You even remember where you were when when you heard it. "But that's the kind of record Rumours is: You remember your first time hearing it. "It's one thing to remember cutting a number one song, but to think about what I was wearing that same day, that's incredible. "It's amazing how everything came flooding back to me once I started the book," says Caillat.
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In his forthcoming book, Making Rumours: The Inside Story Of The Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel recount the producer's year behind the glass in brilliant, page-turning detail. Everybody saw those movies, and everybody during that time bought a copy of Rumours." "The record was like Jaws and Star Wars combined. "Like Richard Dashut, I went from being a mid-level engineer to a Grammy-winning producer in one year," says Caillat. Released on 4 February 1977, Rumours hit like a meteor, permanently altering the landscape of all involved. Can you imagine Fleetwood Mac making Rumours under such conditions?" In 2012, a band has to have a committee approve their songs. That kind of creativity doesn't happen these days - it's frowned upon. John and Mick would hear something, they'd start playing, and we had to react fast. "The band would be tuning up, and before you knew it, a song was going down. "Richard and I had to capture light in a bottle," says Caillat. Rather than work with demos, the group's principle writers - Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie - would present live fragments of ideas for the group to build work on. This intuition lent itself to songwriting. During the making of Rumours, they became a real band, one that was very intuitive, musically and otherwise.” "Basically, you had two teams: Christine, John and Mick, the three Brits, were pros, and the two Americans, Lindsey and Stevie, had their shorthand, but they were still new to the group.
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If there was a rule book, nobody game me one."Īlthough 1975's self-titled release was rising up the charts during the making of Rumours, Caillat says that the band was still learning how to play together. When everything was insane, I had to be sane. But I had to be a therapist and record producer. "There were fights, breakups, drinking, drugs. The soap opera that attended the making of Rumours has been extensively documented - married band members John and Christine McVie broke up, as did lovers Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks even Mick Fleetwood's marriage dissolved, as well - and Caillat confirms that 1976 was a wild ride. A record label would have shut us down after two weeks." Something like Rumours could never happen these days. Lives were changed, people changed, everything became different. "We spent a year and a lot of hell working on it. "Records like Rumours don't happen anymore," says Ken Caillat, who along with Richard Dashut and Fleetwood Mac produced the 1977 mega album that has sold a mind-boggling 44 million copies. Producer Ken Caillat reflects on the mega album's 35th anniversary Fleetwood Mac's Rumours track-by-track
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