Mirage

Mirage is the 13th studio album by Fleetwood Mac, released on June 18, 1982. This studio effort found the band venturing further into radio-friendly soft rock than it had in any of it’s previous incarnations. It stood in stark contrast to it’s more experimental predecessor, 1979’s Tusk.

Mirage yielded several hit singles: “Hold Me” (which peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Pop Chart, remaining there for seven weeks), “Gypsy” (#12 US Pop Chart), “Love in Store” (#22 US Pop Chart), “Oh Diane” (which reached #9 in the UK), and finally, “Can’t Go Back” (issued on 7″ and 12″ in the UK). The album returned the group to the top of the US Billboard charts for the first time since their 1977 album Rumours, spending five weeks at #1. It spent a total of 18 weeks in the US Top Ten and was certified double platinum for shipping 2, 000, 000 copies there. It also reached #5 in the UK where it was certified platinum for shipping 300, 000 copies, and #2 in Australia.