Go Your Own Way (song)
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| "Go Your Own Way" | ||
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| Single by Fleetwood Mac | ||
| from the album Rumours | ||
| B-side(s) | "Silver Springs" | |
| Released | December 20, 1976 | |
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | |
| Recorded | 1976 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 3:43 | |
| Label | Reprise Records | |
| Writer(s) | Lindsey Buckingham | |
| Producer(s) | Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut & Ken Caillat | |
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| Fleetwood Mac singles chronology | ||
| "Say You Love Me" (1976) |
"Go Your Own Way" (1976) |
"Dreams" (1977) |
"Go Your Own Way" is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham and performed by Fleetwood Mac. It is one of the band's most enduring hits. It was the first single to be released from the highly successful album, Rumours, which was to be released in February 1977. It is ranked #119 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, one of the group's two entries along with "Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)"
[edit] Inspiration
Buckingham wrote this song with regard to his bandmate Stevie Nicks, with whom he had just ended a romantic relationship. It describes their breakup, with the most obvious line being, "Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do." Nicks insisted she never shacked up with anyone when they were together, and wanted Lindsey to take out the line, but he refused. [1]
[edit] Cover Versions
The song was covered by The Cranberries on the 1998 Fleetwood Mac tribute album, 'Legacy: a tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.' It has also been covered by punk bands: NOFX on their 1989 album S&M Airlines and Seaweed on the soundtrack to the 1994 movie "Clerks", Scottish alternative band Biffy Clyro and Wilson Phillips as well as Jennifer Brown on her 2003 album Home. In 2006 at the Central Park SummerStage festival, bands Death Cab for Cutie and The Decemberists performed a version of the song.
[edit] Other performances
On the December 2, 2006 airing of CMT's Crossroads featuring country music group Little Big Town and Fleetwood Mac band member Buckingham, "Go Your Own Way" was the last song performed. Taking Nicks' place in the singing was Little Big Town's Kimberly Roads.
