Fleetwood Mac
| Fleetwood Mac | |
|---|---|
 Fleetwood Mac (2009) McVie, Nicks, Buckingham and Fleetwood |
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| General information | |
| origin | London , England |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock , blues rock , soft rock , British blues |
| founding | 1967 |
| Website | www.fleetwoodmac.com |
| Founding members | |
| Peter Green (until 1970); † 2020 | |
| Mick Fleetwood | |
| Bob Brunning (until 1967) | |
Slide guitar , keyboard , vocals |
Jeremy Spencer (until 1971) |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, keyboard |
Stevie Nicks (1975–1992, since 1997) |
bass |
John McVie (since 1967) |
Drums |
Mick Fleetwood |
Keyboard, vocals |
Christine McVie (1970–1998, since 2014) |
guitar |
Mike Campbell (since 2018) |
Guitar, vocals |
Neil Finn (since 2018) |
| former members | |
Guitar, vocals |
Danny Kirwan (1968-1972); † 2018 |
Guitar, vocals |
Bob Welch (1971-1974); † 2012 |
guitar |
Bob Weston (1972-1974) |
Guitar, vocals |
Dave Walker (1972-1973) |
Guitar, vocals |
Lindsey Buckingham (1975-1987, 1997-2018) |
Guitar, vocals |
Billy Burnette (1988-1996) |
Guitar, vocals |
Rick Vito (1988-1992) |
Guitar, vocals |
Dave Mason (1993-1996) |
singing |
Bekka Bramlett (1993–1996) |
Fleetwood Mac is a British - American rock band . Originally founded as a purely British blues band in 1967, after many line-up changes they developed into one of the most internationally successful rock bands from the mid-1970s. Her album Rumors , released in 1977, is one of the best-selling albums in music history .
Band history part 1: Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
The time as a British blues band
Peter Green had made a name for himself as an important blues guitarist as the successor to Eric Clapton with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers from 1966 , when he left Mayall in 1967 and put together his own band. With drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist Bob Brunning - both also former members of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - he founded the band Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac in 1967 , named after Mike Fleetwood and John McVie, who was already involved by Green at the time . Later the group was mostly called Fleetwood Mac . A short time later, the Elmore James admirer Jeremy Spencer (guitar, vocals, piano) also became a permanent member of the band. Spencer played the distinctive slide guitar there , sang the lead part in the cover of some pieces by Elmore James ( e.g. Shake your moneymaker ) and also contributed his own compositions such as My heart beat like a hammer to the band's first commercially successful LP ( Fleetwood Mac , February 1968). With both songs, the band was able to make themselves known to a larger audience in TV shows.
The band had their first successful public appearance at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967. After a live recording ( Live at The Marquee 1967 , Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Bob Brunning and Jeremy Spencer) and the studio recording Long Gray Mare (Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Bob Brunning) Bob Brunning left the band in the same year and was replaced by John McVie , who still played as bass guitarist with Mick Taylor (later guitarist for The Rolling Stones ) as a member of the Bluesbreakers for John Mayall .
The follow-up album Mr. Wonderful , which was released in September 1968, was still very much influenced by the British blues and again contained songs that Peter Green presented as guitarist and singer, and others, with Jeremy Spencer with vocals and slide guitar in the Elmore -James style came to the fore (e.g. with the Elmore James piece Dust My Broom ). The compilation album The Pious Bird of Good Omen from August 1969 also contained similar tracks .
In 1968, Danny Kirwan , who was only 18 years old , joined the band as a third guitarist (and singer) who also shaped the band's style. Peter Green sought relief, as the success of the band rested on his shoulders and Jeremy Spencer could not support him compositionally. In September 1969 a double album Fleetwood Mac was recorded in Chicago in Chicago in the form of session recordings ( Blues Jam At Chess ) together with some well-known Afro-American blues musicians such as Otis Spann , Buddy Guy and Willie Dixon as well as Walter "Shakey" Horton and released in December of the same year .
Single successes, gradual departure from the blues
In between the band released several very successful singles that moved further and further away from the blues:
- Black Magic Woman (February 1968) - a piece that became a huge success worldwide thanks to Santana .
- Need your love so bad (August 1968) - a blues-like ballad that also used strings.
- Albatross (November 1968), a guitar-heavy instrumental piece by Peter Green, became the group's first number one hit.
- Man Of The World (January 1969), a kind of self-description of Peter Green's inner troubles, also a number two hit in England.
- Oh Well (September 1969), the short version of the version of the album Then Play On , was also a successful single as another number one hit
- The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown) (May 1970)
With the album Then Play On - the last with Peter Green - from September 1969, the band finally broke away from the blues and went more in the direction of progressive rock and ballad-like rock music. Jeremy Spencer had only a small part in this album.
Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer leave
In 1969, Fleetwood Mac sold more records than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. However, the weariness of the way the modern music business and the media work led Peter Green to question his actions and his considerable income. Green's proposal to use the royalties charitable, rejected the other band members. The excessive use of LSD and other drugs made Green increasingly nervous and unreliable. At the end of a still successful tour through Europe in 1970, Peter Green disappeared for a few days on a farm belonging to Rainer Langhans and Uschi Obermaier's Highfish community near Munich, where he was allegedly under the influence of drugs. Green then left the band, gave up music, became addicted to drugs and sought salvation in religious experiences. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia during this period of personal confusion, and possibly also from excessive substance abuse . Peter Green retired completely from the music business for a few years and sold his famous Gibson Les Paul guitar to his friend and admirer Gary Moore for a relatively low price .
Jeremy Spencer also left the band abruptly in 1971 on a US tour by simply disappearing and becoming a member of the Children of God sect . Peter Green was on stage again with Fleetwood Mac as a replacement for Jeremy Spencer. Danny Kirwan was released from the band in 1972 due to his alcohol addiction and other mental health problems and later slipped into years of homelessness.
With the LP Future Games, the band released a work in the USA as early as 1971 that was created entirely without Peter Green and without Jeremy Spencer. New contributors to the band were Christine McVie and Bob Welch. The LP represents the transition to the new Fleetwood Mac.
Band history part 2: Fleetwood Mac as a pop-rock band
After Peter Green's departure in 1970, the blues orientation of the band took a back seat; the music evolved into mainstream rock and pop music. The band went through a number of personnel changes. Members were the former Chicken Shack singer Christine McVie , who had married John McVie in England during Mac's blues days, as well as the guitarists Bob Welch and Bob Weston . 1974 Bob Welch left the band and Lindsey Buckingham was hired as the new guitarist . He brought his girlfriend Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks with him as a singer and composer. The couple had previously released an album together under the name Buckingham Nicks.
In 1975 the album Fleetwood Mac was released , which sold very well. Rumors followed in 1977 and sold more than 19 million times in the US alone. It is considered one of the most successful albums in music history. Rumors is considered to be the band's "crisis album", as it came to a break between the alcoholic John McVie and his wife Christine on one side and Stevie Nicks split from her boyfriend at the time, Lindsey Buckingham - according to a rumor in favor of Mick Fleetwood, as he himself later confirmed in interviews. The lyrics of several songs on the album were written against the background of the musicians' personal crises. In 1979 the album Tusk , recorded in their home studio, was released , on which the band released country-heavy ballads and rock'n'roll songs with reduced arrangements . Tusk is still highly valued by critics to this day, although it was less commercially successful than its predecessor. The American indie rock band Camper Van Beethoven even covered the entire album.
Although Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie also pursued solo careers from now on, the band line-up initially remained. The 1982 album Mirage was followed by Tango in the Night in 1987 , which sold almost as well as rumors and from which six singles were released. Before the tour that followed, Buckingham left the band. Billy Burnette and Rick Vito came on as guitarists. In the 1990s there were some reunions of the cast Buckingham / Nicks / McVie (s) / Fleetwood, e.g. B. recorded the song Don't Stop , which Bill Clinton made the anthem of his election campaign. The last one took place in 1997; it was a reunion concert in Burbank , California , organized by the Warner Music Group as the parent company of the band's current label, and a subsequent tour of North America. These concerts were the last official concerts of the band together with Christine McVie until autumn 2014. In 1998 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
In 2002 John McVie, Fleetwood, Buckingham and Nicks found themselves back together in the studio and recorded the album Say You Will , which was released in April 2003 . This was followed by a tour of Europe and the USA . The song Peacekeeper , the first single released, appeared in two different versions: On the album, at concerts and on the European singles, a line of text reads ... take no prisoners, only kill , while on the US single in ... take no prisoners, break their will has been changed. From 2009 onwards, the band toured the world together again on their "Unleashed" tour with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The first songs of an announced studio album were played on the 2013 tour, including Without You , which was composed in 1974 but never released. After she had twice been a guest at Fleetwood Mac performances in the fall of 2013 , it was announced in early 2014 that Christine McVie had rejoined the band. In the classic line-up of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, the band began a North American tour on September 30, 2014. On June 14, 2015, the band headlined the Isle of Wight Festival .
In April 2018, it was announced that Lindsey Buckingham had left the group because of disputes over a planned tour. Buckingham himself later stated that Nicks had stated that if he did not leave the group, they would. In his place, Mike Campbell and Neil Finn joined the band and went on a world tour with the rest of the musicians.
Band line-ups from 1968
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, comments, cast) |
Remarks | occupation | ||||
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| 1968 | Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac | - | - | - |
UK4 (37 weeks) UK |
US198 (3 weeks) US |
First published: February 24, 1968
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Fleetwood, Green, J. McVie, Spencer |
| Mr. Wonderful | - | - | - |
UK10 (11 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: August 23, 1968
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Fleetwood, Green, J. McVie, Spencer | |
| 1969 | Then play on | - | - | - |
UK6 (11 weeks) UK |
US109 (22 weeks) US |
First published: September 19, 1969
|
Fleetwood, Green, Kirwan, J. McVie, Spencer |
| 1970 | Kiln House | - | - | - |
UK39 (2 weeks) UK |
US69 (14 weeks) US |
First published: September 18, 1970
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Fleetwood, Kirwan, J. McVie, Spencer |
| 1971 | Future Games | - | - | - | - |
US91  (12 weeks)US |
First published: September 3, 1971
Sales: + 500,000 |
Fleetwood, Kirwan, J. McVie, C. McVie, Welch |
| 1972 | Bare trees | - | - | - | - |
US70  (27 weeks)US |
First published: March 1972
Sales: + 1,000,000 |
Fleetwood, Kirwan, J. McVie, C. McVie, Welch |
| 1973 | Penguin | - | - | - | - |
US49 (13 weeks) US |
First published: March 1973
|
Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Walker, Welch, Weston |
| Mystery to Me | - | - | - | - |
US67 (26 weeks)US |
First published: October 15, 1973
Sales: + 500,000 |
Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Welch, Weston | |
| 1974 | Heroes Are Hard to Find | - | - | - | - |
US34 (26 weeks) US |
First published: September 13, 1974
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Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Welch |
| 1975 | Fleetwood Mac |
DE47 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK23 (19 weeks)UK |
US1 × 7
(168 weeks)US |
Buckingham, Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Nicks | |
| 1977 | Rumors |
DE6th × 5
(48 weeks)DE |
AT25 (1 month) AT |
CH79 (1 week) CH |
UK1 × 14
(… Where.)UK |
US1  × 2
(… Where.)US |
First published: Feb. 4, 1977
Sales: + 40,000,000 RS # 25 ; Grammy 1979 / Grammy Hall of Fame chart entry in CH only 2013 |
Buckingham, Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Nicks |
| 1979 | Tusk |
DE3 (48 weeks)DE |
AT4 (4 months) AT |
- |
UK1 (27 weeks)UK |
US4th × 2
(37 weeks)US |
First published: October 12, 1979
Sales: + 2,765,000 |
Buckingham, Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Nicks |
| 1982 | Mirage |
DE12 (28 weeks)DE |
- |
CH91 (1 week) CH |
UK5 (39 weeks)UK |
US1 × 2
(45 weeks)US |
First published: June 18, 1982
Sales: + 2,700,000 chart entry in CH only in 2016 |
Buckingham, Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Nicks |
| 1987 | Tango in the Night |
DE2 × 2
(78 weeks)DE |
AT23 (½ month) AT |
CH7 (22 weeks) CH |
UK1 × 8
(123 weeks)UK |
US7th × 3
(57 weeks)US |
First published: April 13, 1987
Sales: + 7,455,000 |
Buckingham, Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Nicks |
| 1990 | Behind the mask |
DE4th (24 weeks)DE |
AT19 (7 weeks) AT |
CH9 (12 weeks) CH |
UK1 (21 weeks)UK |
US18th (19 weeks)US |
First published: April 10, 1990
Sales: +1,160,000 |
Burnette, Fleetwood, J. McVie, C. McVie, Nicks, Vito |
| 1995 | Time |
DE92 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK47 (1 week) UK |
- |
First published: October 10, 1995
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Bramlett, Burnette, Fleetwood, Mason, J. McVie, C. McVie |
| 2003 | Say you will |
DE10 (12 weeks) DE |
- |
CH51 (5 weeks) CH |
UK6th (8 weeks)UK |
US3 (23 weeks)US |
First published: April 15, 2003
Sales: +657,500 |
Buckingham, Fleetwood, J. McVie, Nicks |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
gallery
Danny Kirwan, 1970
Jeremy Spencer, 1970
John McVie, 1970
Mick Fleetwood, 1970
Peter Green, 1970
Stevie Nicks, 1980
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literature
- Mick Fleetwood, Stephen Davis: My Life with Fleetwood Mac. Moewig, Rastatt 1991, ISBN 3-8118-3075-9 .
Web links
- Official website
- Fleetwood Mac at Discogs (English)
- Fleetwood Mac at laut.de
- Fleetwood Mac at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Peter Green
- ↑ Fleetwood Mac "My heart beat like a hammer" In: YouTube , September 22, 2008.
- ↑ See Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Gerig Music, ISBN 3-87252-249-3 , pp. 40-45 ( Oh Well ).
- ^ Peter Green - The Munich LSD Party Incident. In: YouTube , August 12, 2012.
- ^ Dave Swanson: When Peter Green Was Arrested for Pulling Gun on His Accountant. In: ultimateclassicrock.com , January 26, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Christopher Scapelliti: The Deep Secret Behind Peter Green's “Magic” 1959 Les Paul Tone. In: guitarworld.com , October 29, 2018 (English).
- ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Gerig Music, ISBN 3-87252-249-3 , p. 41.
- ↑ Random Videos 1987: Fleetwood Mac Biography. November 24, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Jordan Runtagh: Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumors': 10 Things You Didn't Know. In: Rolling Stone , February 3, 2017.
- ↑ among other things on the DVD The Mick Fleetwood Story
- ↑ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Fleetwood Mac in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- ↑ Keith Caulfield: Christine McVie Rejoins Fleetwood Mac. In: Billboard , January 13, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Patrick Smith: Isle of Wight Festival 2015: Fleetwood Mac, Paolo Nutini, review: 'the best Isle of Wight in years' In: The Telegraph , June 14, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Tim Jonze: Fleetwood Mac to headline Isle of Wight festival 2015 In: The Guardian , December 1, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Fleetwood Mac separates from guitarist Buckingham. In: Courier . April 10, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Fleetwood Mac Expanding 'Rumors' for 35th Anniversary. In: RollingStone. December 12, 2012, accessed December 9, 2016 .
- ^ Grammy Hall of Fame