Fleetwood Mac - AMA Awards 1978 - Full

[@lincoley4466]

If you watch at 2:31 Lindsey nearly falls down the stairs and Stevie has to catch him. God! He was on some good strong stuff.

[@brandonbiggerstaff2000]

@Mariana Frusciante in the book it revealed that Lindsey had taken a Quaalude along with copious amounts of alcohol and could barely stand. He threw up all over Dick Clarks shag carpet in his office and was thrown out..

[@traylalynn8403]

Stevie to the rescue stunning woman..

[@mitchellbrown9722]

That’s not Stevie

[@meganbotha4933]

@@mitchellbrown9722 that was stevie

[@katc2354]

Thank you Fleetwood Mac I'll never stop loving you rock on forever and ever

[@cedbigby1126]

Kat Christ Hell Yes I love Fleetwood Mac Rumours is the fuckin Bomb album.Too Bad i was born in 77 when the album came out

[@leonidlerner1381]

For a laugh compare 2.33 with how Carol Ann Harris describes it in her biography Storms: Suddenly he leaped up like someone had lit a firecracker under his butt and took off after the rest of his fellow band members. Already a full minute in front of Lindsey, they were all gathered on the left side of the stage behind the podium, posing and smiling for the cameras as they waited for him to climb the flight of about fifteen stairs to join them. And then it happened. Lindsey began to ascend the stairs. His legs looked like they were made of rubber as he started to climb: first one stair, then the next. With each step his legs were getting shakier and looser as though the bones were dissolving in front of everyone’s eyes. A stunned silence fell over the auditorium as every living soul watched Lindsey’s progress in morbid fascination-for it was apparent to us all that the newly crowned guitarist of the American Music Awards’ Best Band of the Year was running a 90 percent chance of tumbling backward and landing on his ass in front of millions of TV viewers. Too stunned to move, I started praying again. Praying that someone-anyone-from the band would go to his rescue. And, once again, my prayers went unanswered. Stevie and Christine, faces hanging slack in shock, stood in dead silence as they watched in horror his stumbling, bandy-legged ascent. Lindsey continued to climb, legs quivering … face beaded in sweat … looking like a character from a B-movie who’d been shot and was dragging out his last moments on earth as he mounted the steps to the pearly gates. As if this spectacle weren’t bad enough, Lindsey was not headed toward the podium on stage left. Instead, his superhuman effort was leading him to the opposite side of the stage. He was so cross-eyed, perhaps, that his line of destination was completely on the wrong side of the platform.

[@Mumblix]

That does sound a little...embellished.

[@suzettemyers6058]

@@Mumblix yup!

[@mayramunoz2261]

Came to say the same thing😂 clearly you Stevie helping what a liarrr

[@spiritof6663]

I'm reading "Storms" right now and there are all kinds of little factual errors in it, mostly regarding dates in the chronology. For example, she notes that the band had three weeks off in-between the first, North American leg of the "Rumours" tour and the second leg in Europe--wrong, they only had one day! She also says "Rumours" was released at the end of February when in fact it was ready for sale by February 4 (a minor error, but this is info that's readily available, so really no excuse). And of course here, she embellishes greatly and is also wrong when she states that it was Mick and John who helped him to the podium while Stevie and Christine "stood in dead silence as they watched in horror"--it's Stevie who is behind Lindsey and very clearly keeps him from falling in the actual footage. The author also gets it wrong when she says this happened after "Rumours" won the best album award--it happened for the best group award. She also states later that night when she saw the TV broadcast that Buckingham's stumble had been magically edited out, but in this surviving footage you can still see him stumble. But it's really just a momentary stumble that is quickly rectified by Stevie, nothing all *that* horrifying or embarrassing (although I do believe Carol Ann when she says he was plastered that night). Her book is still quite enjoyable, but it really makes me wonder how many other rock bios and memoirs are distorted versions of the past--virtually all of them, I would assume.

[@ApplePie..]

He is still an abusive psychopath.

[@rickram1961]

This was when music was music!!!

[@GoldBug78]

golden years 😥 So much better times..... my birth year

[@nightburgers3670]

Chris obviously the less wasted member of the band. So did the talking. Lindsey is completely bollocksed 😂🤣

[@susanlawens3776]

Whoa, 1978 was lit.

[@annlikesmusic1216]

I wouldn’t personally use Dont Stop to represent rumors but still great!

[@pjdurkin8582]

True.

[@bison1203]

Kudos to Stevie for catching him before he busted his butt. Guess she still cared about him a tiny bit. :)

[@audaciousred]

Yes that was very kind of her. If all the stories are true and he got physical with her especially on stage, I'm not proud of this but I think if I had been her I would have let him fall

[@70sgirl8]

Agreed! Stevie still cared/cares about Lindsey she just couldn't be with him anymore. I am reading Carol Harris's book Storms. How she recounted this event is completely different. She said that Jon and Mick rescued him. Carol hated Stevie, but it is all there on tape.

[@sophyedavey8573]

It also probably would look bad on the band as a whole, she did them all a favor.

[@cervezafria2776]

@@70sgirl8 if the whole book is inacurrate as her anecdote of this event, its hard to believe her.

[@70sgirl8]

@@cervezafria2776Other than that incident, the book is true. Carole hated Stevie.

[@Maninthemirrortbsa]

every album of this could have won amazing !!! xD

[@frederickooi392]

how is star wars nominated in the pop/rock category?

[@rustywine7839]

when lindsey almost fell, im wheeeeziiing

[@lindaclark9925]

Stevie is ...amazing. Stevie! John 3:16.

[@dianagruver5767]

He also had taken a lude. That's what Carol Ann says in her book. Good read.

[@amybeth5776]

Diana Gruver I agree. I loved that book!

[@willmickel71]

In the middle of that book now

[@willmickel71]

Colleen Crawford Got to meet Lindsey last year during his solo tour!!

[@jillw323]

Yes, me too, reading it now & can't put it down

[@lynnettespratt3511]

Ditto on the book!

[@jfkjrlover]

2:42 - Is that just a crease in the pants or does Lindsey have a chubby?

[@traceyjones2010]

Ooh back in the day when real music was made

[@Mumblix]

That was a rather peppy orchestral version of Don't Stop.

[@audaciousred]

How on Earth can you compare the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac to KC and the Sunshine Band???

[@melissap1575]

Reading Carol Ann's book now and it's at this point in the book and I had to come see if footage from that night was on KZbin and found this. Thank you for posting this. I am still in shock how lightly the band treated Lindsey's epilepsy diagnosis at first.

[@aflsteve9139]

Her recollection of Lindsay's "problem" is a bit more dramatic than it appears here. Didn't she say he was about a minute behind the rest of them going up on stage and then went the wrong way and needed rescuing by Mick & John? Aside from that veer right and nice save by Stevie, I wouldn't have realised I was watching what she described.

[@MezzMcGillicuddy1]

afl steve I take everything I read in memoirs with a grain of salt. Memoirs should be treated as entertainment only IMO. At best they show things from one persons relative point of view, at worst they are pure fiction.

[@kimthomas8717]

Yes, at 2:32 he veers off to the right and trips a bit but Stevie got him

[@katielynch9720]

+Melissa P i'm so glad i found this footage because carol made out like no one was there to help him but conveniently neglected the fact that stevie made an almighty save!

[@katielynch9720]

+Melissa P also another inconsistency was that she was mortified that his hair was flat when he got back after the first award and that he'd found a hat to wear backstage, but he was clearly wearing it on his way to the stage for the first award.

[@rickyparker4552]

omg!!! Lindsey was SO fucked up that night!!!! lol

[@Starkardur]

Star Wars soundtrack is in the category of Pop/rock?

[@peck404]

its a great great read!!!

[@aflsteve9139]

I thought Ken Caillat's book was better in terms of a look at life inside FM. There was a bit too much repetition of Carol sounding like a lovesick 14 year old & all the "I'll protect him with my life" stuff over & over got old fast IMO.

[@ItsBriiiiii]

I think that is Jim Gordon drumming the backing band. I know he was at this show dressed for it!

[@jerome5ify]

WOW Lyndsey was really on a mission to climb those HUGE stairs, lol it was comical, i love him but it would have been cool if he had fells on his butt

[@traylalynn8403]

Only Gentleman is John McVie

[@johannesbols57]

oh god I thought I was ready for this. I stopped at 2:23. It's not that I have any great love for Lindsey, but it's horrible that this got filmed.

[@theperfumysticr7890]

Inspired the New "A Star is Born" 2018 Darling!

[@mocha-cream2756]

How convenient to have front row seating, didn't need to walk much 😆

[@nehadutta4985]

What?! Hotel California lost??

[@theperfumysticr7890]

Yes........Rumours won Darling!!!!

[@mayaram2411]

It was a tough choice. Both groups are so damn good.

[@audreysizemore8955]

YOOO AT 2:38 WHEN STEVIE TAKES LINDSEYS HAND OFF HER SHOULDER- bold power move, love

[@alexandria2112]

She’s pulling her strap up lmao

[@audreysizemore8955]

@@alexandria2112 oop- we’ll just act like she didnt

[@austinitesince1979]

this is an amazing video lol 1978, they beat out The Eagles Hotel California and John Williams Star Wars for AMA Favorite Pop/Rock Album with Rumours! same year they also beat out The Eagles and KC and the Sunshine band for Favorite Pop/Rock Group! "no no don't sit down yet, get back up there on the stage again for another award" hahaha ;p man to beat out "THE" Eagles in 2 categories wow ! haha! and Album of the Year anounced by Crosby, Stills, and "nyahhhh" hahaha that's great "wait you get another award! get up again!" sheesh! "my feet are tired, can we go home yet?" "7 grammies we got for engineering and production. it was fantastic" RIP Christine Perfect

[@peck404]

yes Stevie said he was that way....an in 87 when lindsay left band an was replaced john mcvie tells of lindsay chking stevie hard in a huge physical fight

[@lilflower25]

Lindsey not Lindsay.

[@tentcater4710]

She attacked him he defended himself! She even admitted to this years later and said she didn’t blame him for reacting that way!

[@frankorobinson1540]

I love both bands but i vote for the eagles it just kicks ass not that rumors was bad it was a awsome album but lets say my wife choice i just love the eagles they have far more hit songs and its just my jam😂😂😂🎸

[@jkj1244]

Whats his little problem did I miss it?

[@HighMindedLunacy]

quaaludes

[@FRVDable]

Cocaine

[@HighMindedLunacy]

Rosie Marie If you read Carol Ann Harris' (Lindseys girlfriend at that time) book Storms she relates he took a quaalude before the show, along with other items, but its the quaalude that fucked him up

[@peck404]

f you read Carol Ann Harris' (Lindseys girlfriend at that time) book ---^^ he was fucked uppp

[@FRVDable]

Kelli Erin Is that a good book? I'm thinking about reading it.

[@nuts45150]

interesting

[@creman12]

Cocaine cocaine

[@wendymoore8960]

It was a Qualude that actually did him in that night

[@Gia_Marie]

Clearly it shows Stevie catching as fall as it holds on to her up stage and as they walk away from the podium. That book is trash and quite one sided.