"Go Your Own Way" | ||||
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Single by Fleetwood Mac | ||||
from the album Rumours | ||||
B-side | "Silver Springs" | |||
Released | 20 December 1976[1] | |||
Recorded | 1976 | |||
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Genre | Rock[2] | |||
Length | 3:43 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lindsey Buckingham | |||
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Fleetwood Mac singles chronology | ||||
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"Go Your Own Way" is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from their eleventh studio album, Rumours (1977). The song was released as the album's first single in December 1976 in the United States. Written and sung by Lindsey Buckingham, it became the band's first top-ten hit in the United States.[3] "Go Your Own Way" has been well received by music critics and was ranked number 120 by Rolling Stone magazine on their list of 500 greatest songs of all time in 2010,[4] and re-ranked number 401 in 2021.[5] They also ranked the song second on their list of the 50 greatest Fleetwood Mac songs.[6]
Recorded in three separate studios, the track was developed over a period of four months. As with most tracks on the Rumours album, none of the instruments were recorded live together; the tracks were instead completed through a series of overdubs. Lyrically, "Go Your Own Way" is about Buckingham's breakup with his bandmate Stevie Nicks.[7][8][9]
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