Heroes Are Hard to Find

Heroes Are Hard to Find
Studio album by Fleetwood Mac
Released	13 September 1974
Recorded	July 1974 at Angel City Sound, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock
Length	39:26
Label	Reprise
Producer	Fleetwood Mac, Bob Hughes
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Mystery to Me (1973) Heroes Are Hard to Find (1974) Fleetwood Mac (1975)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	(positive) [2]
Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Heroes Are Hard to Find is the ninth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1974. This is the last album with Bob Welch, who left at the end of 1974, and was replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. It was the first Fleetwood Mac studio album properly recorded in the US as well as the first to enter the Billboard top 40 albums chart. The title track was edited and issued as a single but it failed to chart.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heroes Are Hard to Find"	Christine McVie	3:35
2.	"Coming Home"	Bob Welch	3:55
3.	"Angel"	Welch	3:55
4.	"Bermuda Triangle"	Welch	4:08
5.	"Come a Little Bit Closer"	C. McVie	4:48

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"She's Changing Me"	Welch	2:58
2.	"Bad Loser"	C. McVie	3:25
3.	"Silver Heels"	Welch	3:26
4.	"Prove Your Love"	C. McVie	3:57
5.	"Born Enchanter"	Welch	2:54
6.	"Safe Harbour"	Welch	2:32

Personnel

Fleetwood Mac

• Bob Welch – guitar, vocals, vibraphone
• Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals, ARP String Ensemble
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Additional musician

• Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar on "Come a Little Bit Closer" and "She's Changing Me"

Production

• Fleetwood Mac – producers
• Bob Hughes – engineer, producer
• Doug Graves – engineer, assistant engineer
• Lee Herschberg – remastering
• Nick DeCaro – horn and string arrangement
• Desmond Strobel – design

Charts

Without a successful single to support the album, it still managed to peak at number 34 on the Billboard Top 200 albums, which at the time was the highest Billboard placing for any Fleetwood Mac album. The album also peaked at number 5 on the Billboard FM Action chart.^[4]

The album achieved moderate success in Canada, peaking at #46 on the Canadian Albums Chart.

Chart (1974)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top 200	34
Canadian Albums Chart	46

References

1. Heroes Are Hard to Find at AllMusic
2. Barnes, Ken (October 24, 1974). "Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find > Album Review". Rolling Stone (172). Archived from the original on 21 November 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
3. Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). "Fleetwood Mac". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. London: Fireside. pp. 302–304. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Retrieved 22 February 2012. Portions posted at "Fleetwood Mac > Album Guide". rollingstone.com. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
4. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1974-09-28). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.