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".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumours_%28album%29>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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