The setlist was similar to that of the album, but with " Over My Head" and "My Little Demon" being replaced by " Oh Daddy", " Second Hand News", " Stand Back", "Farmer's Daughter" (a cover of the Beach Boys song from Surfin' U.S.A.), and " Not That Funny". The band later embarked on a 44-date tour across the United States with one stop in Canada in support of The Dance. A fourth single, "Temporary One," was released in some European markets.
This album spawned three singles in the USA: "Landslide", "The Chain", and "Silver Springs" which earned the band three Grammy nominations in 1998, in the categories of " Best Pop Album", " Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocal" for "The Chain" and " Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" for "Silver Springs". The album cover photo, taken by David LaChapelle, has Mick Fleetwood recreating his pose from the cover of Rumours, the band's most successful album, and Lindsey Buckingham holding the cane used on the cover of the Fleetwood Mac album, Rumours' predecessor. Also John McVie sang backup on this version of the song. No tracks from the Mirage album were included on the CD, although " Gypsy" was included in the video and DVD versions.Ī banjo was played during this recording of " Say You Love Me", an interesting difference from the original album version. For example, "Bleed to Love Her" was a previously unreleased track when The Dance was released, although a studio recording of the song was later included on the Say You Will (2003) album. The concert was recorded for Fleetwood Mac's MTV The Dance special at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, on, and features the University of Southern California Marching Band who perform on the tracks " Tusk" (having played on the original studio recording) and " Don't Stop".Īlthough the album is predominantly a live greatest hits package, The Dance also features new material written by each of the primary songwriting members of the band (with two from Buckingham) as well as popular album tracks.
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Unlike 1980's Live, which was a collection of live recordings over a series of 60 shows, The Dance was recorded in one night, albeit with good isolation to allow for overdubs. The DVD version has been certified 9x platinum in Australia for selling 135,000 copies. 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 199,000, The Dance became the fifth best-selling live album of all time in the United States, selling a million copies within eight weeks, spending more than seven months within the top 40, and eventually selling over 6,000,000 copies worldwide. And I truly hope, and I quietly believe it will be Fleetwood Mac, and Stevie will do some lovely stuff and within the next couple of years we will get that done.The Dance was the last Fleetwood Mac album to feature Christine McVie as a full-time member before she left a year after the album's release although she returned to the band in 2014 to tour. ''My inclination is, the music will not be wasted. '' been in the studio with Christine in months gone by worked out amazingly well.''Īnd although Stevie Nicks has not yet confirmed whether she will stay with the band for another album when their current reunion tour ends, Mick is feeling positive they will release another LP at some point in the future, which would be their first record with their current line-up since the multi-platinum 1987 effort, 'Tango in the Night'. '' has a great chunk of wonderful songs, pretty flushed out and finished. He said: ''We're building up this whole sort of dossier of material, a glut of stuff. However, the 67-year-old musician admitted they are gradually working on new material which is sounding ''wonderful''. ''We're going all over the world now, so we don't quite know how we're gonna finish this out.'' He confessed: ''This whole touring stuff is getting sort of totally, in a good way, out of control. The band's drummer has revealed their hectic touring schedule means the band - also featuring John and Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks - have had to put their album plans on hold, meaning it is unlikely it will be released in the near future. Mick Fleetwood says it will be ''a couple of years'' before Fleetwood Mac release a new album.