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Fleetwood Mac Sound Engineer Sues ‘Stereophonic’, Says Hit Broadway Drama “Copies The Heart And Soul” Of His ‘Rumours’ Memoir
A former sound engineer who coauthored a 2012 memoir about his days working on the Fleetwood Mac album Rumours has filed a lawsuit, along with his coauthor of the book Making Rumours, against the makers of Broadway's smash hit play Stereophonic, alleging that playwright David Adjmi relied on portions of Making Rumours in the creation of the similarly themed Broadway play.
The troubled recording of their seminal album, which endured months of romantic break-ups, intra-band feuding and gorgeous pop music-making, has been told and re-told many times through various books, interviews, documentaries and even, in another fictionalized take, the Amazon Prime limited series Daisy Jones & the Six. But in their lawsuit filed yesterday in United States Southern District Court of New York, the sound engineer-turned-music producer Ken Caillat and his memoir co-author Steven Stiefel assert that elements particular to their book ended up in Stereophonic without permission, perhaps most notably the inclusion of a sound engineer character who provides the play with a perspective from outside the band proper. Playwright Adjmi was quoted in a recent New Yorker article about Caillat’s claims (the suit had not yet been filed), saying “When writing Stereophonic I drew from multiple sources – including details from my own life – to create a deeply personal work of fiction.” The playwright told The New Yorker that Making Rumours is an “excellent book” but that any similarities between Stereophonic and Making Rumours are unintentional.
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