Making Rumours

The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

De: Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel

Narrado por: Ken Caillat, Fred Berman

Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for 31 weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours - from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks.

• Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen
• Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun"; how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success; how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass

©2012 Ken Caillat and Steven Stiefel (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

What fun

This perspective on the producers and sound engineers role and producing this record is extremely eye-opening for me. I am very grateful for this audiobook. 

loved it!!

I loved this book so much. As a musician I loved all the detail and easygoing delivery
Fantastic!

Good insight but too much rock star worship

Good to hear about a production from the engineers pov but a little too fawning about the band. Some of those egos deserved a stomping.

As an audio engineer and music producer

This book is an incredible depiction of the making of the Rumour’s album. If you’re a music student, or an audio engineer, or just someone who enjoys learning about music, and the behind the scene environment of the music industry in Southern California during the 1970’s then you’ll enjoy this book.

A window into the golden age of recording

If you like Fleetwood Mac and also production and recording techniques you will love this book.

Simply great!!!

I'd highly recommend this for....1-anyone in music production or songwriting it's a very enlightening story about one of the greatest albums ever made. 2- any Fleetwood Mac fanatics. I wish Ken had been a little more specific on the model number of the mics, outboard gear and stuff (I know that would have been useless info for most folks, but not me!), but it is a great story.....Plenty of sex, drugs....and some rock and roll!

From a fan

If Fleetwood Mac and Rumours were the soundtrack of your college life, you can’t miss listening to this book. I spent a lot of time toggling between a particular song and the book. I see this album through a totally different lens now. Highly recommend

Great Book and great narration!

Who knew the drama that was behind the making of what was one of the greatest records of our time. A must read for anyone that loves music and the back story.

Wonderful storytelling

I enjoyed every story. The storytelling was so wonderful that I felt like I was there.

The behind the scenes stories were fascinating!

This book took me back to high school with a flood of memories and all the great music of the mid to late 70’s (before disco). I now have a new appreciation for just how good that era was and how much hard work, creativity, talent, and musicianship went into putting an album together. I also loved the narration. I didn’t want the stories to end.