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Love On Tour is the second headlining tour by Harry Styles , launched in support of his second studio album, Fine Line . After being postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tour began on September 4, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of 39 announced dates in total. It became one of the first full capacity indoor arena concerts to happen in the United States after the pandemic. He announced a part two of LOT (Love On Tour), which began on May 13, 2023 in Horsens, Denmark. He added an extra show the next day, since they moved to a smaller venue after the tragic incident in Fields. Consisting of seven legs and 169 shows, Love On Tour ended on July 22, 2023 in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

• 1 Background
• 4 Tour Dates
• 5 Cancellations
• 7 References

Background [ ]

The tour was announced on November 13, 2019 on Styles' Twitter account with dates being released for North America and Europe. [1] [2]

Setlist [ ]

This set list is representative of the show on 4 September 2021 in Las Vegas. It is not intended to represent all concerts for the tour.

• " Daydreaming "
• " Adore You "
• " Daylight "
• " Keep Driving "
• " Little Freak "
• " Satellite "
• " Music For A Sushi Restaurant "
• " Treat People With Kindness "
• " What Makes You Beautiful "
• " Late Night Talking "
• " Watermelon Sugar "
• " Love Of My Life "
• " Sign of the Times "
• " As It Was "

This set list is representative of the show on 13 May 2023 in Horsens. It is not intended to represent all concerts for the tour.

• " Stockholm Syndrome " ( One Direction Song)
• " Matilda "
• " Music For A Sushi Restaurant " (YMCA Intro)
• " What Makes You Beautiful " ( One Direction Song)
• " Grapejuice " (Tour Debut)
• " Fine Line "
• "She's Dressed As A Banana" (Running Joke On Love On Tour)

Tour Dates [ ]

Cancellations [ ].

Harry had to cancel/postpone all concerts twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He finally got back out there on September 4, 2021 in Las Vegas.

Harry unfortunately didn't get to play at Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark on July 3, 2022 because there was a terrible shooting in the mall next door, where many of his fans had chosen to hang out before the concert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Copenhagen_mall_shooting

After being postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic

References [ ]

• ↑ twitter.com - North American dates
• ↑ twitter.com - European dates
• https://youtu.be/Mmyo_w5Tcx4 - Banana Song
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• 2 Already Home (song)
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Harry Styles unveils new look for final leg of Love of Tour

Horsens, Denmark - Harry Styles is changing things up as he bids farewell to Love on Tour .

The 29-year-old is bringing his three-year concert series to a close in Europe this summer, and fans have gotten their first look at brand-new visuals and merch for the final leg of the tour.

On Friday, an exclusive new line of clothing, accessories, and more was unveiled, bearing a new design featuring an adorable set of houses playing music (a seeming nod to Styles' Grammy-winning third album, Harry's House).

Another limited-release design features the Love on Tour 2023 logo, with the last leg of cities listed on the back.

The latest looks are not currently available on the Watermelon Sugar singers' online store, as they are likely exclusive to the final venues as of right now.

Harry Styles changes up stage and visuals for Love on Tour's last leg

Styles will perform the first of the European shows in Horsens, Denmark, on May 13, with another show on May 14 before heading to Munich, Germany.

Other notable stops include four shows at Wembley Stadium in London, England, as well as the final show in Reggio Emilia, Italy, at RCF Arena on July 22.

The former One Direction star will debut a new stage design for the final leg of the tour as well.

Will all of these changes mean a new setlist for Harries to rock out to as well? Fans will find out on Saturday!

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Harry Styles’ Love On Tour has already been full of picturesque moments.

Harry Styles ’ Love On Tour is finally underway!

Fans have been treated to some magical moments so far from the ‘Watermelon Sugar’ star including his iconic whale stage move and his adorable speeches.

He’s even sang some unreleased lyrics from his ‘Fine Line’ track ‘Golden’ .

All Of Harry Styles' Cutest Onstage Moments From 'Love On Tour' So Far

Harry Styles opens the ceremony in spectacular style, shirtless in a leather suit and green feather boa

For fans that haven’t been able to see Haz performing in the flesh just yet, Stylers have been sure to share a serious amount of content with the fandom online, so we can all feel like we’re there!

So, we’ve gathered all of the viral pictures and videos of the ‘Adore You’ star while he’s on the road for Love On Tour.

Keep scrolling for some 12/10 Harry Love On Tour content…

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Harry styles, Denver 2021. pic.twitter.com/n6cBrrDkqG — harry pics (@thestylesfandom) September 8, 2021

Harry on stage in Denver, CO - September 7 (📸 tammylynn579 on IG) pic.twitter.com/pguQfcQ4zW — HSD Love On Tour (@hsdlot) September 8, 2021

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Harry laughing at a fan’s poster in Denver, CO - September 7 (via harrysgucciss) pic.twitter.com/D6llkY41VK — HSD Love On Tour (@hsdlot) September 8, 2021

“I’m hoping, I’m sorry, he’s hoping, someday I could be open” Harry Styles Golden unreleased lyrics pic.twitter.com/W8x696hLtk — ʟɪssᴀ シ🍂 (@hrytpwk) September 5, 2021

Harry going off during Kiwi in Denver, CO - September 7 (via mknieter) pic.twitter.com/B5ak6WqT4o — HSD Love On Tour (@hsdlot) September 8, 2021

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💌↳Love On Tour by Harry styles ↲ 💌 ~a thread🧵 pic.twitter.com/L45oaaY1h8 — des; ot5 (@senzaaccount0) September 5, 2021

THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE THING, NO ONE TALK TO ME #hslotdenver #harrystyles pic.twitter.com/2nYqgg7qKM — hallie (@HallieCarnie) September 8, 2021

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Harry Styles Is Taking His ‘Love on Tour’: Check Out the Dates

Harry is launching his 'Love on Tour' in support of the upcoming 'Fine Line' album beginning on April 15 in Birmingham, England and currently slated to stretch through an Oct. 3 gig at the Foro Sol…

By Gil Kaufman

Gil Kaufman

Harry Styles is taking his Love On Tour next year. The singer announced a massive 2020 world tour on Wednesday (Nov. 13) in support of his upcoming Fine Line  (Dec. 13) album, with support from King Princess (April 15 – May 31), Jenny Lewis (June 26 – Sept. 5)  and Jamaican singer Koffee (Sept. 29 – Oct. 3). The outing is slated to kick off on April 15 in Birmingham, England, and wind its way across Europe through late May before jumping to North America in late June and into Mexico in Sept. and Oct.

Styles announced the outing with a pump-up video featuring scenes from the tour in support of his self-titled 2017 debut album (see below), with a list of South American, Asian and Austrlalian dates to be announced in 2020. American Express cardmembers can buy tickets in select markets in the U.S., Canada and Europe before the general public beginning Monday (Nov. 18) at 10 a.m. local time through Nov. 21 at 10 p.m. local time (11 a.m. local time for the New York market).

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Presale registration for the U.S. and Canadian tour dates through Ticketmasters’s Verified Fan program are available now here ; each ticket purchased online for U.S. and Canada dates will come with a copy of the album. All general public tickets will go on sale on Nov. 22, with one dollar per ticket earmarked for local charities. Two new tour shirts are available new in the online store . Styles will serve as host and musical guest on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live , where he’ll perform the album’s “Lights Up” single on TV for the first time, as well as another song from Fine Line .

Check out the dates and watch the tour trailer below.

April 15 — Birmingham, UK @ Arena Birmingham

April 17 — Sheffield, UK @ FlyDSA Arena

April 19 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena

April 22 — London, UK @ The O2

April 23 — London, UK @ The O2

April 25 — Manchester, UK @ Manchester Arena

April 26 — Glasgow, UK @ The SSE Hydro

April 29 — Berlin, Germany @ Mercedes-Benz Arena

May 1 — Oslo, Norway @ Spektrum

May 2 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Ericsson Globe

May 4 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena

May 6 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome

May 8 — Hamburg, Germany @ Barclaycard Arena

May 10 — Krakow, Poland @ TAURON Arena

May 11 — Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena

May 13 — Paris, France @ AccorHotels Arena

May 15 — Turin, Italy @ Pala Alpitour

May 16 — Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Arena

May 18 — Madrid, Spain @ WiZink Center

May 20 — Lisbon, Portugal @ Altice Arena

May 25 — Antwerp, Belgium @ Sportpaleis

May 27 — Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena

May 28 — Munich, Germany @ Olympiahalle

May 30 — Vienna, Austria @ Stadthalle

May 31 — Budapest, Hungary @ Budapest Arena

June 3 — Moscow, Russia @ Megasport Sport Palace

June 26 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center

June 28 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena

June 30 — Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell

July 3 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena

July 4 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena

July 7 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden

July 8 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden

July 10 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden

July 12 — Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena

July 14 — Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena

July 15 — Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse

July 17 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena

July 19 — St Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center

July 21 — St Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center

July 24 — Chicago, IL @ United Center

July 28 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena

July 29 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena

Aug. 1 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena

Aug. 3 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena

Aug. 6 — Ft Lauderdale, FL @ BB&T Center

Aug. 10 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center

Aug. 11 — San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center

Aug. 13 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center

Aug. 15 — Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center

Aug. 18 — Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome

Aug. 21 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center

Aug. 23 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena

Aug. 25 — San Jose, CA @ SAP Center

Aug. 27 — Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center

Aug. 29 — Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena

Aug. 30 — San Diego, CA @ Pechanga Arena

Sept. 2 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum

Sept. 3 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum

Sept. 5 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena

Sept. 29 — Monterrey, Mexico @ Arena Monterrey

Oct. 1 — Guadalajara, Mexico @ Arena VFG

Oct. 3 — Mexico City, Mexico @ Foro Sol (Outdoors)

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Harry Styles ‘Love on Tour’ Raised $6.5 Million for Charity

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Love on Tour, the second solo headlining tour from Harry Styles , recently concluded with an emotional final show in Italy. Goodbyes, no matter how short, are often bittersweet, but performing for building-shaking crowds multiple times a week had become the singer’s day-to-day for nearly two full years. Each night across 173 shows, he encouraged over 5.04 million fans worldwide to forget about the world outside the walls of the venues littered with feather boas and glitter. Meanwhile, a portion of the proceeds from those shows benefitted charity organizations committed to making a difference in the world those fans needed distracting from.

Charity organizations directly addressing these various matters are among those that have benefited from Love on Tour, which, according to the release, has been deemed the fourth highest-grossing tour of all time. Planned Parenthood, Physicians for Reproductive Health, Choose love, Black Voters Matter Fund — Capacity Building Institute, International Rescue Committee, Every Town for Gun Safety, Black Minds, REVERB, Intermission Youth, Save the Children, CARE, The Afiya Center, and more received donations during the tour.

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Taylor Swift Is "Floored" by the Success of Her New Album

She can't believe it.

Taylor Swift can't believe how much fans have listened to and loved her new album, The Tortured Poets Department .

The singer took to Instagram to share a series of Polaroid pictures of herself, plus Post Malone and Florence Welch, while recording the album in a studio.

"My mind is blown. I’m completely floored by the love you’ve shown this album," Swift captioned the post.

"2.6 million ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS?? Thank you for listening, streaming, and welcoming Tortured Poets into your life. Feeling completely overwhelmed.

"I was already so fired up to get back to the tour but you doing THIS?? May 9th can’t come soon enough"

Despite its streaming success, TTPD obviously has its critics, so Swift opted to disable the comment section—a smart move for her own peace of mind—and let the numbers speak for themselves.

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The "2.6 million" in question refer to the number of consumption units for the album, per People . Consumption units basically mean album sales, but also include the different ways people consume music via streaming services.

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How Fleetwood Mac Got Cool Again

Why do young people keep rediscovering rumours it’s in part because of a song that’s not even on the album..

When I was a teenager, I made a cassette tape of songs I wanted to listen to but didn’t want to admit I owned. Recording off the radio or borrowing albums from friends, I compiled a collection of bouncy pop ditties and wrote out the title in red ink: “Music I Don’t Listen To (Really).” I’m not sure under what circumstances I expected to be caught listening to that tape, or who that really was intended to convince. But I understood that, as I devoted myself to mainlining the back catalogs of edgy guitar bands like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, there was something powerfully uncool about this other stuff.

One side of the cassette was essentially a mixtape, with songs by the Cars and the Go-Go’s. The other was devoted to a single album, secured from the public library and dubbed in its entirety: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours . I must have heard some of the songs on the radio, or perhaps caught a stray reference in a music magazine, enough to know that I had to consume the record as a whole. But I’d also acquired, who knows from where, the sense that there was something shameful about how enjoyable, how easy the music seemed to be. It was, to use a term that wouldn’t come along for a few more decades, basic.

Rumours is the 10 th- highest-selling album in history. Some 40 million copies have been sold since its release in February 1977, which is one way of saying that it has never not been popular. But there have definitely been times when it wasn’t cool. “Don’t Stop” was the anthem for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, and when it blasted from the TV as the balloons announcing Clinton’s nomination rained from the ceiling of Madison Square Garden, it felt like a cultural watershed, a sign that an optimistic, exuberant new generation was ready to take the reins. (George H.W. Bush, who campaigned to the plodding strains of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.,” didn’t stand a chance.) But that moment, seared into the nation’s memory, also yoked that song, and the album it came from, to the fortunes of the Clintons and boomers writ large. And as the boomers got older and more disappointing, so did Fleetwood Mac. The chorus of a 1989 British hit put it in even more starkly generational terms: “No heavy metal, rock ’n’ roll, music from the past/ I’d rather jack than Fleetwood Mac .”

By 2013, even Saturday Night Live was goofing on the band . In a sketch from that year, Paul Rudd and Vanessa Bayer play a married couple who meet at a restaurant to finalize their divorce. Tempers flare and accusations fly, but their acrimony keeps getting interrupted by the peppy strains of “ I Don’t Want to Know ,” which mysteriously starts playing every time their exchanges get particularly ugly. (It turns out one of their lawyers has it set as his ringtone.) No amount of spousal acrimony can withstand the song’s allure, which starts them dancing in their seats as if they’re out on the floor at their own wedding. In a comedy of remarriage, this would be the pivotal moment when the estranged lovers rediscover their enduring affection for each other. But on SNL , it’s pure cringe. Rudd mimes twirling a lasso and Bayer jerks her shoulders in time with his as their attorneys look on in bemused horror, cuing the audience’s intended reaction, a primal discomfort on the level of catching your parents furiously making out. You’re not rooting for these two to get back together. You just want it to stop.

Two years before that, Glee built an entire episode, called “Rumours,” around the album, but instead of making the songs relevant to a new generation, resituating them in the context of a modern high school just made them feel more like artifacts: bangers, sure, but only a step removed from show tunes. The band took another step toward camp when Stevie Nicks appeared as herself on American Horror Story in 2014. (Ryan Murphy, who co-created both AHS and Glee , is a fan.) As the unofficial godmother to a coven of witches, Nicks is greeted with awestruck reverence, but she comes off less as a living legend than as her own tribute act.

Somewhere in the past decade, though, Fleetwood Mac got cool again. Of course, there were always some artists who would rep for the group: Even as Fleetwood was being mocked on network TV, indie bands like Haim and MGMT (as well as Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo) came together for a tribute album in 2012 , although it features more songs from Rumours ’ famously chaotic follow-up, Tusk , than their biggest hit. But soon, even superstars were shouting the group’s praises from pop’s mountaintops. In 2015 the band’s drummer and demi-namesake, Mick Fleetwood, told the British tabloid the Mirror that he’d struck up a correspondence with Harry Styles (then still a member of One Direction), who had greeted Nicks with a birthday cake backstage at one of their shows. When Styles embarked on his first solo tour two years later, he worked Rumours ’ “ The Chain ” into his set list, and even brought Nicks onstage during his Los Angeles stop, calling her his “queen of everything.” Nicks has also taken up a decadelong mutual admiration with Taylor Swift, who tapped the singer to pen a prefatory note to physical editions of The Tortured Poets Department and was rewarded with a name-drop on the album’s “ Clara Bow .”

Meanwhile, Rumours has become a bestseller again. In the locked-down fall of 2020, a viral TikTok of a man breezily skateboarding to the sound of “Dreams” spurred a surge in streams and sales, and when Swift and Styles topped 2022’s year-end album charts , Rumours was only a few places behind them, selling nearly a quarter of a million copies on LP alone. On the one hand, asking why so many people are still listening to Rumours is like asking why they still eat chocolate ice cream. But although mid-’70s contemporaries like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and the Eagles’ Greatest Hits may rank higher in all-time sales, they haven’t experienced a similar resurgence, let alone anything like its renewed cultural currency. When I asked my teenage daughter, whose tastes run to Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, if she knew anything about Fleetwood Mac, she looked at me as if I’d quizzed her on the name of Taylor Swift’s current boyfriend. “Of course I know who Fleetwood Mac is.”

What’s kept Rumours alive isn’t the music alone. If the album has become part of the unofficial starter pack for a budding vinyl collection, it arrives with a supplementary info packet detailing the chaotic drama of its creation, which has become central to its longevity. Recorded at multiple studios over the course of nearly a year when every one of Fleetwood Mac’s five members was in the midst of a painful breakup—including the end of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’ long-term relationship and singer Christine McVie’s divorce from bassist John McVie—the album overflows with heartbreak and bitterness, although the songs’ sleek surfaces belie their turbulent undercurrents. Nearly 50 years after its initial release, it feels tailor-made for an environment in which listeners have been trained to decode every oblique reference and lyrical tease, when the story behind a song sometimes overshadows the song itself. (Just ask Stevie’s pal Taylor.) “I really think there came a time when the sales of Rumours became less about the music and started being more about the phenomenon and the musical soap opera of it all,” Buckingham said in an interview for the album’s deluxe 2013 reissue. But even he had to admit he understood the appeal. “It was voyeuristic in the best way possible.”

The fascination with the behind-the-scenes drama has managed to outgrow Rumours itself. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Daisy Jones & the Six , which focuses on the relationship between a controlling, perfectionist male guitarist and a free-spirited female rock star, sold 2 million copies after its publication in 2019 and was adapted as an Amazon series last year. And the buzziest play in this year’s crowded Broadway season is David Adjmi’s Stereophonic , which gives its audience prime seats behind the mixing board as a 1970s rock band struggles to record a new album, unsure whether each bare-knuckle dispute is bringing the group closer to genius or implosion.

The making of Rumours yielded plenty of gossipy tidbits: According to co-producer Ken Caillat, Christine McVie would sneak her new lover, Curry Grant, the band’s lighting tech, into the studio for make-out sessions while her soon-to-be-ex-husband was in an isolation booth laying down his bass parts. (John was, needless to say, displeased when he figured out the subject of Christine’s “ You Make Loving Fun .”) But it has its ugly side too. Buckingham, recording his second album with the band, was already trying to seize control, and multiple accounts suggest he could be both verbally and physically abusive. Caillat alleged that Buckingham wrapped his hands around his throat after Caillat followed his instructions to tape over a previously recorded guitar part, and Carol Ann Harris, whose six-year relationship with Buckingham started during the Rumours sessions, wrote a memoir describing a long history of domestic violence. Although Nicks’ “Rhiannon,” released on Fleetwood Mac’s previous, self-titled album, became the group’s biggest hit ever in the middle of the Rumours sessions, she still had to fight for equal footing, having been admitted to the band in the first place only because it had needed a guitar player and Buckingham said he and Nicks were a package deal.

The retold versions of the Rumours story sand off some of its rougher edges: Stereophonic restages Buckingham’s quarrel with Caillat, but the Buckingham character, named Peter, knocks the Caillat figure to the ground before he can get his thumbs on his windpipe. But they also shift its center, foregrounding the conflict between Buckingham and Nicks and reducing the rest of the band to supporting roles. The result is a clash between a difficult male genius and a female visionary extricating herself from his oppressive influence, a spin that makes Rumours feel both more timely and more triumphant.

Daisy Jones remixes the original story more aggressively, turning its Nicks analog into an up-and-coming solo artist whose partnership with Billy Dunne, the domineering leader of a rock band called the Six, is largely platonic. Reid, however, made no secret of her inspiration, pegging it to a televised performance of “Landslide” she saw as a child, watching Buckingham watch Nicks sing, and thinking, Oh, they’re in love with each other .

In the novel, Daisy and Billy feud for years, over matters large and small, before they come to the realization that Reid had before she started: These two are deeply in love. Along the way, Daisy has to deal with a heap of 1970s record-industry sexism, including resentment from some of the band’s male members that she is making their sound too “soft,” as well as her own penchant for self-destructive behavior and substance abuse. But it’s all worth it because of the music she and Billy make together, the songs that, like the numbers in a musical, channel the feelings they’re unable to speak out loud.

Daisy Jones ’ Billy is, to quote his brother and bandmate, “a jerk,” but he’s also a married father who’s trying to stay sober and monogamous, which accounts for at least a little of his prickliness. Not so for Stereophonic ’s Peter, a petty tyrant who takes his frustrations out on anyone in eyesight. He’s particularly brutal to Diana, his lover and musical partner (and a clear Nicks stand-in), whom he resents more intensely the further she steps out of his shadow. After the band lays down a take of her new song, called “Bright,” she is overcome with how great it sounds, the fleshed-out realization of something that’s previously existed only in her head. But Peter cuts her down to size, over an open microphone that rings out from every corner of the theater. “It’s good, but there’s only so much I can do if you’re not gonna cut the verses down,” he scolds her. “You need to decide if you’re gonna be a mediocre songwriter or push it to the next level.”

The reference to Diana’s needing to pare back the song’s verses will make anyone familiar with the production of Rumours spring to attention. Stereophonic borrows so many elements of Fleetwood Mac’s real story—the drummer’s habit of endlessly retuning his kit, the struggle to get the band’s virtuoso bassist to play simple parts more befitting of pop songs—that at times it’s hard to fathom why the play even bothers to change the names. But the resonance is keenest when it comes to “Bright,” because it evokes the song that, perhaps more than any other, has been critical to maintaining Rumours ’ appeal, especially to new generations of fans—a surprising choice, given that it’s not even on the album.

That song, as anyone who has followed Rumours ’ recent resurgence knows, is “ Silver Springs .” The haunting ballad is indisputably one of Nicks’ best, a brokenhearted account of the end of a love affair that finds strength in the singer’s willingness to admit her own defeat. It’s also, at nearly five minutes, longer than any song that ended up on the album, and that’s after Nicks trimmed several stanzas under protest. The stated rationale for the omission of “Silver Springs” was that the song simply wouldn’t fit on either side of a 44-minute LP. But it’s also clear Buckingham knew that the song was directed at him, and he wasn’t crazy about it. Although Nicks was ostensibly a full-fledged member of Fleetwood Mac, she wasn’t involved in the decision to take the song off the album. Mick Fleetwood simply took her out to the studio parking lot and told her the deed was done.

Of all Nicks’ compositions, “Silver Springs” is especially close to her heart—close enough that, when Fleetwood refused her request to include the song on her solo greatest hits album Timespace , she quit the band in protest. Although it was released as the B side to Buckingham’s recriminatory “ Go Your Own Way ”—effectively making the single a “he said, she said” account of their breakup—leaving the song off Rumours consigned a masterpiece to undeserved obscurity for decades. (Nicks had also made a gift of the song’s publishing royalties to her mother, a gesture greatly diminished by its absence from the LP.)

Nicks played the long game, though. And in 1997, she and “Silver Springs” got their chance. By then, Nicks and Buckingham had both left Fleetwood Mac, but they returned for The Dance , a live concert that was released both as an album and on the then-new medium of DVD. Over six weeks of rehearsal and several warmup shows, Nicks slow-walked her way through the song, lulling an unsuspecting Buckingham into a false sense of security. But on the final night, with the cameras rolling, she stared him down as she dug into decades of unresolved hurt. (As Reid put it, she was “holding that microphone like a weapon.”) Watching the two of them onstage, you can feel the connection that brought them together as well as the discord that drove them apart, and Nicks’ determination to make sure her former partner remembers them both. “I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me,” she sings, as Buckingham’s eyes grow wide. “You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.”

A self-conscious act of songwriting as romantic revenge, “Silver Springs” now seems like a precursor to the Taylor Swift era, where those who’ve wronged her are held up for ridicule every time she steps on a stage. “I’m so angry with you,” Nicks said in an interview for The Dance explaining the song’s subtext. “You will listen to me on the radio for the rest of your life, and it will bug you. I hope it bugs you .” That’s a feeling that Swift’s exes know all too well.

The video of Nicks singing “Silver Springs” has become a phenomenon in its own right. Search for Fleetwood Mac and Rumours on TikTok and you’ll have to scroll through pages of clips from The Dance before you get to any other song. Unofficially restoring it to the album is a way not just of rescuing a classic but of righting a wrong, restoring a balance. No longer does the controlling Buckingham get the last word. It’s Nicks who comes out on top, pinning him to the stage with her spotlight.

In Daisy Jones ’ version of the story, the song—called “Regret Me,” written by Daisy after Billy spurns her advances—makes it on to the album after all, voted on by the rest of the band over its target’s objections. But Stereophonic ’s Diana isn’t so fortunate. She’s stuck in the real 1970s, not the fan-fiction iteration of the decade, and there’s only so far she can push. Her happy ending will have to wait.

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Her guitar was smashed on a Delta flight a day before opening for Kacey Musgraves. The internet rallied around her.

Indie artist Madi Diaz discovered Delta Airlines ruined her guitar a day before kicking off tour with Kacey Musgraves. The internet rallied for a response. Musicians say it's a common issue.

A day before kicking off her 14-day European tour opening for Kacey Musgraves, indie artist Madi Diaz opened her guitar case after landing in Dublin. But she called what she found inside “unfathomable” and “devastating.”

In photos and videos posted on social media, Diaz shows her 20-year-old Martin acoustic guitar significantly damaged, with cracks throughout the body, large gashes and holes on the sides and back, and the wood splintered throughout.

The posts went viral, sparking a grassroots campaign among fans and fellow musicians for Delta Airlines to make things right. It’s also prompted a new wave of dialogue from musicians about how difficult it can be to fly on any airline with gear because of issues with checking guitars, drums, horns, and more.

Diaz, 37, is a singer-songwriter from Nashville who has been on the scene since the early aughts, touring with The Civil Wars. She grew up in Lancaster County, where she began her music career. Her songs were featured on shows like Pretty Little Liars . In 2009, she was named one of SXSW’s “ buzziest acts ” by Paste Magazine. In early 2023, Diaz joined Harry Styles’ “Love On Tour” band as a guitar and backing vocalist for the show’s European leg.

Her now-mangled Martin acoustic guitar was by her side through it all, she said. Taped to its side, it still has handwritten lyrics to Styles’ song, “Medicine,” which Diaz jotted down on tour to make sure she would get them right.

“From my dorm room in college to stages with Harry Styles, this guitar has been with me through all of it,” Diaz wrote on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. “I’m truly devastated by the treatment of my instrument. Insurmountable loss. I don’t know how to begin to replace something like this.”

In the aftermath, Diaz documented the damage on social media, tagging the airline and asking others to do the same. Musicians, including Musgraves — who sang on Diaz’s 2023 song, “Don’t Do Me Good” — shared it, too. Diaz’s initial post was viewed nearly 2 million times on X alone.

“I bought the most heavy duty case I could find,” Diaz wrote. “My theory for 20 years was that our instruments are meant to travel to help tell our stories. Lesson learned? I’m not in the position to financially handle renting gear wherever I go — but I’m also not in the position to lose so much.”

Diaz isn’t the only artist conflicted about the best way to tour.

For years, musicians have complained about airlines mishandling their gear, the high costs that come with traveling with instruments, and the risks involved. Besides often being expensive, musical instruments also often come with high sentimental value. Damages can bring their value down and impact a musician’s bottom line, since they need their gear to perform.

“We grow up knowing the instrument itself has a soul and you bond with it. You spend all those years in a practice room all alone, except for your feelings and psychology and your instrument – it has a bonding quality,” cellist Lynn Harrell told the Guardian in 2020. “So when something happens to the instrument monetarily, that’s one thing. But the feeling that as a custodian of an instrument with hundreds of years of life, you failed – that is a scar on your soul for the rest of your life.”

Harrell said he used to check his cello, but the risk became too great. He’s since started buying the instrument its own seat next to him on flights — an increasingly common tactic that can be safer, but is cost-prohibitive and can sometimes result in confusion

Musicians say it’s a Catch-22 when they’re trying to tour.

Tim Hildebrand, who plays guitar for the Philadelphia ska group, Catbite , says Diaz’s experience reminded him of several of his own.

In recent years, Catbite has frequently toured internationally, flying to Japan, Australia, and Europe. This year, the band has already flown over 40 times.

“It’s super stressful with trying to find the cheapest way to get your stuff from point A to B, and with trying to figure out what the airline’s policy is,” Hildebrand said. Catbite typically checks its gear in hard-shelled cases made for travel. “We just keep our fingers crossed that our gear isn’t in shreds or lost when we get to our final destination.”

But despite his efforts to protect his gear, Hildebrand’s fears came true in Heathrow Airport last year during the band’s first United Kingdom tour, when his guitar was nowhere to be found.

“It took an hour to finish making a claim. I had to borrow a guitar for our first show,” Hildebrand said. “Luckily, they found it about 30 hours later. And super luckily, we were still in the London area and we were able to get it so I’d have a guitar for the tour.”

Diaz has said the damages to her guitar are irreparable. A rep for Diaz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement, a Delta spokesperson said the airline was in touch with Diaz’s team.

“We apologize to Madi for the damage to her instrument,” the statement said. “We are continuing our review of this event and remain in contact with her team to make it right and in resolving any outstanding items.”