10 Most Expensive Rock Albums Ever Made
4. Tusk - Fleetwood Mac ($1.4 Million)
Once again, we have another case of loads of cash being dropped on the follow-up to a mega-selling album.
In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released Rumours and changed the world forever. That album has become firmly entrenched in modern music, gracing the CD collections and car glove boxes of people around the globe.
The success of Rumours came at a price, as guitarist Lindsay Buckingham was keen not to be seen as a one trick pony. He went out of his way to ensure that the new album sounded nothing like what had come before, no matter how much it cost.
A new studio was built for this endeavour, but that was paid for out of the royalties from the previous album. Despite this, Warner Brothers still charged Fleetwood Mac to record there!
Even though they'd built it themselves!
It certainly didn't help that Tusk ended up being a double album, meaning that the band spent ten months in the studio. By the time the final note had been played, production costs had risen to an estimated $1.4 million.
How did the album turn out?
Well, it didn't sound like Rumours, that's for sure...
Nah, that's unfair, it was good.