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Fleetwood Mac now had three songwriters, Buckingham's studio craft, and an onstage focal point in Nicks, who became a late-Seventies sex symbol as Fleetwood Mac (Number One, 1975) racked up 5 million in sales. Producer Keith Olsen played an album he'd engineered, Buckingham-Nicks (Polydor), for Fleetwood and the McVies as a demo for his studio Fleetwood Mac hired not only Olsen but the duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who had played together in the Bay Area acid-rock group Fritz from 1968 until 1972, before recording with Olsen. After Welch left to form the power trio Paris in 1975, Fleetwood Mac finally found its best-selling lineup. The group relocated to California in 1974. From then until around the time of the Tusk tour in 1979-80, the band managed itself, with Mick Fleetwood taking most of the responsibility. An injunction filed by the real Fleetwood Mac forced the bogus band to desist (they then formed the group Stretch), but protracted legal complications kept Fleetwood Mac from touring for most of 1974.
Manager Clifford Davis then formed a group around Weston and Walker, called it Fleetwood Mac, and sent it on a U.S. Next Kirwan was fired and replaced by Bob Weston and Dave Walker, both of whom soon departed. Bob Welch joined, supplementing Kirwan's and Christine McVie's songwriting. Fleetwood Mac went through a confused period. and turned up as a member of a religious cult, the Children of God (later the title of a Spencer solo effort). By then she had married McVie.Įarly in 1971, Spencer disappeared in L.A. Perfect, who had sung with Spencer Davis in folk and jazz outfits before joining British blues-rockers Chicken Shack in 1968, had performed uncredited on parts of Then Play On, but contractual obligations to Chicken Shack kept her from joining Fleetwood Mac officially until 1971. Danny Kirwan and Christine Perfect moved the band toward leaner, more melodic rock. His departure put an end to Fleetwood Mac's blues leanings. He stayed out of the music business until the mid-Seventies, when he made two solo LPs. In May 1970 Green abruptly left the group to follow his ascetic religious beliefs. Green and Spencer recorded Fleetwood Mac in Chicago with Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, and other blues patriarchs in 1969 (the LP wasn't released until 1971), yet the group was already moving away from the all-blues format. tour had the group third-billed behind Jethro Tull and Joe Cocker, neither of whom was as popular in Britain. America, however, largely ignored Fleetwood Mac: its first U.S.
through 1970, including "Black Magic Woman" and the instrumental "Albatross" (which was Number One in 1968 and reached Number Four when rereleased in 1973).
Fleetwood Mac was popular in Britain immediately, and its debut album stayed near the top of the British chart for 13 months.
With its repertoire of blues classics and Green's blues-style originals, the group's debut at the British Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967 netted it a record contract. McVie had been a charter member of the Bluesbreakers in 1963, Fleetwood had joined in 1965, and Green had replaced Eric Clapton in 1966. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was formed by ex–John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Green, McVie, and Fleetwood along with Elmore James enthusiast Jeremy Spencer. Through the Seventies, the band's personnel and style shifted with nearly every recording as Fleetwood Mac metamorphosed from a traditionalist British blues band to the maker of one of the best-selling pop albums ever, Rumours, then kept on for decades after that - to varying degrees of success. The only thing about Fleetwood Mac that hasn't changed since the band formed in 1967 is the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John "Mac" McVie - fitting, since the band is named after those two.
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