Rumours
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Rumours
Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records. Largely recorded in California in 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
"Its success made Fleetwood Mac a cultural phenomenon and also set a template for pop with a gleaming surface that has something complicated, desperate, and dark resonating underneath."
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Rolling Stone
"Despite the interminable delay in finishing the record, Rumours proves that the success of Fleetwood Mac was no fluke."
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Observer
"Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, this intense, intimate, engaging miracle that we often take for granted, turns 40 this week."
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BBC
"Sonically, it's near perfect – there is little fuss, no mess and hardly any waste."
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Ultimate Classic Rock
"HOW FLEETWOOD MAC MADE A MASTERPIECE OUT OF MESSY RELATIONSHIPS ON ‘RUMOURS’"
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Soundblab
"Rumours is for the most part, undeniably seductive."
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Classic Rock Review
"...this album would become not just the band’s top seller, but one of the highest selling albums ever up to that point in time."
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sputnik music
"The perfect storm."
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Independent
"It speaks volumes about the enduring quality of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours"
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The Young Folks
"There’s no mystery as to why Rumours sold like hot cakes."
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Billboard, 1977
"The album solidifies the group's brilliant use of two female lead voices and male background singing against a crisp, medium-hard rock instrumental backing that can go softly lyrical and haunting when the material calls for it."
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Playboy, 1977
"Rumours offers a special sauce to make Ronald McDonald envious."
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The Top 100 Rock 'n' Roll Albums of All Time, Harmony Books, 1987
"Sound and lyrical content alike helped make Rumours the mega-success it was."
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Rock 'n' Roll on Compact Disc, 1987
"CD copies of Rumours have one great advantage in that they will not wear with the repeated playing this music deserves."
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The Essential Album Guide, 1996
"With 11 great songs and no duds, Rumours is as good as mainstream pop gets."
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Rolling Stone, 2002
"Rumours is splendid and pleasant and somehow not too dense, like being trapped in an open meadow."
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1,000 Top Albums of All Time, 2003
"Seamless and timeless, this blockbuster combines incredible writing with sweet music."
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Entertainment Weekly, 2013
"the emotionally stormy, immaculately produced Rumours remains the near-perfect apex of dissolute 1970s Jacuzzi rock."
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Uncut
"And it’s all because Rumours is as near perfect an album as anyone will ever make, and its lurid backstory of emotional turmoil and narcotic excess, endlessly recounted in prurient detail, is never less than fascinating."
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