/** * https://gist.github.com/samthor/64b114e4a4f539915a95b91ffd340acc */ (function() { var check = document.createElement('script'); if (!('noModule' in check) && 'onbeforeload' in check) { var = false; document.addEventListener('beforeload', function(e) { if (e.target === check) { = true; } else if (!e.target.hasAttribute('nomodule') || !) { return; } e.preventDefault(); }, true); check.type = 'module'; check.src = '.'; document.head.appendChild(check); check.remove(); } }());

1976: Lindsey Buckingham on ing Fleetwood Mac and making Rumours

On the 31 December 1974, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham became part of Fleetwood Mac, bringing the band to a whole new level of acclaim and commercial success.

Fleetwood Mac had formed in 1967 and over the years the group had been dogged by multiple line-up changes with founding Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer both leaving. By 1974, Bob Welch had also decided to depart, which left Fleetwood Mac without a guitar player.

While he was checking out a recording studio Sound City in California, drummer Mick Fleetwood heard the song Frozen Love by a young songwriting duo, Buckingham and his partner Nicks. He was so impressed by the song, he tracked down Buckingham and invited the pair to Fleetwood Mac.

Buckingham and Nicks brought new creativity and two additional songwriters to the band, which saw them release their self-titled album Fleetwood Mac in 1975.

In October 1976, BBC's Bob Harris sat down Fleetwood and Buckingham to discuss their work on their follow up album, Rumours.

The record would go on to become a smash hit for the band selling over 30 million copies world-wide. But the making of Rumours had been a very different from their last record and had been a tumultuous process for the group.

Buckingham said Rumours had a very different "vibe" because their previous album had been a collection of songs "all written before we even met each other".

"This group of songs were all written while we were on the road and they are more all interrelated to each other, " he said.

Part of the change was fuelled by romantic tensions in Fleetwood Mac. While they were working on Rumours, both couples in the band, bass player and keyboardist John and Christine McVie, and Nicks and Buckingham, were in the process of splitting up. These difficulties would play out through their songwriting.

"All the songs are about life on the road and things that were going down within the band, you know. With relationships and things like that," said Buckingham.

But despite the fraught and complicated relations within the group at the time Fleetwood said they never thought of abandoning the project.

"At no time, John, myself and Christine really because she has been in the band so long really, have we wanted just to stop and not to play through all the weird things that have happened one way or another and basically the main reason for it I think we just do this and we don't want to do anything else, " he said.

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 19 October 1976.

Explore more and follow BBC Archive.