Go Your Own Way
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| Single by Fleetwood Mac | |||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Rumours | |||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Silver Springs" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Released | December 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7-inch single | ||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | Record Plant, Sausalito; Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles; Criteria Studios, Miami, 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Lindsey Buckingham | ||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat | ||||||||||||||||||
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"Go Your Own Way" is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released as a single in December 1976. Written and sung by Lindsey Buckingham, it was the first single from the group's 1977 album Rumours. It was the group's first major U.S. hit with male lead vocals.
The song was written on a vacation in Florida in a house the band rented. By this point, the members of Fleetwood Mac were not getting along very well. Mick Fleetwood, the band's drummer, remembers the tense atmosphere during this time:
It was hardly a vacation. Aside from the obvious unstated tension, I remember the house having a distinctly bad vibe to it, as if it were haunted, which did nothing to help matters…and that's where Lindsey played some of his stuff for the album. It was rough but it was great, though the setting didn't do it justice..."
The band didn't hear any of these early recordings until they returned to Sausalito.
Buckingham had heard "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones, and he thought that type of drum approach would work well for the song. Ken Caillat, remembers that Mick Fleetwood initially had a difficult time with the drums. "I remember watching him guide Mick as to what he wanted – he'd be so animated, like a little kid, playing these air tom fills with his curly hair flying. Mick wasn't so sure he could do what Lindsey wanted, but he did a great job, and the song took off."
The guitar solo was assembled in numerous takes at Criteria Studios by Ken Caillat, Fleetwood Mac's producer at the time. "It was a completely comp'd solo, and on the 24-track it's still in its original form, with all the separate guitars, and you still have to mix that way. I remember, I'd gone away for Christmas vacation and got snowed in at Lake Tahoe, and when I finally returned I got a midnight call telling me to come to the studio because they'd been trying to mix that song and couldn't build the guitar solo. So I drove there and did the solo, using mutes and faders while also having two solos play simultaneously for certain parts, such as one toward the end where he does this slide."
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