Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

Lesley-Ann Jones gives a 3-dimensional look at Christine McVie and Fleetwood Mac. Because, perhaps, McVie was more private than the other band members, there may not have been enough to write about her alone. So she included the other band members and I think that showed how McVie fit in with the dysfunctional, incestual-like group. I mean, they were trading each other off in relationships like a grade school prom.

The chapter on the recording of "Rumours" was worth the read itself. We've all heard about the love loses and drug use, but Jones shows it in action. She includes a lot of tidbits.. like when McVie recorded the song "Songbird" for the album, producers rented a theater on the campus of Cal-Berkley and used numerous pipe mikes to pick up more of the haunting ambience of the song. Stuff like that really made this book work.

The downside, I found, though, was too much speculation because Jones didn't have all the facts. She would write about groups performing in McVie's childhood town and suggested she may have been there. She also resorts to talking with a psychologist to give hints into what could have motivated McVie. I didn't think this worked too well.

There is a huge feel of nostalgia and it's hard to imagine the band, in whatever form they were in, began more than 50 years ago and their big heyday was in 1978. The music is still relevant.

This is a good book to get an inside look at Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie's stablizing role with the band and the mishaps of being a star.