Fleetwood Mac will release a live album from their 1982 tour to support the album “Mirage” later this year. “Mirage Tour ’82” features 22 songs collected from a pair of sold-out shows at the Los Angeles Forum from that year. As Rhino notes in a press release announcing the set, “In September 1982, Fleetwood Mac embarked on a 31-city U.S. tour in support of “Mirage” the band’s fourth consecutive multiplatinum album and third No. 1 in America.
Fleetwood Mac’s “Mirage Tour ’82”, features live recordings from Fleetwood Mac’s Mirage Tour, Includes the classic Mirage singles “Gypsy,” & “Hold Me,” along with six previously unreleased tracks including “Don’t Stop,” “Dreams,” “Oh Well,” “Landslide,” “Never Going Back Again” & “Sara”.
“Both shows at the Forum were recorded, and “Mirage Tour ‘82” combines songs from both into a single concert experience.” You can hear a previously unreleased live version of “Don’t Stop”.
The set will be available on September 20th in 3LP, 2CD and digital configurations. Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks were at the height of their collective power at these shows, delivering a hyper-charged setlist filled with hits new and old. Standouts include “Songbird,” “Oh Well,” “Love In Store,” “Go Your Own Way,” and a version of “Landside” for the ages.
In the set’s liner notes, music journalist and songwriter Bill DeMain calls the collection “a riveting listen” and a reminder of a time when rock shows “were platforms to expand and reinvent songs for the stage, to let them breathe, to unleash different, wilder sides of a band.”
The arrival of the set is some good news for fans who were recently told by Stevie Nicks that “there’s no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together” following Christine McVie’s death in 2022.
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