FLEETWOOD MAC BOOKED FOR SHEFFIELD ARENA

By David Dunn
The Star

FLEETWOOD Mac - one of the most successful bands of all time - are to make their Sheffield Arena debut this winter.

The group featuring Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham will bring their global hits Go Your Own Way, Everywhere and Don't Stop and more on Monday November 2 and tickets go on general sale at 9am this Friday.

1967, the rhythm section of McVie and Fleetwood has never changed although the line-up featuring Buckingham and late 70s sex symbol Nicks was the most successful, producing the 25 million-selling classic album Rumours.

The band began as a traditional British blues band with Peter Green but amid personnel changes relocated to California in 1974 where it added Buckingham and Nicks.

Their first studio offering Fleetwood Mac sold five million copies and in spite of the well documented separation of Buckingham and Nicks the band went on to make the Grammy Award-winning Rumours.

Although the band has never managed to match the success of that, it produced the ambitious and experimental Tusk, Mirage and 1987's Tango In The Night which tendered major hits Little Lies, Seven Wonders and Everywhere.

In 1998 the band was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame where it played an acoustic set that Buckingham, now a prolific solo artist, insisted would be its swan song.

The band have sold more than 100 million albums and remain one of the most popular rock bands in history.

Tickets for the reunion tour are expected to sell quickly, even with a price tag of £45 to £75, plus booking fee. Tickets are available online at www.sheffieldarena.co.uk, in person at the arena box office and by phone on 0114 256 5656.