His own investment in the band had dwindled, too. When she did turn up to cut vocals for Tango in the Night, she made a point of knocking back brandy beforehand as a result, Buckingham would quietly bin most of her takes after sheвЂ™d left. Stevie Nicks was struggling, her prodigious cocaine habit no longer romantic but sad she wasnвЂ™t long out of the Betty Ford Center, and had more or less lost interest in the band with her solo career burgeoning. It was probably the glow of youth wearing off the lifestyle theyвЂ™d fallen into as individuals had lost its lustre by this point. By the time they started work on it in late 1985, nobody in the group was in an especially good place as Lindsey Buckingham would later surmise, 'everybody was leading their lives in a way that they would not be too proud of today.' Unlike its predecessors, it wasnвЂ™t a product of the strife surrounding it for the first time, Fleetwood Mac made an album in spite of intra-band turbulence, rather than because of it. This is precisely why Tango in the Night is the anomaly in the catalogue. Fleetwood MacвЂ™s folklore made their self-titled album, Rumours and, to a lesser extent, Tusk and Mirage what they were. вЂGo Your Own WayвЂ™ wouldnвЂ™t hit home the way it does if you didnвЂ™t know that every syllable was actually, honestly dripping with seething resentment. Overall, though, Rumours - and, by way of extension, the entirety of the band's Buckingham-Nicks glory years - is always going to be viewed through the prism of what was going on behind the scenes because that tension, be it romantic, creative or chemical, made the songs what they were. It seems daft to talk about a record thatвЂ™s shifted 28 million copies in a manner that suggests itвЂ™s somehow been hard done by, but there was a time when Rumours wasnвЂ™t cool - when вЂDreamsвЂ™ was most prominent in the popular imagination for having just been covered by The Corrs, and when the very specific Seventies production style - clean lines, sharp tones - was viewed as positively kitsch. If anything, RumoursвЂ™ resurgence in recent years, the result of a bright new Urban Outfitters-clad generation discovering it, has been pleasantly innocent and pure, with the evergreen nature of the songs themselves apparently holding the core appeal rather than the stories behind them. There was certainly never a Chinese wall. ThatвЂ™s not because they were better known, or even as well known, for their extracurricular activities as their music, but rather because the individual membersвЂ™ personal lives seeped into the songs with such frequency and ferocity as to render the two worlds inextricable.

Any kind of contemporary reflection on Fleetwood Mac is going to necessarily make reference to the band members' endeavours off the field of play.

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