Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find LP

Fleetwood Mac's ninth studio album, Heroes Are Hard to Find was released in September 1974 and was the last album recorded with Bob Welch, who left the band at the end of that year. It was the first Fleetwood Mac studio album recorded in the United States, in Los Angeles.

Although this was Bob Welch's last album with the band he had worked with since 1971, it sounds like he's at his peak. Pared down to a foursome for the first time since the addition of Danny Kirwan, both Welch and Christine McVie contribute some of their finest songs. Bolstered by sympathetic self-production and imaginative, often aggressive arrangements that include brassy horns on the title track (a blatant but failed attempt at a hit single), the album is one of their most cohesive yet diverse. Welch left soon after the album's release, and the group went on to bigger and better things, but Heroes is a minor gem that retains its effortless pop charms and contains some buried jewels in the extensive Fleetwood Mac catalog.