She too expressed amazement and gratitude, especially for the video's role in exposing young people to Fleetwood Mac. As “Dreams” crested into the Billboard Hot 100, Stevie Nicks—author and lead vocalist of the song—also made her own TikTok … Nicks told Billboard, “If the young kids start listening to Fleetwood Mac, start with the first album and just go through them. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'TtCPllgjRGF4vm5BA8O-QQ',sig:'Tu2MBJXb-AWTtgWv5Ka9NUFZ6EAvuLp9_I-Kdlzql9U=',w:'442px',h:'594px',items:'84893328',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 by Sheryl Crow. Torres Describes Harrowing 48 Hours Trying to Return Home, The Viral Countdown: The Race to React to COVID-19, The Cost of Coronavirus: How Young Guv Ended Up Stranded, massively increased in downloads and streams, Ariana Grande Delivers Sultry Yet Forgettable R&B on. Mick Fleetwood—the founding drummer of the band—thanked Apodaca over Zoom and even created a TikTok video of his own.

The record took new directions and avoided falling into a creative rut. She is one of only a handful of artists (and the only woman) honored twice. The album and corresponding tour cemented Fleetwood Mac as rock legends. Certainly, that’s why I got connected to it. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'z09u5vLMRBlcJuScJJyCzA',sig:'WK1XI7gyMHfACcWgLi-tbhb47R0rJSmZ33LosflhdqM=',w:'417px',h:'594px',items:'465672261',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Stevie Nicks has been a diarist and songwriter for many decades. By the next day, Fleetwood Mac's official Twitter account had commented on the video. Despite the resurgence of one of their most popular songs, Fleetwood Mac's popularity has never waned over the decades. “It seems like, this gentleman, you know. And there you go.”. And while Fleetwood is happy with the positive response, he pointed that Stevie Nicks “must be celebrating right now,” especially since the song has massively increased in downloads and streams since the videos dropped. This generated enough confusion and legal drama to be noted in Rolling Stone. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ml5GrOyfQDx0jM-g0DHAAQ',sig:'PiE_6jNSClW4NVSR-WxpvR6oVBnIl9xjNN2nTM8mqdI=',w:'594px',h:'415px',items:'74270722',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Neuroscientist Makes Playlist of the Happiest Songs According to Science, NYC Subway Station Turned Into “Van Halen Ave” as a Tribute To the Late Rocker, Watch Billie Eilish and Her Brother Perform an NPR ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ From Home, Watch a Young Violin Prodigy Masterfully Play a Challenging Classical Piece by Paganini. The main hit songs were written by Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks, including Nicks' famous “Rhiannon.” The album catapulted the band to the top of the charts in the United States. While the entire band definitely had a strong groovy aesthetic, Fleetwood has an odd signature accessory: toilet chains stolen from a club venue in the 1960s, which he hangs from his belt at concerts. The group soon found themselves in need of a new guitarist. I think we’ve got better as I’ve grown older. It’s just like, why not? And that, that’s what I think is so cool about this. He received a gift of a truck (to replace his broken down car) and a large supply of cranberry juice from Ocean Spray.



Davis claimed in Rolling Stone, “This band is my band. The album developed out of multiple breakups. “In the 70s, we were gods and goddesses,” McVie reminisced to Harper's Bazaar in 2019. The Rumours lineup was included, alongside Peter Green (who passed this year), Jeremy Spencer, and Danny Kirwan—influential members of other lineups.

Stevie used to call me Mother Earth because I was always pretty grounded.”. Over the past 50 years, the band has had about 18 different members and a variety of lineups. Her first song—written as a teenager—was titled “I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad but Not Blue.” She will occasionally share passages via social media. It took wrangling to resolve who owned the name.

All five have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with several other members who cycled in and out of the group. Three more studio albums and one live record followed featuring the classic lineup, the last being Tango in the Night in 1987. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys hiking, film photography, and reading while cuddling with her cat Georgia. While a radio success, the album did not sell in the same volumes as the previous release. As “Dreams” crested into the Billboard Hot 100, Stevie Nicks—author and lead vocalist of the song—also made her own TikTok by rollerblading and singing to the tune.

“Dreams” almost immediately spiked on streaming platforms, with 2.9 million streams in three days. Fleetwood also spoke about the potential for a Fleetwood Mac biopic and his memories of the late Eddie Van Halen, which you can listen to in its entirety below. I’ve never met, uh, and yet every everyone, uh, everyone and every member of that family is in across the whole planet,” he told Andy Cohen his SiriusXM show. Well, all it took was a TikTok user named Nathan Apodaca posting a video clip on September 25, 2020. Over the next several years, additional musicians cycled through the band with some frequency. The names of Fleetwood and McVie (nicknamed “Mac”) combined to create the band's longstanding name, Fleetwood Mac.