“Then cocaine entered the picture,” says Caillat.The budget was open-ended and the cocaine kept coming.Ĭhris Stone, co-owner of Record Plant, says: “The band would come in at 7pm, have a big feast, party till one or two in the morning and then when they were so whacked out they couldn’t do anything, they’d start recording.” The English members – Mick Fleetwood and John McVie – were boozers while the Californians – Buckingham and Nicks – were pot-smoking hippies. When it came to vices Caillat says the band divided according to nationality. No one ever knew whether it was night or day, although with drugs on tap no one much cared after a while. To make matters worse recording suites in Record Plant were small and windowless. He still wanted her but she didn’t want him because of his drinking. And every time John would see her it would just kill him. John McVie would come into the studio and see Christine after she’d left him for someone else. “There was the constant pain of ‘he cheated on me’ or ‘he’s leaving me’. Then they turned toward their microphones and right on cue, in the middle of a fight, nailed their parts. When I got to the beginning of the tape, I hit record. ‘When we get back to LA, I’m moving out.’ ‘I don’t want to live with you, either.’ They went back and forth, screaming at each other.”Ĭaillat continues: “I couldn’t rewind the tape fast enough. You can go to hell.’ Lindsey responded with a tirade of his own.
“Stevie and Lindsey were sitting on two stools out in the studio, each in front of a microphone, working on background parts, singing, ‘You make lovin’ fun, you make lovin’ fun…’ When I stopped the tape to rewind it Stevie suddenly looked at Lindsey and cried out, ‘**** you, asshole. Ken Caillat, who produced the album and later wrote a book about the experience, recalled how they were able to switch their anger on and off during recording. Fleetwood Mac became the bandage to keep it all wrapped up.”īuckingham and Nicks were more mercurial. The wound was cauterised but underneath was chaos. I don’t want to be around this person.’ Now we are good friends but at the time it was awful.”įor Mick Fleetwood, who with McVie was an original member of the band founded by guitarist Peter Green and named after his two friends, making Rumours was his escape from the pain of his divorce. You’re seeing everybody at their best and their worst and Christine saw me at my worst one time too many. “You have the pressure of being on the road and living together. John McVie, now 67, admits he was heartbroken. Apart from basic civilities like asking what key is this song in, we spent six months avoiding each other.” Stevie and Lindsey didn’t get on well either but they used to fight except when they were writing songs together. “My boyfriend at the time was not welcome at the studio for obvious reasons. “John and I just didn’t talk,” recalls Christine McVie, now 69.
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