Information:
- Dreams is a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song.
- The Corrs first recorded Dreams for a tribute album to Fleetwood Mac called Legacy. It has also been remixed for various other releases on the Corrs Talk on Corners album as well as some singles and "Best Of" releases.
- The Corrs were invited to record Dreams on Legacy by Atlantic Records executive Jason Flom who was in charge of putting the album together. The remixes came about as the Corrs were performing the song live on tour in Amsterdam and chiefs from Warner Music US suggested a change to a modern-style variant. Jason Flom hired Todd Terry to re-minx five singles resulting in the TNT Extended Mix, Tee's Radio Mix, Todd's Henry St. Mix, Tee's Club Mix, and Tee's In House Mix.
- The Todd Terry's Radio Mix single peaked at #6 in the UK charts and was added to the re-release of Talk On Corners.
- The Corrs performed Dreams live with Mick Fleetwood (from Fleetwood Mac) at their concert at the Royal Albert Hall on St. Patrick's Day 1998.
- The video for Dreams won the "Best Adult Contemporary Video" award from Billboard magazine in 1998.
- It's possible (although not confirmed) that the Corrs parents performed Dreams years before the Corrs were asked to record the song for Legacy. This may have been part of the reason the Corrs choose Dreams as their song on Legacy?
- From an interview on The Eleventh Hour with Dave Fanning in 2009 (starting at 3:00):
Sharon: Fleetwood Mac was a massive influence... Dreams was a song that we covered mostly by chance. There was a tribute album to Fleetwood Mac, and we got asked to do it, and Dreams was available. We were really lucky. And it was funny because we'd already had huge success in Australia and places like Denmark and stuff. And in Ireland also we'd had quite substantial success. But we really hadn't broken the UK, which is a market you need to break. When we did Dreams, it worked on radio. And then we were able to do St. Patrick's Day in the Albert Hall, and that was a real turnaround, a real milestone for the band.
Interviewer: What was it like for Caroline doing this [pretending to play drums], and then your man Mick Fleetwood doing this [pretending to play drums]?
Sharon: I think at the time we were so young that you didn't really understand...There's a great thing about youth that gives you the confidence to do just whatever, whereas when you get older you sort of analyze everything. You think, "Oh my God, that's Mick Fleetwood." It was a little nerve-wracking for Caroline, but he was just this gentle giant. He was so lovely and so happy to do it. He enjoyed every moment of it. He was great.
- Quotes from Caroline from the All the Way Home Documentary:
[re: the RAH performance]
"We'd only gotten the chance to rehearse it at soundcheck, and all I can remember is that I was absolutely petrified because I'd never done anything like this before. We also had to get it in sync, and that's a really difficult thing to do for two drummers who've never played together. But on the night, it just worked out. It was fantastic; it just gelled, and it worked."
[re: the recording]
"When we recorded Dreams it was a lot different than what it became. Todd Terry did a mix for us which turned out to be fantastic. I think we all thought at the time that this could be a great single for us. Before that we really hadn't heard our music being played. Maybe the odd radio station here and there, but never to that same extent. I remember Radio 1 just playing it and playing it and playing it."
- A quote from Sharon from an interview in the BBC Radio 2 concert in 2001:
"When we released it as a single, we did a very different version from Fleetwood Mac's original. I suppose because you can't really compete with a song that's that absolutely amazing and just record it the same way, so we recorded it slightly differently. For this show we brought it back to the basics. Mitchell [Froom] and us together worked out an arrangement of it. It's got a fairly long middle section, and it's very laid-back and groovy. It's a great song; it's just a pleasure to do it. It's a beautifully written song."
Written By:
- Dreams was written by Stevie Nicks and originally a Fleetwood Mac song.
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Lyrics:
Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down
It's only right that you should play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
Yeah, thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Yeah, women they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know, you'll know...
Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
Well It's only me that wants to wrap around your dreams and
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell
Dreams of loneliness
Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
(Drives you mad,) and what you lost, (remember what you had)
Thunder only happens when it's raining
(Thunder only happens when it's...)
Players only love you when they're playing
(Players only love you when they're...)
Yeah, women they will come and they will go, (they will go...)
When the rain washes you clean you'll know...
Yeah, thunder only happens when it's raining
(Thunder only happens when it's...)
Players only love you when they're playing
(Players only love you when they're...)
Yeah, women they will come and they will go, (they will go...)
When the rain washes you clean you'll know...
You'll know, (the heartbeat drives you mad,) you'll know, (remember what you had)
You'll know...
[Fade out]
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