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From their top-selling album Rumours, “Dreams” was Fleetwood Mac’s only No. 1 hit in the US back in 1977.
The song was written by Stevie Nicks at a turbulent time for the band. She and Lindsey Buckingham’s relationship was coming to an end. Christine McVie was in the process of divorcing her husb...
[Intro: Stevie Nicks]
(Mmm)
[Verse 1: Stevie Nicks]
Now, here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
[Pre-Chorus: Stevie Nicks]
Like a heartbeat drives you mad (Heartbeat)
In the stillness of rememberin' (Stillness)
What you had and what you lost (Lonely, ooh)
And what you had and what you lost (Ooh, ooh)
[Chorus: Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie]
Oh, thunder only happens when it's rainin'
Players only love you when they're playing
Say, "Women, they will come and they will go"
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2: Stevie Nicks]
Now, here I go again
I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me who wants to
Wrap around your dreams
And have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness
[Pre-Chorus: Stevie Nicks]
Like a heartbeat drives you mad (Heartbeat)
In the stillness of rememberin' (Stillness)
What you had and what you lost (Lonely, ooh)
Oh, what you had, oh, what you lost (Ooh, ah)
[Chorus: Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie]
Thunder only happens when it's rainin'
Players only love you when they're playing
Women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
Oh, thunder only happens when it's rainin'
Players only love you when they're playing
Say, "Women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
[Outro: Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie]
You'll know
You will know
Oh, you'll know
Dreams was written by Stevie Nicks.
Dreams was produced by Ken Caillat & Richard Dashut & Christine McVie & Fleetwood Mac.
Fleetwood Mac released Dreams on Fri Feb 04 1977.
Per Stevie Nicks in The Rolling Stone Magazine –
I sat down on the (Sly Stone’s) bed with my keyboard in front of me; I wrote the song in about 10 minutes
In April 2018, “Dreams” entered Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart at No. 14 thanks to a Twitter meme.
The widespread tweet helped spark the song’s 36 percent surge in download sales, according to Nielsen Music. It also raked in 1.9 million on-demand streams.
Not at first. As Stevie explained to Blender:
They weren’t nuts about it. But I said ‘Please! Please record this song, at least try it’. Because the way I play things sometimes… you really have to listen.
As documented by Rolling Stone, Stevie Nicks explained in the 2013 Rumours reissue liner notes:
Even though ‘Go Your Own Way’ was a little angry, it was also honest. So then I wrote ‘Dreams,’ and because I’m the chiffony chick who believes in fairies and angels, and Lindsey is a hardcore guy, it co...
Caillat told Music Radar:
Stevie didn’t always have a lot to do [in the studio]. If she wasn’t singing, she’d bang on the tambourine, but that was about it. She had a lot more free time than the other band members. There was a spare room down the hall called Sly Stone’s Pit, and it had a piano. Thi...
Yes! The RIAA certified the song as Gold in 1977, selling over 500,000 units.
Rolling Stone named it the #9 greatest Fleetwood Mac song, saying:
One afternoon during the recording of Rumours, Nicks disappeared into a small studio in the Record Plant, which belonged to Sly Stone. ‘It was a black-and-red room with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big,...