Mirage (Fleetwood Mac album)

Mirage
Studio album by Fleetwood Mac
Released 18 June 1982
Recorded 1981–82 at
Le Château in Hérouville, France,
Larrabee Sound Studios and the Record Plant
(both in Los Angeles, California)
mixed at
George Massenburg Labs
in West Los Angeles, California
Genre Pop rock, soft rock
Length 42:52
Language English
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Live
(1980)		 Mirage
(1982)		 Tango in the Night
(1987)
Singles from Mirage
  1. "Hold Me"
    Released: June 1982 (US) / July 1982 (UK)
  2. "Gypsy"
    Released: August 1982 (US) / September 1982 (UK)
  3. "Love in Store"
    Released: November 1982 (US)
  4. "Oh Diane"
    Released: December 1982 (UK) / February 1983 (US)
  5. "Can't Go Back"
    Released: April 1983 (UK)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert ChristgauB+[2]
MusicHound[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Mirage is the 13th studio album by Fleetwood Mac, released on June 18, 1982.

Following a hiatus of over a year after the completion of the worldwide Tusk tour, the band temporarily relocated to Château d'Hérouville in France to record a new album. By this time Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had each commenced a solo career, the former to multi-platinum #1 success with 1981's Bella Donna, the latter faring not as well with his first outing Law and Order (US Billboard #32).

Mirage found the band venturing further into radio-friendly soft rock than it had in any of its previous incarnations. It stood in stark contrast to its highly experimental predecessor, 1979's Tusk. Mirage yielded several hit singles: "Hold Me" (which peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Pop Chart, remaining there for seven weeks), "Love in Store" (#22 US Pop Chart), "Oh Diane" (which reached #9 in the UK), and finally, "Can't Go Back" (issued on 7" and 12" in the UK).

The Stevie Nicks composition "Gypsy" (#12 Pop, #4 Rock, and a #16 hit in Canada) was the second single from the album and was accompanied by a lengthy video, the highest-budget music video ever produced at the time, directed by Russell Mulcahy, and was the very first "World Premiere Video" on MTV in 1982. The single and album edit of "Gypsy" ran for only 4:24, but a 5½-minute version had been originally recorded and it was this version used for the video. This full-length version was not made available on CD until 1992's retrospective box set 25 Years – The Chain.

Of the other two compositions from Nicks on the album, "That's Alright" dated back to the Buckingham/Nicks days of 1974, whilst "Straight Back" was written in the winter of 1981 and referred to her separation from (then) lover, producer Jimmy Iovine, and the huge wrench she experienced having to leave her newly established and highly successful solo career to re-join Fleetwood Mac for the 1982 project (Nicks refers to this on the DVD commentary to her 2008 retrospective Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks). "Straight Back" was also a US rock radio hit in late 1982.

The album returned the group to the top of the US Billboard charts for the first time since their 1977 album Rumours, spending five weeks at #1. It spent a total of 18 weeks in the US Top Ten and was certified double platinum for shipping 2,000,000 copies there. It also reached #5 in the UK where it was certified platinum for shipping 300,000 copies, and #2 in Australia.

Track listing

Side one
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Love in Store"  Christine McVie, Jim Recor 3:14
2. "Can't Go Back"  Lindsey Buckingham 2:42
3. "That's Alright"  Stevie Nicks 3:09
4. "Book of Love"  Buckingham, Richard Dashut 3:21
5. "Gypsy"  Nicks 4:24
6. "Only Over You"  C. McVie 4:08
Side two
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Empire State"  Buckingham, Dashut 2:51
2. "Straight Back"  Nicks 4:17
3. "Hold Me"  C. McVie, Robbie Patton 3:44
4. "Oh Diane"  Buckingham, Dashut 2:36
5. "Eyes of the World"  Buckingham 3:44
6. "Wish You Were Here"  C. McVie, Colin Allen 4:45

Tour

The Mirage Tour in Autumn 1982 only lasted for a few months and was confined to US dates in 29 cities only.[5]

Setlist:

Mirage Tour video / DVD

Two of the final shows of the Mirage tour were filmed in Los Angeles in 1982. Originally released on VHS and CED videodisc in 1983, many tracks were edited out, with the loss of "Second Hand News", "Don't Stop", "Dreams", "Brown Eyes", "Oh Well", "Never Going Back Again", "Landslide", "Sara", and "Hold Me", reducing the 135 minute show to just 80 minutes on cassette. The running order was also completely rearranged so that Nicks' "Gypsy" followed "The Chain", whilst "You Make Loving Fun" and "Blue Letter" were moved to the first half of the edited show.

The performance also includes what is often referred to as the 'speaking in tongues' version of "Sisters of the Moon", in which Nicks delivers the song's coda in such intense gravelly vibratos that her words are rendered mysteriously indecipherable.

The concert was not released on DVD until 2003, but this was limited to Brazil on the Studio Gaba label, and featured an unmastered soundtrack.

In 2006 a good quality release was issued in Australia, with an added special feature comprising six Stevie Nicks solo promotional videos for some of her singles released between 1981 and 1986. This collection had previously been issued separately on VHS in 1986 under the title Stevie Nicks – I Can't Wait, and exclusively includes a live solo version of her top ten hit "Leather and Lace" (a duet with Don Henley), which was recorded on the final night of Nicks' 1981 Bella Donna tour. The clip was not included in the 9-track edit of Nicks' "White Wing Dove" live concert VHS release in 1982, and neither was it included in the DVD supplement to her 2008 retrospective Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks. To date, this is therefore the only DVD availability of this live performance.

In 2009, another DVD incarnation of the Mirage concert was released under the title Fleetwood Mac – In Performance by the Showline label on a region-free disc.

Credits

Fleetwood Mac

Additional personnel

Production Credits

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[7] 2× Platinum 140,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[8] Platinum 100,000^
France (SNEP)[9] Gold 202,700[10]
Germany (BVMI)[11] Gold 250,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[12] Gold 50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[13] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[14] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1982) Position
Australian Kent Music Report[15] 2
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[16] 5
Dutch Albums Chart[17] 6
French SNEP Albums Chart[18] 11
Japanese Oricon LPs Chart[19] 40
New Zealand Albums Chart[20] 13
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[21] 2
Spanish Albums Chart[22] 17
Swedish Albums Chart[23] 10
UK Albums Chart[24] 5
US Billboard 200[25] 1
West German Media Control Albums Chart[26] 12

Year-end charts

Chart (1982) Position
Australian Albums Chart[15] 9
Canadian Albums Chart[27] 21
Dutch Albums Chart[28] 42
French Albums Chart[29] 40
UK Albums Chart[30] 44
US Billboard Pop Albums[31] 24
Chart (1983) Position
US Billboard Pop Albums[32] 88

References

  1. ↑ Thomas, Stephen. "AllMusic review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  2. ↑ "Robert Christgau review". Robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  3. ↑ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds) (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (2nd ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 434. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  4. ↑ "Fleetwood Mac: Album Guide". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on November 1, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ "The Mirage Tour". Fmlegacy.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-29. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  6. ↑ Graham, Sam. "Lindsey Buckingham: Personal Brinksmanship and State-of-the-Art Subconscious". The Blue Letter Archives. The Penguin. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ NO certyear WAS PROVIDED for AUSTRALIAN CERTIFICATION.
  8. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Tango in the Night". Music Canada. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  9. ↑ "French album certifications – Fleetwood+Mac – Mirage" (in French). InfoDisc. Select FLEETWOOD+MAC and click OK
  10. ↑ "Les Albums Or". infodisc.fr. SNEP. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  11. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Fleetwood Mac; 'Mirage')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  12. ↑ "Solo Exitos 1959–2002 Ano A Ano: Certificados > 2000–2003". Iberautor Promociones Culturales. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  13. ↑ "British album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Mirage". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Mirage in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
  14. ↑ "American album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Mirage". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2013-10-01. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
  15. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  16. ↑ Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 20 February 2013
  17. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl Fleetwood Mac – Mirage" (ASP). Hung Medien. MegaCharts. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  18. ↑ "InfoDisc : Tous les Albums classés par Artiste > Choisir Un Artiste Dans la Liste" (in French). infodisc.fr. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  19. ↑ Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
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  24. ↑ "Fleetwood Mac > Artists > Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  25. ↑ "allmusic ((( Mirage > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
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  27. ↑ "Top 100 Albums '82". RPM. 1982-12-25. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  28. ↑ "Dutch charts jaaroverzichten 1982" (in Dutch). Dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  29. ↑ "Les Albums (CD) de 1982 par InfoDisc" (PHP) (in French). infodisc.fr. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  30. ↑ "Complete UK Year-End Album Charts". Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
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Preceded by
Asia by Asia		 Billboard 200 number-one album
August 7, 1982 - September 4, 1982 		Succeeded by
American Fool by John Cougar
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