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** And to wrap up the Buckingham / Nicks era and it's many, ''many'' problems; while ''Tango in the Night'' was, like ''Mirage'', comparatively less troubled than their previous albums, the word 'comparatively' is still doing a lot of heavy lifting here:

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** And to wrap up the Buckingham / Nicks era and it's many, ''many'' problems; while ''Tango in the Night'' ''Music/TangoInTheNight'' was, like ''Mirage'', comparatively less troubled than their previous albums, the word 'comparatively' is still doing a lot of heavy lifting here:
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** And to wrap up the OG Buckingham / Nicks era and it's many, ''many'' problems; while ''Tango in the Night'' was, like ''Mirage'', comparatively less troubled than their previous albums, the word 'comparatively' is still doing a lot of heavy lifting here:
*** Several members of the band still hadn't fully kicked it's hard-living lifestyle; Mick Fleetwood's problems with cocaine in particular were reportedly worse than in the ''Rumours'' days, and a Winnebago was placed in the driveway specifically for him to go and dry out in, and John [=McVie=]'s attempts at going cold turkey to cure his alcoholism went so bad that he was worried at points that he'd lost the ability to play entirely. Lindsey Buckingham is quoted as saying this was probably the point where "everyone was at their worst ... everyone was leading their lives in a way they would not be too proud of today".

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** And to wrap up the OG Buckingham / Nicks era and it's many, ''many'' problems; while ''Tango in the Night'' was, like ''Mirage'', comparatively less troubled than their previous albums, the word 'comparatively' is still doing a lot of heavy lifting here:
*** Several members of the band still hadn't fully kicked it's their hard-living lifestyle; lifestyles; Mick Fleetwood's problems with cocaine in particular were reportedly worse than in the ''Rumours'' days, and a Winnebago was placed in the driveway specifically for him to go and dry out in, and in. John [=McVie=]'s [=McVie=], meanwhile, had spent most of the five years since the last album drinking and sailing around the Caribbean; attempts at going cold turkey to cure his alcoholism went so bad that he was worried at points that he'd lost the ability to play entirely. Lindsey Buckingham is quoted as saying this was probably the point where "everyone was at their worst ... everyone was leading their lives in a way they would not be too proud of today".



*** As Lindsey Buckingham was once again put in the position where he was the one basically keeping everything moving and keeping everyone on track, the pressure was increasingly getting to him, particularly as the whole project had originally started as a solo album which he had been convinced to make a Fleetwood Mac album. This culminated in a meeting prior to the album's release which was supposed to be about the tour but at which Buckingham instead chose to announce that he'd had enough and was quitting the band. It didn't go over so well; it led to a blazing row between himself and Nicks which got so out of hand that the latter ''physically attacked him'' and eventually spilled out into the street.

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*** As Lindsey Buckingham was once again put in the position where he was the one basically keeping everything moving and keeping everyone on track, the pressure was increasingly getting to him, particularly as the whole project had originally started as a solo album which he had been convinced to make a Fleetwood Mac album. This culminated in a meeting prior to the album's release which was supposed to be about the tour but at which Buckingham instead chose to announce that he'd had enough and was quitting the band. It didn't go over so well; it led to a blazing row between himself and Nicks which got so out of hand that the latter ''physically attacked him'' him'', and which eventually spilled out into the street.
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** And to wrap up the OG Buckingham / Nicks era and it's many, ''many'' problems; while ''Tango in the Night'' was, like ''Mirage'', comparatively less troubled than their previous albums, the word 'comparatively' is still doing a lot of heavy lifting here:
*** Several members of the band still hadn't fully kicked it's hard-living lifestyle; Mick Fleetwood's problems with cocaine in particular were reportedly worse than in the ''Rumours'' days, and a Winnebago was placed in the driveway specifically for him to go and dry out in, and John [=McVie=]'s attempts at going cold turkey to cure his alcoholism went so bad that he was worried at points that he'd lost the ability to play entirely. Lindsey Buckingham is quoted as saying this was probably the point where "everyone was at their worst ... everyone was leading their lives in a way they would not be too proud of today".
*** Stevie Nicks was also coming off two solo albums and her own attempts at kicking cocaine, and so was pretty checked out of the whole process; in an eighteen-month production period, she spent about two weeks in the studio, and most of what she recorded either had to be trashed or heavily edited in order to be usable (Nicks herself has admitted that most of her contributions were probably not great).
*** As Lindsey Buckingham was once again put in the position where he was the one basically keeping everything moving and keeping everyone on track, the pressure was increasingly getting to him, particularly as the whole project had originally started as a solo album which he had been convinced to make a Fleetwood Mac album. This culminated in a meeting prior to the album's release which was supposed to be about the tour but at which Buckingham instead chose to announce that he'd had enough and was quitting the band. It didn't go over so well; it led to a blazing row between himself and Nicks which got so out of hand that the latter ''physically attacked him'' and eventually spilled out into the street.
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** By the time ''Music/{{Mirage}}'' came along, barely anyone could stand being in the same room with each other. While this actually made the album itself comparatively less tempestuous to produce -- everyone was releasing tension through their own solo projects and generally worked on their individual parts separately -- the real drama came during the making of the music videos for "Hold Me" and "Gypsy", now a key part of the process thanks to the rise of [=MTV=]. The (not-so) eagle-eyed viewer of both will notice that there are a lot of close-up shots in both and the band members rarely seem to be on screen at the same time. Matters in the former weren't helped by the decision to film it in a desert, meaning everyone was hot, uncomfortable and irritated all the way throughout leading to much tension and prima donna behaviour, while in the latter the director freely admitted that he completely lost track of exactly who hated each other and was supposed to kept separate, leading to Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham accidentally having a scene together; you can tell she's uncomfortable and furious throughout.

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** By the time ''Music/{{Mirage}}'' came along, barely anyone could stand being in the same room with each other. While this actually made the album itself comparatively less tempestuous to produce -- everyone was releasing tension through their own solo projects and generally worked on their individual parts separately -- the real drama came during the making of the music videos for "Hold Me" and "Gypsy", now a key part of the process thanks to the rise of [=MTV=]. The (not-so) eagle-eyed viewer of both will notice that there are a lot of close-up shots in both and the band members rarely seem to be on screen at the same time. Matters in the former weren't helped by the decision to film it in a desert, meaning everyone was hot, uncomfortable and irritated all the way throughout leading to much tension and prima donna behaviour, while in the latter the director freely admitted that he completely lost track of exactly who hated each other and was supposed to kept separate, leading to Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham accidentally having a scene together; you can tell she's uncomfortable and furious throughout. Nicks was also making her first efforts to kick her by-this-point very serious cocaine addiction, which didn't help as they kept having to confiscate smuggled vials of coke from her.
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** The same problems continued, just turned up a few notches, when they went back into the studio to make the double album ''Music/{{Tusk}}'':

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** The same problems continued, just turned up a few notches, when they went back into the studio to make the double album ''Music/{{Tusk}}'':''Music/{{Tusk|1979}}'':
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