Live (Fleetwood Mac album)

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Live
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Released5 December 1980
Recorded17 October 1975 – 4 September 1980
Genre
Length91:06
Label Warner Bros.
Producer
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Tusk
(1979)
Live
(1980)
Mirage
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau C+ [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Live is a double live album released by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac on 5 December 1980. [5] It was the first live album from the then-current line-up of the band, and the next would be The Dance from 1997. The album was certified gold (500,000 copies sold) by the RIAA in November 1981. [6] A deluxe edition of the album was released on 9 April 2021. [7]

Contents

Live consists of recordings taken primarily from the 1979–1980 Tusk Tour and a Buckingham Nicks track, "Don't Let Me Down Again", from the 1975 Fleetwood Mac Tour. The deluxe edition also includes a few recordings from the earlier Rumours Tour of 1977 and the later Mirage Tour of 1982. According to the liner notes, two songs were recorded at a Paris soundcheck and three at a performance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium "for an audience of friends and road crew".

Background

Drummer Mick Fleetwood had originally suggested that the band release a live album at the time of the Rumours tour, although the band decided against it, with recording engineer Richard Dashut arguing that it would interfere with the band's in-studio identity. The band still recorded over 400 shows from 1975-79 in case they changed their minds. At the conclusion of the Tusk tour, Fleetwood brought up the idea again, and this time the band agreed despite Buckingham's and John McVie's initial reservations. [8]

Of particular note are three new songs—Christine McVie's "One More Night", Stevie Nicks's "Fireflies", and a well-harmonized backstage rendition of the Beach Boys' "The Farmer's Daughter". The latter two were released as singles; "Fireflies" reached the top 60 in the US, while "The Farmer's Daughter" reached the top 10 in Austria. "Fireflies" was Nicks' rumination on the tumultuous recording of the Tusk album and her observance that the band stayed intact nevertheless. Her lyrics referred to band members as the "five fireflies".[ citation needed ]

"The Farmer's Daughter" appears to have been recorded at The Village Recorders studio where Tusk was recorded despite the liner notes—it appears in the Tusk re-release of 2004 nearly identical sans crowd noise. Various similar takes from a recording session have emerged on bootlegs, and at least two separate vocal tracks featuring Nicks can be heard on the version released on Live.[ citation needed ] The band covered "Farmer's Daughter" at the request of Buckingham, who deemed the Brian Wilson tune obscure enough to include on the album. [9] "Don't Let Me Down Again" is a song from the Buckingham Nicks album and was recorded earlier than the rest of the tracks; the recording was made in 1975 in Passaic.

Also notable are three Lindsey Buckingham guitar showcases. The first, "I'm So Afraid", was popular as a concert finale during this period. The second was Buckingham's take on former Mac guitarist Peter Green's signature number, "Oh Well" (originally a 1969 single release). The third was "Monday Morning", a popular concert opener during this period.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)LocationLength
1."Monday Morning" Buckingham 2/3/80, Budokan Hall, Tokyo 3:51
2."Say You Love Me" C. McVie 8/25/80, Kansas Coliseum, Wichita 4:18
3."Dreams" Nicks 6/14/80, Palais de Sport, Paris (soundcheck)4:18
4."Oh Well" Green 11/5/79, Checker Dome, St. Louis 3:23
5."Over & Over"C. McVie8/22/80, Myriad, Oklahoma City 5:01
Total length:21:20
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)LocationLength
1."Sara"Nicks11/5/79, Checker Dome, St. Louis7:23
2."Not That Funny"Buckingham5/21/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland 9:04
3."Never Going Back Again"Buckingham8/28/80, McKale Center, Tucson 4:13
4."Landslide"Nicks6/25/80, Wembley Arena, London 4:33
Total length:25:14
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)LocationLength
1."Fireflies"Nicks9/4/80, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica (for crew and friends)4:37
2."Over My Head"C. McVie8/24/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City 3:27
3."Rhiannon"Nicks6/26/80, Wembley Arena, London7:43
4."Don't Let Me Down Again" (from Buckingham Nicks , 1973)Buckingham10/17/75, Capitol Theater, Passaic 3:57
5."One More Night"C. McVie9/3/80, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica (for crew and friends)3:43
Total length:23:33
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)LocationLength
1."Go Your Own Way"Buckingham5/21/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland5:44
2."Don't Stop"C. McVie6/14/80, Palais de Sport, Paris (soundcheck)4:05
3."I'm So Afraid"Buckingham5/20/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland8:28
4."Farmer's Daughter"9/4/80, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica (for crew and friends)2:25
Total length:20:47
2021 super deluxe edition
No.TitleWriter(s)LocationLength
1."Second Hand News"Buckingham10/21/82, The Forum, Inglewood 3:52
2."The Chain"
5/20/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland6:50
3."Think About Me"C. McVie8/24/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City3:09
4."What Makes You Think You're the One"Buckingham8/23/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City4:20
5."Gold Dust Woman"Nicks8/29/77, The Forum, Inglewood7:23
6."Brown Eyes"C. McVie10/22/82, The Forum, Inglewood4:27
7."The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)"Green5/18/77, State Fair Arena, Oklahoma City5:27
8."Angel"Nicks5/20/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland4:49
9."Hold Me"C. McVie10/21/82, The Forum, Inglewood4:19
10."Tusk"Buckingham8/24/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City6:25
11."You Make Loving Fun"C. McVie5/19/77, BOK Center, Tulsa4:44
12."Sisters of the Moon"Nicks8/21/80, Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha7:17
13."Songbird"C. McVie8/21/80, Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha4:14
14."Blue Letter"
5/20/77, Barton Coliseum, Little Rock4:48
15."Fireflies"Nicksremix – long version4:04
16."Fireflies"Nicksdemo3:41
17."One More Night"C. McViedemo3:00
Total length:82:58

Personnel

Fleetwood Mac

Additional personnel

Production

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Live
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [21] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [6] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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