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Fifty years after the release of Warren Zevon's breakthrough self-titled album, the 1976 record remains one of the defining singer-songwriter statements of the decade, powered by a remarkable cast of musicians and songs later transformed into hits by Linda Ronstadt.

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and songwriter Lindsey Buckingham was confronted by a suspected stalker in Santa Monica, with police now investigating the incident.

Fleetwood Mac's 1977 classic Rumours has emphatically proven that great music endures, securing its place as one of the biggest selling albums of 2025 in the United States. According to year‑end sales tallies, Rumours finished 24th overall in album units across all formats for the year, and impressively ranked 10th in physical sales, the top echelon of CDs and vinyl, with 221,514 units sold. When streaming figures are included, the album's total equivalent sales for 2025 reached 1,064,163.

Seventh Wonder Performs Fleetwood Mac, Orchestrated, arrives at the Sydney Opera House for one night only on Saturday 14 February 2026.

Stevie Nicks has surprised her fans by dusting off a long-lost Fleetwood Mac favourite for the first time since 1983. At her latest show in Portland, Oregan, Nicks revisited Angel, a track from Fleetwood Mac's sprawling 1979 double album Tusk, giving the song its first live outing in more than four decades.

More than 20 years after the passing of country outlaw legend Waylon Jennings, his son Shooter Jennings has unveiled Songbird, the first of three newly restored albums of unreleased material, breathing new life into one of country music's most enduring voices.

Mike Campbell, the legendary guitarist, songwriter and co-pilot of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, is now a best-selling author. The book has quickly cemented itself as one of the definitive accounts of life inside one of America's greatest rock 'n' roll bands.