Editing Fleetwood Mac (1975 album) (section)

==Background==
In 1974, Fleetwood Mac relocated from England to California to manage the band's affairs better.<ref name="Serpick">{{cite magazine|first= Evan |last= Serpick |title= Fleetwood Mac Biography |magazine= [[Rolling Stone]] |access-date= 10 April 2015 |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/fleetwood-mac/biography}}</ref> In California, they recorded an album, ''[[Heroes Are Hard to Find]]'', and set out on tour. Shortly after finishing the tour, [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]] (guitarist, singer, and composer) left the band, ending Fleetwood Mac's ninth lineup in eight years,<ref name="Williamson">{{cite magazine|first= Nigel |last= Williamson |title= Fleetwood Mac: 'Everybody was pretty weirded out' – the story of Rumours |magazine= [[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |date= 29 January 2013 |access-date= 10 April 2015 |url= http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/fleetwood-mac-everybody-was-pretty-weirded-out-the-story-of-rumours-26395}}</ref> to form the band [[Paris (band)|Paris]].<ref name="Serpick"/>

Prior to Welch's departure, [[Mick Fleetwood]] met with producer [[Keith Olsen]] at [[Sound City Studios]] to listen to some demos.<ref name="Serpick"/><ref name="Williamson"/> There, Olsen played Fleetwood an album he had recently engineered, titled ''[[Buckingham Nicks]]''.<ref name="Serpick"/> Fleetwood particularly enjoyed the guitar solo on the song "Frozen Love",<ref name="Williamson"/> and decided to hire both Olsen and the guitarist, [[Lindsey Buckingham]].<ref name="Serpick"/> However, Buckingham would not accept Fleetwood's offer unless he agreed to also hire Buckingham's musical and romantic partner, [[Stevie Nicks]], even though they were close to breaking up. After an informal interview at a Mexican restaurant, Mick Fleetwood invited both Buckingham and Nicks to join the band, and this tenth lineup of the band proved to be its most successful. Within three months, the band had recorded the album ''Fleetwood Mac''.<ref name="Williamson"/>

During the recording sessions, bassist [[John McVie]] clashed with Buckingham over creative decisions made in the studio, particularly over some of the album's bass parts. McVie reminded Buckingham that "The band you're in is Fleetwood Mac. I'm the Mac. And I play the bass."<ref>{{cite news|first= David |last= Honingmann |title= The Life of a Song: Fleetwood Mac's the Chain |newspaper= [[The Financial Times]] |date= 9 January 2017 |access-date= 24 February 2017 |url= https://www.ft.com/content/a92b3436-d355-11e6-b06b-680c49b4b4c0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/a92b3436-d355-11e6-b06b-680c49b4b4c0 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}</ref> Buckingham told ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' that Christine McVie was more receptive to his creative input. <blockquote>"It was so clear that right away that Christine and I had this thing. She was just really looking for direction. She was open to me taking liberties with her songs. So early on, that was probably the first thing that hit me about being in Fleetwood Mac was being extremely aware that I had something to contribute to Christine’s songs as a producer and possibly as a co-writer."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Graff |first=Gary |date=11 January 2018|title=Fleetwood Mac Shares Early Version of 1975 Classic 'Monday Morning': Exclusive |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/fleetwood-mac-monday-morning-early-take-8093899/ |access-date=23 December 2023|magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref></blockquote>

Many of the songs on ''Fleetwood Mac'' were written before Buckingham and Nicks joined the band. "[[Rhiannon (song)|Rhiannon]]", "[[I'm So Afraid]]", and "[[Monday Morning (Fleetwood Mac song)|Monday Morning]]" were written and performed live by the duo and were initially slated to appear on a second Buckingham Nicks album. "[[Crystal (Fleetwood Mac song)|Crystal]]" was recycled from the first Buckingham Nicks album, but with a different arrangement. Fleetwood praised these songs as "show stoppers, even as rough sketches recorded on Lindsey's four-track.{{sfn|Fleetwood|Bozza|2014|pp=164, 169}}

Like all of the band's studio albums, the front cover photo of ''Fleetwood Mac'' does not show the whole band,<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Joey |last= DeGroot |title= 7 Album Cover Photos Without the Entire Band: Fleetwood Mac, R.E.M., and more |magazine= Music Times |access-date= 13 April 2015 |url= http://www.musictimes.com/articles/6151/20140515/7-album-cover-photos-without-the-entire-band-fleetwood-mac-r-e-m-and-more.htm}}</ref> including, in this case, only drummer Mick Fleetwood (standing) and bass guitarist John McVie (kneeling).