The '70s had no shortage of puzzling LP sleeve imagery. But if the image that adorned Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album Rumours was among the more perverse and baffling, that might have been because the band that made it had been driven to the edge of sanity while doing so.Yet just as punk rock was supposedly sweeping away the airbrushed soft-rock and indulgent prog that dominated the musical landscape in the mid '70s, this was one of the albums that would prove that the death of traditional rock had been greatly exaggerated.Sonically, it was a state-of-the-art affair despite the troubled nature of its recording sessions. And the personal turmoil that informed its songs seems to have only enhanced their emotional resonance.
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