Live (Fleetwood Mac album)
1980 live album by Fleetwood Mac
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Live is a double live album released by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac on 5 December 1980.[7] It was the first live album from the then-current line-up of the band, and the next would be The Dance from 1997. The album was certified gold (500,000 copies sold) by the RIAA in November 1981.[8] A deluxe edition of the album was released on 9 April 2021.[9]
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| Released | 5 December 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 17 October 1975 – 4 September 1980 | |||
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| Length | 91:06 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
| Robert Christgau | C+[4] |
| Rolling Stone | [5] |
| Record Mirror | [6] |
Live consists of recordings taken primarily from the 1979–1980 Tusk Tour and a Buckingham Nicks track, "Don't Let Me Down Again", from the 1975 Fleetwood Mac Tour. The deluxe edition also includes a few recordings from the earlier Rumours Tour of 1977 and the later Mirage Tour of 1982. According to the liner notes, two songs were recorded at a Paris soundcheck and three at a performance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium "for an audience of friends and road crew".
Background
Drummer Mick Fleetwood had originally suggested that the band release a live album at the time of the Rumours Tour, although the band decided against it, with recording engineer Richard Dashut arguing that it would interfere with the band's in-studio identity. The band still recorded over 400 shows from 1975-79 in case they changed their minds. At the conclusion of the Tusk Tour, Fleetwood proposed the idea again, and this time the band agreed despite Buckingham's and John McVie's initial reservations.[10] The album was digitally recorded using technology developed by Soundstream.[11] Ken Caillat mentioned in a 1981 interview that the band spent $20,000 to digitally mix the album and that it cost around $500 per day to use the digital equipment.[12] Billboard said that Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab half-speed mastered the album for the audiophile market.[13]
Of particular note are three new songs—Christine McVie's "One More Night", Stevie Nicks's "Fireflies", and a backstage rendition of the Beach Boys' "The Farmer's Daughter". The latter two were released as singles; "Fireflies" reached the top 60 in the US,[14] while "The Farmer's Daughter" reached the top 10 in Austria.[15]
The band covered "Farmer's Daughter" at the request of Buckingham, who deemed the Brian Wilson tune "obscure" and "contemporary" enough to include on the album.[16] A recording of "The Farmer's Daughter" also appears on the Tusk re-release of 2004. "Don't Let Me Down Again" is a song from the Buckingham Nicks album and was recorded during a 1975 performance in Passaic.[10]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Location | Length |
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| 1. | "Monday Morning" | Lindsey Buckingham | 2/3/80, Budokan Hall, Tokyo | 3:51 |
| 2. | "Say You Love Me" | Christine McVie | 8/25/80, Kansas Coliseum, Wichita | 4:18 |
| 3. | "Dreams" | Stevie Nicks | 6/14/80, Palais de Sport, Paris (soundcheck) | 4:18 |
| 4. | "Oh Well" | Peter Green | 11/5/79, Checker Dome, St. Louis | 3:23 |
| 5. | "Over & Over" | Christine McVie | 8/22/80, Myriad Convention Center, Oklahoma City | 5:01 |
| Total length: | 21:20 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Location | Length |
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| 1. | "Sara" | Stevie Nicks | 11/5/79, Checker Dome, St. Louis | 7:23 |
| 2. | "Not That Funny" | Lindsey Buckingham | 5/21/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland | 9:04 |
| 3. | "Never Going Back Again" | Lindsey Buckingham | 8/28/80, McKale Center, Tucson | 4:13 |
| 4. | "Landslide" | Stevie Nicks | 6/25/80, Wembley Arena, London | 4:33 |
| Total length: | 25:14 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Location | Length |
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| 1. | "Fireflies" | Stevie Nicks | 9/4/80, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica (for crew and friends) | 4:37 |
| 2. | "Over My Head" | Christine McVie | 8/24/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City | 3:27 |
| 3. | "Rhiannon" | Stevie Nicks | 6/26/80, Wembley Arena, London | 7:43 |
| 4. | "Don't Let Me Down Again" (from Buckingham Nicks, 1973) | Lindsey Buckingham | 10/17/75, Capitol Theater, Passaic | 3:57 |
| 5. | "One More Night" | Christine McVie | 9/3/80, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica (for crew and friends) | 3:43 |
| Total length: | 23:33 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Location | Length |
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| 1. | "Go Your Own Way" | Lindsey Buckingham | 5/21/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland | 5:44 |
| 2. | "Don't Stop" | Christine McVie | 6/14/80, Palais de Sport, Paris (soundcheck) | 4:05 |
| 3. | "I'm So Afraid" | Lindsey Buckingham | 5/20/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland | 8:28 |
| 4. | "Farmer's Daughter" | 9/4/80, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica (for crew and friends) | 2:25 | |
| Total length: | 20:47 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Location | Length |
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| 1. | "Second Hand News" | Lindsey Buckingham | 10/21/82, The Forum, Inglewood | 3:52 |
| 2. | "The Chain" | 5/20/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland | 6:50 | |
| 3. | "Think About Me" | Christine McVie | 8/24/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City | 3:09 |
| 4. | "What Makes You Think You're the One" | Lindsey Buckingham | 8/23/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City | 4:20 |
| 5. | "Gold Dust Woman" | Stevie Nicks | 8/29/77, The Forum, Inglewood | 7:23 |
| 6. | "Brown Eyes" | Christine McVie | 10/22/82, The Forum, Inglewood | 4:27 |
| 7. | "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)" | Peter Green | 5/18/77, State Fair Arena, Oklahoma City | 5:27 |
| 8. | "Angel" | Stevie Nicks | 5/20/80, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland | 4:49 |
| 9. | "Hold Me" | Christine McVie | 10/21/82, The Forum, Inglewood | 4:19 |
| 10. | "Tusk" | Lindsey Buckingham | 8/24/80, Kemper Arena, Kansas City | 6:25 |
| 11. | "You Make Loving Fun" | Christine McVie | 5/19/77, BOK Center, Tulsa | 4:44 |
| 12. | "Sisters of the Moon" | Stevie Nicks | 8/21/80, Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha | 7:17 |
| 13. | "Songbird" | Christine McVie | 8/21/80, Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha | 4:14 |
| 14. | "Blue Letter" |
| 5/20/77, Barton Coliseum, Little Rock | 4:48 |
| 15. | "Fireflies" | Stevie Nicks | remix – long version | 4:04 |
| 16. | "Fireflies" | Stevie Nicks | demo | 3:41 |
| 17. | "One More Night" | Christine McVie | demo | 3:00 |
| Total length: | 82:58 | |||
Personnel
Fleetwood Mac
- Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals
- Stevie Nicks – vocals, percussion
- Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals
- John McVie – bass
- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
Additional personnel
- Ray Lindsey – additional guitar on "Go Your Own Way"[citation needed]
- Tony Toadaro – additional percussion
- Jeffery Sova – additional keyboards
Production
- Richard Dashut – producer, mix-down engineer, live engineering
- Ken Caillat – producer, live recording, mix-down engineer
- Fleetwood Mac – producers
- Biff Dawes – live recording
- Trip Khalaf – live engineering
- Carla Frederick – studio recording assistant
- Rich Feldman – studio recording assistant
- David (Dominguez) Ahlert – studio recording assistant
- Ken Perry – mastering
- Larry Vigon – art direction and design
- Chris Callis – cover and collage photography
- Sam Emerson – collage photography
- Sharon Weisz – collage photography
Charts
Album
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Singles
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Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[28] | Gold | 100,000^ |
| United States (RIAA)[8] | Gold | 500,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||