In “Key West,” he’s an outlaw drifting in the Florida sunshine, hounded by his memories. It begins with the simple yet poignant intro: “This video is dedicated to touching.” Here’s to more of that in 2021.ĭylan has been staring down the winter for years now - he was just a lad of 56 when he sang “it’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there,” on his 1997 classic Time Out of Mind. (Harry, of course, has George Michael lyrics tattooed on his feet: “Never Gonna” and “Dance Again.”) Also love that video, a fruit-slurping orgy on the beach, filmed right before the pandemic, a reminder that hopeful days will rise again. So I thought, ‘There’s a reason it’s surviving.’” “Watermelon Sugar” is the kind of tune that takes on a new life in pop rotation: I once heard an NYC station segue it right into George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90,” one of my favorite radio moments this year. We fully killed it a few times, but it kept coming back in. “That one we reworked a bunch of times, and it died a couple times,” Harry told me in June 2019. “Watermelon Sugar” was written on his first solo tour, on a day off in Nashville. “Watermelon Sugar” comes on like a lost Stevie Nicks / Stevie Wonder duet, a summer guitar groove so eccentric it almost got axed from the album, yet it became his first Number One hit in August. Honestly, it’s like Fine Line 2019 and Fine Line 2020 are two different albums - one was wanted, one was needed. Some of these songs may be too familiar, whether through their repeated exposure on FM radio or their use in presidential campaigns, but in the context of the album, each tune, each phrase regains its raw, immediate emotional power - which is why Rumours touched a nerve upon its 1977 release, and has since transcended its era to be one of the greatest, most compelling pop albums of all time.Harry dropped Fine Line in the final days of 2019, but it resonates even deeper a year later, after giving up hits all year long. But that's what makes Rumours such an enduring achievement - it turns private pain into something universal.
It also cloaks the raw emotion of the lyrics in deceptively palatable arrangements that made a tune as wrecked and tortured as "Go Your Own Way" an anthemic hit. Once again masterminded by producer/songwriter/guitarist Buckingham, Rumours is an exceptionally musical piece of work - he toughens Christine McVie and softens Nicks, adding weird turns to accessibly melodic works, which gives the universal themes of the songs haunting resonance. No, what made Rumours an unparalleled blockbuster is the quality of the music. Everybody loves gawking at a good public breakup, but if that was all that it took to sell a record, Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights would be multi-platinum. You're eavesdropping on the bandmates singing painful truths about each other, spreading nasty lies and rumors and wallowing in their grief, all in the presence of the person who caused the heartache. These personal tensions fueled nearly every song on Rumours, which makes listening to the album a nearly voyeuristic experience. Bassist John McVie and his keyboardist/singer wife Christine McVie filed for divorce as guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks split, with Stevie running to drummer Mick Fleetwood, unbeknown to the rest of the band.
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Unlike most bands, Fleetwood Mac in the mid-'70s were professionally and romantically intertwined, with no less than two couples in the band, but as their professional career took off, the personal side unraveled. While its chart success was historic, much of the legend surrounding the record is born from the group's internal turmoil. Prior to this LP, Fleetwood Mac were moderately successful, but here they turned into a full-fledged phenomenon, with Rumours becoming the biggest-selling pop album to date. Rumours is the kind of album that transcends its origins and reputation, entering the realm of legend - it's an album that simply exists outside of criticism and outside of its time, even if it thoroughly captures its era.
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