Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The story of Fleetwood Mac, their beginning days as an English blues band,

helmed by the wildly expressive and emotionally fragile guitarist Peter Green,

to their mid-70s merger with the musical duo of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nix,

and top 40 rock stardom that drove them to cocaine-fueled excess,

is so complex that we needed two episodes to properly

tell this story. If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back to

the last episode of Disgraceland, part one of the Fleetwood Mac story. In this episode, we get into

the band's signature album, Rumors, and the intra-band

personal dynamics that stress the group and simultaneously led to the creation of one of the

top-selling albums of all time. We also get into the band's famous excess and ultimately

their creative demise, but not before delving into the great music that Flewwood Mac made.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Game 42.2, MK1.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to torn between two lovers by

Mary McGregor. And why would I play you that specific slice of on-the-nose cheese, could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on February 4th, 1977. And that was the day Fleetwood

Mac's album, Rumors was released, marking the beginning of what would become one of the most

successful sales runs of any pop record from any time in music history. On this, the second chapter

of a special two-part episode,

vicious rumors, ill-advised new wave,

seven miles of on-the-nose cheese in Fleetwood Mac.

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