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Few bands did rock and roll quite like Fleetwood Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sure, their intra-band squabbles made\u00a0Rumours\u00a0such\u00a0a compelling listen,<\/a>\u00a0and in essence, the dramatic lives in which they lived those relationships were very rock and roll. But I mean it in the traditional sense, the \u201csex, drugs and rock and roll\u201d sense. Because while their music was soft, tender and at times commercial, the way they lived their lives was chaotic, as anybody with a reputation for hedonism.\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, it was their penchant for illicit substances that ultimately kept them together through those heady studio days. They even had a studio routine<\/a> in order to feed this attitude, led by their band leader.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the studio, we had a ritual in which the engineers and band members all started humming a tune \u2014 it changed over the years \u2014 which would serve as a siren\u2019s call for cocaine, specifically the cocaine that I was invariably holding,\u201d Mick Fleetwood wrote in his memoir. <\/p>\n He continued, \u201cAs if in a trance, I would drop what I was doing and, in slow-motion, beckon them over.\u201d<\/p>\n Everything in their lives was full throttle, and so when that very album, which was fuelled by an unhealthy love for cocaine, then achieved commercial success, the lifestyle became inevitably more dangerous. Floating around in the gardens of LA\u2019s most exclusive and drug-fuelled parties, these five members of Fleetwood Mac would walk around like musical gods, becoming distanced from the perspective needed to live a normal life.<\/p>\n