“Sara” by Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks wrote "Sara" for Fleetwood Mac's sprawling 1979 double album Tusk, one of 5 songs she brought to it, and it started life as a set of words with no music at all. She demoed it without the rest of the band, who then reworked it for the album, and in its early form it ran roughly 16 minutes before the Tusk sessions trimmed it down. She drew on several people in her life to write it.

Nicks sings lead and plays tack piano, Christine McVie adds piano, Lindsey Buckingham plays guitar, John McVie bass and Mick Fleetwood drums, with Buckingham and Christine McVie on harmonies. Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut produced with the band. The result is dreamy and drifting, and as the album's second single it climbed to number seven in America and held there three weeks.

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