Making Rumours

The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

By: Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel

Narrated by: Ken Caillat, Fred Berman

Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for 31 weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours - from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks.

• Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen
• Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun"; how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success; how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass

©2012 Ken Caillat and Steven Stiefel (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Good insight but too much rock star worship

Good to hear about a production from the engineers pov but a little too fawning about the band. Some of those egos deserved a stomping.

loved it!!

I loved this book so much. As a musician I loved all the detail and easygoing delivery
Fantastic!

What fun

This perspective on the producers and sound engineers role and producing this record is extremely eye-opening for me. I am very grateful for this audiobook. 

As an audio engineer and music producer

This book is an incredible depiction of the making of the Rumour’s album. If you’re a music student, or an audio engineer, or just someone who enjoys learning about music, and the behind the scene environment of the music industry in Southern California during the 1970’s then you’ll enjoy this book.

A window into the golden age of recording

If you like Fleetwood Mac and also production and recording techniques you will love this book.

Delivers as Promised!

This book is exactly what it says it is - a look into the making of an album, from a producer's perspective. I will admit, this is not for the average fan. If you're looking for a story all about Fleetwood Mac, you won't find it here! That's not what this book is about. This is about how Fleetwood Mac made a classic album, and should be in the library of every major and indie artist/producer/engineer who makes records.

As an indie artist myself, you have to learn all aspects of the behind-the-scenes magic that goes on with making a record, and trust me, to the average fan, you may not know who the author is, but he is a VERY respected and notable figured in the industry. If you're into recording and engineering, this book is for you! I personally wanted more technical details about the record and gear that was used, but Ken put enough in this book, and did a brilliant job in explaining the tools of the trade so that anyone could understand.

A must read!

Whether you’re musically inclined or not, this book is a true “page turner” (can I say that about an audiobook?). The story is told masterfully and I felt as if I were right there with the group while they were making the album. If you can, listen to the super deluxe version of the Rumors album while reading this. It brings new meanings to each song and all the little nuances hidden in the tracks. This was well worth the purchase!

In the studio with Ken Cailett

Another great read by Ken Cailett about working with The Mac, while the story is full of entertaining info about the behind the scenes and for the techophiles like myself all kinds of tech stuff mentioned, the narrator was awful! Firstly, the book is written by a man and it's being read by a woman, which wouldn't be so jarring except for her delivery. she sounds like a professor in a college, the narration is very dull and she doesn't have the ability to act out the characters in the story, just simply using her voice for all characters which sometimes makes it hard to follow. the enteraining thing about the previous "making of rumours" book was the delivery by Fred Berman who did a great job of acting out each character, almost to the exact voicing of each band member! this audiobook would have been orders of magnitude better if Mr. Berman would have narrated it.

Simply great!!!

I'd highly recommend this for....1-anyone in music production or songwriting it's a very enlightening story about one of the greatest albums ever made. 2- any Fleetwood Mac fanatics. I wish Ken had been a little more specific on the model number of the mics, outboard gear and stuff (I know that would have been useless info for most folks, but not me!), but it is a great story.....Plenty of sex, drugs....and some rock and roll!

From a fan

If Fleetwood Mac and Rumours were the soundtrack of your college life, you can’t miss listening to this book. I spent a lot of time toggling between a particular song and the book. I see this album through a totally different lens now. Highly recommend