A consummate insider as the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist, Carol Ann Harris leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars—Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson—to the chaotic animosity between band members, this memoir combines the sensational account of some of the world’s most famous musicians with a thrilling love story. The parties, fights, drug use, shenanigans, and sex lives of Fleetwood Mac are presented in intimate detail and illustrated with never-before-seen photographs. With the exception of one brief interview, Carol Ann Harris has never before spoken about her time with Fleetwood Mac.
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This is a fascinating if overlong look at the megasuccess of Fleetwood Mac in the mid-1970s, after the former British blues band recorded the laid-back rock songs of guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks that made the album Rumours one of the most popular of its era. While working at the band's recording studio, Harris, currently a music business costume designer, became Buckingham's girlfriend and constant companion from 1976 through 1984, and she gives a detailed look—more so than drummer and original member Mick Fleetwood's biography—at this already well-chronicled story of how the success of Rumours provided the income for extravagant cocaine-fueled excesses before, during and after performances. Harris too often uses clichés, such as her view of the band's beautiful insanity. But she does candidly recount Buckingham's rage and his repeated physical assaults on her. Along the way, she offers great descriptions of the band's recording sessions, especially her account of Buckingham's desire to create something new, something completely different for Tusk, the more experimental (and less profitable) follow-up to Rumours. (July)
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Fleetwood Mac abandoned its blues roots to pursue mainstream commercial success even before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined it in 1975. Harris, then Buckingham's girlfriend, chronicles the behind-the-scenes drugs-and-sex-and-rock-and-roll aspects of the band's late-1970s climb to mega mainstream success with the albums Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, and the relatively underperforming Tusk. During this time, group bassist John McVie and his wife, Christine, the band's most successful songwriter, divorced; Buckingham and Nicks ended their romantic relationship; and internal love affairs and myriad rumors threatened band cohesiveness. Enter Harris, who proved more a symptom than a cause of the turmoil. Using extremely rich material for a rock tell-all, she now offers the sort of in-depth reportage that, though engrossing, does rather strain credulity concerning the accuracy of all its quoted dialogue; but then, such is expected of and usual in such books. Serious music fans may be disappointed, but seekers of celebrity dirt will revel in this work. Prospective readers will know in which camp they fall, so advise appropriately. Tribby, Mike
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Loved the inside look at Fleetwood Mac and my long time favorite Lindsey Buckingham....We kinda knew abt the era of drugs and rockn'roll but to see from the inside how things really were was interesting to say the least! Lindsey Buckingham is an amazing talent to this day...I adore him! He belongs in R+R Hall of Fame as one of the greatest guitarists of our time!!! A great purchase!!! I loved every minute of this book!
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AN IN DEPTH LOOK INTO THE BAND ITS TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS DURING THE MAKING OF RUMORS. ENJOYABLE READ!
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I only made it to chapter five. I tried reading the whole thing, but this book was seriously the main ingrediants for your average dramatic teen movie.
In a nutshell:
The new girl falls for the mysterious guy who was previously the popular girls boyfriend. The popular girl is extremely jealous and the new girl tries fitting in with her mystery man's clique.
The author plays the roll of this "innocent" woman who meets Lindsey Buckingham at a record studio. According to her, it was love at first site. Then she finds out he's a rock star (aka the popular guy at school), and his previous girlfriend (Stevie Nicks - the Queen Bee complete with her own entourage of snotty look-alikes) gets jealous and tries to make a spectacle of the author.
And the rest of the members of Fleetwood Mac are the "cool kids" who eventually try making the author fit in because she's the King of Popular's new chick. And everyone finds Stevie as this horrible woman.
The way the story was written seems to be more like a work of fiction, sometimes known in the underground author's community as a "Mary Sue".
I don't know the members of Fleetwood Mac personally, but you can tell that they're out of sync in the book.
Anyone could have weaved this "tragic fairytale" and just use names from a Classic Rock Band and weave themselves into their lives.
Everything about this book is stereotypical - even the way she describes the "roadies" and "assistants" in it.
It's hard to explain, but if you read the first chapter you'll know what I mean.
This is NOT a biography - It's a work of fiction.
If you take that approach instead, you may find this somewhat tolerable to read.
In a nutshell:
The new girl falls for the mysterious guy who was previously the popular girls boyfriend. The popular girl is extremely jealous and the new girl tries fitting in with her mystery man's clique.
The author plays the roll of this "innocent" woman who meets Lindsey Buckingham at a record studio. According to her, it was love at first site. Then she finds out he's a rock star (aka the popular guy at school), and his previous girlfriend (Stevie Nicks - the Queen Bee complete with her own entourage of snotty look-alikes) gets jealous and tries to make a spectacle of the author.
And the rest of the members of Fleetwood Mac are the "cool kids" who eventually try making the author fit in because she's the King of Popular's new chick. And everyone finds Stevie as this horrible woman.
The way the story was written seems to be more like a work of fiction, sometimes known in the underground author's community as a "Mary Sue".
I don't know the members of Fleetwood Mac personally, but you can tell that they're out of sync in the book.
Anyone could have weaved this "tragic fairytale" and just use names from a Classic Rock Band and weave themselves into their lives.
Everything about this book is stereotypical - even the way she describes the "roadies" and "assistants" in it.
It's hard to explain, but if you read the first chapter you'll know what I mean.
This is NOT a biography - It's a work of fiction.
If you take that approach instead, you may find this somewhat tolerable to read.
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