Rumours is the 11th studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac (pictured). Released in 1977 by Warner Bros. Records, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. Following the band's 1975 album Fleetwood Mac, Rumours includes a mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation, accented rhythms, guitars, and keyboards. The lyrics, written in the aftermath of several breakups among the band members, concern personal and often troubled relationships. Rumours became the band's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart and topped the US Billboard 200, supported by the singles "Go Your Own Way", "Dreams", "Don't Stop", and "You Make Loving Fun". It sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and garnered widespread acclaim from critics, with praise centred on its production quality and vocal harmonies. In 2020, Rumours was ranked seventh in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1783:
The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden human, began a tour of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
1809:
Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, the French ship D'Hautpoul was captured off Puerto Rico by a British squadron under Alexander Cochrane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troude%27s_expedition_to_the_Caribbean
1973:
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_%28film%29
1984:
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom relations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
phantasmal: 1. Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal. 2. Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral. 3. (parapsychology) Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“perception or vision of a living or dead person who is not physically present, often through telepathy”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phantasmal
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense. --Thornton Wilder https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder