Fleetwood Mac just lately launched Rumours Reside and one fortunate UCR reader will win a prize pack together with the album on vinyl.
Recorded on Aug. 29, 1977, Rumours Reside captures the band performing an electrical set on the Discussion board in Los Angeles. The efficiency got here roughly six months after Rumours was launched, and with the acclaimed LP nonetheless firmly entrenched within the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s chart, the band was greeting as heroes of their adopted dwelling of LA.
The live performance’s set record was made up virtually totally of fabric from Rumours and Fleetwood Mac, the band’s two most up-to-date albums and their first releases with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham within the lineup.
Highlights on Rumours Reside embody renditions of a few of Fleetwood Mac’s most beloved hits, reminiscent of: “Say You Love Me,” “Desires,” “Rhiannon,” “Landslide” and “The Chain.” Sixteen songs on Rumours Reside have by no means been beforehand launched.
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“Most of those stay variations are extra muscular, extra ferocious, than the album recordings,” band historian Sam Graham notes within the Rumours Reside liner notes, “pushed by the powerhouse Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm part and Buckingham’s febrile guitar enjoying; and as a substitute of a rote recital of the hits, the group stretches out in live performance, as songs like ‘Rhiannon,’ ‘World Turning’ and ‘I am So Afraid’ blossom into exuberant excursions de drive onstage.”
The winner will obtain Rumours Reside on vinyl, a Rumours Reside slipmat and a restricted version Fleetwood Mac classic poster, signed and numbered by the artist.
To your likelihood to win the Rumours Reside prize pack, merely enter your identify, e mail and cellphone quantity into the entry type on the prime of this web page. You’ll be added to UCR’s day by day e-newsletter mailing record. The competition ends on October 30, 2023, at 11:59PM ET.
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