I set out to interview Peter Green a few years ago, when I was writing my biography King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B.
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Ignoring Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac is a lapse akin to eschewing the original lineup of Pink Floyd, the one fronted by Syd Barrett. They started out as a showcase for Peter Green, a British guitar hero on par with Clapton or Beck or Page, though he’s not nearly so well-known. Most listeners stop there.Īnd that’s a shame, because Fleetwood Mac once reigned as the best blues band in Britain. Record collectors hunt for vintage copies of Tusk, the weird-but-rewarding double album Fleetwood Mac released in 1979, two years after Rumours. The curious might also seek out Fleetwood Mac, which nearly rivals Rumours for songcraft and sounds like its studio twin. The band has released seventeen studio albums, but most casual fans know only one. Rumours established Fleetwood Mac as the definitive American pop band of the late 1970s.įive decades later, Rumours defines Fleetwood Mac. The followup, Rumours, sold ten million copies in a month, dominating the charts and public consciousness like few albums before or since. When they realized what they had, Mick Fleetwood and John "Mac" McVie rebranded their ensemble and went all in with their next record, the eponymous Fleetwood Mac.įleetwood Mac went No.
Then, at year’s end, the British band hired a new American guitarist named Lindsey Buckingham and his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks.
In 1974, Fleetwood Mac was playing venues like the Charles Wolf Gymnasium in York, Pennsylvania, and the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.