1977 concert at the LA Forum recorded during The Rumours Tour
Fleetwood Mac was at the top of its game in August 1977 when the band returned to its adopted home in Southern California to play three shows at The Forum in Los Angeles. Rumours had only been out a few weeks when the band left in February to tour the world, returning six months later to play three shows at The Forum for nearly 50,000 fans.
Rumours was the No. 1 album in America and well on its way to becoming one of the most successful ever released. The project eventually sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and has just been certified 21x Platinum in the US. The record has also been certified 14x Platinum in the UK and 13x Platinum in Australia and New Zealand, all countries where the album reached No. 1.
Rumours Live captures the energy and excitement of the band’s opening night at The Forum on August 29, 1977. The nearly 90-minute performance includes live versions of most of the songs from Rumours and Fleetwood Mac, the group’s first multi-Platinum No. 1 album, which came out in 1975.
The concert remained unreleased for decades until 2021, when “Gold Dust Woman” from the show was included as a bonus track on Live: Deluxe Edition, Rhino’s expanded version of Fleetwood Mac’s 1980 concert album. The other 17 songs on the collection have never been released before.
Rumours Live will be available on September 8th as 2 CD and 2 LP sets. The black vinyl version has two 180-gram records in a gatefold jacket with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Also, a crystal clear-vinyl version will be released the same day exclusively at Walmart.
The music will be available from digital and streaming platforms. An unreleased live version of “Dreams” from is available now digitally.
The concert’s setlist draws almost exclusively from Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, the first two albums recorded by the band’s latest incarnation: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and the newest members, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham. The lone nod to Fleetwood Mac’s other nine studio albums is a performance of “Oh Well,” a rock-guitar masterpiece originally released in 1969 and written by the band’s founder, guitarist Peter Green.
Engineer Ken Caillat, who helped record Rumours, also recorded the concert at The Forum using the Record Plant’s mobile recording truck. He captured the band’s impassioned performance at a moment of peak Rumours frenzy, including powerful versions of “Landslide,” “Never Going Back Again,” “Songbird,” and “The Chain.”
CD 1:
- Say You Love Me
- Monday Morning
- Dreams
- Oh Well
- Rhiannon
- Oh Daddy
- Never Going Back Again
- Landslide
- Over My Head
- Gold Dust Woman
CD 2:
- You Make Loving Fun
- I’m So Afraid
- Go Your Own Way
- World Turning
- Blue Letter
- The Chain
- Second Hand News
- Songbird
