It's one of Fleetwood Mac's most enduring songs, but it only took Stevie Nicks minutes to write.
Fleetwood Mac's 1977 hit "Dreams," featured on their legendary Rumors album, was born in just 10 minutes, yet it has spent nearly six decades as one of the most popular tracks from the band's catalog. It rose to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 just months after its release, and still remains as the band's only song to ever do so.
But for a song with such a storied history, "Dreams" came together almost instantly.
"I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me, found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on, and wrote 'Dreams' in about ten minutes," Nicks once told Blender Magazine, as reported by Rolling StoneAustralia. "Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me."
Before recording "Dreams" with bandmates Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie, Nicks first presented the song to Buckingham, despite the fact that they were in the middle of a breakup at the time.
"I remember the night I wrote 'Dreams," Nicks recalled to the Daily Mail in 2009. "I walked in and handed a cassette of the song to Lindsey. It was a rough take, just me singing solo and playing piano. Even though he was mad with me at the time, Lindsey played it and then looked up at me and smiled."
"What was going on between us was sad," Nicks said about the downfall of their relationship, which lasted for about four years between 1972 and 1976.
Nicks and Buckingham weren't the only members of the group who were going through a breakup while working on the Rumors album, as John and Christine McVie were also in the midst of a divorce around the same time.
"We were couples who couldn't make it through," Nicks added. "But, as musicians, we still respected each other and we got some brilliant songs out of it."
And the songs were brilliant indeed, with "Dreams" going down in history as a beloved soft-rock staple. The Rumors album also introduced several other iconic Fleetwood Mac songs, including tracks like "Go Your Own Way" and "The Chain."
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