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1990's Sounds - Fleetwood Mac

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The Soundtrack of Your Life  (18+) Every February, you're invited to chronicle the music that has influenced your life! #1970896 by Jeff

#22 - 1990's Sounds - Fleetwood Mac

Waitaminute, Steph - Wasn't Fleetwood Mac in the 1970's? Yeah, they were but the line up of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie is CLASSIC. And like the Beatles, their music is classic and stands the test of time.

I discovered Fleetwood Mac in the late 1980's and their music began to grow with me. I actually went and saw them in concert in 1988 in Dortmund, Germany, though Lindsay was gone and there were 2 guys there - Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. I think I went with Johnny Seybalt from Commo. I'm telling you, those Commo guys were cool. They were laid back and never uptight.

In early 1990, my Aunt came over to visit me and brought 3 of her friends. I met them in Paris and we piled into my Toyota Corolla went on a road trip - Paris - Brussels, Amsterdam, Munster, and then - Berlin. One of my Aunt's friends, Laura, had a brother stationed in Berlin. His name was Terry and his wife was Rhonda, and we became good friends. Exploring Berlin during this time was the experience of a lifetime. The Fall of the Berlin Wall had just happened and Berlin had just opened up as a city. Over the course of the next couple of years, I would go back and visit Rhonda and Terry with my future husband, Brent. Oh, we were young and we had Dreams.

Fleetwood Mac's music and songs speak to the emotional content of life regardless of the decade. Everyone has dreams for their life - dreams for their future, dreams at night. Dreams filled with hope and longing and of a promising future. That was this time of my life. I could see Berlin embracing those dreams, too. The Soviet block countries were falling. The early 1990 was a time of change in the world and in my life personally. It was a time of Dreams.

DREAMS
Fleetwood Mac