December, 1976.

With the sun shining, and rumours that the silly winter temperatures may now be behind us, this feels like it could very well be the farewell to winter we’ve all been waiting for. If that’s true then the inner jukebox has picked a rather fitting song methinks.

Written by Lindsey Buckingham this was the first single released from Fleetwood Mac’s eleventh, and arguably their greatest, studio album Rumours. The song was a direct result of the breakdown of relationships within the band – Christine and John McVie had divorced, Mick Fleetwood had separated from his wife (for the second time) and his relationship with Stevie Nicks had just ended.

Whilst writing the song helped Buckingham come to terms with the changes, Nicks wasn’t happy about the line “packing up, shaking up is all you wanna do” feeling it was a direct attack on her. She asked him to remove the lyrics but Buckingham refused, resulting in her wanting to, in her own words, “go over and kill him’ whenever she had to sing the song on stage. Can’t say I blame her really.

On its release the song gave the band their first top ten hit in the US, reaching number ten on the Billboard chart. It also reached the top ten in South Africa whilst hitting number one in Belgium and the Netherlands. Here in the UK it spent twelve weeks on the chart and peaked at number thirty-eight.