Song by Song: "Dreams" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rumours

"Rumours" was released in 1977 by Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Fleetwood Mac along with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. The single "Dreams" was released from the album on March 24, 1977 with "Songbird" on the B-Side in the U.S. In the U.K., however, "Dreams" was released in June of 1977 as the third single from the album.

Answer: true

"Dreams" was Fleetwood Mac's first (and, as of 2021, only) number one hit in the United States. It also hit number one on Canada's singles chart, the RPM Top 100. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and came in at number 39 on the year-end chart.

Answer: freedom

"Now there you go again, you say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?"

"Dreams" was ranked number nine on Rolling Stone magazine's 2021 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." The song was not in Rolling Stone magazine's original 2004 list. It had a resurgence in popularity in 2020 due to a viral TikTok video involving Nathan Apodaca skateboarding to the song while drinking cranberry juice.

Answer: a heartbeat

"It's only right that you should play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
Of what you had
And what you lost."

American dance music duo Deep Dish remade "Dreams" for their second album "George Is On," which was released in 2005. Stevie Nicks recorded new vocals for the song.

Answer: playing

"Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing."

"Dreams" peaked at number four on the Canada Adult Contemporary RPM and at number one on the Canada Top Singles RPM. It reached number eight on the Dutch Top 40 and 33 in West Germany.

Answer: crystal

"Now here I go again, I see the crystal vision
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?"

In season 2, episode 19 of the American musical television series "Glee," the glee club performs songs from Fleetwood Mac's album "Rumours." This sent "Dreams" back onto the charts for two weeks in the UK in 2011.

Answer: you'll know

"They say women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know
Ooh, when the rain washes you clean you'll know."

American jazz singer Dianne Reeves recorded a cover of "Dreams" featuring Robert Glasper on her 2014 studio album "Beautiful Life." The album won Best Jazz Vocal Album in the Grammy awards.

Answer: Stevie Nicks

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were ending their eight-year-long relationship around the time she wrote this song. In an article published on May 8, 2021, Lindsey Buckingham, who was fired from the group in 2018, told NME, "In order to take a song of hers, like 'Dreams', which needed so much construction around it...It comes at a price sometimes, you know? It comes at the price of having your defences come up, and sometimes over a period of time, it's hard to get those down."

Answer: Christine McVie

Mick Fleetwood was on drums and John McVie on bass guitar. Stevie Nicks sang lead on the song and Lindsey Buckingham played guitar. A vibraphone is a percussion instrument using tuned metal bars and played with soft mallets.

Answer: The Corrs

"Talk on Corners" was released in 1997. The "Dreams" cover was originally recorded for a 20th anniversary cover album "Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours." The group performed the song live with Mick Fleetwood at the Royal Albert Hall in 1998.