Musica

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo

By bringing the authenticity of her life to her relatable songs, Olivia Rodrigo has achieved record-breaking success. Her 2021 smash hit "Driver's License" and subsequent singles "Deja Vu" and "Good 4 U" made the singer/songwriter the youngest artist ever to top the Billboard Hot 100, and the first artist to have their first three singles debut in the Top Ten of that chart. These extraordinarily popular songs paved the way for Rodrigo's multi-platinum, Grammy-winning debut album, Sour. Its heartbroken, defiant, and witty mix of pop, folk, and alternative rock captured the highs and lows of a young woman fearlessly expressing who she is, how she feels, and what she wants -- themes she approached with more maturity on 2023's Grammy-nominated GUTS and its chart-topping single "Vampire." While growing up in Temecula, California, Rodrigo's first love was singing. She started vocal lessons in kindergarten and took up piano soon after; by age 12, she was playing guitar. At the suggestion of her vocal coach, she pursued acting, and she appeared in productions at her elementary and middle schools -- experiences that led her to seek professional acting jobs. In 2016, she was cast as Paige Olvera in in the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark. It was an opportunity that led to Rodrigo winning the lead role of Nini Salazar-Roberts in the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, a mockumentary-style show that follows the on- and off-stage drama that happens when the student body of East High puts on a production of High School Musical: The Musical. When the show's creators -- which included writer and Broadway librettist Tim Federle -- learned Rodrigo was a songwriter, they encouraged her to pen original songs for the series. Written in Rodrigo's living room during finals week of her sophomore year, "All I Want" garnered millions of streams after the show's debut in November 2019 and entered the U.S. and Canada Hot 100 singles charts in January 2020. Rodrigo also collaborated with her co-star <a href="spotify:artist:4VdV2qRAYBLINR6uU72V1J">Joshua Bassett</a> on the duet "Just for a Moment." In the wake of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series' success, she continued to work on her own music with producer Dan Nigro (who also collaborated with <a href="spotify:artist:6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju">Carly Rae Jepsen</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7pyhre5oEEFMqcgMEvJY7q">Sky Ferreira</a>), looking to the confessional songwriting of <a href="spotify:artist:3g2kUQ6tHLLbmkV7T4GPtL">Fiona Apple</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1r1uxoy19fzMxunt3ONAkG">Phoebe Bridgers</a>, and especially <a href="spotify:artist:06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02">Taylor Swift</a> for inspiration. After she signed with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Interscope+%22">Interscope </a>and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Geffen%22">Geffen</a> in 2020, Rodrigo's debut single, "Driver's License," arrived in January 2021 and quickly topped charts around the world. This included the Billboard Hot 100, making her the youngest artist to debut at number one on that chart. Along with breaking several streaming records, the single was a multi-platinum success in the U.S. and Canada and went platinum in several other countries. That April, her second single, "Deja Vu," appeared, and its debut at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 made her the first artist in history to have her first two singles debut within the Top Ten. A third single, "Good 4 U," arrived in May. Like "Driver's License," it topped the Billboard Hot 100, and Rodrigo became the first artist in Billboard's history to have their first three singles debut in the Top Ten of that chart. In turn, May 2021's Sour became the first debut album to feature two singles that topped the Billboard Hot 100 upon release. Initially intended to be an EP, the album mixed pop, alt-rock, and folk and took inspiration from <a href="spotify:artist:0cQbJU1aAzvbEmTuljWLlF">No Doubt</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4F84IBURUo98rz4r61KF70">the White Stripes</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6ogn9necmbUdCppmNnGOdi">Alanis Morrissette</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:70kkdajctXSbqSMJbQO424">Kacey Musgraves</a>, among others. Co-written by Rodrigo and Nigro, Sour was hailed for its genre-defying sound and candid songwriting. It was a massive global success, becoming the second best-selling album in the world in 2021. In the U.S., Sour debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, ultimately spending five weeks total in that spot (an accomplishment that made it 2021's longest-running number one album by a female artist) and 52 weeks in the Top Ten, earning multiple platinum certifications along the way. Shortly after Sour's release, all of its tracks appeared in the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "Traitor" becoming its fourth single to debut in the Top Ten. In the U.K., Sour debuted at number one the same week "Good 4 U" topped the U.K. Singles chart, making Rodrigo the youngest solo artist to have the top-selling release on both charts. The album also topped the charts in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where it spent ten consecutive weeks in the peak position. As Sour broke chart records, Rodrigo's concert film Sour Prom premiered in June 2021. That December, she launched her world tour, performed in Hope for the Holidays, Musicians on Call's second annual virtual concert for hospital patients, won the People's Choice Award for Album of the Year, and was named Time Magazine's Entertainer of the Year. Sour and Rodrigo's accolades continued into 2022. At that year's Grammy Awards, she won the awards for Best New Artist, Best Pop Solo Performance for "Driver's License," and Best Pop Vocal album for Sour (Rodrigo was nominated in all four of the general Grammy categories, making her the second-youngest artist after <a href="spotify:artist:6qqNVTkY8uBg9cP3Jd7DAH">Billie Eilish</a> to earn this recognition). She also won the Juno Award for International Album of the Year; the Brit Award for International Song of the Year; seven Billboard Music Awards including Top Billboard 200 album, Top New Artist, and Top Female Artist; and the ASCAP Award for Songwriter of the Year. March 2022 saw the premiere of Driving Home 2 U, a documentary chronicling the creation of Sour. That April, Rodrigo kicked off her first headlining concert tour. She covered <a href="spotify:artist:0p4nmQO2msCgU4IF37Wi3j">Avril Lavigne</a>'s "Complicated" at every show, and <a href="spotify:artist:0p4nmQO2msCgU4IF37Wi3j">Lavigne</a> joined her in performing the song at the Toronto date. At her Glastonbury Festival appearance that June, Rodrigo and <a href="spotify:artist:13saZpZnCDWOI9D4IJhp1f">Lily Allen</a> performed "Fuck You" as a response to the overruling of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. In September 2022, Rodrigo departed High School Musical: The Musical: The Series at the end of its third season. At the end of the year and into 2023, Rodrigo did more charity work, participating in the third annual Venture Into Cures virtual fundraising event for families with epidermolysis bullosa and other rare diseases, the third annual Musicians on Call virtual concert, and the MusiCares Foundation Charity Relief Auction. She released "Vampire," her first single in two years, that June. Her third single to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, it also topped the charts in the U.K., Australia, Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand. That song and August's multinational Top Ten hit "Bad Idea Right?" appeared on September 2023's GUTS. Produced by Nigro and recorded at his garage studio, Rodrigo's second album built on Sour's wry rock and sweeping ballads as she took stock of her tumultuous teen years. The album once again topped the U.S. and U.K. charts as well as those of 12 other countries, while all of its songs appeared in the Top 40 of the Hot 100 Singles Chart in the U.S. GUTS was also nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 66th Grammy Awards. That November, Rodrigo's "Can't Catch Me Now" appeared on Music from and Inspired by the Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes; the song ultimately won the 2023 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in a Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror Film. Later in November, the four bonus tracks featured on limited edition vinyl releases of the album were issued as the vinyl EP That November, Rodrigo's "Can't Catch Me Now" appeared on Music from and Inspired by the Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes; the song ultimately won the 2023 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in a Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror Film. Later in November, the four bonus tracks featured on limited edition vinyl releases of the album were issued as the vinyl EP GUTS: The Secret Tracks for Record Store Day Black Friday. While on tour in March 2024, Rodrigo released GUTS (spilled), a deluxe edition of the album with five bonus tracks. The following month, she made a surprise appearance at Coachella, performing "Bathwater" with <a href="spotify:artist:0cQbJU1aAzvbEmTuljWLlF">No Doubt</a> during their set. Rodrigo and Nigro were also named ASCAP's 2024 Pop Music Songwriters of the Year, marking their second time winning the award. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi

Appetite for Destruction

Appetite for Destruction

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

While most bands undergo a number of changes over the course of their careers, few of them experienced a more radical stylistic evolution than Fleetwood Mac. Initially conceived as a hard-edged British blues combo in the late '60s, the band gradually evolved into an incredibly popular and influential pop/rock act over the course of a decade. Originally, guitarists <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Peter Green</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3GrqVz7V3Hd8gvfvUcR9wk">Jeremy Spencer</a> provided the group with their gutsy psychedelic blues-rock sound, then the band moved toward pop/rock with the addition of keyboardist/songwriter <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a>. By the mid-'70s, Fleetwood Mac relocated to California, where they added the duo of <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Lindsey Buckingham</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Stevie Nicks</a> to their lineup; the latter pair's writing and vocals helped the band become one of the most popular groups of the late '70s. Combining melodic soft rock with the confessional introspection of singer/songwriters, 1977's Rumours become one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. The band retained their popularity through the early '80s, when <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">McVie</a> all began pursuing solo careers. The group reunited for 1987's Tango in the Night, but after more lineup changes and instability, they split after 1995's Time. The band quickly reunited, though, assembling for The Dance, a 1997 live album, then stabilizing without <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> for their 2000s incarnation, a lineup that produced 2003's Say You Will. <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">McVie</a> returned to the fold for a series of successful tours starting in 2014, but the group harmony was short-lived. <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> was ousted prior to an anniversary tour in 2018, his departure proof that the one constant in Fleetwood Mac through the years was change. The roots of Fleetwood Mac lie in <a href="spotify:artist:5s4z3mRAE7nxE3jjft8J3h">John Mayall</a>'s legendary British blues outfit, <a href="spotify:artist:5s4z3mRAE7nxE3jjft8J3h">the Bluesbreakers</a>. Bassist <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">John McVie</a> was one of the charter members of <a href="spotify:artist:5s4z3mRAE7nxE3jjft8J3h">the Bluesbreakers</a>, joining the group in 1963. In 1966 <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Peter Green</a> replaced <a href="spotify:artist:6PAt558ZEZl0DmdXlnjMgD">Eric Clapton</a>, and a year later drummer <a href="spotify:artist:7bRRWmUqERkyOVSSU6MPFu">Mick Fleetwood</a> joined. Inspired by the success of <a href="spotify:artist:74oJ4qxwOZvX6oSsu1DGnw">Cream</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2lxX1ivRYp26soIavdG9bX">the Yardbirds</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:776Uo845nYHJpNaStv1Ds4">Jimi Hendrix</a>, the trio decided to break away from <a href="spotify:artist:5s4z3mRAE7nxE3jjft8J3h">Mayall</a> in 1967. At their debut at the British Jazz and Blues Festival in August, Bob Brunning was playing bass in the group, since <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">McVie</a> was still under contract to <a href="spotify:artist:5s4z3mRAE7nxE3jjft8J3h">Mayall</a>. He joined the band a few weeks after their debut; by that time, slide guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:3GrqVz7V3Hd8gvfvUcR9wk">Jeremy Spencer</a> had joined the band. Fleetwood Mac soon signed with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Blue+Horizon%22">Blue Horizon</a>, releasing their eponymous debut the following year. Fleetwood Mac was an enormous hit in the U.K., spending over a year in the Top Ten. Despite its British success, the album was virtually ignored in America. During 1968, the band added guitarist Danny Kirwan. The following year, they recorded Fleetwood Mac in Chicago with a variety of bluesmen, including <a href="spotify:artist:5v8WPpMk60cqZbuZLdXjKY">Willie Dixon</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0xeI9Z0Uhs8bYGBRpqq88X">Otis Spann</a>. The set was released later that year, after the band had left <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Blue+Horizon%22">Blue Horizon</a> for a one-album deal with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Immediate+Records%22">Immediate Records</a>; in the U.S., they signed with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Reprise%2FWarner+Bros.%22">Reprise/Warner Bros.</a>, and by 1970, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Warner%22">Warner</a> began releasing the band's British records as well. Fleetwood Mac released English Rose and Then Play On during 1969, which both indicated that the band was expanding its music, moving away from its blues purist roots. That year, <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Peter Green</a>'s "Man of the World" and "Oh Well" were number two hits. Though his music was providing the backbone of the group, <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Green</a> was growing increasingly disturbed due to his large ingestion of hallucinogenic drugs. After announcing that he was planning to give all of his earnings away, <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Green</a> suddenly left the band in the spring of 1970; he released two solo albums over the course of the '70s, but he rarely performed after leaving Fleetwood Mac. The band replaced him with <a href="spotify:artist:1YTLOHyyXnaj7W1g1oSS56">Christine Perfect</a>, a vocalist/pianist who had earned a small but loyal following in the U.K. by singing with <a href="spotify:artist:0XoAXg2HRKXMpm5MS1BBRW">Spencer Davis</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7aUVQRiWaOqZU0JwOlGfWi">the Chicken Shack</a>. She had already performed uncredited on Then Play On. Contractual difficulties prevented her from becoming a full-fledged member of Fleetwood Mac until 1971; by that time she had married <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">John McVie</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> didn't appear on 1970's Kiln House, the first album the band recorded without <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Peter Green</a>. For that album, <a href="spotify:artist:3GrqVz7V3Hd8gvfvUcR9wk">Jeremy Spencer</a> dominated the band's musical direction, but he had also been undergoing mental problems due to heavy drug use. During the band's American tour in early 1971, <a href="spotify:artist:3GrqVz7V3Hd8gvfvUcR9wk">Spencer</a> disappeared; it was later discovered that he left the band to join the religious cult the Children of God. Fleetwood Mac had already been trying to determine the direction of their music, but <a href="spotify:artist:3GrqVz7V3Hd8gvfvUcR9wk">Spencer</a>'s departure sent the band into disarray. <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> and Danny Kirwan began to move the band toward mainstream rock on 1971's Future Games, but new guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:0reZZVbAPxgX1Rqj6XbWj3">Bob Welch</a> exerted a heavy influence on 1972's Bare Trees. Kirwan was fired after Bare Trees and was replaced by guitarists Bob Weston and <a href="spotify:artist:739a9VeGbv0lMBRIkRInJT">Dave Walker</a>, who appeared on 1973's Penguin. <a href="spotify:artist:739a9VeGbv0lMBRIkRInJT">Walker</a> left after that album, and Weston departed after making its follow-up, Mystery to Me (1973). In 1974, the group's manager, Clifford Davis, formed a bogus Fleetwood Mac and had the band tour the U.S. The real Fleetwood Mac filed and won a lawsuit against the imposters who, after losing, began performing under the name <a href="spotify:artist:61oNrjLV0SUliHTOXUgCXg">Stretch</a> -- but the lawsuit kept the band off the road for most of the year. In the interim, they released Heroes Are Hard to Find. Late in 1974, Fleetwood Mac moved to California, with hopes of restarting their career. <a href="spotify:artist:0reZZVbAPxgX1Rqj6XbWj3">Welch</a> left the band shortly after the move to form <a href="spotify:artist:5OgPxDOpkLH64knclKGTlU">Paris</a>. Early in 1975, <a href="spotify:artist:7bRRWmUqERkyOVSSU6MPFu">Fleetwood</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">McVie</a> were auditioning engineers for the band's new album when they heard Buckingham-Nicks, an album recorded by the soft rock duo <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Lindsey Buckingham</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Stevie Nicks</a>. The pair were asked to join the group and their addition revived the band's musical and commercial fortunes. Not only did <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> write songs, but they brought distinctive talents the band had been lacking. <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> was a skilled pop craftsman, capable of arranging a commercial song while keeping it musically adventurous. <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> had a husky voice and a sexy, hippie gypsy stage persona that gave the band a charismatic frontwoman. The new lineup of Fleetwood Mac released their eponymous debut in 1975 and it slowly became a huge hit, reaching number one in 1976 on the strength of the singles "Over My Head," "Rhiannon," and "Say You Love Me." The album would eventually sell over five million copies in the U.S. alone. While Fleetwood Mac had finally attained their long-desired commercial success, the band was fraying behind the scenes. The McVies divorced in 1976, and <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a>' romance ended shortly afterward. The internal tensions formed the basis for the songs on their next album, Rumours. Released in the spring of 1977, Rumours became a blockbuster success, topping the American and British charts and generating the Top Ten singles "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," "Don't Stop," and "You Make Loving Fun." It would eventually sell over 17 million copies in the U.S. alone, making it the second biggest-selling album of all time. Fleetwood Mac supported the album with an exhaustive, lucrative tour and then retired to the studio to record their follow-up to Rumours. A wildly experimental double album conceived largely by <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>, 1979's Tusk didn't duplicate the enormous success of Rumours, yet it did go multi-platinum and featured the Top Ten singles "Sara" and "Tusk." In 1980, they released the double album Live. Following the Tusk tour, <a href="spotify:artist:7bRRWmUqERkyOVSSU6MPFu">Fleetwood</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> all recorded solo albums. Of the solo projects, <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Stevie Nicks</a>' Bella Donna (1981) was the most successful, peaking at number one and featuring the hit singles "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Leather and Lace," and "Edge of Seventeen." <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>'s Law and Order (1981) was a moderate success, spawning the Top Ten "Trouble." <a href="spotify:artist:7bRRWmUqERkyOVSSU6MPFu">Fleetwood</a>, for his part, made a world music album called The Visitor. Fleetwood Mac reconvened in 1982 for Mirage. More conventional and accessible than Tusk, Mirage reached number one and featured the hit singles "Hold Me" and "Gypsy." After Mirage, <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> all worked on solo albums. The hiatus was due to a variety of reasons. Each member had his or her own manager, <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> was becoming the group's breakaway star, <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> was obsessive in the studio, and each member was suffering from various substance addictions. <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> was able to maintain her popularity, with The Wild Heart (1983) and Rock a Little (1985) both reaching the Top 15. <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> also had a Top Ten hit with "Got a Hold on Me" in 1984. <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> received the strongest reviews of all, but his 1984 album Go Insane failed to generate a hit. Fleetwood Mac reunited to record a new album in 1985. <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>, who had grown increasingly frustrated with the musical limitations of the band, decided to make it his last Fleetwood Mac project. When the resulting album, Tango in the Night, was finally released in 1987, it was greeted with mixed reviews but strong sales, reaching the Top Ten and generating the Top 20 hits "Little Lies," "Seven Wonders," and "Everywhere." <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> decided to leave Fleetwood Mac after completing Tango in the Night, and the group replaced him with guitarists <a href="spotify:artist:596pF0tYoKyJCgI4WLTLs4">Billy Burnette</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0yC7EvUceCEZm3ZeawauQA">Rick Vito</a>. The new lineup of the band recorded their first album, Behind the Mask, in 1990. It became the band's first album since 1975 to not go gold. Following its supporting tour, <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> announced they would continue to record with the group, but not tour. <a href="spotify:artist:0yC7EvUceCEZm3ZeawauQA">Vito</a> left the band in 1991, and the group released the box set 25 Years -- The Chain the following year. The classic Fleetwood Mac lineup of <a href="spotify:artist:7bRRWmUqERkyOVSSU6MPFu">Fleetwood</a>, the McVies, <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> reunited to play President <a href="spotify:artist:4qTVFolSrwkoy428bmP7u8">Bill Clinton</a>'s inauguration in early 1993, but the concert did not lead to a full-fledged reunion. Later that year, <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a> left the band and was replaced by <a href="spotify:artist:49vXMn0pGqgPk6DYnOmohd">Bekka Bramlett</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2DWQX92uew7DlsgN0yD775">Dave Mason</a>; <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> left the group shortly afterward. The new lineup of Fleetwood Mac began touring in 1994, releasing Time the following year to little attention. While the new version of Fleetwood Mac wasn't commercially successful, neither were the solo careers of <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">McVie</a>, prompting speculation of a full-fledged reunion in 1997. Soon these whispers proved to be true, as the classic Rumours quintet reunited for a live performance that became the 1997 album The Dance. The album performed well, debuting at number one on Billboard and generating an adult contemporary hit in the new version of "Landslide." Fleetwood Mac supported The Dance with a tour that lasted throughout the year and, early in 1998, the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Not long afterward, <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> announced she was leaving the band. Her departure may have slowed the speed of Fleetwood Mac's reunion, but the remaining quartet set to work writing and recording a new album. The resulting Say You Will appeared in April of 2003; it was their first studio album in eight years and the first in 16 to feature <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Nicks</a>. Say You Will performed well -- it went gold in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, with the singles "Peacekeeper" and "Say You Will" reaching the U.S. Adult Contemporary Top 20 -- and the accompanying international tour was a success. After a few quiet years when <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> resumed his solo career and the group unsuccessfully courted <a href="spotify:artist:4TKTii6gnOnUXQHyuo9JaD">Sheryl Crow</a> as a replacement for <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a>, they reconvened for a tour in 2009. Four years later, the group celebrated the 35th anniversary of Rumours with a new deluxe box reissue accompanied by a tour. As the tour got underway in April, the band unexpectedly released a four-track Extended Play of new material; it received good notices and entered the U.S. charts at 48. During a three-night stint at London's O2 in September 2013, <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> appeared with Fleetwood Mac for the first time in 15 years. In January 2014, the band announced that <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine</a> was rejoining the group and they started recording a new album. The progress on the album was slow and steady, partially due to individual solo projects, partially due to interruptions caused by the band's ongoing world tour; they played international dates in both 2014 and 2015. As the group continued to chip away at their new record, they released a Super Deluxe reissue of Tusk in time for the holidays of 2015, which was followed the subsequent fall by a Deluxe reissue of Mirage. Further catalog reissues followed in the next few years -- Tango in the Night received a Super Deluxe treatment in 2017, while their eponymous 1975 album got an upgrade in early 2018 -- but the bigger news in Fleetwood Mac circles was <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">McVie</a> recording a duet album together in 2017. Initially planned as a new Fleetwood Mac album, the 2017 set -- entitled Buckingham McVie, echoing 1973's Buckingham Nicks -- turned into a <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Lindsey</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine</a> project once <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz">Stevie Nicks</a> decided to concentrate on her solo career. Retaining <a href="spotify:artist:7bRRWmUqERkyOVSSU6MPFu">Mick Fleetwood</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">John McVie</a> as their main rhythm section, <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3IuIXQGupZ89qG162Y5sZ6">McVie</a> finished the album with the assistance of producers <a href="spotify:artist:6nEsI2S68MX6T0dVdLtido">Mitchell Froom</a> and Mark Needham, releasing the record in June 2017. Early in 2018, Fleetwood Mac reunited to play a gig celebrating their award as MusiCares Person of the Year. This turned out to be the last concert <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> would play with Fleetwood Mac. In April, <a href="spotify:artist:3Dzj993UEz8Z5ovxuirzFO">Buckingham</a> was fired from the band; he would later file a lawsuit against the group regarding his dismissal. Fleetwood Mac hired <a href="spotify:artist:183DuT2WcaEO2tclTJW1tU">Neil Finn</a> and Mike Campbell to replace him and launched an international tour in September 2018, releasing a compilation album titled 50 Years: Don't Stop as a companion to the tour. The record debuted at 12 on the U.K. charts and 65 on Billboard's Top 200. The concert album Before the Beginning: Rare Live & Demo Sessions 1968-1970 arrived in November 2019 and featured previously unreleased live performances captured during <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Peter Green</a>'s time with the band. This reminder of <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Green</a>'s glory days came only months before he died in his sleep on July 25, 2020, at the age of 73. Two months after <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Green</a>'s passing, the box set Fleetwood Mac: 1969-1974 appeared; it had expanded and remastered versions of all the albums the group released during those six years. <a href="spotify:artist:6RCsx4p5smZHYz2P5HLcL2">Christine McVie</a> died on November 30, 2022, after a brief illness; she was 79 years of age. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Every Breath You Take

Every Breath You Take