Tango in the Night

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Tango in the Night
Studio album by Fleetwood Mac
Released 13 April 1987
Recorded November 1985 – March 1987
Genre Rock
Length 44:28
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Lindsey Buckingham,
Richard Dashut
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Mirage
(1982)		 Tango in the Night
(1987)		 Behind the Mask
(1990)
Singles from Tango in the Night
  1. "Big Love"
    Released: March 1987 [1]
  2. "Seven Wonders"
    Released: June 1987 [1]
  3. "Little Lies"
    Released: September 1987 [1]
  4. "Family Man"
    Released: December 1987 (UK) / March 1988 (USA) [1]
  5. "Everywhere"
    Released: November 1987 (USA) / March 1988 (UK) [1]
  6. "Isn't It Midnight"
    Released: June 1988 [1]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[2]
Robert Christgau B+[3]

Tango in the Night is the 14th studio album by the British-American band Fleetwood Mac. Released in April 1987, it is the fifth and final studio album from the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood.[1]

Produced by Buckingham with Richard Dashut, Tango in the Night began life as a Lindsey Buckingham solo project, but by 1985 the production had morphed into Fleetwood Mac's next album. It contains several hit singles, including "Big Love", "Everywhere", and "Little Lies".

Contents

[edit] Album history

Tango in the Night is the band's second biggest selling studio album[4] after the phenomenally successful Rumours (1977), released 10 years previously. The intervening albums, Tusk (1979) and Mirage (1982), although big sellers in key territories, had not matched their predecessors' huge success. Tango in the Night was a worldwide hit with several singles from the album becoming popular all over the world. "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" in particular are now considered classic hits of the late 1980s and they continue to appear on retrospective albums of that decade.[5]

The album was very successful in the United States, where it peaked at #7 and was certified triple platinum there.[6] Four singles from the album reached the Billboard Top 20: "Big Love" (#5), "Little Lies" (#4), "Everywhere" (#14) and "Seven Wonders" (#19).[1] The album was particularly successful in the United Kingdom where it reached #1 three times during 1987-88 and it is the seventh biggest selling album of the 1980s, being certified 8x Platinum (2.4 million copies),[7] and it is still currently one of the UK's Top 50 best selling albums of all time.[4] Three singles were Top 10 hits in the UK: "Big Love" (#9), "Little Lies" (#5) and "Everywhere" (#4). A total of six singles were eventually taken from the album over a period of 15 months.[1] The album has spent 115 weeks in the Top 75 of the UK Album Chart.[8]

Tango in the Night was the final studio album released by the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood, before Buckingham's departure from the band in the summer of 1987 for a 10-year hiatus. This line-up did reconvene, however, in 1993 for a special one-off performance of "Don't Stop" for the newly elected US President Bill Clinton, and again for the 1997 live album and tour The Dance.

With pressure being placed on Buckingham to keep the project focused and moving forward, things came to a head shortly after the release of Tango in the Night when the guitarist announced his departure from the band shortly before their scheduled tour in 1987. Following Buckingham's sudden departure, two musicians were drafted in to replace him: Rick Vito and Billy Burnette, who proceeded to complete the Tango Tour in 1987-1988 with the rest of the band. Aspects of this troubled era of Fleetwood Mac's history are frankly documented in interviews with all members of the band, old and new, in two BBC documentaries: Fleetwood Mac at 21, first aired in the UK in 1988, and in Rock Family Trees, which was produced in 1996.

The distinctive cover art for the album was a painting by Australian artist Brett-Livingstone Strong which was hanging in Buckingham's home. It is a homage to the 19th Century French painter Henri Rousseau, emulating his colorful jungle theme works such as The Snake Charmer and The Repast of the Lion. It was also used as the cover to the single release of Big Love, the first single released from the album.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Big Love" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 3:37
  2. "Seven Wonders" (Sandy Stewart, Stevie Nicks) – 3:38
  3. "Everywhere" (Christine McVie) – 3:41
  4. "Caroline" (Buckingham) – 3:50
  5. "Tango in the Night" (Buckingham) – 3:56
  6. "Mystified" (C. McVie, Buckingham) – 3:06
  7. "Little Lies" (C. McVie, Eddy Quintela) – 3:38
  8. "Family Man" (Buckingham, Richard Dashut) – 4:01
  9. "Welcome to the Room...Sara" (Nicks) – 3:37
  10. "Isn't It Midnight" (C. McVie, Buckingham) – 4:06
  11. "When I See You Again" (Nicks) – 3:47
  12. "You and I, Part II" (Buckingham, C. McVie) – 2:40

[edit] Additional information

  • "You and I (Part 1)" is the B-side to the single release of "Big Love".[1]
  • "Big Love", "Seven Wonders", "Little Lies", "Family Man" and "Everywhere" were all released as extended 12" remixes in most territories.[1] An unreleased 'alternate mix' of "Isn't It Midnight" was issued on the 1992 4-disc boxset, 25 Years – The Chain.
  • Two songs from the Tango in the Night sessions that did not make the final album cut subsequently became the B-side to two singles: Christine McVie's "Ricky" was the B-side to "Little Lies" and Lindsey Buckingham's "Down Endless Street" was issued as the B-side to "Family Man".[1]
  • "Seven Wonders" was released with the instrumental Stevie Nicks-penned track "Book of Miracles". This eventually became the vocal track "Juliet" on Nicks' 1989 solo album, The Other Side of the Mirror.

[edit] Credits

Fleetwood Mac

[edit] Production

  • Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  • Arranged: Lindsey Buckingham
  • Engineer: Greg Droman
  • Additional engineering: Lindsey Buckingham
  • Cover concept: Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  • Cover painting: Brett-Livingstone Strong
  • Cover photo: Greg Gorman
  • Art direction: Jeri Heiden

[edit] Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)[9] 5× Platinum 500,000^
Germany (BVMI)[10] 2× Platinum 1,000,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[11] Platinum 50,000x
United Kingdom (BPI)[7] 8× Platinum 2,400,000^
United States (RIAA)[6] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

[edit] Charts

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Chart (1987) Peak
position
Austria Albums Chart 25
Australian ARIA Top 100 5
Canadian Albums Chart 6
France Albums Chart 25
German Albums Chart[12] 2
Norway Albums Chart 10
Spanish Albums Chart 34
Sweden Albums Chart 1
Switzerland Albums Chart 7
UK Albums Chart 1
U.S. Billboard 200 7

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The Great Rock Discography. 6th Edition. Martin C. Strong. Page 378. ISBN 1 84195 312 1
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Robert Christgau review
  4. ^ a b TOP SELLING ALBUMS 1959-2009 (Music Week September 19th 2009-50th Anniversary issue-cut off point is Saturday, August 22nd 2009)
  5. ^ Rock The Rough Guide. 2nd Edition. Various. Page 365. ISBN 1 85828 457 0
  6. ^ a b "American album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Tango in the Night". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Tango+in+the+Night%22.  If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
  7. ^ a b "British album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Tango in the Night". British Phonographic Industry. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx.  Enter Tango in the Night in the field Search. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Click Go
  8. ^ Complete UK Hit Albums 1956-2005 by Graham Betts. Page 150. Collins. ISBN 0 00 720532 5
  9. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – Tango in the Night". Music Canada. http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Tango+in+the+Night&sa=Fleetwood+Mac&smt=0. 
  10. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Fleetwood Mac; 'Tango in the Night')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Tango+in+the+Night&strInterpret=Fleetwood+Mac&strTtArt=alben&strAwards=checked. 
  11. ^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Fleetwood Mac; 'Tango in the Night')". Hung Medien. http://www.swisscharts.com/search_certifications.asp?search=Fleetwood+Mac+Tango+in+the+Night. 
  12. ^ "charts.de". charts.de. http://www.charts.de/album.asp?artist=Fleetwood+Mac&title=Tango+In+The+Night&cat=a&country=de. Retrieved 19 August 2011. 
Preceded by
…Nothing Like the Sun by Sting
The Innocents by Erasure
Lovesexy by Prince		 UK number one album
October 31, 1987 – November 13, 1987
May 7, 1988 – May 20, 1988
May 28, 1988 – June 3, 1988		 Succeeded by
Faith by George Michael
Lovesexy by Prince
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