Fleetwood mac albums rumours playlist full#
The group took full advantage of the open budget afforded by their record contract by decamping to the hippie influenced town of Sausalito, California and immerse themselves in a deluge of excesses. The McVie’s marriage was in its death throes with the pair refusing to speak to each other, while Buckingham and Nicks’ relationship too had ended while Fletwood was in divorce proceedings. In the embryonic years of their seminal album Rumours, new found wealth, promiscuity and rampant substance abuse were poured into their songwriting exploits.
The next few years came to define Fleetwood Mac in the public consciousness. The 1975 album Fleetwood Mac brought them widespread commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic through hits such as ‘Over My Head’ and ‘Rhiannon’. This formation of the ‘classic’ Fleetwood Mac was driven by the complimentary song-writing skills of Christine McVie, Buckingham and Nicks. In 1975 the band’s trajectory changed forever with the inclusion of the romantically involved Americans, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks.
During this period John McVie’s wife Christine started to fill in on keyboard and eventually joined as a fulltime member. Over the next five years membership in the band was transient, though the constants were Fleetwood and McVie. After a string of laid back blues hits in the UK in the late 60’s (including the UK#1 hit ‘Albatross’, ‘Black Magic Woman’ and ‘Need Your Love So Bad’), Green left the band and they drifted into relative obscurity. Originally incarnated as a blues band under the leadership of guitarist Peter Green, their name was derived from those of its drummer, Mick Fleetwood, and bass player, John McVie. Fleetwood Mac formed in the incredible cauldron of musical creativity that was London, 1967.
0 kommentar(er)
