Fleetwood Mac‘s members didn’t always agree on much, but they seemed to agree that complicated relationships could make for good songs. “Little Lies” was another example of that unusual chemistry.
Released on August 31, 1987, “Little Lies” came from Tango in the Night, an album that reunited Fleetwood Mac in the studio after a five-year gap between albums. Written by Christine McVie and her then-husband, Eddy Quintela, the song became one of the band’s biggest hits of the decade, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
By the time Fleetwood Mac recorded “Little Lies,” McVie had already written “Songbird,” “Don’t Stop” and “You Make Loving Fun.” Her songs usually got to the point quickly, with strong pop melodies and lyrics that felt conversational. That was a different lane from Stevie Nicks‘ more mystical writing and Lindsey Buckingham‘s more experimental approach in the studio.
But McVie didn’t always feel confident about her songwriting. In a 2019 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she recalled starting to write songs when she was young but feeling that she wasn’t very good at it.
“I started writing songs when I was very young, but I wasn’t very good,” she said. “In fact, I was quite paranoid about it. Then I joined Fleetwood Mac and Mick [Fleetwood] encouraged me to keep trying. I wrote all the time during that time and my pop developed into more of a blues style. It was Mick who told me to persevere and eventually I wrote a few good songs.”
“Little Lies” is a snapshot of how her songwriting had matured. Its bright melody sits against lyrics about the painful realization that a relationship may not have much time left.
By the time Tango in the Night was recorded, Fleetwood Mac had already spent years dealing with breakups, romantic complications and disagreements. The band wasn’t exactly known for keeping its personal lives separate from its music.
That doesn’t mean “Little Lies” was necessarily about Fleetwood Mac’s internal relationships. McVie wrote the song with Quintela, and it works perfectly well as a song about a relationship coming to an end.
Whatever inspired it, the song connected in a big way. Tango in the Night gave Fleetwood Mac four Top 20 hits in the U.S., but “Little Lies” stood out from the rest. It climbed to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also became a major hit in the U.K. and across Europe.
“Little Lies” was Fleetwood Mac’s last U.S. Top 10 hit, and it’s still one of the first songs many people associate with the band.
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