Fleetwood Mac not too long ago launched Rumours Live and one fortunate UCR reader will win a prize pack together with the album on vinyl.
Recorded on Aug. 29, 1977, Rumours Live captures the band performing an electrical set on the Forum 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 house of LA.
The live performance’s set listing was made up virtually fully 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 Live embrace renditions of a few of Fleetwood Mac’s most beloved hits, similar to: “Say You Love Me,” “Dreams,” “Rhiannon,” “Landslide” and “The Chain.” Sixteen songs on Rumours Live have by no means been beforehand launched.
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“Most of these live versions are more muscular, more ferocious, than the album recordings,” band historian Sam Graham notes within the Rumours Live liner notes, “pushed by the powerhouse Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm part and Buckingham’s febrile guitar taking part in; and as an alternative of a rote recital of the hits, the group stretches out in live performance, as songs like ‘Rhiannon,’ ‘World Turning’ and ‘I’m So Afraid’ blossom into exuberant excursions de pressure onstage.”
The winner will receive Rumours Live on vinyl, a Rumours Live slipmat and a limited edition Fleetwood Mac vintage poster, signed and numbered by the artist.
For your chance to win the Rumours Live prize pack, simply enter your name, email and phone number into the entry form at the top of this page. You will be added to UCR’s daily newsletter mailing list. The contest ends on October 30, 2023, at 11:59PM ET.
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