The article examines Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Gold Dust Woman’, which Lindsey Buckingham described as “evil” and dark because he believed its anger was aimed at him after his split from Stevie Nicks. It matters as an example of how the personal tensions surrounding the making of *Rumours* shaped interpretations of the band’s music.

Nicks said she wrote the song before recording *Rumours* and intended it to concern women in the groupie scene, rather than Buckingham directly. The article also notes that the song is widely linked to cocaine and the excess of the band’s 1970s recording sessions, while acknowledging that Buckingham and Nicks’ recent break-up made his assumption understandable.