LONG AND EAGERLY AWAITED, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk comes as the most spectacular event in records since Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Less of an event is the release of The Long Run by the Eagles, who have...
Tusk, a long time in the making, is by and large a good four-sided pop record. It's no untarnished masterpiece, of course, but a highly adventurous gamble for much of its playing time, and certainly not just another...
FLEETWOOD MAC have returned to Britain, a decade after their song 'Albatross' set a new mood and mellow tone for the rock guitar. But that original psychedelic Fleetwood Mac are to the present group like cousins many...
A song-writing soprano with fragile vocal cords casts her sexy spell on rock Rock doesn’t need a Farrah Fawcett. It has Stevie Nicks. So what if Stevie insists “turning men on has never been my design...
It is a sad irony when someone with a special talent has the very medium of that talent endangered. A singer who struggles to keep her voice brings to mind the athlete with the trick knee, the musician with hearing...
Mick Fleetwood’s back home, but the rest of the Mac band are broken-household words. The Who locked up eternal life in Tin Pan Valhalla by creating the rock opera, with Tommy. The latest inductees, Fleetwood Mac...
SURE, THIS album deserves platinum status a much as the next Kiss LP, but frankly there's only one cut that really sends me – “Dreams,” written by Stevie Nicks. “Dreams” is a pulsing, soothing blanket of sound similar...
You could look it up. After 10 years and a like number of frequently boring albums (some great stuff in there, too), these penguin fanciers were starting to look like small beer. Meanwhile, Stevie Nicks was waiting...
The Long Hard Drive from British Blues to California Gold By Cameron Crowe Rolling Stone Thursday, March 24, 1977 (RS 235) Fuck it… Peter Green didn’t want his 30,000 [pounds] a year. The money was royalties...
CHRIS SALEWICZ details the sad story of PETER GREEN, which last week culminated in court-ordered mental health treatment APPEARING UNDER his real name of Peter Greenbaum, former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green (30)...
Rumours is Fleetwood Mac’s 11th studio album and the most popular and commercially successful recording in the band’s history. Release Reprise Records released Rumours on February 4, 1977. The album was a...
Big Mac: two all gold albums special songs let-ups cheesecake pickles divorce on a star-crossed success run.
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John Grissim / Crawdaddy (November 1976, Issue 66, p33-40. 8p)
Watch director Michael Collin’s Rosebud Film in its entirety. The film includes footage of Fleetwood Mac performing in concert at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in May 1976.
NOT ONLY IS Fleetwood Mac no longer blues oriented, it isn’t even really British: The two newest members, Lindsey Buckingham (guitar and vocals) and Stevie Nicks (vocals, acoustic guitar) are American, and all five...
NOT ONLY IS Fleetwood Mac no longer blues oriented, it isn’t even really British: The two newest members, Lindsey Buckingham (guitar and vocals) and Stevie Nicks (vocals, acoustic guitar) are American, and all five...
And then there were none… NEW YORK — When is a Fleetwood Mac not a Fleetwood Mac? Although there is a band called Fleetwood Mac currently in the midst of a two and a half month US tour, that question is puzzling...
New Fleetwood Mac singer Dave Walker says his move to the group from Savoy Brown has given him a feeling of liberation. He claims it means not being TOLD how to sing. When I spoke to Walker recently he was full of...
FLEETWOOD MAC have been through a lot of changes since the club days. What began as a straight blues band has progressed into new musical areas; a lot of metamorphoses have gone down and Mick Fleetwood has seen them all...
Fleetwood Mac’s last two records, Kiln House and Future Games, have between them provided me with perhaps a hundred hours of enjoyment. And that’s the ultimate test of a record’s worth. Personally, I...
Savoy Brown / Fleetwood Mac / Long John Baldry: University of New Haven, Connecticut, March 22, 1972 Ashmun & Reynolds, two singers (one of whom also plays bass) with the Baldry band, opened the show with a couple...
Back in the Bar-Mitzvah days of the drug culture the British music scene was shaken by what came to be known as The Blues Boom. Beginning with a small corps of dedicated musicians in the early Sixties, blues bands...
I remember this interview very well. We were at The Bayshore Hotel, and the interview was with Jeremy Spencer and Mick Fleetwood. John McVie and Christine Perfect were missing….shopping, I think. Christine had...
An echo-chambered “This Is The Rock” starts off Kiln House, Fleetwood Mac’s latest album, setting the stage for one of the strangest albums this group has ever given us. Known initially as a blues...
Group splits have become the foot-and-mouth disease of pop. And this year the splits have become almost endemic with British bands. The raging epidemic has destroyed many fine bands – Joe Cocker’s Grease Band, the...
Hard work is not always rewarded, as Christine Perfect is unfortunately finding out. Since leaving Chicken Shack to spend more time with her husband, Fleetwood Mac’s John McVie, then forming her own band and...
Nowadays Fleetwood Mac is stepping out on its own. Tired of being another British blues band, the group has said goodbye to Elmore James and is moving into the pop-rock field. On this album, they fall flat on their...
B.B. King, Fleetwood Mac, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Duster Bennett: Royal Albert Hall, London B.B. King spelled out the blues for a large, rapturous crowd at London’s Royal Albert Hall last week. It was at...
Peter Green defends Fleetwood Mac While Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac played to enthusiastic Stateside audiences, British blues fans accused the group of deserting the music that made them. “Oh! How could you...