54. Fleetwood Mac

 

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A band who went from late 1960s Peter Green led blues-rock to mid 1970s Christine McVie, Lindsay Buckingham & Stevie Nicks commercial pop/rock and beyond with the soap opera to match.

 

ALL MUSIC GUIDE BIOGRAPHY

 

Key Studio Album: Rumours (1977)

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Key Compiliation: The Very Best Of (2002)

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Career Defining Song:

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (1977 UK#24; USA#1)

Some Other Key Songs:

 

Albatross (1969 UK#1)

 

Go Your Own Way (1977 UK#38 USA#10)

 

Tusk (1979 UK#6 USA#8)

 

Little Lies (1987 UK#5 USA#4)

 

Where you fans of this long running musical soap opear or like the Reynolds Girls would "rather Jack than Fleetwood Mac"?

loved the peter green era, but not so keen on their post green material, thought they became pretty boring tbh as they drifted into AOR/MOR.

The days of Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer were the golden days for me in terms of Fleetwoood Mac

 

Although I do have The Chain as my mobile ringtone and it is an immortal song in terms of F1

Always been a huge fan of them in both eras. Loved Oh well, Man of the world & albatross...but also liked the Rumours era and Tango in the night, got 4 or 5 of their albums.

For me personally, I'd rather jack...

I never really listened to 'em much apart from Tusk (the single) which I absolutely loved when I was a kid.

 

I then read a book given away with the Melody Maker back in the 90s where writers reviewed some of the great lost albums. Included was Gene Clark's No Other, ABBA's The Visitors and Fleetwod Mac's Tusk, all of which I gave a listen to and all of which I think are really good albums.

 

I have never listened much to any of their other stuff but I think I do have a Greatest Hits knocking about somewhere.