Mystery to Me by Fleetwood Mac

Mystery to Me, Fleetwood Mac's eighth studio album, came out on Reprise on 15 October 1973, in the long, strange stretch between the blues band they had been and the superstars they would become. Martin Birch produced it, and the songs came mostly from guitarist Bob Welch and keyboard player Christine McVie, who steered the band toward smooth, melodic pop rock. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie held the bottom, and it was the last record with guitarist Bob Weston.

It is a mellow, slightly spooky record, and Welch's "Hypnotized" is the one that lingers: never a hit single, but a song that FM radio in America kept spinning for years on its hazy, late-night shuffle. The album only reached 67 on the Billboard chart at first, but after the Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks lineup broke big it charted again in 1975 and went gold the following year.

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