- Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac song)
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"Over My Head" 
Single by Fleetwood Mac from the album Fleetwood Mac B-side "I'm So Afraid" Released September 1975 (USA) / Feb. 1976 (UK) Format Vinyl record Recorded February 1975 Genre Rock Length 3:38 Label Reprise Writer(s) Christine McVie Producer Fleetwood Mac, Keith Olsen Fleetwood Mac singles chronology "Warm Ways"
(1975)"Over My Head"
(1975)"Rhiannon"
(1976)"Over My Head" is a rock song performed by Anglo-American music group Fleetwood Mac. The song was written by group keyboardist/vocalist Christine McVie. In September 1975, "Over My Head" was released as the lead single from the LP album entitled Fleetwood Mac. It was the band's first song ever to achieve 'hit' status in the United States by appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (#20 in early 1976). Its success helped the group's eponymous 1975 album to sell 4.5 million copies.[1]
McVie has stated that she composed the song using a portable Hohner electric piano in a small apartment in Malibu, California, where she and then-husband John McVie (Fleetwood Mac's bassist) resided after completing a concert tour to promote the previous album Heroes Are Hard to Find.[2] The words of the song seem – though McVie has never confirmed this – to refer to her troubled marriage, which would end in divorce in 1976.[3]
The single version of the song, released for radio airplay, was a remixed, edited version that differs noticeably from the version appearing on the Fleetwood Mac album; the single version can readily be distinguished by a cold start (versus the fade-in intro on the LP version), louder guitar strums in the choruses, and less ensemble vocal work overall. It is this version that is included on the album The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac.
References
The Great Rock Discography. Martin C.Strong. Page 378. ISBN 1 84195 312 1
Categories:- Fleetwood Mac songs
- 1976 singles
- Songs written by Christine McVie
- Songs produced by Keith Olsen
- 1970s rock song stubs
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