Proof that, even as the band foundered commercially, artistically the Bob Welch era wasn't always the barren netherworld of popular myth. His finest Mac moment was the jazzy, noir-esque Hypnotized, featuring Christine McVie's ghostly harmonies over Welch's dreamy vocal. Guitarist Bob Welch is a significant figure in Fleetwood Mac's history, replacing the departed Peter Green in 1971.
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Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up Nicks stood at the crossroads of her life and poured all her doubts and fears into one cathartic song.ĭaily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter When she wrote this emotional and reflective ballad the previous year, the duo's sole album had bombed and their relationship was failing. On joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, Buckingham and Nicks brought several songs with them, including Landslide, one of Nicks' most personal songs. This compilation goes all the way back to Peter Green's blues-based Mac in 1967, with a couple of entries from the band's "lost" years in the first half of the Seventies, reminding us that Fleetwood Mac were successful long before they morphed into laid-back West Coast soft rockers. The NME, in a recent feature, concentrated solely on the Buckingham/Stevie Nicks post-1975 years for their greatest 20 Fleetwood Mac songs, as if the band hadn't existed before, even if it was in a radically different guise. The band have just crossed the Atlantic to play three gigs as part of their latest world tour, having played the RDS in Dublin on Thursday and with two Wembley gigs tomorrow and Tuesday.
And, following the recent firing of Lindsey Buckingham and with new members Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn from Crowded House on board, it's just one more chapter in the stranger-than-fiction career of Fleetwood Mac. Their story has been described as the ultimate rock soap opera.
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