The Dance is a live album from Fleetwood Mac, released in 1997. It hailed the return of the band's most successful line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks, who had not released an album together since 1987's Tango in the Night a decade earlier.

Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks. Additional personnel includes: Brett Tuggle (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Neale Heywood (guitar, background vocals); Lenny Castro (percussion); Sharon Celani, Mindy Stein (background vocals); USC Trojan Marching Band. Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Elliot Scheiner. Recorded live in Hollywood, California. THE DANCE was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Pop Album. "Silver Springs" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. "The Chain" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. Inasmuch as Fleetwood Mac's classic 1970s albums drew much of their charm from their quirky arrangements and fastidious studio craft, it's a bit odd that the band would choose to reunite with a live, largely unplugged album. But somehow, the first album by the Fleetwood-McVie-McVie-Buckingham-Nicks lineup since 1987's TANGO IN THE NIGHT manages to recapture a good deal of the old feel, which had a lot to do with three very different singer-songwriters agreeing to live together under the umbrella of a single flexible rhythm section. After dispensing with the group effort "The Chain," which leads off this set, the reconstituted Mac spends the rest of the album showing off its separate parts for the distinct elements they are, while mixing a few new songs into a collection of classics. Lindsey Buckingham rips through the late-period hit "Big Love" unaccompanied, compensating for his shrinking vocal range with some blistering guitar picking. Stevie Nicks stretches out "Rhiannon" like one of her flowing dresses, with a piano-ballad opening. Christine McVie, whose alluring, matronly rock voice remains undiminished, offers the lovely new "Temporary One," which, one hopes, doesn't describe this reunion.

Tracklist

A1        The Chain
A2        Dreams
A3        Everywhere
A4        Rhiannon
B1        I'm So Afraid
B2        Temporary One
B3        Bleed To Love Her
B4        Big Love
C1        Landslide
C2        Say You Love Me
C3        My Little Demon
C4        Silver Springs
D1        You Make Loving Fun
D2        Sweet Girl
D3        Go Your Own Way
D4        Tusk
D5        Don't Stop

*Audio and/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.

Label: ‎‎‎Rhino/Warner Records
Rel. Date: 10/12/2018
UPC: 603497856824

• Format Detail: LP
• Genre: Rock
• RSD Date: DDD
• Format: Vinyl
• Released: 10/12/2018