Mirage - Fleetwood Mac

Mirage was released in 1982 and proved to be, undoubtedly, the weakest album of the Buckingham/Nicks era. In the previous year Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood had all released solo albums and I think its fair to say that some of Stevie and Lindsey's songs were probably leftovers from their own albums. Inspite of this the album does contain some highlights, Stevie's Gypsy is particularly lovely. She wrote this song for her best friend Robin, who was dying of leukemia at the time of the album's release. Robin died the same year, three days after giving birth to a son, lines like "I still see your bright eyes" are sad ...  Read the complete review