Little Lies 35 Years Ago

Macfan4life · #1 08-05-2022, 05:40 AM

Everywhere was a huge hit in Europe. Besides the UK it was #1 in Belgium, #2 in Ireland, and #3 in the Netherlands.

There is a youtube video of On With The Show tour in Ireland. The crowd is singing along to Everywhere so loud that its almost overpowering the band. Gives me goosebumps.

Rumour has it that word of Lindsey's quitting the band got to Belgium sort of late due to a newspaper strike in 1987. Once the news broke, it propelled Everywhere to the #1 spot and remains Fleetwood Mac's only #1 song in Belgium.

The Mac's highest charting single Dreams in the states only charted at #25 in Belgium and #8 in the Netherlands. Everywhere was mopping the floor with Dreams in Europe.

bwboy · #2 08-05-2022, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Rumour has it that word of Lindsey's quitting the band got to Belgium sort of late due to a newspaper strike in 1987. Once the news broke, it propelled Everywhere to the #1 spot and remains Fleetwood Mac's only #1 song in Belgium.

Oh boy. What you just said here pretty much makes Steve’s point about how Lindsey leaving FM helped propel Little Lies to be a big hit. You just said about Everywhere what he said about Little Lies.

Macfan4life · #3 08-05-2022, 08:26 AM

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Oh boy. What you just said here pretty much makes Steve’s point about how Lindsey leaving FM helped propel Little Lies to be a big hit. You just said about Everywhere what he said about Little Lies.

Exactly.
These hits would never have been successful without Lindsey leaving. Too bad Christine's leaving did not have the same effect on Say You Will.

**jbrownsjr** · #4 08-05-2022, 08:43 AM

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Exactly.
These hits would never have been successful without Lindsey leaving. Too bad Christine's leaving did not have the same effect on Say You Will.

Damn it!! I fell for it.

HomerMcvie · #5 08-05-2022, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Exactly.
These hits would never have been successful without Lindsey leaving. Too bad Christine's leaving did not have the same effect on Say You Will.

That's because SYW is a TURD. If they'd cut it down to 10 songs, it would have done much better. AND they were just too old for a big album(although the Eagles LROOE debuted at #1, four years after SYW. Face it, the Eagles are more popular than our band).

**jbrownsjr** · #6 08-05-2022, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Everywhere was a huge hit in Europe. Besides the UK it was #1 in Belgium, #2 in Ireland, and #3 in the Netherlands.

There is a youtube video of On With The Show tour in Ireland. The crowd is singing along to Everywhere so loud that its almost overpowering the band. Gives me goosebumps.

Rumour has it that word of Lindsey's quitting the band got to Belgium sort of late due to a newspaper strike in 1987. Once the news broke, it propelled Everywhere to the #1 spot and remains Fleetwood Mac's only #1 song in Belgium.

The Mac's highest charting single Dreams in the states only charted at #25 in Belgium and #8 in the Netherlands. Everywhere was mopping the floor with Dreams in Europe.

Is this another dig, or are you serious? I didn't know this information. "newspaper strike" pushed me into believing this.

SteveMacD · #7 08-05-2022, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Everywhere was a huge hit in Europe. Besides the UK it was #1 in Belgium, #2 in Ireland, and #3 in the Netherlands.

There is a youtube video of On With The Show tour in Ireland. The crowd is singing along to Everywhere so loud that its almost overpowering the band. Gives me goosebumps.

Rumour has it that word of Lindsey's quitting the band got to Belgium sort of late due to a newspaper strike in 1987. Once the news broke, it propelled Everywhere to the #1 spot and remains Fleetwood Mac's only #1 song in Belgium.

The Mac's highest charting single Dreams in the states only charted at #25 in Belgium and #8 in the Netherlands. Everywhere was mopping the floor with Dreams in Europe.

Wow, the lengths you’re going with this are ridiculous.

You’re saying that a longtime guitarist/singer/songwriter/producer, who’d just had a top five hit months earlier, leaving one of the biggest rock bands in the world while they’re actively promoting a successful album, becoming one of the top stories in the music press, had zero impact on the success of the single that was released less than two weeks after the announcement, that the song and album didn’t get a bump because of any of that.

You’d have to be intentionally obtuse to believe that.