![]() ![]() Because we ended up making a far better album than we gave ourselves credit for for many years. In the three-part harmonies and the assured snap of. The fact that we're talking about it again is actually really cool. Fleetwood Mac boasts the rarest of chart-topping, adult-oriented rock virtues a group personality. Having said that, the amazing thing is that, looking back on it now, in the present day, so many of those songs are at a very high level in the continuing story of Fleetwood Mac. "If you were a sort of super-intellectual critic, which is maybe not a great place to come from, it would be fair game to say the album kind of went backwards. "I don't think it would be wrong to say it sort of got overlooked," Mick Fleetwood said about the Mirage album in retrospect. In the UK, "Oh Diane" was released as the third single instead of "Love in Store." It was a hit, peaking at #9 on the British charts. The third single from Mirage, "Love in Store," made it's way to #22 on the singles chart. The #1 song in America that week: Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger." Second single "Gypsy" peaked at #12 on the Hot 100 for the week October 23, 1982. The album was something of a singles bonanza: Lead single "Hold Me," released June 1982, stormed up the Hot 100, peaking at #4 for the week of July 24, 1982. It finally fell to John Cougar's American Fool on September 10, 1982. It followed a three year hiatus in which three group members had released their debut solo efforts. Warners will reissue Fleetwood Mac‘s 1982 album Mirage in July in two-disc deluxe and five-disc super deluxe edition configurations Newly remastered, the deluxe adds a second disc with 19 tracks dedicated entirely to outtakes and rarities, including early versions of several album tracks outtakes for songs that didn’t make it to the album an unreleased cover of the Fats Domino classic. This studio effort's soft rock sound stood in stark contrast to its more experimental predecessor, 1979's Tusk. Mirage is the 13th studio album by Fleetwood Mac, released on June 18th 1982. The album remained atop the Billboard 200 for five weeks straight. Mirage is the thirteenth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 18 June 1982 by Warner Bros. The record raced up the charts to peak at #1 for the week of August 7, 1982. Released on June 18, 1982, Mirage proved that Fleetwood Mac still had that old fire. so that we could make an album without imploding." "But in truth, knowing me, I think the main purpose of it was to get them the hell out of L.A. And very kindly they did that," drummer Mick Fleetwood told Rolling Stone in 2016. "My recollect was I asked the band if I could record overseas to help me out with some tax issues. With Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Raymond Lindsey. Soon, the band began putting together what would become their thirteenth studio effort, Mirage. Fleetwood Mac in Concert: Mirage Tour 82: Directed by Marty Callner. The sprawling and experimental double-album had been a huge hit, but still paled in comparison to the monster sales and cultural influence of its 1977 predecessor, Rumours.įollowing Tusk with a victory-lap Live album, the members of Fleetwood Mac eventually met up in France, setting up shop at at the famed Chateau d'Herouville outside of Paris. It took five years until the band would release another album, 1987’s Tango In The Night.By 1982, the dust had finally settled from the maelstrom that surrounded Fleetwood Mac's 1979 album, Tusk. For me, none of the albums after Tusk quite had it. And Buckingham admitted, “On Mirage, I was treading water, saying, ‘Okay, whatever,’ and taking a passive role. ![]() Christine McVie shared, “ Mirage was an attempt to get back into the flow that Rumours had. Overseas, the album would reach the top 20 in several countries and “Oh Diane” was a top 10 hit in the UK.ĭespite the album’s success, members would later admit that the band was in a steep decline at the time. The album still found success, spawning three top 30 hits in the US including the #4 “Gyspy”. The success of Nicks' Bella Donna, however, made record executives anxious to get Fleetwood Mac back in the studio – and the result was Mirage.īut relations between members got so bad that the director for the video of the album’s lead single “Hold Me” would describe the atmosphere as “a fucking nightmare”, adding that four of the members “couldn’t be together in the same room for very long”. It spent 5 weeks at the number 1 spot in the US (their third and final chart-topper) and reached the top 20 in several other countries.Īfter touring for their previous album Tusk, the band was exhausted and relations were strained, so the group went on hiatus for a year as Nicks, Buckingham and Fleetwood each released their debut solo albums. Mirage is the 13th studio album by British- American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in June of 1982. ![]()
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