Mirage is the thirteenth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 2 July 1982 by Warner Bros. Records.[12] This studio effort's soft rock sound stood in stark contrast to its more experimental predecessor, 1979's Tusk. Mirage yielded several singles: "Hold Me" (which peaked at number four on the US Billboard Pop Chart, remaining there for seven weeks), "Gypsy" (number 12 US Pop Chart), "Love in Store" (number 22 US Pop Chart), "Oh Diane" (number nine in the UK), and "Can't Go Back" (number 83 in the UK).
Background
After the completion of the worldwide Tusk Tour, the band took a year-long hiatus. During this time, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and Lindsey Buckingham had each started solo careers, with Nicks achieving a multi-platinum, number-one success with 1981's Bella Donna.[13]Ken Caillat, who reprised his role as producer after working with the band on Rumours and Tusk, remembered that there was a sense of rivalry between Nicks and Buckingham over the commercial trajectory of their solo careers.[14]
Unlike the band's previous four albums, Fleetwood wanted the band to record Mirage outside of Los Angeles; he also sought to eschew the experimentation found on Tusk and instead replicate the commercial appeal of Rumours.[15] To achieve this, Caillat scouted for potential studios and came across Le Château in Hérouville, France. The band agreed to record at the facility, although Caillat said that certain members, particularly Nicks and Buckingham, were difficult to work with. The band hired a chef to cook meals for them, but Caillat said that Buckingham and Nicks would complain about the food and the lack of television. In an attempt to appease them, Caillat brought the two video machines with baseball games taped by one of his friends in Los Angeles.[16]
Recording and composition
In a 1981 interview with BAM magazine, Nicks reported that her original three submissions for Mirage were "That's Alright" (with the working title "It's Alright"), "If You Were My Love", and "Smile at You", although she said that Buckingham encouraged her to replace the latter song with a different composition. Nicks agreed with Buckingham, stating that "It's kind of a bitter song and that's really not where any of us are at right now, even thought it's a wonderful song. My songs don't take long to record, so it shouldn't be a problem."[17] "Smile at You" later appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 2003 album, Say You Will.[18]
The Nicks-penned "Gypsy" was the second single from the album and was accompanied by a video directed by Russell Mulcahy. Nicks wrote "Gypsy" in 1979 and considered it for her Bella Donna solo album, but she ultimately saved it for Mirage.[19] Of the other two compositions from Nicks on the album, "That's Alright", which was one of the three songs she originally submitted for inclusion on Mirage, dated back to the Buckingham Nicks days of 1974, while "Straight Back" was written in the winter of 1981. "Straight Back" referred to her separation from then-lover, producer Jimmy Iovine and the disruption she experienced to her newly established solo career in order to rejoin Fleetwood Mac for the 1982 project.[19]
Of Christine McVie's four compositions, three were written in collaboration with other writers: "Love in Store" with Jim Recor, ex-husband of Nicks' friend Sara Recor who later married Mick Fleetwood, "Hold Me" with singer-songwriter Robbie Patton whose second album she had recently produced and "Wish You Were Here" with lyrics from erstwhile John Mayall drummer Colin Allen. The other, "Only Over You", was credited "With thanks to Dennis Wilson for inspiration."[20] McVie had recently ended her relationship with Wilson, a member of the Beach Boys, who would die by drowning the following year.[21]
Three of Lindsey Buckingham's five contributions were written with co-producer Richard Dashut including the UK top-10 single "Oh Diane". Buckingham entered the studio with "Can't Go Back and "Eyes of the World", while his other three songs on the album were written shortly after his arrival in France.[22] On "Empire State", Buckingham played a 19th century lap harp gifted to him by Mick Fleetwood.[23] On "Book of Love", Buckingham sang all of the parts on the chorus and experimented with the tape speeds to achieve different vocal timbres. McVie remembered that Buckingham overdubbed some of the song's vocals to a slowed-down recording and later sped it up, with the end result resembling Nicks' voice.[24]
Buckingham assembled "Eyes of the World" in a piecemeal manner starting with a series of chords. He then spliced together additional musical passages,[25] including the chord progression of Pachebel's Canon and the acoustic guitar part from an instrumental composition on Buckingham Nicks.[26][27] In a 1981 interview with Record World, Buckingham said that there was an uptempo track on Mirage that he originally planned to include on his Law and Order solo album, but he rationalised that he "couldn't just save the best stuff" for Law and Order and thought that "anything that seemed particularly suited for Fleetwood Mac should be used." He described the song as a cross between "Go Your Own Way" and "Second Hand News".[28]
After the initial recording sessions at Château D’Hérouville, the band finished the album in California.[14] Nicks said that the band attempted to complete the album in multiple Los Angeles recording studios, but she was unsure how much work was conducted after they left Château D’Hérouville.[29] Caillat stated in 1982 interview that Nicks' involvement with Mirage was largely limited to the initial recording sessions at Château D’Hérouville and that her presence in the Los Angeles studios was limited to between ten and fifteen days.[24] Most of the recording sessions were attended by Caillat, Dashut, Buckingham, Fleetwood, and Christine McVie. Buckingham said that Fleetwood would provide feedback to the proceedings when he identified problems with the mix.[24]
Reception
In The Boston Phoenix, Ken Emerson wrote that "For all its pleasant tunefulness, Mirage (Warner Bros.) is not a retreat to the tried-and-true pop format of Fleetwood Mac and Rumours. Neither, despite its avante-garde oddities, does it surrender to the incoherence of Tusk. Rather, it’s a winning synthesis of the best of both worlds. ... Mirage represents yet another metamorphosis; certainly Fleetwood Mac's most delightful album, it may also be the most rewarding."[30]Billboard commended the efforts of all three songwriters for "contributing their strongest songs yet." They said that the album demonstrated Buckingham's capabilities as an arranger, particularly in regards to the vocal harmonies, which they felt were evocative of the Beach Boys' best work.[31]
The album returned the group to the top of the US Billboard charts for the first time since their 1977 album Rumours, spending five weeks at number one. It spent a total of 18 weeks in the US top ten and has been certified double platinum for shipments in excess of two million copies in the US. It also reached number five in the UK where it has been certified platinum for shipping 300,000 copies, and number two in Australia.[32]
Deluxe edition
A deluxe edition of Mirage was released on 23 September 2016. This expanded reissue features a remaster of the original album, 13 live tracks, B-sides, outtakes, plus other songs that did not make the final cut. Some of these songs include "Goodbye Angel" and "Teen Beat", which were both released on 25 Years: The Chain, and "Smile at You", later released on Say You Will.[33] and "If You Were My Love" later released on Stevie Nicks' solo album 24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault. The DVD-Audio disc contains both the 5.1 Surround and 24/96 Stereo Audio mixes of the original album.
Two of the final shows of the Mirage tour were filmed in Los Angeles in 1982. Originally released on VHS and CEDvideodisc in 1983, many tracks were edited out, with the loss of "Second Hand News", "Don't Stop", "Dreams", "Brown Eyes", "Oh Well", "Never Going Back Again", "Landslide", "Sara", and "Hold Me", reducing the 135 minute show to just 80 minutes on cassette. Three of these tracks, "Second Hand News," "Brown Eyes," and "Hold Me" would later be officially released on the expanded 1980 Fleetwood Mac Live album in 2021. The running order was also completely rearranged so that Nicks' "Gypsy" followed "The Chain", whilst "You Make Loving Fun" and "Blue Letter" were moved to the first half of the edited show.
The performance also includes what is often referred to as the "speaking in tongues" version of "Sisters of the Moon", in which Nicks delivers the song's coda in such intense gravelly vibratos that her words are rendered practically indecipherable.
The concert was not released on DVD until 2003, but this was limited to Brazil on the Studio Gaba label and featured an unmastered soundtrack.
In 2006 a better quality release was issued in Australia, with an added special feature comprising six Stevie Nicks solo promotional videos for some of her singles released between 1981 and 1986. This collection had previously been issued separately on VHS in 1986 under the title Stevie Nicks – I Can't Wait, and exclusively includes a live solo version of her top ten hit "Leather and Lace" (a duet with Don Henley), which was recorded on the final night of Nicks' 1981 Bella Donna tour. The clip was not included in the 9-track edit of Nicks' White Wing Dove live concert VHS release in 1982, and neither was it included in the DVD supplement to her 2008 retrospective Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks. To date, this is the only DVD availability of this live performance.
In 2009, another DVD incarnation of the Mirage concert was released under the title Fleetwood Mac – In Performance by the Showline label on a region-free disc.
^Jerome, Jim; Buchalter, Gail; Evans, Hilary; Manna, Sal; Pilcher, Joseph & Rayl, Salley (16 January 1984). "Death of a Beach Boy". People Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
^Fleetwood, Mick; Bozza, Anthony (October 2014). Play On: Now Then & Fleetwood Mac. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. p. 262. ISBN978-0-316-40342-9.
Basilika Santo SebastianusBasilika Minor Santo SebastianusBasilika Santo SebastianusLokasiDiriambaNegara NikaraguaDenominasiGereja Katolik RomaArsitekturStatusBasilika minorStatus fungsionalAktif Basilika Santo Sebastianus adalah sebuah gereja basilika minor Katolik yang terletak di Diriamba, Nikaragua. Basilika ini didedikasikan kepada Santo Sebastianus. Basilika ini diberikan statusnya pada tahun 1964.[1] Lihat juga Gereja Katolik Roma Gereja Katolik di Nikaragua Daftar basilik...
Artikel ini sebatang kara, artinya tidak ada artikel lain yang memiliki pranala balik ke halaman ini.Bantulah menambah pranala ke artikel ini dari artikel yang berhubungan atau coba peralatan pencari pranala.Tag ini diberikan pada Maret 2024. Bandar Udara Bourg - CeyzériatIATA: XBKICAO: LFHSInformasiJenisSipilPengelola?LokasiBourg-en-BresseZona waktuUTC+1Koordinat{{{coordinates}}} Bandar Udara Bourg - Ceyzériat (Bahasa Prancis: Aéroport de Bourg - Ceyzériat) (IATA: XBK, ICAO: LFHS) a...
Bagan rasial Hukum Nuremberg Adolf Hitler berpidato kepada Reichstag di Balai Opera Kroll pada Desember 1941 Dari 1933 sampai 1945, rezim Nazi memerintah Jerman dan menguasai sebagian besar Eropa. Pada masa itu Jerman nazi beralih dari masyarakat pasca-Perang Dunia I yang mengkarakterisasi Republik Weimar dan memperkenalkan ideologi rasisme biologi ke dalam sistem hukum dan yudisial negara.[1] Lihat pula Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch Strafgesetzbuch Referensi ^ E., Steinweis, Alan (2013). ...
Portuguese neuroscientist (born 1944) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.Find sour...
Artikel ini perlu diwikifikasi agar memenuhi standar kualitas Wikipedia. Anda dapat memberikan bantuan berupa penambahan pranala dalam, atau dengan merapikan tata letak dari artikel ini. Untuk keterangan lebih lanjut, klik [tampil] di bagian kanan. Mengganti markah HTML dengan markah wiki bila dimungkinkan. Tambahkan pranala wiki. Bila dirasa perlu, buatlah pautan ke artikel wiki lainnya dengan cara menambahkan [[ dan ]] pada kata yang bersangkutan (lihat WP:LINK untuk keterangan lebih lanjut...
Policy on permits required to enter Palestine Politics of Palestine Officeholders whose status is disputed are shown in italics Member state of the Arab League Government State of Palestine government (Ramallah) President: Mahmoud Abbasa Prime Minister: Mohammad Shtayyeh Hamas government (Gaza) National symbols Flag National anthem Coat of arms Legislative Council Palestinian National Council Palestinian Legislative Council Current members Speaker Aziz Dweik Elections Elections Electoral regi...
كرونبرج إم تانوس علم شعار الاسم الرسمي (بالألمانية: Kronberg im Taunus) الإحداثيات 50°10′47″N 8°30′31″E / 50.179652777778°N 8.5085416666667°E / 50.179652777778; 8.5085416666667 [1] تقسيم إداري البلد ألمانيا[2][3] التقسيم الأعلى هوختاونوسكرايس خصائص جغرافية �...
This article is based partially or entirely on public domain works of the U.S. government, and thus may require cleanup. You can help by rewriting it from a neutral viewpoint to meet Wikipedia's standards, and expanding the article by adding verifiable content from reliable sources. The talk page may contain relevant discussion. (August 2020) Delta Regional AuthorityThe seal of the Delta Regional AuthorityAgency overviewFormed2000HeadquartersClarksdale, MississippiAnnual budget$30 million (20...
Russian fur cap with ear flaps Sheepskin ushanka winter hat with earflaps An ushanka (Russian: ушанка, Russian pronunciation: [ʊˈʂankə], from уши, 'ears'), also called an ushanka-hat (Russian: шапка-ушанка, romanized: shapka-ushanka, [ˈʂapkə ʊˈʂankə]), is a Russian fur hat with ear-covering flaps that can be tied up on the crown of the cap, or fastened at the chin to protect the ears, jaw, and lower chin from the cold. An alternative way to ...
ХристианствоБиблия Ветхий Завет Новый Завет Евангелие Десять заповедей Нагорная проповедь Апокрифы Бог, Троица Бог Отец Иисус Христос Святой Дух История христианства Апостолы Хронология христианства Раннее христианство Гностическое христианство Вселенские соборы Н...
Indian television actress Shivya PathaniaBornHimachal Pradesh, IndiaOccupation(s)Actress, modelKnown forRadhaKrishna, Ram Siya Ke Luv KushAwardsMiss Shimla (2013) Shivya Pathania is an Indian model and television actress known for playing Sita in the Indian mythological TV series Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush and Radha in RadhaKrishn. Early life Her father, Subhash Pathania, was a law officer in the Labour and Employment Department in Shimla.[1] Career Before acting, Shivya was crowned Mi...
KickassTorrentsURLkat.amTipeDirektori torrent, penyedia pranala magnetPendaftaranOpsionalBahasaMultibahasa (30+ bahasa, dengan bahasa utama Inggris)PenggunaLebih dari satu juta per hari (Agustus 2015)Berdiri sejakNovember 2008; 15 tahun lalu (2008-11)Peringkat Alexa490.683 (1r Desember 2017) StatusLuring KickassTorrents (KAT) adalah penyelenggara direktori berkas torrent dan pranala magnet untuk memfasilitasi berbagi berkas peer-to-peer dalam protokol BitTorrent, didirikan tahun 2008. Hi...
Road running competition New York Mini 10KThe race finishes near Sheep Meadow in Central ParkDateEarly JuneLocationNew York City, New York, United StatesEvent typeRoadDistance10 kilometresEstablished1972Official site[1] The Mastercard New York Mini 10K is an annual 10-kilometer road running competition for women that takes place in Central Park, New York City, in the United States. The race has been organised by New York Road Runners since 1972. The competition has both an elite-level race an...
Substitusi elektrofilik aromatik (disebut pula SEA, atau SEAr) adalah suatu reaksi organik di mana sebuah atom, biasanya hidrogen, yang terikat pada sistem aromatik digantikan dengan suatu elektrofil. Reaksi terpenting di kelas ini adalah nitrasi aromatik, halogenasi aromatik, sulfonasi aromatik dan asilasi serta alkilasi Friedel-Crafts. Reaksi ini, utama dalam kelompok substitusi elektrofilik, sangat penting dalam kimia organik, baik dalam industri dan di laboratorium. Reaksi ini memungkinka...
Overview of and topical guide to Vermont See also: Index of Vermont-related articles The Flag of the State of VermontThe Great Seal of the State of Vermont The location of the state of Vermont in the United States of America Vermont The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Vermont: Vermont – state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Vermont is the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States. The state ca...
Dalam nama Korea ini, nama keluarganya adalah An. An Ba-ul안바울Lahir25 Maret 1994 (umur 30)Anyang, Korea SelatanKebangsaanKorea SelatanTinggi168cm[1]Berat69kgDivisiKelas setengah ringanGayaJudoBertarung dariSeoul, Korea SelatanTimNamyangju City HallTim Nasional Korea TaeneungPelatihChoi Min-hoSong Dae-namPeringkatSabuk hitam tingkat 2 dalam Judo Rekam medali Judo putra Mewakili Korea Selatan Permainan Olimpiade 2016 Rio de Janeiro –66 kg 2020 Tokyo –66 kg Kejuaraan ...
This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (October 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Municipal unit in GreeceTenea ΤενέαMunicipal unitTeneaLocation within the regional unit Coordinates: 37°48′N 22°52′E / 37.800°N 22.867°E / 37.800; 22.867CountryGreeceAdministrative regionPeloponneseRegional unitCorinthiaMunicipalityCorinthArea • Municipal unit167.6 k...