Maybe they broke up over it.
"C'mon Lindsey, not the Bermuda song again. Audiences hate that one."
"Not this again. You know it's real. How do you explain the ship disappearances??"
"We got booed last time. Can't we just play Landslide twice like I wanted?"
"You're in on it. Admit it. How much did the Air Force pay you?
"Our fans think it sucks, man."
"But the SHIPS, Stevie!"
This is why I'm digging into Fleetwood's deeper library. The banger ratio is lower on their earlier stuff (none of its bad, just, less good). But then you find stuff like this.
Oh, the Penguin album is actually starting out well. This is a mood.
(I'm going backwards from Rumors.)
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
And then there's Stevie Nicks on stage with Lindsey Buckingham.
@ktneely To me the most intriguing part of their story is the nasty breakup and how they kept touring. Though we're back to their popular library, a watch of their live Rumors breakup tracks is also worth it.
I'm having trouble finding the best ones I've seen, but certainly the linked Go Your Own Way and The Chain. There's a good version of Dreams and Gold Dust Woman out there somewhere too, possibly also from this 1982 performance. They stare daggers at each other while they play these breakup songs they wrote about each other. There's this tension among all band members, and maybe drugs, but also they care about the audience having a good time. It's some high level authenticity art.
Aileen Scarrott, credited as Mrs Scarrott, was a resident of Headley in Hampshire where Fleetwood Mac lived between 1971 and 1974. She was featured reciting her poem Thoughts On a Grey Day on the band's 1972 album Bare Trees. She was born Aileen Katie Mary Huggett in 1904 at Eastbourne in Sussex. At the time of the recording she was married to Harry Scarrott, the third marriage for both of them. Harry had lived in Headley for at least forty years beforehand. Her previous marriages were to Alfred