Rockin’ Thursday XLIX

For today’s Rockin’ Thursday, I’m featuring Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac, a British-American rock band formed in London in 1967. The song, released in 1976, reached the top 10 on the US Billboard chart in 1977. Here’s an interesting fact about the song:

“Go Your Own Way was written at a house the band rented in Florida between legs of their Fleetwood Mac Tour and was the first song (Lindsey) Buckingham presented to the band for the Rumours album. Mick Fleetwood, the band’s drummer, remembered that the house had a ‘distinctly bad vibe to it, as if it were haunted, which did nothing to help matters’. The lyrics at this stage had yet to be fleshed out, so Buckingham sang musical notes as placeholders in certain locations. Buckingham wrote Go Your Own Way in what he described as ‘a stream of consciousness’ that focused on his raw emotions.”1

I hope you enjoy the video and have a wonderful Rockin’ Thursday!

Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way

You can access the lyrics here.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Your_Own_Way#Composition ↩︎

37 thoughts on “Rockin’ Thursday XLIX”

  1. I adore Fleetwood Mac! They had such a short history as a band, but their stories were quite entangled. We recently saw the house band on a cruise do an entire show on Fleetwood Mac that included documentary about the band. They were so good, you could have sworn you were seeing the real band! Fantastic Edward!

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  2. Such a classic and one of my favorite Fleetwood songs .. Lindsey’s voice really shines on Go Your Own Way, you can feel the raw emotion in every note. His delivery perfectly captures the heartache and independence in the song. Absolutely love how he made this track unforgettable…

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  14. I hate to be that guy, but we bloggers can’t ever, ever post the lyrics of a song that is not in the public domain. We need explicit permission from the copyright holder, and (having tried to do so for my work-in-progress novel), I discovered that the route to doing this is not only complicated, but expensive, too. It doesn’t matter if you put the (C) disclaimers or say you got the lyrics from a website like Lyrics Finder.

    Just FYI.

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      1. You’re welcome.

        Back in 2023, when I wanted to quote a few lines from “Somewhere,” one of the most famous songs from West Side Story, I looked into how to do it without getting sued by the estates of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. I got in contact with the rights holders, filled out the form to get the licensing rights, and then found out that it’s extremely expensive to get them, especially if you’re an indie author who doesn’t know how many copies will be printed in the initial publication. Musicians and their heirs don’t like when folks use their copyrighted intellectual property without getting royalties. (Neither do writers, which is why I registered my novella earlier this year with the Copyright Office. I’ll have to do the same for Reunion: Coda later this year.)

        Right now the only lyrics we can quote on our blogs without violating copyright are those from songs in the public domain.

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        1. Apparently, you can also paraphrase the lyrics, but who has time for that? You can also quote a portion of the song, but in my case, it’s just easier to add the link so people can open a separate window and follow along.

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          1. I got around the “Somewhere” issue by alluding the lyrics without overtly quoting them. Of course, I would have preferred to use a few lines from the actual song, and the rights holders were willing to give me permission…if I could afford the licensing fees.

            Maybe, if my novel were to somehow “go viral,” I might attract enough attention from the Big Publishers and score a nice contract which would allow me to get licensing rights and whatnot. (It’s a pipe dream, I know, but hey….)

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