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REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Tusk

Fleetwood Mac’s beautiful and terrifically strange 1979 LP Tusk poses the question: What happens when love dissipates, and you have to find a new thing to believe in? What if that thing is work? Rating:...

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Tusk (1979)

Tusk: The Deluxe and Expanded editions

Fleetwood Mac’s most notorious album gets the deluxe treatment on December 4 On December 4, Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 album Tusk will be reissued in deluxe and expanded editions. Spin CDs, a online music retailer...

October 27, 2015
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Tusk (1979)

How Fleetwood Mac made a masterpiece that flopped

How do you release a double album that goes multi-platinum, breaks the Top 5, spawns multiple hit singles and spends months in the Top 40 while still being widely regarded as an artistic folly and a flop? Ask Fleetwood...

October 12, 2015
Tusk (1979)

Letter of Recommendation: Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk

There is a species of spider that hunts by releasing chemicals that imitate the sex pheromones of moths. When its prey arrives, high on fantasies of romance, the spider hits it with a sticky blob of web, then devours it...

February 18, 2015
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Tusk (1979)

ALBUM REVIEW: Tusk

More than any other Fleetwood Mac album, Tusk is born of a particular time and place — it could only have been created in the aftermath of Rumours, which shattered sales records, which in turn gave the group a blank...

January 1, 2015
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Tusk (1979)

Woman drops suit against Fleetwood Mac

Carol Hinton claimed the rock band used her poem without permission. A woman who brought suit against the rock group Fleetwood Mac for using the lyrics of her poem in the hit song ‘Sara’ has agreed to drop...

July 22, 1981
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Tusk (1979)

Fleetwood Mac — a Cadillac of the rock business

Fleetwood Mac explores leaner sound on double album Tusk. In a world of pedestrian rock stars, Fleetwood Mac has long been in the top of the line. In the mid-70s, the five-member group strung a series of hits whose lush...

July 9, 1980