FROM PIN-UP TO VISIONARY TAH ENTRANOANZA 3 ats) Cag ra al fy POGUED! SPRINGSTEEN THE BEST THING pera: IN A SILENT WAY au aD ELBOW? “JOY DIVISION, _ NEW ORDER & ME”RUMOURS A TRIBUTE TO FLEETWOOD MACS CLASSIC 1977 ALBUM FEATURING YEASAYER, MARY EPWORTH, THE STAVES, LIARS, DYLAN BEBISANG, THE BESNARD LAKES. SMA HOLTER t MORE LYEASAYER ‘Second Hand News Fiing an act that could effectively trartate the hea textured sound {vs Lindsey Buckingham penned Spener ina something ash was 9 Sefnte challenge. Enter Brookyrs Imodem dy psyehedsie moods Yeasayer Their thre studio albums have hile andarcinatedin equal messue,reecting a Mache ‘ophiteston Yesayers precision fae sense of musical adventure i ‘Sident hve, the band creating 9 SSnic undertow while manaining the orginal song's ina trust 9 DYLAN LEBLANC [Dont Want To Know ‘While Dylan Leblanc grew up around Fame Studios home to some of fouls greatest recordings hie music has haunted quality seemingly Influenced by Townes Van Zandt. Heese adds a country tinge to thi Stevie Nicks-penned tune with pedal steel guitar underpinning an emotive ‘Vocal performance Backing vocals come courtesy of Bekka Braet, 5 daughter of Delaney and Bonnie and | Mick Fleetwood collaborator. The | Wek rum sound, meanwhile, comes F courtesy ofa kick pedal iting an old Samsonite suitcase, Dovnhome! &MOIO. 2 DURE BATHING CULTURE Droams: Witten by Stevie Nicks one night 3t the Record Plant in Sausalito in early 1976 the rack was composes on {Fender Rhodes and bases around A preset hythm Fine-tune by the bang tbecome 9 USNumber ton ts telease a9 sngle nthe summer of "Portland based Pur Bathing Culture aka Vetiver acolytes Sarah Verspile (vos, Kes) ond Dani Hindman (gutor backing vocals) — keopthe tacks groove while adding 2 shimmering quality to the mix 10 MARY EPWORTH Oh Daddy Inthe past ve years, East Anglian Songstess Mary Epworth has emerged asa fascinating presence Deft her pth seemed tolead through the Bish folkunderoround, buther sound has subsequently become layered with elements of lectrnica and electicsm a polne ‘made on her debut album 2012 Dream tie and on this rack Indeed. MaryinterpretsCistine Meie's ode tothe steadying presence of Fleetwood with combination of vocal grace and delicous, slow boiled otmospheres 5 SLARAFFENLAND. Never Going Back Again Copenhagen’ lraffeniand have spent the past decade creating 2 Sound that fuses rack music with ithe sical ececticism, however S keen understanding of pop Synamics esa ther core a this ng version of Buckingham econd contribution to Rumour hihiights As result the racks Dercussve element re amplified Smid a ses ofchamberpop Stmospheres and closely twinned ‘vocal harmonies. 1 JULIA HOLTER Gok Dust Woman Responsible for one of MOIO's ‘Album OF The Year, ula Holker ‘manages to marry 4AD' celestial ream pop texturesto Seconstucted R&B groovesin the ‘mastbegullng manner Born and ‘aise in os Angeles, t seems ting that lla should cover Stevie Nicks {\blique hymn to California an bring 'Mad0' Rumours evisted ite to a cose. Expect much more from her in 2012 Meanwhile. in ur dreams Hotter iebusy inthe studio making ‘record with Lindsey Buckingham 4 THE PHOENX FOUNDATION Don't Stop Formed in 1997 n Welington, New Zealand, progressive indie ypes The eens Foundation ae enjoying the Support ofthe Bish medi rough Jars Cockers his nc adi sow ‘nan appearance on aterin October 21 The band sinvenie Spits ewdant on her son of Gistine Mies bouncy yet ‘elective tna, spay aunties tsident on their pop vocals sth te ae bons of pied laTIS ONE OF THE MOST METICULOUSLY produced albums of the °70s, not to mention one fof that decade's most enduring, but Fleetwood Mac's Ri with listeners in emotional as well as musical terms, Thirty-five years urs is also a long-player that continues to connect n from its release, the album's influence is still being felt on modern music — a point reinforced by this exclusive MOJO compilation which features a host of contemporary artists. Each of the acts included here has been personally selected by MOJO due their obvious affection for Fleetwood Mac. The result is a unique tribute to a truly remarkable collection of songs. We suggest that you allow Rumours Revisited to soundtrack this month’s cover story, then prepare to relive the genius of the original via the forthcoming deluxe reissue cubano which comes with demos and a bonus film we 5 DUTCH UNG 6 THE STAVES, ZIMARS 8 THE BESNARD LAKES Go Your Own Way Songbird The Chain You Make Loving Fan Le theieMempisindustries Coveredby everyone romWille How doyoutacklethe most herole The 2007 album, The Besnard Lakes labelmatesFieldMusiethe Dutch Nelsonto John Fascant, Songbird track Rumours youre Liars the Are The Dark Horse, was eal Unelesare purveyors “pennedbyChrstineMeVie~isanswerlssimple:youseekoutthe revelation asfar a MOJO was hstieated,inteligent pop. Thelt ing moment of alm in trac’sdarkheartandreflectthe concemed, introducing uo the ofSelt XTC andKing Crimson. Rumours emotional whiipool.On tune’ most menacing aspect, Montreal out’ post psychedelic makes them ideal suited totaling thelr vesion, Watfordssstery to Consequently, the angular Brooklyn sound. Despite the regular of the Buckinghams complex bitersweet” The Staves inte the istener tO utfrconstucta deeply textured, band'sbouts of activity we couldnt breakuptune Thairendiion plunge into their warm and hightmarishelectonie soundscape resist asking The Besnard Lakes to Puncwated by csp itelocking _comiortingsound-worls, where against whichthelyrics of damn contribute tothe Rumours project. Sutarswhich underscore Duncan sparse arrangements alow their _yaurlove/damn yourlies"take on Thankfully, they agreed and Wallss winsome vocaL’Sfinestuf harmonic grace to shine. Thelater ew meaning The ina coda of"you delivered ths fly sion thataugurswelforthebandsthed also animatesthet recently released wilneverbreakthe chal” suggests of another Christine Mei casi bum, Out OF Touch The wi, ‘debut abu hopes gone We await more new music rom the tahichs due outon January 4 zea phenom F with nail impatience. BURN oman encs Ds Loom enon eT comer Dig into it at Saatne er nce reeeny PES aCe OMer Fleetwood Mac's 2015 tour dates!Fa In 1975, FLEETWOOD MAG turned back from. the edge of extinction only to plunge into an alternative abyss of pre nreN(al Mee oO) narcotic excess. Out of it came Rumours: one of the greatest, most storied albums ever made. Older (mich), wiser Seman D aes Tome NCM Ne KeR CHM MRAM INR CO CPCI Oo theyre still wrestling with its ghosts. “We were i Ira Saree USN VOMMLNCS LCS LAVA CAO EL Boa te Te GURY Seno mre eCONiEY Cee nae ecient Ske skyline. An LA landmark since the °50s, it was Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham’s destination one afternoon in December 1976. liriend, vocalist Stevie Nicks, aan s platinum-selling Fleetwood Ma SE nett) een) Seo eng joined Fleetwood Mac two years bei meas Pare) Ree Peete onl eee Rumours. As he drove down Hollywood Freeway his then-plentifal rock star hair was, he a Piers 2,000 BMW or, like Nicks, splurged on a wardrobe of faney new Senet clothes. Then, as now, Lindsey Buckingham w The car radio was tuned to LA's progressive rock station =‘THEROAD TO RUMOURS #1: (clockwise from Below the 1969 line-up fom left) Danny er Green, Mick Fleetwood, Jetemy ims Nr Wonderful 1968; the 72 “7Sloerregnum with (middle row, from et) ‘obWeston Bob We Go Your Own ~< KMET, who were playing Rumours’ debut sin Way. As the song faded out, the D] started speaking, “He was this legendary Dj in LA called B. Mitchel Reed,” says Buckiy gle from Fleet od Mac Nah... 'm not sure about that one As soon ashe reached the studio, Buckingham was on the phone “Being the cocky young guy I was, I got B. Mitchel's number. I said, What didn’ you like? And he replied, I couldn't find the beat." The thing is, I'd put this disorientating guitar part on the son, cleventh hour, And know what?” He laughs drily. “I sort of know what he means A month later, Rumours was at Number 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. Officially the 14th biggest-selling album of all time, it remains one ofthe alchemical works of rack and pop, transceneling its mid70s West Coast milieu to bewiteh three generations of fans and serve asa touchstone for musicians as diverse as Billy Corgan and Grizzly Bear. Last year it achieved that most 21st century accolade: its own episode of Glee For punk-erafirebrands Rumours came to symbolise everythin hey opposed, but Lay’slisteners look past its glint of sunshine o silver coke spoons. Buckingham and Nicks may have been Fleet- wood Macs golden Californian couple, but there was always some thing subversive and, perhaps, perversely British atthe band’s core For each of Rumour’ flawless harmonies there's a “disorientating guitar”. For every sweet melody, there’s a lyric inspired by dark emotions and psychic trauma, Divorce, drugs and stir-eraziness all sssieled into its creation For Fleetwood Mac, the road to Rumours was marked by mad. cdening setbacks and incredible serendipity. Then, when the band reached their destination, they found themselves on the brink of collapse. As drummer Mick Fleetwood says: “We were lucky to get 78 MOIO extra disc of unreleased alternate takes, plus a promo film ~ the |2s8 2013, RUMOURS IS TO BE REISSUED WITH AN notorious Rosebud — that preserves the group in the amber of their late-'70s megafame. In February, the regrouped Mac begin rehearsals for a world tour, “We work when it feels right,” sys Fleetwood today, “The tempo is dictated by all of us.” Home for the 65-year-old Fleetwood is the Havatian island of Maui, where he has recently opened a beachside restaurant with tcard view of the ocean, Handi, the ‘Mac’ in Fleet trod Mac, 66-year-old basi John McVi, ves onthe neighbour ing sland of Ou, Nowadays, Fleetwood, with spon-hite bear Eapped MViesa keen al By the time they'd has turned intoa grizzled sea captain Rumours, Fleetwood and MeVie bad already weathered many storms. Fleetwood Mac were stars ofthe Iate-'60s British blues boom. But by 1971, they'd burned out three gifted guitarists, including founder member Peter Green, the star of the UK hits Man Of The World and Albatross Their luck changed with the arrival of former Chicken Shack anist Christine Perfect. She married McVie and joined Mac for 1970's Kiln House LP.A year late, they'd hired Californian vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Bob Welch, Welch Fleetwo wrote what Fleetwood describes as “these lovely kooky songs" for 1971s Future Games, "72's Bare Tree, Penguin and Mystery To Me (both "73). Folk, boogie and West Coast pop be blues. Slowly, Fleetwood Mac were feeling the sound that would make them spectacularly rich and famous. Touring America doggedly, the band sold just enough records, says Fleetwood, “to pay the Warner office’s lighting bill”. Back home in England, though, they were forgotten. When their 1969 hit Albatross was re-released in June "73, a Top OF The Pops host told viewers that Fleetwood Mac had since split up,(Clockwise rom ight Nicks, {nd Buckingham, secona In October, Fleetwood can- elled a US tour after discovering Bob Weston “Warners were terrified. Meteo ree asking, ‘Do we have a band, Mick?” MICK FLEETWOOD crestfallen, but Fl Ih an idea, “When Keith played mi nated with me. But it wasn't un il Bob quit that I realised how much City in Varn Nuys, and was introduced “Keith put on ewo tracks by thi Fleetwood 1. “Itwas ust tod it made an impact on me. By the “It's the strangest thing,” says Nicks, ‘of meeting Mick that day. And we were not high on drugs. back then lio with Keith Olsen and I had no money for dr leftth kouton tout Fleewo headed And after the neer Keith Olsen, next door. havea vague memory ofa pretty blonde “hecause have no memory sled," remembers ‘the studio, But /0 of them w their three children in an elegant estate in V phone number, and Jb Welch told ushe st super-happy. He only the silver fleck in hi ken about the amount of work those Buckingham Nicks songs, to join Fleetwood Mac.” S EVIE NICKS AND LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM'S STORY is one of the great rac ry-tales re years from Rumours, neither ca cap Co great rock'n'roll fary-tales, Thirty Today, Buckingham lives with Kristen, his wife of 12 years, and rood, California, musical perfectionist is as me is when making a record. Molo 79Botton therecamty-severed couple play ice Therewould have been MOIO 81GAIN REACTION ites iin att vod Mac | sccdea The singe broke into the US Top 10. A month an hal eso necrwecd Z.WOLA CRY LOVED iter, the album bad sold ion copes “Only me and John knew Macsongsthatled omtuanamneicanon | ice" ays Fecal, ese alors ew to Rumours. ee Gua Sd rch in ng or hse gig ‘vet Becnghonts xh Oh my Gos What i this? For John and 1 i¢ was more emo- 1. SENTIMENTAL LADY fakeyeounty buescameinhandy nal. After living through the Peter Green ra, we realised that tam Brees epi 172) itr senthefansled Re cited ‘BopWeldisromantic Fleetwood Macneededanewint something special was happening again i weechceremte forthechamn eyfoondunathey | | Sthcrnaway weelootng rhe | {jIN TRADITIONAL FLEETWOOD MAC STYLE, THEY ‘ineron 9728 | ‘would soon be brought back to earth. Seven years living ka r= 8. MONDAY MORNING | Teconding and touring together had taken itll onthe Suporesiy fom etwond Ma eps. 1975) Chitine Meviesunderstated MeVies. Christine announced that she was leaving John, and was backingvocalsitwosthe istsongto TY ny" Buckingham now seeing the grou} iting director, the improbably named ghting direc cunmyrocer os Spt reerence the viet Coast ur ake mace fon ener e pater ae j]camarestort Curry Grant. Neither party considered leaving Fleetwood Mac seundFeetvoodMacwou ar tesspi We had pec alcrn neato te Used Sollee pba ee teeth and carry on,” recalled Chris : sLFinse called Christine 2 MYPNOTIZED ‘Mac(aka‘The Wilts Aburn) ands Not wishing to lose momentum, the group came straight off the (tom Mystery ToMe Rear. 173) —_SypgestsdnaingLAsushie.he road and began planning their next album. By February 76, they ‘Welch apparently ‘open highway anda bright future for were at the Record Plant in Sausalito, The ramshackle-looking stu- wre tieeiebies ebekoneredoe ror ee Sie ae roptowdiys 9, OVER MY HEAD dark, claustrophobic. One room in the facility had its own bed su Nawajshamanhed ion Te Very Bs OfFietwood Moe, rounded by velvet drapes with a control booth sunk into the floor Tone ‘Reprise, 2002) It was nicknamed Sly Stone’s Pit, as Stone had spent most of his ‘courtin leetwood Mac's communal theold Fleetwood Macs mystic side” bepatbia ea The band hired two co-producers: Buckingham and Nicks’ former says Stevie Nicks today. ceva flatmate Richard Dashut, and Ken Caillat, who'd just helped engineer 5. WHY ‘Although included I-Ching coin to generate some “good-luck energy”. They'd need it ee earns a place of our own.” Nicks had her own reasons for moving: she bad pee ctnna sae ae EGON nc et ae trom Pernod Pep 1975) PE esata nach” cars hos” 2 StevieNickswrotehersignaturesore Y uckingham, “there is nothinglike success to undermine... thing 4. BERMLIDA TRIANGLE egerccut anne ad eSeeic unl ha been hing problema" he continues, "Bat ie es ee ro “IpresentedmysongstoLindseyon when Chris left John you had this situation where the two women Ro eS. cassette,” she ays, ‘which! would reinforced cach other’s notions... It was a catalyst to speed up what Em ne caty 705, leave bythe coffee pot witha note ro disappearingplanes —_produceitbut don'tchangeit.” longer under normal circumstances.” and ships, possibly eae related fuelledthe stonerimagiaation Another mystial etre —— > Bob Welch composition with Pestana strangely Buckinghamesque guitar Pectenronie i fils niet driven by Fletwoods peo ener torts fabulous almost motorikarumming Peeters 5. FROZEN LOVE Eee eee icone (rom Buckingham Nicks, Anthem, 1973) “The Buckingham Nickswackthat, ‘grabbed Mick Fleetwood tention during his ‘sto Sound cy studios Frozen Love wasa mighty prog flkepic whose vocal dynamics Sd melodramati gut slo became fomeofthe building bicksfor umourseraMac 6. CRYSTAL, (tom Buckingham Nicks Ante, 1973) Reworkedforthe Fleetwood Mac ‘album thisbeautflballadhad ts frstoutingasasingleandtrackon ‘Buckingham icks The ter version hasabiggersound butthere’s something compelingaboutthe Faweriginal:thesound oftwo penniless musicians erally, singing foetesupper. 82 MOJOThe studio atmosphere was understandably charged. “I thought | _ Jost after the band consumed a tray n says Ken Caillat “Then were laced with marijuana, Nicks: "We rein John's f 1e workload, the cocaine helped out the trauma in their private lives. “You sesed, We worked 35 days straight without a day off. TORIES FROMTHE MAKING OF RUMOURS have since entered rock'n'roll folklore. But alla insists that, despite one report, Fleet felt so bad about what was happening did a line to cheer yourself up,” sighs Nicks ‘We honesty thought that it couldn't harm us. That it wasn't addictive. How wrong we were.” Later, Fleetwood informed jo s to prevent the band from knowing how long they'd been working, Rumours would have carried a credit for his coke dark in there, you never knew whether i lealer ~ had the dealer not been murdered before the record came out “When it con ‘our substance abuse, I am the prime candi Reports too, that they spent four days tuning iti drag date,” Fleetwood conced about my cocaine use, These days I try rable that in those er wacked out that. But its true. It happened. | abvays imagine us making Rumours was ait ike Parisin the 1920s.” was shipped in for Steve's spooke Gold Dust Woman. To achieve a certain rhythmic effect on Lindsey’s percussive Second Hand News, Buckingham ‘played? the faux-leather seat ofa studio chair. Fleetwood, meanwhile, recalls hours wasted lookin bassdrums together. “Tused tsi a Tete IN erl Ned and saw Chris throw hye the same song eriten by a glass of champagne son : aa in Johns face” NENG NaN) And L would make my li ns lke a win smembers Dreams un-GHRISTINE MGVIE SPEAKS! EVI Retired? GTI reclusive? LUndsey Buckingham sald Mickwas NotwhenMOJO'son —_thewstat. Yyour tral, The Rumours. Pe atts tia re wate Songbird checks in diye lcantdenytherewaratote! oe fered condominium soa MickFleetwoodsays ‘ogetanaytiom althat asthe thattheanrvalot”boyswhoallseayedatthe Recor was pretty wild, butwegirs were Derterbehaved StevieNicksand arthouse. Sothat'whereallthe LUndsey Buckingham — madnesswashappening. Preah Youu sitpainfullistening tothese Eongwriter’ ngs some ofwhich wereabout WhenStevieandLndseyjoinea) _—-Yeurmariagebreaking up? Reviohnandihavelongsince made fends andlamsure Stevie and Lndsey haves wel Butlam often slflabbergartedathow thehell we ‘managedtomakeitinthefrstplace Burthac waswhattied ustogether~ webnewthatthemusiewas good ‘Thechemistrywassuenthatwe broughtthebestoutineschother, \WheredoesRumoursrankin history ofFleetwood Mac? Wel latwayshadabitofapenchant {or Mystery To Me(1973}.oved alot offobWeleh'ssongs,butmafaid Itsadistiner third paceto Rumours wth the white Fleetwood Mac album Sltingat second place. wasinawecfthe waythey wrote Bndsang together wastoughto Compete andbe good enough, Iwasnitaprolfcwritertoany degree didn startwrtingonge propery until joined Fleetwood Mae Iwasquiteanoviceon Boe Trees ndFuture ames What doyouthinkof Rumoursnow? Ihwasarealpeasutetolistentolt again vehadityingaroundbutrot Istened itor years. she fyou Ienext doorto Buckingham Palace, youdon"geandlookatitevery day. \Whatdo youremember about vwritingyoursongs? TidmostoritintheRecordPlantia Ssusslto Asthesongspeppedup, Doyoustayintouch withthe others? wehadtostartthinking about Tomintouchweth ohn very often, emposendicys SolwroteDont _ StevieandLindsey notso often. Stop and YouMakeLoving Fun Aw oo oes Specifically becauseweneeded fomethingotthattempo,andthat Spuredthe songsalong.iwrote Songbitdinhalfan houraftert woke ee eee song thereinmyhead. Solgotup eben eheedivobarennr sons en ming ben ing.butthey relimtedto what they Ainterviewed youontour with Fleetwood Macin 1997 and you toldmeyouwereleavingthegroup ‘singing accent. never dl hadto SinguithashghtAmercanaccent ‘when wassinging with Stevieand ~< draped Pit With usta cassette player and Fender Rhodes piano for company, she conjured a gentle el relationship. By contrast, Buckingham’s Go Your Own Way was an gy for her and Buckingham’s angry kiss-off “Lindsey took a more punk rock approach,” shrugs Nicks, “But that was his way of getting through it.I still don’t lke the line in Go Your Own Way — ‘shackin nately that’s how he felt about me, And Ihave to live with tha.” up is all you wanna do’ — but unfortu guess Stevie would rather have seen that song politicised Buckingham ripostes. “But what are you going to do? There is so ‘much truth going on in all of those songs that there is no way you ‘change them.” “They were writing those songs about and to each other,” ob- “and then singing them on the same mike don’t know how they di it. Warners were terrified, I had e tives phoning up and asking, ‘Do we still have a band, Mick?" And I said, Yes, because we will not stop what we are doing for anything serves Mick Fleetwood, even if we have to crucify ourselves.” OWARDS THE END OF THE GROUP’S TIME AT THE Record Plant, Fleetwood started to believe “that we were ll joing insane”. The claustrophobic environment was too ‘much: ex-couples were screaming at each other or not speaking at I; the days were blurring into nights; one studio engineer had taken to sleeping under the mixing desk as “it was the safest place tobe". Drugs and alcohol were rik A single incident convinced the drummer it was time to move ‘on, “One night I turned up and I saw John MeVie, on his own, tr ing to master abass part. This very well-grounded Scotsman was on his hands and knees praying, with a picture of his guru and a bot of brandy in front of him.” Fleetwood pauses, as if he still can’ believe what he save “And John was so nor that sort of guy 1 knew then that we had to get out of there.” The band emerged from the Record Plant, blinking into the day light, and headed off on another tour, In between shows, they returned to Los Angeles to finish the album, Fleetwood fielded more calls from concerned executives who now realised the band wouldn't ‘make the planned September release date, Rumours still wasn’t finished. They had 3,000 hours of recordings, and the master tape was now dangerously thin, During one meticulous 16-hour session, the overdubs were transferred from the deteriorating master to ing the basictracks. Cail: “If wwe hadn’t done that we'd have lost everythi another first-generation tape conta “At one point | think we'd rented every studio in LA,” says Nicks, “And just spent months overdubbing and Unde. hadtoadaptmy vol is aie emia ae) ‘accentabitButyoucouldalwaystell_ panarertnurant. ‘wasEnglsh ehinkthatasan ieee Impotantpartofeursound. jason cooking choos IRwastoomuch Tkehard work! spending more money. We became self-indulgent, spoiled and excessive, but we didn’t care. That was ‘when the cocaine really came into the picture and in a very bigway" In December 1976, Warners announced that Feet: ‘wood Macs new album was imminent. Its working title, Yesterday's Gone (from a lyric in Don't Stop) had been changed, at John McVie's suggestion, to Rumours. Only ‘one song, The Chain, was credited to all five members. The ric ~ “I can still hear you saying you would never break the chin” — dese what Fleetwood calls the realisation that the music we were making to powerful than any of us.” The song had started life at the Record Plant. In LA, the group re-wrote the verses, and added a new intro, re-working ofthe opening to Lola (My Love), a song from Bucking |ham Nils the flop whose sound had since played such a vital part in Released in January"77, Rumours would have the largest advance orders of any album in Warner Bros’ history. By March it had topped the charts in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK: a sweet victory forthe three exiled Brits who'd seen Fleetwood Mac written ‘off for dead at home. Four singles from the album would also be- ping Fleetwood Mac ome US Top IO hits. Atte ast official count, Rumours has sold 40 milion copies worldwidethat cocaine couldn & we were” us. That it wasnt addictive. MOIO 85