On this day in 1993, the band Fleetwood Mac reunites to perform at the recently elected U.S. President Bill Clinton\u2019s first inaugural gala.<\/p>\n
Fleetwood Mac had faced much intra-band squabbling since their 1970s heyday, why they released one of the biggest albums of all time\u2014Rumours\u2014and a string of decade-defining hits like \u201cLandslide,\u201d \u201cRhiannon,\u201d \u201cSay You Love Me\u201d and \u201cGo Your Own Way.\u201d And then, of course, there was \u201cDon\u2019t Stop\u201d (as in \u201cthinking about tomorrow\u201d), which was candidate Bill Clinton\u2019s unofficial theme song during the 1992 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n
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Along with Truman\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Just Wild About Harry,\u201d Eisenhower\u2019s \u201cI Like Ike\u201d and Ross Perot\u2019s \u201cCrazy,\u201d Clinton\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Stop\u201d can certainly be placed within the catchy-and-memorable subset of Presidential campaign songs\u2014in contrast to, say, \u201cBuckle Down with Nixon,\u201d \u201cGet on a Raft with Taft\u201d and \u201cHuzzah for Madison.\u201d Clinton\u2019s theme song may have lacked specificity regarding his political agenda, but it had a good beat, a warm vibe and a chorus that audiences could sing along to. Fleetwood Mac\u2019s 1977 recording of \u201cDon\u2019t Stop\u201d played in a seemingly endless loop from the night of Clinton\u2019s nomination at the 1992 Democratic National Convention that previous summer through to election night in November, so that by the time January rolled around, the mere playing of the record would have seemed a disappointing way to end the evening of the Inaugural gala.<\/p>\n
And so the Clinton transition team sprang into action and accomplished a political feat that certainly seemed to bode well for the new president\u2019s ambitious plans to bring peace and stability to Haiti and overhaul the nation\u2019s health-care system. It had been more than five years since Lindsay Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks had shared a stage, but in a true coup of diplomacy, the Clinton team convinced the entire Rumours-era lineup of Fleetwood Mac to reunite for a truly historic live performance of \u201cDon\u2019t Stop\u201d on this day in 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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