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Mar 25, 2025 03:55pm

<ul><li>During the recording of&nbsp;<strong>Rumours</strong>&nbsp;the marriage of bassist John McVie and keyboardist and co-singer Christine McVie was ending. Christine started seeing the band's lighting technician Curry Grant and she penned this song about the relationship. Drummer Mick Fleetwood quipped to&nbsp;<em>Q</em>&nbsp;magazine June 2009: "Knowing John, he probably thought it was about one of her dogs."</li><li>Christine McVie sang lead vocals on this track, which was one of four songs she wrote solo for the&nbsp;<strong>Rumours</strong>&nbsp;album. McVie had nothing prepared when the band started working on the album at The Record Plant studios in Sausalito, California. "I thought I was drying up," she said in&nbsp;<em>Q</em>&nbsp;magazine. "I was practically panicking because every time I sat down at a piano, nothing came out. Then, one day in Sausalito, I just sat down and wrote in the studio, and the four-and-a-half songs of mine on the album are a result of that."</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.songfacts.com/facts/fleetwood-mac/you-make-loving-fun" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.songfacts.com/facts/fleetwood-mac/you-make-loving-fun</a></p>