Little Lies 35 Years Ago

[SteveMacD]

Nobody outside of core fans knew who John or Christine McVie were. Why would anyone care that they were divorcing? People were only buying those albums because the songs were great.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Nobody outside of core fans knew who John or Christine McVie were. Why would anyone care that they were divorcing? People were only buying those albums because the songs were great.

Agreed. NOBODY would have given AF.

A shipper I have never been.

Being a FM fan is like being in the Army.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Agreed. NOBODY would have given AF.

Clearly. Obviously GYOW, Dreams, Don’t Stop, and YMLF were so great they just sold themselves, really. Nobody cared that the personal relationships within the band had turned into a four alarm $h!tshow. At that stage in their careers, nobody outside of fans even knew who they were.

[Villavic]

I'm a huge fan since 1982. My first album I bought was Live. But I had a copy of Mirage, taped from a friend's album, too. Later I got the other albums (Rumours lineup).

I knew the names of the 5 members, Rumours lineup again. But it was until 1992, when I read Mick's first book, that I finally learned John and Christine were a divorced couple; until then I always wondered if they were a couple, or brother & sister, cousins, etc. And until then I hardly knew there was a previous lineup (I didn't know that there were several.

So I don't know if outside fans nobody knew who John or Chris were, but yes I agree sure a lot of people didn't.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I'm a huge fan since 1982. My first album I bought was Live. But I had a copy of Mirage, taped from a friend's album, too. Later I got the other albums (Rumours lineup).

I knew the names of the 5 members, Rumours lineup again. But it was until 1992, when I read Mick's first book, that I finally learned John and Christine were a divorced couple; until then I always wondered if they were a couple, or brother & sister, cousins, etc. And until then I hardly knew there was a previous lineup (I didn't know that there were several.

So I don't know if outside fans nobody knew who John or Chris were, but yes I agree sure a lot of people didn't.

Which is why “Rumours” initially shipped with 800,000 albums, over double what the band had been selling not even two years prior, and was selling about 800,000 a week for months. Pretty impressive for a band nobody outside of fans knew anything about.

[SteveMacD]

Obviously nobody knew who they were, which is why “Sentimental Lady” was a Top 10 hit in 1978, six years after the original version went nowhere… Hmmm…

Anyway, nobody knew Bob Welch had been in Fleetwood Mac. Hell, nobody outside of fans knew who Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie were, much less that they played on the song. Of course, nobody knew who Bob Welch was for that matter… Hmmm…

It was such a great song on its own, except…when it wasn’t??? Hmmm…