It was supposed to be Neil Sedaka-esque,” McVie says of Oh Diane’s vintage style. “And Lindsey’s always been a huge fan of the Kingston Trio. He loves all that stuff – folk, early Elvis songs, slap bass, the Everly Brothers. He loves the harmonies.” There have been many rough times," Christine McVie conceded. "But we’ve always ended up on some high note, standing around and jamming, or whatever, just really getting a charge out of playing together. It’s a joyous situation, and that takes over the bad points."

Despite the band holding a prominent place in popular British music, and despite Peter Green’s dalliances with LSD, Fleetwood Mac never really embraced psychedelic music when it became all the rage towards the tail end of the 1960s. Still enamoured with the blues, but falling apart due to Green’s fragile mental state, Then Play On finds the Mac at their first major crossroads. If I’m being honest with you, this is not top of my list of favourite Fleetwood Mac albums. It’s a fairly commercial album, with some quite good commercial songs. I don’t think we were trying to make them commercial. Or maybe we were – maybe that was the trouble. Where on Rumours, we weren’t trying to do anything except write. That has soul, that album. That’s what leaps out of the grooves. And I don’t believe this one has to the same extent. There’s some great craftsmanship, some great songs – but it pays Rumours homage.” 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. Solo Exitos 1959–2002 Ano A Ano: Certificados > 2000–2003. Iberautor Promociones Culturales. 2005. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. By now, the story of Bob Welch is well told, and it is not a feel-good one. Arriving in Fleetwood Mac at their lowest, he had the unenviable task of radically reinventing the group’s sound, sometimes in opposition to other singer/guitarists who were hired for the same purpose. He allowed the band to survive and even thrive, set the template for their eventual success, and bowed out with enough momentum to establish the beginnings of a solid solo career.

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The pressure from Warner was to make an album,” McVie remembers. “And of course they’re all praying for another Rumours. And I think that might have been quite a self-conscious decision we made, that we ought to go for something un- Tusky. It’s pointing a finger towards Rumours– one finger. Green quit the band in May 1970, his mental health damaged by drug use. A second guitarist, Jeremy Spencer, also afflicted by drug-related trauma, vanished 10 months later in the middle of a US tour, after saying he was popping out to get a magazine. He later resurfaced as a member of American religious cult The Children Of God. And a third guitarist, Danny Kirwan, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being fired in 1972. A fourth, Bob Weston, was also fired after he had an affair with Fleetwood’s wife. There’s always an element of that with him. ‘Gee, what-ever,’ you know. ‘O-kay…’ But then he gets sparked and excited about something. Like we were just doing a few songs a year ago in the studio, because we’re starting another album. And when you see the tears come into his eyes, you know it’s genuine. That he really is enjoying himself. I’ve never heard him say that [about a day job] – but as you say it, I can see it. Yeah, I’m sure a lot of it was quite pedestrian.” Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Fleetwood Mac; 'Mirage ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 1 October 2013.

McVie had only recently left Dennis Wilson, the once golden but now burnt-out Beach Boy who would drown while drunk on December 28, 1983, a year after Mirage’s release. His self-destruction had been too extreme for her to tolerate. Her love songs on Tusk and Mirage were based on their difficult, full-on months together.

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British album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Mirage". British Phonographic Industry. 27 November 1989 . Retrieved 17 July 2021. Canadian album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Tango in the Night". Music Canada . Retrieved 1 October 2013.

ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1996 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 14 July 2021. a b "Offiziellecharts.de – Fleetwood Mac – Mirage" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 6 July 2022.More typical was the time McVie returned to her LA home on her birthday and found her manic boyfriend had excavated a hole in her garden in the shape of a heart. “That’s true. I didn’t react very well. My gardeners didn’t, either. Especially when I got the bill!” She laughs heartily at the memory of Wilson’s foolishness now. “He had everybody standing around the edge of the heart, holding a candle, while sinking in the mud, waiting for me to come up so they could sing Happy Birthday. That didn’t go down too well.” Top Pop Albums of 1982". Billboard.biz. 31 December 1982. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013 . Retrieved 29 April 2014. Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (in Spanish) (1sted.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.