Mirage is the thirteenth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 2 July 1982 by Warner Bros.

[3] Ken Caillat, who reprised his role as producer after working with the band on Rumours and Tusk, remembered that there was a sense of rivalry between Nicks and Buckingham over the commercial trajectory of their solo careers.

"Straight Back" referred to her separation from then-lover, producer Jimmy Iovine and the disruption she experienced to her newly established solo career in order to rejoin Fleetwood Mac for the 1982 project.

Buckingham entered the studio with "Can't Go Back" and "Eyes of the World", while his other three songs on the album were written shortly after his arrival in France.

McVie remembered that Buckingham overdubbed some of the song's vocals to a slowed-down recording and later sped it up, with the end result resembling Nicks' voice.

He then spliced together additional musical passages,[15] including the chord progression of Pachebel's Canon and the acoustic guitar part from an instrumental composition on Buckingham Nicks.

[4] Nicks said that the band attempted to complete the album in multiple Los Angeles recording studios, but she was unsure how much work was conducted after they left Château D'Hérouville.

[19] Caillat stated in a 1982 interview that Nicks' involvement with Mirage was largely limited to the initial recording sessions at Château D'Hérouville and said that she spent between ten and fifteen days at various Los Angeles studios for further overdubs.

[14] In The Boston Phoenix, Ken Emerson wrote that "For all its pleasant tunefulness, Mirage (Warner Bros.) is not a retreat to the tried-and-true pop format of Fleetwood Mac and Rumours.

[33] Three of these tracks, "Second Hand News," "Brown Eyes," and "Hold Me" would later be officially released on the expanded 1980 Fleetwood Mac Live album in 2021.

The running order was also completely rearranged so that Nicks' "Gypsy" followed "The Chain", whilst "You Make Loving Fun" and "Blue Letter" were moved to the first half of the edited show.

In 2009, another DVD incarnation of the Mirage concert was released under the title Fleetwood Mac – In Performance by the Showline label on a region-free disc.

This expanded reissue features a remaster of the original album, 13 live tracks, B-sides, outtakes, plus other songs that did not make the final cut.