Ken Caillat Reveals Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours
By Clive Young
"A mainstay for nearly 40 years in the Long Island suburbs outside New York City, the Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, NY has long thrown a spotlight on all kinds of art in a myriad of different ways. As part of that tradition, the Center recently presented an evening with legendary producer/engineer Ken Caillat, as part of its ongoing Rock Legends series. Caillat recently published a memoir, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, focusing in on his part in the epic, year-long effort to bring the titular band’s best-known record into existence. While the 1977 album by Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood has gone on to become one of the best-selling collections of all-time (40 million copies and counting), it was created by five musicians who were each in the process of breaking up with each other or others. Throw in hot tempers, increasing pressure to create a hit, loads of drugs and alcohol, and you get a backstory as intriguing as the album itself. Accordingly, Caillat’s book serves to bolster — and in some cases poke holes in — the legends that surround Rumours, and some of the discussion he had on stage at the Center, interviewed by veteran music scribe Steve Matteo, did the same thing." More » |
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