Thirty-six years ago, an up-and-coming band hired a young recording engineer to work on its new album. And magic happened.
That engineer – local author and Grammy-winning record producer Ken Caillat - will discuss and sign his new book Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album on Saturday, June 16 at 2 PM at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Thousand Oaks.
In Making Rumours, Caillat tells the wild, poignant, and ultimately life-changing story of the genesis of one of the greatest albums of all time, an album which sat at the top of the charts for an astonishing thirty-one weeks in 1977 and has sold over forty million copies. Songs like Go Your Own Way, You Make Lovin’ Fun, and The Chain became part of the soundtrack to everyone’s life during 1977 and beyond. And a certain Arkansas Governor so loved Fleetwood Mac’s number-one hit Don’t Stop that it became the theme song for his Presidential campaign fifteen years later.
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But the Rumours album was notable as much for the drama that went on outside the studio as the musical magic that happened inside. In his book, Caillat paints a portrait of five brilliant but troubled young artists at their creative peak, sharing with the reader both the drug- and alcohol-fueled rock-star melodrama that threatened to derail the project and the technical insights behind those brilliant songs. Making Rumours is a must-read for Fleetwood Mac fans, rock history buffs, and anyone who loves a behind-the-scenes account of great musicians at work and play.
Local resident Ken Caillat, who won a Grammy for his work as the co-producer of Rumours, has worked with artists ranging from the London Symphony Orchestra, to Paul McCartney, to George Carlin, and to his own Grammy-winning daughter Colbie Caillat, for whom he produced the bestselling album Breakthrough. Making Rumours is his first book.
