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One of the hard lessons of rock and roll is that the music business is about both the music and the business, and if you don’t pay attention to each of them, you’re gonna get burned.

When Billy Joel was in his junior year at Hicksville High School on Long Island, he and his fellow students were given a questionnaire titled ‘Idea Associations.’  The form provided a phrase to prompt a response, and the students would fill in the blanks

As the sales figures increased and Fleetwood Mac’s record company saw newfound potential in the band, they turned up the heat. 

Things were heating up on the Rumours album as Fleetwood Mac’s songwriters started exploring their feelings in the aftermath of their breakups.

The group put in long, expensive hours working on Rumours—playing songs over and over, then getting their producers to manually splice together tapes of their best parts.  That left Stevie Nicks, the one non-perfectionist in the band, with nothing to do.

Bob Welch combined these Fortean legends into one of the dreamiest and most popular FM radio hits of the pre-Lindsey and Stevie era.