“Sausalito was the worst,” moans Stevie Nicks. Sinking into a comer of her cranberry velour sofa, a bowl of split pea soup in one hand, she recollects' the first recording session for Fleetwood Mac’s latest, Rumours.

It was February 1976 when Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie left Los Angeles for the Record Plant in Sausalito to record—rather try to record—material for a follow-up to the immensely prosperous Fleetwood Mac album. It was then that the pressures of the business and their new-found fame and fortune started to cast dark clouds on the romantic relationships within the band. When the thunderstorms let up, John and Christine, after eight years of marriage, and Stevie and Lindsey, after six years as roommates, had separated. Mick and his lady Jenny were in the middle of divorce proceedings—only to eventually remarry.