Tango in the Night

Tango in the Night began as one of Buckingham's solo projects and became a Fleetwood Mac album in 1985. The band tried working with Nile Rodgers and with Jason Corsaro before settling on Buckingham and Dashut as producers, with Greg Droman engineering. Backing tracks took three months at Rumbo Recorders, and the rest was done at Buckingham's newly built home studio, the Slope. The whole album took eighteen months. Some instrumental parts were recorded with the tape slowed to half speed, and Buckingham built most of the vocal harmonies by overdubbing and used a Fairlight CMI. Nicks spent about two weeks in the studio in total, sending demos from the road.

It peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200 and was certified triple platinum in the US. In the UK it reached number one three times in 1987 and 1988. Four singles reached the US top 20: Big Love, Seven Wonders, Little Lies and Everywhere. Reviews on release were mixed, and Alexis Petridis of The Guardian later wrote that it seemed even more deserving of the flawed masterpiece tag than Tusk.