When Nicks played the song to the rest of the group, "They weren't nuts about it. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me." "I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote 'Dreams' in about 10 minutes.
"I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me," continues Nicks. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes." "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers Nicks to Blender magazine, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone. Stevie Nicks wrote the song in early 1976 at Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California.
FLEETWOOD MAC ALBUMS BEST PROFESSIONAL
"We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explained Buckingham to Blender magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other." Christine McVie and John McVie were separating, while Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording the Rumours album. "Dreams" was ranked number nine on Rolling Stone's 2021 list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The song subsequently re-entered national music charts in certain countries and also entered the Spotify and Apple Music charts in certain countries. In late 2020, the song experienced a widespread resurgence in popularity as a result of a viral TikTok video created by Nathan Apodaca.
In Canada, "Dreams" also reached number one on the RPM Top 100 Singles chart.
In the US, "Dreams" sold more than one million copies and reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's only number-one single in the country. A stage performance of "Dreams" was used as the promotional music video. In the United States, "Dreams" was released as the second single from Rumours on 24 March 1977, while in the United Kingdom, the song was released as the third single in June 1977. " Dreams" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from their eleventh studio album, Rumours (1977).
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