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Review by Bud Scoppa, Circus, November 1975
FROM LISTENING to Fleetwood Mac, you'd think this once-definitive British blues band was a Southern California pop group – and you'd be right. The three ...
Fleetwood Mac: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 28 June 1980
CROWDS, HOWEVER passive, make me unhappy. As Eli Wallach said on TV (The Magnificent Seven) last Sunday afternoon, "If God didn't want them to be ...
Stevie Nicks: Confessions Of A Rock Chick
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 21 November 2003
CURLED UP on the sofa at Fleetwood Mac's Los Angeles rehearsal studios, Stevie Nicks looks every inch the ageing rock chick survivor. At her feet ...
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Interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages audio, March 1977
Mick Fleetwood takes us through a history of the band from 'Albatross' on, and is joined by Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham to talk about the Fleetwood Mac and Rumours albums.
File format: mp3; file size: 29.8mb, interview length: 32' 33" sound quality: ****
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, April 1990
The Fleetwood Mac drummer tells the whole story, from forming the band with Peter Green in 1967 to Behind the Mask in 1990: his close relationship with Green, and Green's departure; the Brit blues scene; taking acid with the Grateful Dead; the rocky early '70s and Bob Welch; Jeremy Spencer and the Children of God; hooking up with Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks; the huge success and attendant excess...
File format: mp3; file size: 146.6mb, interview length: 2h 32' 42" sound quality: **½
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, November 1995
The veteran drummer assesses the career of Fleetwood Mac, looking at key songs from their career from 'Oh Well' to 'Tusk'
File format: mp3 File size: 43.7mb Interview length: 47 minutes 46 seconds Sound quality: ****
Interview by Bill DeMain, Rock's Backpages audio, 3 March 2003
The Mac frontwoman talks about writing songs for their latest album, Say You Will; how 'Illume (9-11)' was the result of the twin towers attack; on her songwriting process and how she uses her journals; the volatility of the band and her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham; her friendships with Sheryl Crow and the Dixie Chicks, and she ends by going back to her first musical experiences.
File format: mp3; file size: 70.1mb, interview length: 1h 12' 58" sound quality: ***
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, April 2003
Mick Fleetwood on getting it on with Stevie Nicks, his place in the band and cocaine; Stevie Nicks on her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, dud boob jobs, songwriting and cocaine.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 64.6mb, total interview length: 1h 10' 38" sound quality: ****
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages audio, 29 June 2011
The sometimes Mac man talks about his latest solo album, Seeds We Sow, and his solo career in general. He also talks about Fleetwood Mac, past and present: making Tusk rather than Rumours II; Rumours and all that surrounded it, and his relationship with Stevie Nicks. He also looks back on their pre-Mac project, Buckingham Nicks, and the ongoing relationship with the band versus his solo life.
File format: mp3; file size: 59.6mb, interview length: 1h 02' 02" sound quality: *****
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Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green – The Guitarist Who Won't Forsake The Blues
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 19 August 1967
ANYONE WHO in a year has built up the reputation of being Britain's best blues guitarist, must have some interesting things to say, and therefore ...
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, September 1967
THERE'S A dearth of purists in Britain. What's happened to them all, where have they got to? Most of them have "gone pop", leaving behind ...
Profile and Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 13 January 1968
THE EVER-growing acceptance of blues during the Sixties has decisively affected the direction in which the popular music business has travelled in country. On the ...
New Albums from Fleetwood Mac, Paul Butterfield, Captain Beefheart et al
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 24 February 1968
PETER GREEN'S FLEETWOOD MAC: Fleetwood Mac (Blue Horizon). One of the group events of last year for blues fans was the formation of the ex-Mayall guitarist Peter Green's ...
New Albums by John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison et al
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 2 March 1968
Staunch British blues fans will dig Mayall's Diary LP set ...
Fleetwood Mac: Rock'n'Blues Via Peter Green
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 9 March 1968
THE BIG BEAT BUG BITES BLUESMAN PETER ...
Fleetwood Mac: How to Upset the Blues Purists
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 March 1968
AMONG BRITAIN'S young blues fans Eric Clapton was once hailed as a god, then discarded by the ethnics when he left John Mayall's Bluesbreakers for ...
Fleetwood Mac: Mr. Wonderful (Blue Horizon 7-63205)
Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 31 August 1968
WONDERFUL FLEETWOOD MAC ...
Mayall Helps Mac Break Into Singles
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 September 1968
ACE BLUESMAN John Mayall went to a concert given by super ace bluesman B.B. King in America, took a tape recording of it and later ...
A Perfect Marriage: Christine Of Chicken Shack And John Of Fleetwood Fame
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 18 January 1969
BLONDE, GRITTY Christine Perfect not only bears the distinction of being lead singer of the famed Chicken Shack blues band, but is also married to ...
Top of the chart Fleetwood Mac act as a backing group!
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 8 February 1969
WHICH TOP British group acted as a backing group for another artist while their own record was number one? ...
Fleetwood Mac: Sold Out? Gerroff!
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 1 March 1969
PETER GREEN defends Fleetwood Mac ...
B.B. King, Fleetwood Mac, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Duster Bennett: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 3 May 1969
B.B. KING SPELLS OUT THE BLUES ...
Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 21 October 1969
MEETING JANIS Joplin a few months ago, before her Albert Hall concert, I was staggered to feel how nervous she was. Then she explained. She ...
Fleetwood Mac: Then Play On (Reprise)
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 13 December 1969
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac: Falling Victim To An Epidemic
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 6 June 1970
GROUP SPLITS have become the foot-and-mouth disease of pop. And this year the splits have become almost endemic with British bands. ...
Fleetwood Mac: Kiln House (Reprise)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 13 December 1970
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 ...
Interview by Rick McGrath, The Georgia Straight, 18 April 1971
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac, Tea and Symphony: Kinetic Circus, Birmingham
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 12 June 1971
LESSER BANDS might have given up the struggle to survive after going through so many setbacks, so close to each other, but not Fleetwood Mac. ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Rolling Stone, 9 December 1971
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. ...
Savoy Brown/Fleetwood Mac/Long John Baldry: University of New Haven, Connecticut
Live Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, May 1972
ASHMUN & REYNOLDS, two singers (one of whom also plays bass) with the Baldry band, opened the show with a couple of numbers of their ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 8 June 1972
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac: Bare Trees (Reprise)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 24 June 1972
The Fleetwood formula ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 5 August 1972
PETE GREEN'S in Israel. Jeremy Spencer is making cassettes of devotional songs and recruiting the wayward and lonely for The Children Of God and Fleetwood ...
Fleetwood Mac: The Fleetwood Mac of Today
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 16 June 1973
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac: New Singer and A New Sound
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 13 January 1974
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac Flak: Manager Takes Name, Not Members, On Tour
Report by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 28 February 1974
And then there were none... ...
Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (Reprise K 54043, 42.12)
Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 16 August 1975
IT'S A BIT difficult to decide just what Fleetwood Mac are up to on this album. They've never been the easiest of groups to categorise. ...
Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (Reprise)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, September 1975
If you’re one of those people like me who lost track of Fleetwood Mac in the post-Peter Green haze of erratic albums and perpetual personnel ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 25 September 1975
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (Reprise)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 September 1975
Have the Mac lost the knack of attack? ...
Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (Reprise MS 2225)
Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, November 1975
1972'S BARE Trees marked a turning point for drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie (the rhythm section that backed Mayall when Clapton was with ...
Fleetwood Mac: Mac Bounce Back
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 12 June 1976
THE LAST YEAR has brought Fleetwood Mac a platinum LP – Fleetwood Mac – their eighth album for Reprise records, from which two top ten ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 31 July 1976
THE YELLOW CAB has taken me just over half the distance down to 6565 Sunset Boulevard before I notice the driver look in his rearview ...
Fleetwood Mac: Universal Amphitheatre, L.A./Sunday Break II, Austin, Texas
Live Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, October 1976
FOR FLEETWOOD MAC success is in the bag, and the bag is soft-rock. Progressive MOR, MOR/progressive, whatever your preference, it's the new formula for wide-acceptance ...
Fleetwood Mac: John and Christine and Stevie and Lindsay and Mick…
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 30 October 1976
"DON'T TAKE your love away from me, don't you leave my heart in misery, if you go then I'll be blue, 'cos breaking up is ...
Report by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 5 February 1977
CHRIS SALEWICZ details the sad story of PETER GREEN, which last week culminated in a court-order committing him to mental hospital... ...
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner 56344)****
Review by Tim Lott, Sounds, 12 February 1977
Hack backs Mac ...
Fleetwood Mac (1977) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, March 1977
This is a transcription of John's audio interview with Fleetwood Mac. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1977
I'M CONVINCED there's gonna be heavy bidding on the movie rights to this story. A legendary but unstable British rock band emigrates to L.A., ...
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner Bros.)
Review by Fred Schruers, Circus, April 1977
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 ...
Lovesick Limeys + Amorous Americans = The Mac Factor
Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Sounds, 16 April 1977
But you don't want to read yet more about the romance and heartache that is Fleetwood Mac, do you? We thought not, so we asked ...
Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 21 April 1977
ROCK & ROLL HAS this bad habit of being unpredictable. You never can tell when a band will undergo that alchemic transmigration from lead to ...
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner Bros.)
Review by Stephen Demorest, Creem, May 1977
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', ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 8 May 1977
Downpour fails to dampen Day on the Green spirits ...
Fleetwood Mac: Carrying the Albatross
Profile and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1978
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac: Big Mac — Over 8 Million Sold
Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 12 January 1978
THERE IS nothing mysterious about Fleetwood Mac sweeping Rolling Stone's 1977 Readers' Poll. Rumours, the album that topped the charts for six months, has sold ...
Memoir by Al Aronowitz, Circus, 2 February 1978
EVERY TIME I hear a Fleetwood Mac cut on the radio, I find myself thinking they're friends of mine, and I don't even know them. ...
Case History No. 099: Bob Welch
Interview by Howie Klein, Creem, March 1978
FLEETWOOD MAC CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE ...
Fleetwood Mac, The Steve Miller Band: JFK Stadium, Philadelphia PA
Live Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1978
Fleetwood Mac clicks despite Nicks ...
Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (Warner Brothers)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
ALMOST EVERYONE, barring the inevitable elitist bores blinkered by their own super-hipness, seemed to have a soft spot for Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. In late '77, ...
Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (Warner Brothers Records 3350)
Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 October 1979
The Big Mac Tusk ...
Fleetwood Mac's Tusk and The Eagles' The Long Run
Review by Al Aronowitz, The Washington Post, 14 November 1979
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 ...
Fleetwood Mac: Capital Centre, Landover MD
Live Review by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 26 November 1979
Fleetwood Mac's Primal Rock Energy ...
Fleetwood Mac: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 1 December 1979
YOU ENTER the stream of bodies pouring through the portholes of Madison Square Garden. You get caught up in the tide. Into the awesome space ...
Fleetwood Mac: Tusk: From Shining Platinum To Dull Ivory
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, January 1980
WHITE ELEPHANT is more like it, heffalumping into the thick four-sided forest, stomping on moby grapes, swatting at the metaphysical graffiti carved into the tree ...
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 12 January 1980
MARK COOPER sinks his teeth in ...
Fleetwood Mac: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 12 January 1980
Tusk force ...
Fleetwood Mac: Can't Go Home Again
Profile and Interview by Chris Salewicz, Trouser Press, April 1980
OF COURSE, Fleetwood Mac is the American Dream. The band's success story is the stuff of which the mythology of modern day America is made: ...
Fleetwood Mac: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 28 June 1980
SAT IN THE Grand Tier South of Wembley Arena it's hard not to feel both a hardening and softening of the old cultural corpus. One's ...
Fleetwood Mac: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 3 October 1980
FLEETWOOD MAC, at the tail end of a long tour, performed a slightly edited version of their last Forum outings, but without enough tenacity or ...
The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac: Live
Review by Robot A. Hull, The Washington Post, 28 December 1980
LIVE ROCK ALBUMS, especially the pompous two-record variety, generally are an excuse for extended guitar work and prolonged drum solos. A marketing strategy and a ...
Essay by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1981
Washington I have no faith in politicians. I think musicians are full of shit, too, but music makes me feel better. Music makes me ...
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 19 March 1981
IT'S NOT FOR ROCK-POP YET ...
Fleetwood Mac: Stevie Nicks, Macramé Goddess
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, 1982
TO STEAL from Groucho Marx (after all we're talking nicks), the trouble with doing interviews is having to sit down next to someone you don't ...
Lindsey Buckingham: A Pop Renegade
Interview by David Gans, Record, April 1982
AS THE NEXT Fleetwood Mac album nears completion, Lindsey Buckingham is faced with divided interests. Much of the responsibility for the success or failure of ...
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 6 May 1982
Sandy Robertson finds out what's eating Christine McVie of FLEETWOOD MAC ...
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 17 July 1982
FORMULA, BEATS-per-minute, ahhh. Fleetwood Mac really do have a lot of honour for folks with such a pile of cash. Coming after this line-up's eponymous ...
Fleetwood Mac: Where's Stevie?
Interview by David Gans, Record, September 1982
FANTASY ISLAND, Ca. – On the kitchen table in Mick Fleetwood's Malibu mansion sits a model of the stage design for Fleetwood Mac's upcoming American ...
Report by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 25 September 1982
That Woz the Fest that Woz! Barney Hoskyns takes a bite of the rotten Apple and hangs his head in despair ...
Fleetwood Mac: Mirage (Warner Bros. 23607-1)
Review by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, October 1982
AFTER THE bold experimentation of Tusk, the seamless pop flow of the new Fleetwood Mac album sounds initially like a studied attempt to recycle the ...
Interview by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, October 1982
The current quintet's long-awaited fifth album may be its last with Ms. Nicks ...
Fleetwood Mac: Gypsies, Tramps or Thieves?
Profile and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, February 1983
ONE DAY SOON, there will be no more stuffed animals in the world. No stuffed koalas or pandas or ocelots or giraffes will remain for ...
Christine McVie: Egos Can Be Painless
Interview by Steven X Rea, High Fidelity, June 1984
Fleetwood Mac member and solo artist Christine McVie is confident when she says, "I'll leave the trailblazing to the teenagers." ...
Lindsey Buckingham, Lonely Guy
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 25 October 1984
Handsome millionaire rock star, 34, seeks soul mate for long-term relationship. Must be willing to relocate to LA. No drugs. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1987
"I WANT TO look eighteen or younger, right?" says Christine McVie, aged 42. "I know – an impossible task!" ...
Fleetwood Mac Return Without Leaving
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, September 1987
UP IN THE hills of Bel Air is Lindsey Buckingham's house, Lindsey Buckingham's croquet-perfect lawn, Lindsey Buckingham's pool, Lindsey Buckingham's radio-controlled toy submarine that's busted, ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 23 October 1987
Fleetwood Mac Swap Partners For Tango Tour ...
Fleetwood Mac: All Meat With The Big Macs
Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 13 May 1988
As Fleetwood Mac start a major tour Mark Cooper talks to Christine McVie about the band that refused to die ...
Does Keith Olsen really believe in this stuff, or what?
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, November 1988
IT'S EASY to sneer at the increasingly predictable formulas that sell records in the millions these days. What's hard is to actually believe in the ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, January 1989
A GREATEST HITS without 'Oh Well'? 'Man Of The World'? 'The Green Manalishi'? A Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits without, for goodness' sake, 'Albatross'?!? Apart from ...
Mick Fleetwood: The Ancient Tympanist…
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, May 1990
... and he stoppeth one of three. With a cautionary tale about a troupe of travelling musicians who, seeking their fortunes, embarked upon a journey ...
Going Their Own Way: Fleetwood Mac Finds a New Life Without Lindsey Buckingham
Report and Interview by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone (Australia), 14 June 1990
"IT WAS FRIGHTENING, because you don't know if it's going to work," says Stevie Nicks, recalling Lindsey Buckingham's departure from Fleetwood Mac in 1987. The ...
Mick Fleetwood: Silencing The Rumours
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Happening, January 1991
FLEETWOOD MAC has been around for more than twenty years, and for over half that time, has been one of the best-selling American rock & ...
Peter Green: Rarities, Two Greens Make A Blue and Tramp: Tramp
Review by Andy Gill, Q, May 1991
AS A RULE, old legends might best be left alone to gather mythic dust. ...
Lindsey Buckingham: Your Money or Your Wife!
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1992
It was a real-life adult farce: drinks and shrinks, drugs and deceit, marital breakdowns and "lifestyle-problems", lies and lunacy. Then Lindsey Buckingham quit Fleetwood Mac. ...
Peter Green: The End Of The Game
Retrospective by Harry Shapiro, Record Collector, August 1993
PETER GREEN'S decision in June 1967 to quit his role as lead guitarist with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers brought one era of British blues to an ...
Retrospective and Interview by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, May 1994
PETE MOODY Former bass player with The Grebbels – "We were support band to The Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy and Peter used to come along ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, July 1994
SINCE SHE FIRST EXPLODED ON THE ROCK SCENE IN 1975 AS THE SEDUCTIVE FOCAL POINT OF FLEETWOOD MAC, STEVIE NICKS HAS BEEN AS MUCH AN ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 4 March 1995
IF ANYONE remembers Fleetwood Mac's Tusk at all, it's as the surprise flop sequel to 1977 Rumours. A soft-rock masterpiece (gorgeous melodicism charged with the ...
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, December 1995
'Shake Your Moneymaker'From Fleetwood Mac LP 1968 (Blue Horizon) MY INEPTNESS TO do separate things at speed became my style of drumming. When it got ...
Interview by Cliff Jones, MOJO, September 1996
OUTSIDE IT'S RAINING, THE KIND OF slick, greasy rain you only get in cities. The atmosphere is oppressive. Inside the Brewer's Inn, Wandsworth – a ...
Profile by Johnny Black, MOJO, September 1996
IT'S MID-WINTER 1968. The five members of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac are huddled together, holding hands on the floor of the Gorham Hotel on West ...
Eyewitness: The Recording of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
Interview by Johnny Black, Q, May 1997
They were, it seemed, about to go their own ways, but first, troubled Fleetwood Mac had to finish off Rumours. To this end they needed ...
Fleetwood Mac: The Way We Were
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, September 1997
IT IS DEJA VU of the very strangest sort on this May night in Burbank, California. Thrilled to be at this invitation-only event, each and ...
Lindsey Buckingham: Back in Mac
Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar, October 1997
TO BORROW A lyric from our subject's song 'Go Insane', there are two kinds of Lindsey Buckinghams in this world. ...
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 October 1997
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM may be the least enthusiastic member of Fleetwood Mac, but his guitar playing and passionate vocals have been the anchors of the group's ...
Fleetwood Mac: Back In The Chain Gang
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 30 October 1997
Fleetwood Mac were the lovingest, fightingest, druggingest band of the '70s. Twenty years later, the psychodrama continues… ...
Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Mick Fleetwood's Internet About-Face
Interview by Charles Bermant, The Web, November 1997
"I WAS VERY wrong," says Mick Fleetwood, the drummer who, with John and Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks, crewed Fleetwood Mac, one of ...
Comment by Matt Hanks, Memphis Flyer, 12 November 1997
IN THE SUMMER of '95, Fleetwood Mac found themselves slogging across the country on a dismal rock-and-roll revival tour, sandwiched between (God help them) REO ...
Peter Green: The Man of the World Returns
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, July 1999
THERE IS A FILM from the late 1960s called The Hallucination Generation that purports to be, as the poster declared, the "Shocking Story of a ...
Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967-1969
Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, October 1999
They Flew the Flag for Homegrown R&B ...
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 18 April 2003
Mental illness, drug abuse, affairs, breakups - it's a miracle that Fleetwood Mac are still alive. But here they are with a Rumours-era lineup, and ...
Fleetwood Mac: Say You Will (Reprise)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2003
MORE THAN most bands, Fleetwood Mac elicit complex, unresolved feelings. On the one hand they're the ultimate mainstream soft-rock dinosaur, pass masters of glossy emotions ...
Fleetwood Mac: The Point, Dublin
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 23 November 2003
"IT'S BEEN a sometimes difficult, and always a strange trip," Lindsey Buckingham tells the people of Dublin in a rehearsed line which was surely scripted ...
Fleetwood Mac: Take it to the Limit
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2003
"GOD KNOWS all our lives are unimaginable without each other," mutters Mick Fleetwood, glancing speculatively from one old friend to another. It's a line you ...
Fleetwood Mac: Earls Court, London, Wednesday December 10, 2003
Live Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 2004
There's a hip young gunslinger of Uncut's acquaintance in the audience tonight who normally writes about futuristic electronic dance music for a well-known weekly music ...
Mike Ross-Trevor: "Are We Rolling?"
Interview by Paul Gorman, The Word, May 2004
In forty years of recording everyone from Dylan and Hendrix to Abba and Lena Zavaroni, a studio engineer sees a lot of strange things. ...
Fleetwood Mac: The Making of Then Play On
Retrospective and Interview by Toby Manning, unpublished, 2005
IN 1969, FLEETWOOD Mac's prime mover had begun acting very strangely. First of all this East End Jew found Jesus, and began trying to convert ...
Fleetwood Mac: What Happened Before All That Happened Later On…
Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, February 2005
THEY ARE Fleetwood Mac's forgotten years. Mick Fleetwood's Fleetwood autobiography dedicates just thirty pages to them, Peter Lewry's The Complete Recording Sessions turns ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, May 2005
Vital Statistics on Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' ...
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 25 February 2006
STEVIE NICKS – the fairy queen singer in Fleetwood Mac – is in a Melbourne hotel room ready to go off to another rehearsal. In ...
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, October 2006
This the complete interview with (ex-Fleetwood Mac) Jeremy Spencer. The edited version will be published by Blues Revue in October 2006 ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Q, May 2008
Stevie Nicks is the epitome of California rock excess. While in Fleetwood Mac, she sold millions and snorted half of Colombia. Solo, she sold millions ...
Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, December 2008
On the eve of a UK tour, Fleetwood Mac's "spiritual father"' Mick Fleetwood talks to Kris Needs about his new blues band and rediscovering his ...
Fleetwood Mac Unleashed: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham speak
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, February 2009
A FEW WEEKS ago in Los Angeles, the members of Fleetwood Mac – Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks – gathered together ...
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours Vinyl Icon
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, September 2009
RUMOURS WAS the eleventh album by Anglo-American rock giants Fleetwood Mac, one of an elite cadre of bands which not only survived the loss of ...
Fleetwood Mac: Manchester Arena
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 29 October 2009
"THIS BAND have a complex emotional history," begins guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, hinting at Fleetwood Mac's rollercoaster of bedhopping, cocaine, mental illness and religious cults, which ...
Overview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, March 2012
Because sometimes the only way musicians can actually talk to each other is by writing songs ...
Fleetwood Mac: Jones Beach Theater, New York
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages, June 2013
THE LAST TIME I saw a Fleetwood Mac concert was in 1979 on the heels of the last album of theirs that really mattered to ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blues, January 2014
PETER GREEN IS, arguably, the most underrated lead guitarist of the British mid-'60s blues boom, consistently relegated to a position somewhere below the holy triumverate ...
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, March 2014
British blues band Fleetwood Mac rose to fame on the strength of Peter Green's playing and writing. Their success as an Anglo-American AOR act is ...
Mike Vernon: Beyond the Blue Horizon
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Clayson, unpublished, 2015
If known chiefly as a blues paladin, Mike Vernon plunged headfirst into many other – often unexpected – musical waters. Alan Clayson investigates. ...
Fleetwood Mac: We Want To Be Together
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, July 2015
IT SHOULDN'T WORK, but it does: the drummer fractionally behind the beat and the bass slightly ahead. For close to 50 years, Mick Fleetwood and ...
Eye Witness: Fleetwood Mac Start Work On The Follow-Up To Rumours
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, October 2015
After a huge world tour and a two-month break, Fleetwood Mac reconvene in an expensively-customised L.A. studio to make the follow-up to the biggest selling ...
see also Lindsey Buckingham
see also Peter Green
see also Stevie Nicks
see also Christine Perfect/McVie
see also Bob Welch
see also Christine McVie
see also Mick Fleetwood
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