Artist: Fleetwood Mac Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Rock
Other
Blues
Pop
Rock: Blues
Discography:
Rumours (CD 2) Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Rumours (CD 1) Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Say You Will Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Very Best of Fleetwood Mac Year: 2002
Tracks: 21
The Dance Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Time Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Live At The Bbc Cd2 Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Live At The Bbc Cd1 Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Madison Blues Live Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Behind the Mask Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
Greatest Hits Year: 1988
Tracks: 16
Fleetwood Mac : The Greatest Hits Year: 1988
Tracks: 16
Tango in the Night Year: 1987
Tracks: 12
Mirage Year: 1982
Tracks: 12
Tusk Year: 1979
Tracks: 20
Rumours Year: 1977
Tracks: 11
Fleetwood Mac Year: 1975
Tracks: 11
Heroes Are Hard to Find Year: 1974
Tracks: 11
Penguin Year: 1973
Tracks: 9
Mystery to Me Year: 1973
Tracks: 12
Bare Trees Year: 1972
Tracks: 10
Future Games Year: 1971
Tracks: 8
Kiln House Year: 1970
Tracks: 10
Then Play On Year: 1969
Tracks: 13
Shrine '69 Year: 1969
Tracks: 10
Pious Bird Of Good Omen Year: 1969
Tracks: 6
English Rose Year: 1969
Tracks: 12
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Year: 1968
Tracks: 12
Mr Wonderful Year: 1968
Tracks: 12
Live in London 1968 Year: 1968
Tracks: 10
The blus collection Year:
Tracks: 12
While most bands undergo a turn of changes all over the course of instruction of their careers, few groups experient such chemical group stylistic changes as Fleetwood Mac. Initially conceived as a hard-edged British blues jazz group in the late '60s, the band step by step evolved into a polished pop/rock move over the course of instruction of a decade. Throughout all of their incarnations, the only consistent members of Fleetwood Mac were drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie -- the rhythm method of birth control section that provided the band with its appoint. Ironically, they had the least influence o'er the musical direction of the striation. Originally, guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer provided the circle with its plucky, neo-psychedelic blues-rock sound, but as both guitarists descended into mental unwellness, the radical began moving toward pop/rock with the songwriting of pianist Christine McVie. By the mid-'70s, Fleetwood Mac had resettled to California, where they added the indulgent rock couple of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to their batting order. Obsessed with the meticulously ordered pop of the Beach Boys and the Beatles, Buckingham helped the circle go one of the most popular groups of the later '70s. Combining indulgent rock with the confessional self-examination of singer/songwriters, Fleetwood Mac created a slick merely emotional good that helped 1977's
Rumours become one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. The circle maintained its popularity through the early '80s, when Buckingham, Nicks, and Christine McVie all began pursuing solo careers. The circle reunited for one record album, 1987's
Tango in the Night, before chipping in the late '80s. Buckingham left the grouping ab initio, but the band decided to soldier on, releasing one other album before Nicks and McVie left the banding in the early '90s, hastening the group's commercial decline.
The roots of Fleetwood Mac lie in John Mayall's legendary British blues outfit, the Bluesbreakers. Bassist John McVie was one of the lease members of the Bluesbreakers, joining the grouping in 1963. In 1966 Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton, and a year later drummer Mick Fleetwood united. Inspired by the success of Cream, the Yardbirds, and Jimi Hendrix, the threesome decided to break away from Mayall in 1967. At their debut at the British Jazz and Blues Festival in August, Bob Brunning was playing bass in the grouping, since McVie was noneffervescent under contract to Mayall. He united the banding a few weeks after their debut; by that time, slide guitar player Jeremy Spencer had united the banding. Fleetwood Mac shortly signed with Blue Horizon, releasing their eponymic debut the following class.
Fleetwood Mac was an tremendous remove in the U.K., disbursement over a yr in the Top Ten. Despite its British success, the record album was virtually unheeded in America. During 1968, the circle added guitar player Danny Kirwan. The undermentioned twelvemonth, they recorded
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago with a variety of bluesmen, including Willie Dixon and Otis Spann. The set was released later that year, after the dance orchestra had left Blue Horizon for a one-album deal with Immediate Records; in the U.S., they signed with Reprise/Warner Bros., and by 1970, Warner began cathartic the band's British records as well.
Fleetwood Mac released
English Rose and
Then Play On during 1969, which both indicated that the ring was expanding its music, moving aside from its blues purist roots. That class, Green's "Man of the World" and "Oh Well" were number 2 hits. Though his music was providing the backbone of the radical, Peter Green was growing increasingly maladjusted referable to his large consumption of hallucinogenic drugs. After announcing that he was preparation to give all of his wage aside, Green on the spur of the moment left the circle in the spring of 1970; he released two solo albums over the line of the '70s, only he rarely performed later on leaving Fleetwood Mac. The band replaced him with Christine Perfect, a vocalist/pianist world Health Organization had earned a small merely firm following in the U.K. by singing with Spencer Davis and the Chicken Shack. She had already performed uncredited on
Then Play On. Contractual difficulties prevented her from becoming a fully fledged appendage of Fleetwood Mac until 1971; by that time she had married John McVie.
Christine McVie didn't appear on 1970's
Kiln House, the low gear record album the circle recorded without Peter Green. For that album, Jeremy Spencer dominated the band's musical direction, merely he had too been undergoing mental problems due to heavy do drugs use. During the band's American duty tour in early 1971, Spencer disappeared; it was later ascertained that he left hand the band to join the religious cult the Children of God. Fleetwood Mac had already been trying to square off the way of their music, just Spencer's exit sent the circle into disorderliness. Christine McVie and Danny Kirwan began to act the ring towards mainstream john Rock on 1971's
Succeeding Games, but unexampled guitar player Bob Welch exerted a lumbering influence on 1972's
Bare Trees. Kirwan was pink-slipped afterward
Bare Trees and was replaced by guitarists Bob Weston and Dave Walker, world Health Organization appeared on 1973's
Penguin. Walker left afterward that record album, and Weston departed afterward making its followup,
Mystery to Me (1973). In 1974, the group's manager, Clifford Davis, formed a phoney Fleetwood Mac and had the band spell the U.S. The veridical Fleetwood Mac filed and north Korean won a cause against the imposters -- later losing, they began performing under the diagnose Stretch -- but the cause kept the band off the road for to the highest degree of the year. In the meanwhile, they released
Heroes Are Hard to Find. Late in 1974, Fleetwood Mac stirred to California, with hopes of restarting their career. Welch left the ring short after the move to mannikin Paris.
Early in 1975, Fleetwood and McVie were auditioning engineers for the band's new record album when they heard
Buckingham-Nicks, an album recorded by the indulgent rock'n'roll duo Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. The twin were asked to join the radical and their addition revived the band's musical and commercial fortunes. Not only did Buckingham and Nicks write songs, only they brought typical talents the band had been wanting. Buckingham was a skilled pop crafter, up to of transcription a commercial song patch guardianship it musically adventuresome. Nicks had a hoarse voice and a sexy, flower child romany stage image that gave the band a magnetic frontwoman. The new lineup of Fleetwood Mac released their eponymic debut in 1975 and it slowly became a vast hit, reaching number one in 1976 on the persuasiveness of the singles "Over My Head," "Rhiannon," and "Say You Love Me." The record album would finally sell over v one thousand thousand copies in the U.S. only.
While Fleetwood Mac had eventually attained their long-desired commercial success, the band was fraying apart slow the scenes. The McVies divorced in 1976, and Buckingham and Nicks' romance all over shortly after. The internal tensions formed the fundament for the songs on their following album,
Rumours. Released in the springtime of 1977,
Rumours became a megahit success, topping the American and British charts and generating the Top Ten singles "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," "Don't Stop," and "You Make Loving Fun." It would eventually sell over 17 jillion copies in the U.S. only, fashioning it the arcsecond biggest-selling album of all time. Fleetwood Mac supported the album with an exhaustive, moneymaking tour and then retired to the studio apartment to criminal record their follow-up to
Rumours. A wildly experimental dual album conceived for the most part by Buckingham, 1979's
Tusk didn't double the tremendous success of
Rumours, yet it did go multi-platinum and featured the Top Ten singles "Sara" and "Tusk." In 1980, they released the double-album
Live.
Following the
Tusk tour, Fleetwood, Buckingham, and Nicks all recorded solo albums. Of the solo projects, Stevie Nicks'
Bella Donna (1981) was the to the highest degree successful, peaking at number one and featuring the hit singles "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Leather and Lace," and "Border of Seventeen." Buckingham's
Legal philosophy and Order (1981) was a lead achiever, spawning the Top Ten "Problem." Fleetwood, for his part, made a domain music album called
The Visitor. Fleetwood Mac reconvened in 1982 for
Mirage. More schematic and accessible than
Tusk,
Mirage reached number one and featured the hit singles "Hold Me" and "Gipsy."
After
Mirage, Buckingham, Nicks, and Christine McVie all worked on solo albums. The hiatus was ascribable to a diversity of reasons. Each member had his or her have coach, Nicks was seemly the group's breakaway whizz, Buckingham was obsessive in the studio, and each appendage was suffering from diverse content addictions. Nicks was able to asseverate her popularity, with
The Wild Heart (1983) and
Rock a Little (1985) both arrival the Top 15. Christine McVie likewise had a Top Ten hit with "Got a Hold on Me" in 1984. Buckingham received the strongest reviews of all, just his 1984 album
Go Insane failed to generate a hit. Fleetwood Mac reunited to record a new album in 1985. Buckingham, wHO had grown increasingly frustrated with the musical limitations of the band, decided to make it his last Fleetwood Mac design. When the resulting record album,
Tango in the Night, was eventually released in 1987, it was greeted with interracial reviews just hard sales, reaching the Top Ten and generating the Top 20 hits "Small Lies," "Sevener Wonders," and "All over."
Buckingham distinct to leave Fleetwood Mac later on complementary
Tango in the Night, and the grouping replaced him with guitarists Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. The new lineup of the band recorded their first album,
Slow the Mask, in 1990. It became the band's number one album since 1975 to non go au. Following its load-bearing tour, Nicks and Christine McVie announced they would continue to track record with the group, merely non tour. Vito left the band in 1991, and the mathematical group released the box set
25 Years -- The Chain the following year. The classical Fleetwood Mac lineup of Fleetwood, the McVies, Buckingham, and Nicks reunited to play President Bill Clinton's inauguration in early 1993, but the concert did not lead story to a fully fledged reunion. Later that year, Nicks left the band and was replaced by Bekka Bramlett and Dave Mason; Christine McVie left the group shortly subsequently. The new lineup of Fleetwood Mac began touring in 1994, cathartic
Prison term the following class to little tending. While the new variation of Fleetwood Mac wasn't commercially successful, neither were the solo careers of Buckingham, Nicks, and McVie, prompt speculation of a fully fledged reunion in 1997.
Say You Will, the first Fleetwood Mac studio apartment album in 15 years, appeared in April 2003. It also marked the group's first set without Christine McVie since 1997's lively exertion,
The Dance.
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