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Stevie Nicks arriving for her Late Show appearance with Dave Grohl and the Sound City Players
Thursday, February 14th.
Photographer Ray Tamarra - thanks to goldduststevie for the post!
Sunday, February 17, 2013
3rd Week For Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" in the UK Top 10 - Chart Update
UK - February 17, 2013
Fleetwood Mac's 35th Anniversary Edition of Rumours hangs in there for a 3rd week on the UK's Top 100 Album Charts giving it the distinction of being the biggest selling album by a veteran artist for the last 3 week. It moves down one position this week to #6 selling 14,665 units in the UK. Elsewhere on the charts, "Rumours" is the #1 Catalogue Album and Tango In The Night, and album we haven't seen back on the chart is a long while re-enters the Top 40 Catalogue Albums Chart at #37. In Scotland the album stays at #6 for a second week.
25,675 - UK First week sales
21,945 - UK Second week sales
14,665 - UK Third Week sales
10,818 - USA first week sales
8,496 - USA second week sales
81,599 - Total (UK and US only)
Previous week in parenthesis.
Top 100 Albums Charts
# 6 (5) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Top 40 Catalogue Albums Chart
# 1 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 37 Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night
Top 40 Catalogue Singles Chart
#14 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
# 35 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Scotland - February 17, 2013
Top 40 Albums Chart
# 6 (6) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Ireland - February 14, 2013
In Ireland "Rumours" moves down one place to #13 this week after entering the Top 100 on the February 7th chart at #12. "Greatest Hits" moves down to #30 and "The Very Best Of" moves up to #70 this week.
Top 100 Albums Chart
# 13 (12) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 30 (14) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 70 (90) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
Australia - February 18, 2013
"Rumours" in Australia advances on the Top 100 Albums Chart moving to #15 this week. On the Top 50 Catalogue Chart the album hangs in there at #2 with "Greatest Hits" not far behind at #6 for a second week. "The Very Best Of" moves up to #21. On the DVD Chart "The Dance" which is often on the Top 40 DVD Chart in Australia moves up to #14.
Top 100 Albums Chart
# 15 (18) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart
# 2 (2) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 6 (6) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 21 (24) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
Top 50 Digital Albums Chart
# 48 (21) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Top 40 DVD Chart
# 14 (17) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
USA - February 23, 2013
In the US, "Rumours" moves down slightly on the Top 200 Albums Chart to #64 with 8,496 units sold for the week after debuting back on the chart last week at #40 with 10,818 copies sold. For the second consecutive week the album remains the #1 Catalogue title in the US. Since November, 1991, Rumours has sold 3,144,699 copies in the US which is when Soundscan began tracking over the counter sales of albums.
Top 200 Albums Chart
# 64 (40) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Top 200 Cataglogue Albums Chart
# 1 (1) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Full rundown is listed below for 2nd and 3rd week chart positions
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
STEVIE NICKS + SOUND CITY PLAYERS, ‘YOU CAN’T FIX THIS’ – SONG REVIEW
Stevie Nicks leads Dave Grohl and the Sound City Players on ‘You Can’t Fix This,’ a song inspired by the death of the Fleetwood Mac singer’s godson. The group recently performed a slower, bluesier version of the track from the ‘Sound City’ soundtrack on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman.’ It’s best experienced live.
The studio version ultimately relies on Nicks, who is not quite the gifted vocalist she once was. Only when one knows the context in which she penned the lyrics is it effective. Lost in the studio mix is the swirling guitar licks that set the mood for this dark quasi-anti-drug message. “We were careful in our own way / We walk through the darkness / We made a pact not to dance with the devil / Even when the devil seemed to have a heart,” she sings before the first chorus.
That chorus is an unimpressive, slogging arrangement that fails to grab one’s attention. “You can’t fix this / You lost a friend / Hearts breaking / Right and left / Friendships break like glass / And the devil pours another glass,” Nicks sings. Later a pair of backing vocalists freshen-up the lyrics. It’s a necessary addition, as the finished cut comes in at a lumbering six minutes.
“We never allowed the devil to come to the party,” Nicks sings multiple times. Presumably the “devil” is the drugs, which she did let come to the party during points in her life. Her godson overdosed, and Nicks has talked about him before.
Lyrically, the message is meaningful but not brilliant prose. Clumsy rhymes aren’t softened by a magical arrangement of guitars and drums. Instead they’re left as the focus of a song that just sounds flat on the record. The slowed down live version they performed on late night television adds another dimension to the single, but ultimately it’s not going to be one fans remember forever.
by Billy Dukes
You Be The Judge...
Tell us in the comments section what you really think of the song...
Rumours Reviews | Rolling Stone USA, Spain and Stereoplay Germany
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Friday, February 15, 2013
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Video: Stevie Nicks on The Late Show with David Letterman "You Can't Fix This"
Stevie did a great job tonight... She looked great and sounded awesome! If you are in the West... hang on to watch or set your DVR or something. She's got a cold and it's apparent when she speaks to Letterman at the end, but it didn't affect her singing, in fact she made it work for her, and it gave her voice a deeper register which I thought sounded kinda cool! Great message and story telling in this song... She looked so tiny up there with all those men! Even with the boots on!
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| Photo by The Late Show with David Letterman |
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