The famous music associated with British Formula 1 television coverage is the instrumental ending of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain”. The recording appeared on the band’s 1977 album Rumours. The BBC began using its dramatic bass-driven…
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Fleetwood Mac. Not the Fleetwood Mac most people imagine. Peter Green wrote and sang the original “Black Magic Woman” in 1968, years before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the group. Santana then transformed the…
Stevie Nicks didn’t originally write “Rhiannon” about a Welsh goddess. She didn’t even know the mythology. She found the name in a novel. Loved it. Wrote a song around a mysterious woman. Then discovered afterwards…
“Landslide” is about change. But the change wasn’t abstract. Stevie Nicks wrote it while seriously considering whether to abandon her dream of becoming a professional musician. Her album with Lindsey Buckingham had failed commercially. Money…
“Dreams” is Stevie Nicks’ side of a breakup. Specifically: her breakup with Lindsey Buckingham. The extraordinary thing is that Buckingham was standing inside the same band while she sang it. Even more extraordinary: he was…
