Fleetwood Mac Releases Live “Mirage Tour ’82” Album

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Live recordings from Fleetwood Mac’s hit-making lineup during two sold-out shows at The Forum in Los Angeles in 1982 during the Mirage Tour are featured in a new collection. Mirage Tour ’82, with several previously unreleased recordings, arrived September 20, 2024, via Rhino on 2-CDs or 3-LPs. On the same day, a special crystal-clear vinyl edition was made available exclusively at Amazon. All can be ordered in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.

This 22-track live collection comes from the October 21-22 shows, including favorites like “Dreams,” “Gypsy” and “Don’t Stop.” Listen to many of the performances below.

In September 1982, Fleetwood Mac embarked on a 31-city U.S. tour in support of Mirage, the band’s fourth consecutive multi-platinum album and third #1 in America. Both shows at The Forum were recorded, and Mirage Tour ‘82 combines songs from both into a single concert experience.

From the July 30 announcement: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks were at the height of their collective power at these shows, delivering a hyper-charged setlist filled with hits new and old. Standouts include “Songbird,” “Oh Well,” “Love In Store,” “Go Your Own Way,” and a version of “Landslide” for the ages.

Listen to Buckingham’s electrifying performance of the Peter Green-penned classic “Oh Well” along with “Landslide”

In the set’s liner notes, music journalist and songwriter Bill DeMain calls the collection “a riveting listen” and a reminder of a time when rock shows “were platforms to expand and reinvent songs for the stage, to let them breathe, to unleash different, wilder sides of a band.”

Fleetwood Mac Mirage Tour ‘82 CD Tracklist
Disc One
“Second Hand News”
“The Chain”
“Don’t Stop” *
“Dreams” *
“Oh Well” *
“Rhiannon”
“Brown Eyes”
“Eyes Of The World”
“Gypsy”
“Love In Store”
“Not That Funny”

Disc Two
“Never Going Back Again” *
“Landslide” *
“Tusk”
“Sara” *
“Hold Me”
“You Make Loving Fun”
“I’m So Afraid”
“Go Your Own Way”
“Blue Letter”
“Sisters Of The Moon”
“Songbird”

* Previously Unreleased

[McVie will be the subject of a new biography, Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie, from author Lesley-Ann Jones. The 352-page book arrives November 19, 2024, via Hachette Books in the U.S.: and Nov. 14 in the U.K. from publisher John Blake. It can be pre-ordered in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.]