Go Your Own Way

"Go Your Own Way"
Single by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Rumours
B-side	"Silver Springs"
Released	December 1976
Format	7"
Recorded	1976
Genre	Rock, hard rock
Length	3:36
Label	Warner Bros.
Writer(s)	Lindsey Buckingham
Producer	Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat
Fleetwood Mac singles chronology

"Go Your Own Way" is a song by the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released as a single in December 1976. Written by Lindsey Buckingham, it was the lead single off of the group's 1977 album Rumours. It peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's first top-ten hit in the U.S. It is ranked number 120 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list. The song is about the complicated relationship that Buckingham and fellow Fleetwood Mac member Stevie Nicks were having.

All appearances

• Rumours (1977)
• Live (1980)
• Greatest Hits (1988)
• 25 Years - The Chain (1992)
• Casino soundtrack (1995)
• The Dance (Live Album) (1997)
• Forrest Gump Special Collector's Edition soundtrack (2001)
• The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002)

Cover versions

• NOFX with Greg Graffin– S&M Airlines (1989)
• Seaweed – Clerks soundtrack (1994)
• The Cranberries – Legacy: a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (1998)
• Jellyfish – Fan Club (2002)
• Jennifer Brown – Home (2003)
• Wilson Phillips – California (2004)
• Biffy Clyro – Glitter and Trauma DVD (2004)
• Carrie Underwood and Lindsey Buckingham – Fashion Rocks (2007)
• Boy George - (2007)
• Kate Ceberano - Nine Lime Avenue (2007)
• Carrie Underwood and David Cook – The American Idol Experience Live (2009)
• Snow & Voices
• Faye Hamlin – Swedish MQ commercial (2009)
• Silverstein – A Shipwreck in the Sand [iTunes only] (2009)
• Bobby and The Crew - Jindando (2009)
• Gloriana – Fearless Tour (2009)
• Keane – BBC Radio 2 (2010)
• Jets to zurich (2010–present)
• Lea Michele as her character Rachel Berry on Glee in the Season 2 episode 'Rumours' named after the album from which the song originates
• Lakoda Rayne on X-Factor - (2011)
• Lissie - Covered Up With Flowers (2012)
• The Head and the Heart - For The A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover series (2012)[1]
• Colbie Caillat - All Of You Tour (2012)
• Lykke Li (covers "Silver Springs" originally the b-side to "Go Your Own Way") - Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (2012)
• Vomit Launch - "Boltcutters & Beer" (1991)

Sampling

• MC Mario – Most Wanted 2007 (2007)
• Pictureplane - Goth Star (2009)

Dumb and Dumber (1995)

References

1. ^ "The Head & The Heart cover Fleetwood Mac". Retrieved March 27, 2013. 

External links

• CLASSIC TRACKS: Fleetwood Mac 'Go Your Own Way'
• VIDEO: Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac
• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics