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'Rhiannon'

Single by Fleetwood Mac

from the album Fleetwood Mac

B-side

'Sugar Daddy'

Released

4 February 1976 (US)

Recorded

February 1975

Genre

Length

4:11 (album version)
3:46 (single version)

Label

Reprise

Songwriter(s)

Stevie Nicks

Producer(s)

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac singles chronology

'Over My Head'
(1975)

'Rhiannon'
(1976)

'Say You Love Me'
(1976)

'Rhiannon' is a song written by Stevie Nicks and originally recorded by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac on their eponymous album in 1975; it was subsequently issued as a single the following year.

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'Rhiannon' was voted no. 488 in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine. The song's U.S. chart peak was in June 1976, when it hit no. 11.^[3] The song peaked at no. 46 in the UK singles chart for three weeks after re-release in February 1978.^[4]

The song is referred to as simply 'Rhiannon' on Fleetwood Mac albums, except on the 2003 and 2016 remasters of Fleetwood Mac and the 2018 compilation album Don't Stop - 50 Years, on which the title 'Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)' is used. The single version also used this title when it was originally released to the American and European markets.

Live performances of the song were sometimes prefaced with Nicks saying, 'This is a song about an old Welsh witch.' During 1975–1980, Fleetwood Mac's live performances of 'Rhiannon' took on a theatrical intensity not present on the FM-radio single. The song built to a climax in which Nicks' vocals were so impassioned that, as drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood recalled, 'her Rhiannon in those days was like an exorcism.'^[5]

Background[edit]

Nicks discovered the Rhiannon character in the early 1970s through a novel called Triad by Mary Bartlet Leader.^[6] The novel is about a woman named Branwen who is possessed by another woman named Rhiannon. There is mention of the Welsh legend of Rhiannon in the novel, but the characters in the novel bear little resemblance to their original Welsh namesakes (both Rhiannon and Branwen are major female characters in the medieval Welsh prose tales of the Mabinogion).^[6]^[7]

After writing the song, Nicks learned that Rhiannon originated from a Welsh goddess, and was amazed that the haunting song lyrics applied to the Welsh Rhiannon as well. Nicks researched the Mabinogion story and began work on a Rhiannon project, unsure of whether it would become a movie, a musical, a cartoon, or a ballet. There were several Rhiannon-centered and themed songs from this unfinished project, including 'Stay Away' and 'Maker of Birds.' Additionally, Nicks wrote the Fleetwood Mac song 'Angel' based on the Rhiannon story.^[7]

Reception[edit]

Billboard described 'Rhiannon' as a 'haunting song' with an 'infectious melody.'^[8]

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Personnel[edit]

Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks – lead vocals
Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, background vocals
Christine McVie – keyboards, background vocals
John McVie – bass guitar
Mick Fleetwood – drums

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Chart (1976)	Peak position
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)^[9]	4
Canada Top Singles (RPM)^[10]	4
Australian Singles Chart	13
Dutch Singles Chart	16
UK Singles Chart	46 (1978 re-issue)
US Billboard Hot 100^[11]	11
US BillboardAdult Contemporary^[12]	33
US Cash Box Top 100^[13]	9

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (1976)	Rank
Australia^[14]	100
Canada^[15]	63
US Billboard Hot 100^[16]	76
US Cash Box^[17]	74

Certifications[edit]

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[18]	Gold	400,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

In popular culture[edit]

Author Glen Cook stated in an interview^[19] that the title for his novel She Is the Darkness was taken from the lyrics of 'Rhiannon'.
The song made an appearance in the second episode of American Horror Story: Coven and was subsequently performed by Nicks herself in a guest appearance in the tenth episode, 'The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks'.

References[edit]

^'ACM Awards: Lady Antebellum, Stevie Nicks Rock 'Golden' Performance'. Billboard. 6 April 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
^Fontenot, Robert. 'Oldies Music Encyclopedia: 'Soft Rock''. About.com. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
^Rock Movers & Shakers by Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.
^The Great Rock Discography. Martin C. Strong. Page 378. ISBN1-84195-312-1
^'Stevie Nicks - Behind the Music'. rockalittle.com.
^ ^a^bDeMain, Bill (4 September 2015). 'Fleetwood Mac: the story behind Rhiannon'. Classic Rock Magazine. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
^ ^a^b'Stevie Nicks on Rhiannon'. inherownwords. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
^'Top Single Picks'(PDF). Billboard. February 28, 1976. p. 64. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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