But for a music geek looking for new adventures in music, what was great about 1977 were the brash fresh faces and sounds coming out of New York and London. It was the ultimate easy listening album, a mere refinement on what felt like an old L.A. Here's what was selling well back then: the Bee Gees, The Eagles, Abba, KC and the Sunshine Band, Wings, Barry Manilow. ![]() To understand my indifference - verging on disdain - toward this record, you have to think about the state of rock music in 1977. ![]() (To keep track of inventory back before bar codes, we'd write down - on paper with an actual pen that went through carbon paper - the label and number of everything we sold.)īut it wasn't the constant in store listening that turned me off to Rumours. In fact, 35 years later I can still tell you the label and number on the spine of the record: Warner BSK 3010. In 1977, when Fleetwood Mac's 11th studio album came out, I was working in a record store in Rockville, Md. Their reaction is invariably deep surprise. Someone in their 20s tells me how much they love Fleetwood Mac, and in particular its monster-selling album Rumours. ![]() It has happened over and over again in the past few years.
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