Behind the Mask

by Fleetwood Mac, Leroy Carr, Lindsey Buckingham, Michael Jackson

Overview

Fleetwood Mac's only full-length album with a lineup of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Billy Burnette, and Rick Vito proved an artistic and commercial disappointment not so much because Lindsey Buckingham was missing as songwriter/guitarist/singer/ producer as because the group's other writers, Nicks and Christine McVie, didn't pick up the slack, relying on Burnette and Vito to come up with material. They tried: Burnette's "Hard Feelings," written with Jeff Silbar, was a worthy effort. But Nicks's four contributions (three of them co-written) weren't up to her usual standard, and while McVie proved more dependable, turning in the Top 40 pop hit "Save Me" and the Top Ten Adult Contemporary hit "Skies The Limit," her light, romantic efforts needed sturdier work to play off of. Behind The Mask was never less than pleasant, but never of the calibre of the work of the previous lineup, either. Though it went gold, it was Fleetwood Mac's least successful new album in 15 years.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/10/1990
Label:	Imports
UPC:	0075992611121
catalogNumber:	895078
Rank:	51573

Tracks

1. Skies the Limit
2. Love Is Dangerous
3. In the Back of My Mind
4. Do You Know
5. Save Me
6. Affairs of the Heart
7. When the Sun Goes Down
8. Behind the Mask
9. Stand on the Rock
10. Hard Feelings
11. Freedom
12. When It Comes to Love
13. The Second Time

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Fleetwood Mac   Primary Artist
Lindsey Buckingham   Acoustic Guitar
Stevie Nicks   Vocals
Billy Burnette   Guitar,Vocals
Mick Fleetwood   Percussion,Drums
Christine McVie   Keyboards,Vocals
Rick Vito   Guitar,Vocals
John McVie   Bass
Steve Croes   Synthesizer,Keyboards
Asante   Percussion

Technical Credits

Leroy Carr   Composer
Fleetwood Mac   Producer
Michael Jackson   Composer
Brian Wilson   Composer
Eric Clapton   Composer
Steve Croes   Programming
Greg Ladanyi   Producer,Engineer
Aaron Walker   Composer
Walter O'Keefe   Composer
Jeri Heiden   Art Direction
Dennis Mays   Engineer
Bob Levy   Engineer
William Dorsey Burnette   Composer