Coming on the heels of Stevie Nicks burgeoning solo career, the tepid Mirage was the album where the magic ran out.
After three albums where they sloughed off charges of being a soft-rock band with tough guitar and weird experiments, Mirage was something no Fleetwood Mac album of that era had ever been before: boring. That said, they did get one last great single out of it, the etherial “Hold Me.”
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