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TIL that Stevie Nicks wrote the Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams" in about 10 minutes. The rest of the band disliked the song, with Christine McVie calling it "boring." Nicks begged them to record it and they eventually relented. It is the band's only US number one single.

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