Musicians often draw from their own lives when they sit down to write a song. But in the case of a classic Fleetwood Mac song, the inspiration was out of this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1973, with Bob Welch at the helm, Fleetwood Mac released the eighth album, Mystery to Me<\/em>, with “Hypnotized”<\/a> as a B-side to “For Your Love”. The B-side ended up being the more popular song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was (and still am) interested in the paranormal \u2013 UFO\u2019s, the Carlos Castaneda books about the Yaqui Indian \u2018sorcerer\u2019 Don Juan \u2013 so I incorporated a lot of these themes and references into the song,” Welch once explained in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to Castaneda’s writing, Welch drew from personal experience<\/a>, stories from friends, and the Hickson Pascagoula UFO sighting. That was an incident in which two men who had been fishing together claimed they were abducted and examined by aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n