The lustful 1977 song Christine McVie pretended she wrote about her dog: “I sank very low”
Christine McVie’s 1977 song ‘You Make Loving Fun’ was inspired by her affair with Fleetwood Mac’s lighting director, Curry Grant, during the making of Rumours. She told her bandmates it was about her dog, Duster, apparently to avoid adding to tensions around the band’s relationships.
The article recounts how McVie and Grant’s relationship became a problem for the touring crew, prompting Mick Fleetwood to confront her and then dismiss Grant. McVie later said the affairs had dented her self-respect; the song became one of Rumours’ hit singles, though its cheerful sound concealed its personal story.
- McVie’s song was inspired by her affair with Curry Grant.
- She said it was about her dog, Duster.
- The relationship unfolded during the making of Rumours.
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Fleetwood Mac were a British-American rock band whose members’ relationships were under strain while they recorded Rumours in the mid-1970s. The album drew on those personal upheavals and became one of the band’s best-known records.
Christine McVie was the band’s singer and keyboard player. Curry Grant worked on the touring crew as lighting director, and their relationship became a source of difficulty for the band and crew; Mick Fleetwood was the band’s drummer. The story behind the song matters because it shows how private relationships and tensions intersected with the making of a hit record.