Has a lineup change ever had a more profound effect on a band than the addition of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to Fleetwood Mac?

Before Buckingham and Nicks joined the band, Fleetwood Mac released ten albums over seven years, and most music fans wouldn’t recognize a single song from that span. Or at least not the Fleetwood Mac version — they did write and record ‘Black Magic Woman,’ which was a hit for Santana.

In the mid-70s, several band members departed, leaving original members John McVie and Mick Fleetwood (along with Christie McVie, who recorded with the band from the beginning and became an official member a few years later). Those three were joined by Buckingham and Nicks, and that quintet released five straight multi-platinum albums that define the Fleetwood Mac sound for most of us.

‘Monday Morning’ is the lead-off track on Fleetwood Mac, the 1975 album that kickstarted the band’s new lineup. This song, along with ‘Rhiannon’ and ‘Landslide,’ were intended for the next Buckingham/Nicks release but ended up here instead.

While the pop sound was a change from Fleetwood Mac’s original blues rock focus, the rest of the band reluctantly embraced the evolution. The rest, as they say, is history.