Tango in the Night is Fleetwood Mac’s 14th studio album.
Play List
Release
Warner Bros. Records released Tango in the Night on April 14, 1987. The album reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart, spawning five singles, four of which reached the Billboard Top 40: “Big Love” (#5), “Seven Wonders (#19), “Little Lies” (#4), and “Everywhere” (#14). By the end of the year, Warner Bros. released “Family Man,” which also charted, reaching #90. In Europe, Warner Bros. exclusively issued a sixth single “Isn’t It Midnight.” In 1988, the RIAA certified Tango in the Night double platinum for the shipment of two million units to retailers.
In 2017, Rhino reissued Tango in the Night with remastered, expanded, and deluxe editions. The limited edition deluxe format includes the following:
- LP: Original Album – 2017 Remaster
- Disc 1: Original Album – 2017 Remaster
- Disc 2: Demos, Alternates & B-Sides
- Disc 3: The 12″ Mixes
- DVD of Promotional Videos and 24/96 Stereo Audio of Original Album
In 2018, Rhino issued The Alternate Tango in the Night for Record Store Day. Limited to 8,500 copies, the alternate LP consists of tracks from “Demos, Alternates & B-Sides.”
Songs
B-sides
Review
Tango in the Night benefits the most from Christine McVie’s reliable pop craftsmanship. Her songs are the most memorable on the album and temper the mixed offerings from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Her best contributions are “Little Lies,” “Everywhere,” and “Isn’t It Midnight,” a pop-rock gem anchored by a tight Mick Fleetwood/John McVie rhythm section and a standout guitar solo from Buckingham. While listeners are never hard-pressed to hear McVie singing about love and desire,”Isn’t It Midnight” takes those sentiments to a whole new place, or at least to “the other side of the world.”
Stevie on her Klonopin addiction
“What started happening was that if I didn’t take it, my hands started to shake. I felt like I had a neurological disease or Parkinson’s. I started not being able to get to Lindsey Buckingham’s house on time, and I would get there and everybody was drinking, so I’d have a glass of wine. Don’t mix tranquilizers and wine. Then I’d sing horrific parts on his songs, and he would take the parts off. I was hardly on Tango of the Night, which I happen to love.”
Promotional Videos
Big Love
Seven Wonders
Little Lies
Everywhere
Isn’t It Midnight
