Tusk by Fleetwood Mac — album cover
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Tusk

Fleetwood Mac · 1979 · Rock

After Rumours made them the biggest band in the world, Fleetwood Mac spent thirteen months and a then-unheard-of $1.4 million building their own studio to make its opposite — a sprawling twenty-song double album, half of it Lindsey Buckingham's lo-fi experiments taped on a bathroom floor, with a marching band recorded at Dodger Stadium on the title track.

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