Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (Live)

What this video is

This video documents Fleetwood Mac's celebrated 1997 reunion — the first time the classic 'Rumours'-era lineup had performed together since 1982 — filmed for an MTV special to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 'Rumours.' The concert captured a cultural moment of 1990s classic rock nostalgia, bringing Fleetwood Mac back into mainstream consciousness. 'Landslide,' originally a 1975 Stevie Nicks composition, was…

Why it matters

A canonical document of soft-rock and folk-rock acoustic performance aesthetics from the late 1990s MTV concert format. The video exemplifies the 'live-as-music-video' paradigm popularized by MTV Unplugged-era broadcasts, where unedited concert footage replaced constructed narrative videos. Its…

The director

Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949, Palo Alto, CA) is an American musician, record producer, and lead guitarist/co-lead vocalist of Fleetwood Mac from 1975–1987 and 1997–2018. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as a…