of Lindsey Buckingham and had a secret affair with Mick Fleetwood. Previously, separated himself from his wife that when he found out that she cheated on him with his best friend.

This is a private art

Accordingly, slow and tense did the recordings. There were no debates. Instead, the band members comforted her with cocaine. The songs were the valve. Here they themed the affairs, stories and personal tragedies or wrote songs about the band members. Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way" was a foreboding of the coming separation of Nick and "Dreams", the common attempt to zusammenzuraufen in "Second Hand News" for the separation assurance and "Never was
Going Back Again "written by the guitarist as he consoled himself with a new lover. "You Make Lovin 'Fun" was the song by Christine McVie about the affair with the boy and "Do not Stop" the upbeat song after the completed divorce. "Songbird" she devoted the whole band and "Oh Daddy" Mick Fleetwood, who managed to hold the band in spite of the incidents. "Gold Dust Woman" was finally a nod to the vast amounts of cocaine that were consumed during the recording.

"The biggest soap opera in rock history," a US-critic called the album. Fleetwood Mac made the private to public art. But it was more than that no other album reflects that glorious time between glamor and decadence better than "Rumours". "It was the worst time," Stevie Nicks says now, looking back, "but we wrote the best songs of our lives." This ambivalence makes for even today the great appeal of Fleetwood Mac. For behind the harmless and smoothly polished facade of the soft rock and feel-good songs abysses were opened. The hippie dream was over. But Fleetwood Mac wanted to hold on to it, while the bitter reality of the grim life had long since gained the upper hand. Result, "Rumours", the bittersweet masterpiece of rock history.

After the recordings, the love relationships were destroyed and no one wanted to see the other again. More than 35 years later Fleetwood Mac operate on the public stage with the past.