Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

What this video is

Released in December 1976 as the lead single from Rumours, 'Go Your Own Way' arrived at a pivotal moment in American rock: the Bicentennial afterglow, the commercial peak of album-oriented FM radio, and the twilight of the vinyl single as the primary promotional format. The promotional clip—shot in the pre-MTV era when television placements (American Bandstand, The Midnight Special, Top of the Pops) were the only…

Why it matters

As the lead single from Rumours, 'Go Your Own Way' is a canonical document of mid-1970s West Coast soft-rock-meets-hard-rock fusion. Its promotional clip exemplifies the pre-MTV performance promo format: unadorned, performance-centered, and reliant entirely on the band's charisma rather than…