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Fleetwood Mac may have gone bold in 1975 by opening their first album sporting a reshuffled line up with a song that featured one of the brand new members.  But when it came to choosing the first single from that album, their record company played it safe and chose a song by long time band member and familiar vocalist Christine McVie.

That first track, “Monday Morning,” was originally intended for the second Buckingham Nicks album that Lindsey and Stevie were working on.  But they threw their lot in with their new teammates and repurposed several of their songs as a contributions to their new band.

Which is where Mick Fleetwood found himself with his band when he offered the guitarist gig to an unknown player named Lindsey Buckingham who said he would only join Fleetwood Mac if they recruited his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks, too.

The video the band made to promote their single and the album that contained it took them into heavy rotation on MTV.

The realization they came to was that they’d given this song their best shot. And since they still had an album to make, everyone agreed it was time to move on.

“We must have played it a thousand times, and no matter how shite a show, how off form the band or, more likely, the singer, to this day when we play ‘Streets,’ it’s as if God walks through the room.”