History Trivia / Rumours

* CutSong: "Silver Springs", the B-side of "Go Your Own Way", was cut from the original track listing due to the limits of vinyl, but was added to reissues from 2004.

** But this was nothing compared to the vitriol flying between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, whose on/off relationship had become certifiably toxic. Nicks' "Dreams" and "I Don't Want to Know" saw her telling Buckingham that while she was happy to let him go, she believed that he would regret abandoning their love one day; Buckingham fired back with "Second Hand News" (the lyrics for which he carefully hid from Nicks until they were ready to record), "Never Going Back Again", and especially "Go Your Own Way", in all of which he wrote of how much she had hurt him and how much happier he was with the women he had been seeing since their breakup. The lyrics "Packing up, shacking up is all you wanna do" from "Go Your Own Way" particularly enraged Nicks, who tried unsuccessfully to get them changed and later said that when Buckingham performed those lyrics on stage, she "wanted to go over and kill him".
** Mick Fleetwood's marriage to Jenny Boyd collapsed after he discovered she was having an affair with his best friend; Christine [=McVie=] has sometimes claimed that "Oh Daddy" was inspired by a short-lived reconciliation between Fleetwood and Boyd,[[note]] The moniker "Daddy" supposedly being a nod to Fleetwood being the only band member with children at the time.[[/note]] but Buckingham's ex-girlfriend Carol Ann Harris and Nicks' biographer Zoe Howe believe she originally intended the song as another love ballad to Grant.
** Nicks laboured long and hard over "Silver Springs", an acidic AnswerSong to "Go Your Own Way" in which she dialled the "You'll regret spurning my love for you one day" attitude of "Dreams" and "I Don't Want to Know" up to full, but when it proved too long to fit onto the album, the other band members replaced it with "I Don't Want to Know" despite strenuous objections from Nicks (who later recalled going into the studio car park and shrieking with rage at the news that the song had been dropped).[[note]] Fittingly, it was released as the B-side to "Go Your Own Way" in December 1976, but it had to wait until the 2004 CD re-master to take its rightful place on ''Rumours''.[[/note]]

** "Yesterday's Gone", for "Don't Stop". The album was also supposed to be titled this, but John [=McVie=] changed the name because there were ''rumors'' that the band were breaking up during the making of the album.

** At the record plant, it was discovered that the tapes of the album had deteriorated due to constant playback and overdubs, requiring another engineer to come in and transfer the overdubs onto an earlier safety copy of the tapes, a much trickier process in the analog era. This feat saved the album.

** UsefulNotes/BillClinton used the song as the theme song for his successful Presidential campaign in 1992; even managing to get this album's lineup to do a one-off reunion to perform at his inaugural.

* RealSongThemeTune: "The Chain" serves as the theme song for BBC's UsefulNotes/FormulaOne coverage.

** Nicks laboured long and hard over "Silver Springs", an acidic AnswerSong to "Go Your Own Way" in which she dialled up the "You'll regret spurning my love for you one day" attitude of "Dreams" and "I Don't Want to Know" up to full, but when it proved too long to fit onto the album, the other band members replaced it with "I Don't Want to Know" despite strenuous objections from Nicks (who later recalled going into the studio car park and shrieking with rage at the news that the song had been dropped).[[note]] Fittingly, it was released as the B-side to "Go Your Own Way" in December 1976, but it had to wait until the 2004 CD re-master to take its rightful place on ''Rumours''.[[/note]]

** But this was nothing compared to the vitriol flying between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, whose on/off relationship had become certifiably toxic. Nicks' "Dreams" and "I Don't Want to Know" saw her telling Buckingham that while she was happy to let him go, she believed that he would regret abandoning their love one day; Buckingham fired back with "Second Hand News" (the lyrics for which he carefully hid from Nicks until they were ready to record), "Never Going Back Again", and especially "Go Your Own Way", in all of which he wrote of how much happier he was with the women he had been seeing since their breakup. The lyrics "Packing up, shacking up is all you wanna do" from "Go Your Own Way" particularly enraged Nicks, who tried unsuccessfully to get them dropped and later said that when Buckingham performed those lyrics on stage, she "wanted to go over and kill him".

* TroubledProduction: Much of the production was hampered with heavy cocaine use. It was also recorded shortly after bassist John [=McVie=] and keyboardist Christine [=McVie=] had divorced, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks were in an increasingly turbulent on/off relationship, and drummer Mick Fleetwood discovered that his wife Jenny Boyd was having an affair. The interpersonal conflicts found their way into many of the songs on the album; such songs as "I Don't Want to Know" and "Dreams" were Nicks' reaction to the ups and downs of her relationship with Buckingham, who wrote "Secondhand News" and "Go Your Own Way" to give his take on the situation, while "You Make Loving Fun" and "Don't Stop" was written by Christine [=McVie=] not for John, but the man with whom she had been having an affair. Despite all this, the resulting LP was a huge critical and commercial success, and regularly appears on lists of the best albums ever made.

* TroubledProduction: Much of the production was hampered with heavy cocaine use. It was also recorded shortly after bassist John [=McVie=] and keyboardist Christine [=McVie=] had divorced, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks were in an increasingly turbulent on/off relationship, and drummer Mick Fleetwood discovered that his wife Jenny Boyd was having an affair. The interpersonal conflicts found their way into many of the songs on the album; such songs as "I Don't Want to Know" and "Dreams" were Nicks' reaction to the ups and downs of her relationship with Buckingham, who wrote "Secondhand News" and "Go Your Own Way" to give his take on the situation, while "You Make Loving Fun" and "Don't Stop" was written by Christine [=McVie=] not for John but for the man with whom she had been having an affair. Despite the troubled production, the resulting LP was a huge critical and commercial success, and regularly appears on lists of the best albums ever made.

** "Yesterday's Gone", for "Don't Stop". The album was also supposed to be titled this, but John McVie changed the name because there were ''rumors'' that the band were breaking up during the making of the album.

** "Yesterday's Gone", for "Don't Stop".

* CutSong: "Silver Springs" was cut from the original track listing due to the limits of vinyl, but was added to reissues from 2004.

** "Yesterday's Gone", for "Don't Stop".

** "Second Hand News" was just known as "Strummer" for most of the sessions, because Lindsay Buckingham deliberately kept the lyrics under wraps for as long as possible, since he knew Stevie Nicks would find them insulting.

* WorkingTitle: "Second Hand News" was just known as "Strummer" for most of the sessions, because Lindsay Buckingham deliberately kept the lyrics under wraps for as long as possible, since he knew Stevie Nicks would find them insulting.