![]() The songs function like conversations in a crowded room Lindsey Buckingham tells one-time partner Stevie Nicks she can "go your own way" and "call it another lonely day," while Nicks in turn volleys back, "Listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness." More than 35 years after its release, the album remains an astonishing sales juggernaut, in no small part because of its nuanced depictions of stormy relationships. On one hand, the band's complicated entanglements and tenuous relations led to creative genius, as with Rumours. It's a notable reminder that Fleetwood Mac's catalog isn't all bitter and beautiful breakup songs, though romantic tension will always be central to the band's appeal (and something of an albatross, too). I can't tell you quite how I felt it was as if I'd been visited – it was a very spiritual thing." "I sang it from beginning to end: everything. "Songbird" was a piece dusted with magic: Written during a middle-of-the-night session, it was more like she channeled it from another dimension, as she once described to The Guardian. Heartfelt and gentle, the song describes the solace of being with someone whose love just feels right. McVie's talent coalesced perhaps most strikingly on the tender piano ballad "Songbird," a highlight of Rumours. ![]() McVie's busy, bluesy keyboard style, informed by piano lessons but also Fats Domino, Otis Spann and Freddie King, paired well with a soulful alto. Long before "Everywhere," McVie had been fond of stretching out words and syllables to emphasize poignant themes - as heard on 1975's slinky "Warm Ways," which amplifies "dream," "morning" and "light" to illuminate the coziness of sleeping by a beloved. Such precision was a hallmark of this West Midlands-raised musician, whose father taught violin and grandfather played the organ at Westminster Abbey.
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