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A vastly successful single, there’s a twinge of darkness and unease about Big Love that undercuts its breathy sampled voices and ostensibly lubricious nocturnal mood. Dropped from Rumours due to time constraints, Silver Springs is nevertheless one of Nicks’ greatest songs, on which the mask of diffidence she affects on Dreams cracks, and jealousy, misery and dire imprecations gush forth, alongside a prescient warning to Buckingham: “The sound of my voice will haunt you. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Mac daddies … the band’s early Buckingham-Nicks era, 1975 (left to right) John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham.

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A true surprise and a big smile to all who blindly believe in marketing chitchatting over-expensive reissues being the ultimate :-). Mac daddies … the band’s early Buckingham-Nicks era, 1975 (left to right) John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham. Thunderous and eerie – Green sings in a chilling falsetto that he’s beset by forces “creeping around, making me do things I don’t wanna do” – The Green Manalishi is both a signpost on the route to heavy metal and, like Pink Floyd’s long-suppressed Vegetable Man, the sound of the psychological wreckage wrought by LSD washing up in rock music.It includes the 1975 track "Over My Head" but omits the 1987 track "Seven Wonders" (despite it being a top 20 hit in the US) as well as the 1982 track "Oh Diane" (which failed to chart there in 1983, but was a top-ten hit in the UK). The album assembles the band's hit singles in the UK covering the period from the band's beginning in 1968 to 1971, mostly in its original incarnation led by guitarist Peter Green.

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Begun in 1978, at the hedonistic height of Fleetwood Mac’s celebrity, Gypsy finds Nicks looking longingly back at her pre-fame life. By far the least revered album of the classic Buckingham/Nicks-era Mac, Mirage has something of the holding pattern about it – Tusk’s experimentation is gone, expensive-sounding soft-rock abounds – but it contains some real hidden gems, including McVie’s luscious, lovestruck, small-hours paean to her soon-to-be-ex, soon-to-be-late fiance Dennis Wilson. The verses build tension, the choruses and the fantastic guitar solo are an angry, cathartic release. Santana’s slinky, conga-heavy cover version is more famous, but Fleetwood Mac’s first Top 40 hit is darker, more raw and exciting.

It is different from the similarly titled 1971 release by the Peter Green incarnation of the band and contains a different track listing. The standard line is that Nicks and Buckingham’s arrival transformed Fleetwood Mac, but on McVie’s majestic Come a Little Bit Closer – a hidden gem from 1974’s Heroes Are Hard to Find – the band sounded as if they were already preparing for a musical shift: it could have slotted on to Rumours with ease. Hypnotised by new wave, particularly Talking Heads, Buckingham steered Rumours’ follow-up down some unexpected paths, not least on its title track, a chaotic, paranoid melange involving a marching band, voices that whisper and shriek, and a leg of lamb being hit with a spatula. The album contains two new tracks, " As Long as You Follow" (which was released as a single to promote the album), and " No Questions Asked". If Fleetwood Mac wobbled at the decade’s start, by 1987 they seemed almost as imperious as they had been circa Rumours thanks to songs such as Little Lies, co-written by McVie and her then-husband, Eddy Quintela.