One of the most celebrated albums in rock history is getting a lavish new tribute.
Motorbooks has announced "Fleetwood Mac and Rumours: 50 Years," a new hardcover by music journalist Andrea Swensson that explores the creation, legacy and lasting cultural impact of Fleetwood Mac's landmark 1977 album Rumours.
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Scheduled for release on Oct. 27, the 176-page volume features more than 250 photos, along with new insights into the recording sessions, the band's turbulent relationships and the songs that helped make the album a phenomenon.
A page from inside 'Fleetwood Mac and Rumours: 50 Years.'Motorbooks
The book describes the experience of hearing Rumours for the first time as being "pulled into the intimate space where they created the most iconic breakup albums of all time," capturing the emotional honesty that has kept the record resonating across generations.
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Swensson traces Fleetwood Mac's evolution from its early years through the Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks era before diving deep into the making of Rumours, which was released on Feb. 4, 1977.
The book revisits the emotionally charged recording sessions that produced enduring classics including "Dreams," "Go Your Own Way," "Don't Stop" and "The Chain," while also exploring the blockbuster tour that followed and the album's remarkable cultural afterlife.
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Beyond the music itself, the author examines how heartbreak, creative tension and extraordinary chemistry combined to produce an album that has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and continues to find new audiences nearly five decades later.
A page from inside 'Fleetwood Mac and Rumours: 50 Years.'Motorbooks
Among the behind-the-scenes stories featured in the book are new details about several of the album's best-known tracks.
Readers learn that Buckingham drew inspiration from the Bee Gees' "Jive Talkin'" while shaping the rhythmic feel of "Second Hand News." The book also revisits the creation of "Dreams," which Nicks famously wrote in less than an hour before the band developed the arrangement that same night.
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Christine McVie later recalled initially thinking the song sounded "really boring" when Nicks first played it on piano, only for Buckingham to transform it by crafting three nearly identical chord sections that gave the finished recording its hypnotic flow.
With hundreds of photographs and a track-by-track exploration of one of rock's defining albums, "Fleetwood Mac and Rumours: 50 Years" offers fans a new opportunity to revisit the record that continues to shape popular music nearly 50 years after its release.
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