Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos
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Fleetwood Mac's distinctive sound, first really captured in the 1977 record Rumours, launched the group into the commercial stratosphere, and over the past three decades they have never looked back. All along the way their dysfunctional relationships have informed their professional success, as well as their personal downfalls. By writing and singing about their problems, Fleetwood Mac has transformed what breaks them apart into what keeps them together. They have turned their dark relationship dilemmas into glittering entertainment. In this highly entertaining chronicle, author Donald Brackett provides readers with a special opportunity to review the band's complicated history and reconsider the personal, dynamic sources of their classic albums and enduring hits.The band drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie started in 1967 has gone through more personnel changes and stylistic innovations than any other pop group in our cultural history. The story of the group began when John Mayall and Alexis Korner, the band's mentors, launched a mid-'60s British blues revival. Ex-Mayall players Fleetwood and McVie then went on to form an incendiary band of psychedelic blues under the name Fleetwood Mac. But it was not until hearing a little-known 1973 record from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks that Mick Fleetwood heard the future sound and true pop potential of his own group. "Forty years after their inception in 1967, Brackett recounts the history of the band Fleetwood Mac, from their blues roots and the addition of Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks, to their albums Rumours and Tusk. He also critically assesses their contribution to rock music, addresses their relationships with each other and how this affected the band, and looks at specific albums and songs from each era."SciTech Book News
Introduction: Plugging in ixBritish Blues in the 1960s: The Musical Roots of Fleetwood Mac 1The Original Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac 21The Going of Green: Madness and Manalishi 47Rebirth: The Coming of Christine Perfect and Bob Welch 69Reincarnation: The Coming of Buckingham and Nicks 95The Rumours Are True: Arrival of the Blockbuster 117Tusk: Buckingham Takes Command 135Then Play On, Again: The Last Twenty-Seven Years 153Conclusion: Unplugged-Say You Might as Well 171Notes 175Index 183
