Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London. Due to numerous line-up changes, the only original member present in the band is its namesake, drummer Mick Fleetwood. Although band founder Peter Green named the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood, McVie) from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist John McVie played neither on their first single nor at their first concerts, as he initially decided to stay with Mayall. The keyboardist, Christine McVie, who joined the band in 1970 while married to John McVie, appeared on all but the debut album, either as a member or as a session musician. She also supplied the artwork for the album Kiln House.

The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with "Albatross"; and from 1975 to 1987, as a more pop oriented act, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Buckingham and Nicks, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams"), and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the 4th highest selling album of all time.... (Read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
Fleetwood Mac played their first gig on 13 August 1967, when Peel's career on Radio London was about to end with the station closing down on the following day. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' LP A Hard Road, featuring Peter Green on lead guitar, had been among the albums featured regularly on the Perfumed Garden, so it was no surprise that Peel showed interest in the guitarist's new band. Their first two Top Gear sessions, first broadcast on 12 November 1967 and 21 January 1968 respectively, pre-dated the release of their first LP, Fleetwood Mac, in February 1968, and exposure on Peel's shows may have contributed to the surprisingly big chart success it achieved. The band's style at this time was a mixture of Chicago blues and 1950s rock'n'roll, very much in line with Peel's own musical tastes, and they did four more sessions for Top Gear in 1968-69. When Fleetwood Mac's style changed, and the band went through a succession of personnel changes, Peel continued to play their records, although less frequently, and there were three further sessions by them in 1970-71.

After that, the band began to concentrate more on America, a country in which the original, Peter Green-led band had failed to repeat their big UK commercial success. Eventually, after adding Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to their line-up, they became one of the most successful acts of their era, Peel had little affection for this incarnation of the band, however, and during the period of the "punk wars" they were heavily criticised for being everything that the new generation did not want to be - although such comments had little effect on their record sales.

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