Songfacts®:

• "Heroes Are Hard To Find" is a transitional song for Fleetwood Mac, the bridge between their blues-rock early years and their staggeringly successful move to mainstream pop. It's the title track to their ninth album, when they had a four-person lineup with Bob Welch on guitar. At this time, they would lose a member or two every year and were at loggerheads with their ex-manager, Clifford Davis, who claimed rights to the band name and even tried to assemble his own version of the group. They had moved from England to Los Angeles and were struggling musically and financially. "Heroes Are Hard To Find" was released as a single, but it flopped. A year later, the band went through their usual lineup reshuffle, with Welch leaving and a hotshot guitarist named Lindsey Buckingham taking his place. But Buckingham was towing an anchor: If Fleetwood Mac wanted him, they also had to let his girlfriend Stevie Nicks join the band. Their next album, Fleetwood Mac, went on to sell more copies than all their previous albums combined.
• Christine McVie wrote this song and sang lead. The lyrical theme is a variation on the adage "a good man is hard go find," but it had a deeper meaning to the band. According to Mick Fleetwood, to them it was about trying to find the right lineup for the band. The "heroes" ended up being Buckingham and Nicks.
• This is a rare Fleetwood Mac song with a horn section. They were desperately trying for a hit at this point and willing to experiment.
• Fleetwood Mac never played this song live, even when they toured for the album. They would have had to work up a new arrangement for it or bring a horn section on the road.