Making Rumours by Ken Caillat and Steve Steifle

Making Rumours by Ken Caillat and Steve Steifle

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is one of my favorite albums of all time. It is wonderful music that I can listen to again and again. When I saw this book about making the album, I was really excited. Unfortunately, while there is a ton of information about the album, the book didn’t leap out to me in the same way the album did. The problem might be that I don’t have any musical talent and an awful lot of this book seemed technical to me—focusing on how they made the sounds. That actually makes a lot of sense in a book about making a record, but it didn’t grab my imagination. The other problem was that the gossip wasn’t new to me. I’ve read Mick Fleetwood’s autobiography and a biography of Stevie Nicks so I had heard the gossip and it didn’t seem fresh this time around. That being said, if you like the album, you should still read this book. There’s good stuff in here, it just didn’t feel at the same level as one of the greatest albums of all time.