DAVE STEWART / STEVIE NICKS UPDATE...

via Dave Stewart (Twitter)
"Just finished playing guitar with Mike Campbell (tom Petty) in studio and Stevie Nicks singing".

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CANDID STEVIE NICKS SHOT CAPTURED LEAVING SHOP IN AUSTRALIA

This photo of Stevie Nicks is from December, 2009 in Perth, Australia.

Christine McVie on how back in 2003 in London she almost rejoined the band

Sound bite with Christine McVie on how back in 2003 in London she almost rejoined the band on stage... But froze, and decided against it...

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FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS VH1 "CLASSIC ALBUMS"

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Fleetwood Mac – Rumours: Classic Album

Air Date: April 5, 2010 - 4:00 PM

TV-PG Fleetwood Macs multi-million selling Rumours was recorded in 1977. It sold 15 million copies worldwide, spending a staggering total of 433 weeks in the UK charts and 130 weeks in the US Billboard album chart. It was also voted Album of the Year at the 20th annual Grammy Awards in 1978.

This is the definitive story of the making Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, an album that has truly earned its place in the pantheon of rock music history. Including a specially recorded version of Christine McVie's haunting 'Songbird' and Lindsey Buckingham playing a wonderful new acoustic version of 'Never Going Back'; along with 'You Make Loving Fun', 'Rhiannon', 'Dreams', 'Don't Stop', and 'Gold Dust Woman'

To buy this DVD, please use the following links: Amazon USA | Amazon UK

RETURN OF THE MAC LEGEND

Return of the Mac legend:

AFTER several years out of the public eye, the legend that is Peter Green is back with a new band and a gig at Falmouth's Princess Pavilion on Friday, May 28.

Now seated centre stage, what is obvious is that the show revolves around him, and that he is in the company of notably simpatico musicians.

Peter Green and Friends is about the man himself enjoying the performance experience – this is not a Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac greatest hits band. Naturally, no Peter Green appearance would be complete without a few of his classic compositions, but now the focus is on fresh renditions of Peter's personal blues, R&B and soul favourites.

Tickets are 20 in advance from 01326 211222.

(PHOTO) LATEST PHOTO OF CHRISTINE MCVIE OF FLEETWOOD MAC

 Above: Christine with Jenny Boyd and Mick Fleetwood at Jenny's book launch in London, Sept 26, 2013

Christine performed with Fleetwood Mac Sept 25 and 27, 2013 - London
Photo by Lolly Does London 

 Above: Christine attends the Ivor Awards as a presenter in London, May, 2013

Steven Tyler | Christine McVie - Maui Feb, 2013

Christine supports
Trevor's Trek Foundation

Christine traveled to Maui in February, 2013 for a few weeks vacation, visiting with Mick, seeing John McVie and also playing live during one of Mick's appearances on the island. This was the first public live performance seen by anyone since leaving Fleetwood Mac back in 1998.  Visit these links to read all about it, see vids and view more photos.

Christine McVie Live - Maui Feb 13th.
Christine McVie with Mick and John on Maui

Christine subsequently rehearsed with Fleetwood Mac in Los Angeles after her vacation with Mick.  During Mick's recent VIP Meet and Greets on the current 2013 Fleetwood Mac tour he has been indicating that she will likely appear at ONE of the London shows later this fall for a few songs... No word yet on which show, or what they will sing.  But he said she's feeling very inspired to create and play music.. not for Fleetwood Mac but for herself.  Who knows, we may end up getting more music from Ms. McVie!

CHRISTINE MCVIE - 2010
Not sure how old these photos are, looks fairly recent... As the article suggests the only time she ventures out is to walk her dogs.... And I see Christine hasn't lost her sense of humour... Check out what it says on her dog leash... If I'm reading that correctly, and I think I am... it says "One of us has no balls"

This is the photo of Christine that ran in the UK newspaper The Sunday Express on March 28, 2010 along with the article posted yesterday... Additional Images by Mike Gunnill

(PHOTOS) VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC 1976 OAKLAND, CA "DAY ON THE GREEN"

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Christine Mcvie & John McVie | Young Girl with Stevie Nicks Rhiannon Wings

The young girl photographed mimicking Stevie Nicks quite possibly could be Mick Fleetwood's daughter.

ANALYSIS OF STEVIE NICK'S STOP DRAGGIN' MY HEART AROUND

"Leather and Lace" is my favorite track on Stevie Nicks’ solo debut.
Bob Lefsetz
The Lefsetz Letter
First in Music Analysis

But it’s not the best.

"Leather and Lace" has that vibe that’s fallen by the wayside, you know, the one where a woman in a long dress takes you into the dell and reveals her inner truth as you stare into her eyes and fall in love. Today’s female artists are in your face, competing with the men, kicking you to the curb, or so wimpy as to be disposable, completely irrelevant.

But as much as I love "Leather and Lace"’s intimate feel, its circular nature, what puts it over the top comes halfway through, when Don Henley starts to sing:

You in the moonlight

With your sleepy eyes

Could you ever love a man like me

This is who we wanted to be. A sweet man, with substance inside, a certain solid quality. And you could infer a sexual meaning to what I just said, and maybe that’s just the point. Sex today is portrayed as rough, you take your woman, or vice versa, but reality is more about those who are self-conscious, yet are finally honest with another human being and end up connecting, coming inside.

Take that either way you want to. Metaphorically or sexually. That’s just the point. When done right, sex is an opening up, a connection. But our society is too fearful to portray it that way. Movies are laden with special effects, but sometimes songs get it right. And "Leather and Lace" does.

The reason "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" triumphs is not because of Tom Petty’s vocal, however great it might be, but the riffs, the underlying song. It’s Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers backing Stevie Nicks, as she reveals her frustration with a certain intimacy, that doesn’t want for power.

Baby you’ll come knocking on my front door

Same old line you used to use before

Truth. She’s busting him.

But that’s not the complete story…

I had to go to the bathroom. Which is why I entered City Market solo. Felice, her brother and my two college buddies were ensconced in the store, deep into the belly of the beast, long after dark, when the food emporium was almost empty, except for the catatonic cashiers up front.

And I hear something in the background, over the sound system, a record playing.

It’s like the song scooped me up and took me for a ride.

Suddenly, there was a bounce in my step. I’d missed the explosive opening riff. But that groove was so wide, it swallowed me whole, carried me away.

"Leather and Lace" is a great song.

"Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" is a classic.

Not something they sing on "American Idol", not something that can be sanitized and sung at pep or political rallies. It sits at the nexus of rock and roll and its audience. When the most important item you owned wasn’t your cell phone, but your stereo. You came home and CRANKED IT!

Yes, I turned up "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" so loud the neighbors freaked. But who could resist? You just wanted to get closer, you just wanted to be enveloped.

As necessary as Ms. Nicks is to this rendition, it’s Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers who shine. What mutation happened on stage, in rehearsal, that made them come up with this sound? Yes, it’s uniquely theirs… They listened to the same British Invasion tracks we did, but with these influences they created something unique. That nestled perfectly alongside the rest of the FM hit parade. Bands didn’t go to Timbaland to get the same sound as every other outfit, they crafted their own!

It’s hard to think about what you’ve wanted

It’s hard to think about what you’ve lost

You bet. That’s what I told Ron the night before. Life was about closing doors. Yup, as you’re watching TV, as you’re wasting time, doors are shutting behind you like crazy. There goes your chance to be a movie director, there goes your chance to be a famous author, there goes your chance to have kids. They tell you life goes by fast, but they don’t tell you how hard it is to accomplish a single thing. They don’t tell you how hard it is to be a rock and roll star, one with a career, who lasts.

I don’t want to think about what I wanted. It freaks me out to think about what I’ve lost. But when I heard "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" in the supermarket Friday night my life worked. By spending those endless hours listening to the radio, the stereo, digging ever deeper, I’d come across this great record, which I’d played so many times it was in my DNA, to the point when it came over the sound system the other night it was better than being greeted by an old friend, it was like being welcomed by God.

Yup, that’s what’s in those rock and roll records.

Don’t listen to the charlatans telling you to go to a house of worship, where you’ll be instructed what you can and cannot do.

Rock and roll is a big tent. It allows all comers. Any height, any skin color. Just put on the record and turn it up. You’ll see something that eludes every edition of the Bible. You’ll see life itself, in all its glory, the warts and the inspiration.

Fuck instant stardom. Tom Petty played more gigs in bars than most people in today’s hit parade have played in their entire lives. Malcolm Gladwell said the Beatles were so good because of all that woodshedding in Hamburg? Tom Petty and his band are so fucking great because of all those hours in Gainesville. Listening to the radio. Practicing. Gigging.

We baby boomers know the difference. Because when the Fab Four hit, we all picked up instruments, formed bands. But we gave up when it got tough, we went to college, but Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers PERSISTED!

CHRISTINE MCVIE DENY'S VILLAGERS ACCESS TO STOUR RIVER

AN IDYLLIC village is being shaken by a row between a retired rock star and one of Big Brother’s most notorious contestants.

This time, however, “Nasty” Nick Bateman, kicked out of Big Brother’s first series for his double-dealing with his housemates, is not seen as the villain. That role is being assigned to Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, who wrote Don’t Stop, which became President Clinton’s campaign song.

Tensions rose after Ms McVie joined a consortium last year to buy fields next to the Little Stour river in the village of Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent. She has lived in the village for more than a decade and was worried that the fields near her home would be used for unsightly poly-tunnels. However, her consortium promptly fenced off the fields, denying the villagers access to the river.

Ms McVie, now 66, left Fleetwood Mac in 1997 and now guards her privacy ferociously. Her palatial home is surrounded by high hedges and big fences and she rarely emerges except to walk her dogs. She hasn’t been photographed for a decade.

In an interview 10 years ago she said she enjoyed shopping in Canterbury without being mobbed.

A pair of water engineers wanting to check drainage on her land were told to go away because she didn’t want to see anybody.

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FLEETWOOD MAC USA, AUSTRALIA & UK ALBUM CHARTS UPDATE

AUSTRALIA
TOP 50 ALBUM CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours is up one spot to #41 this week after re-entering last weeks Top 50 at #42.

TOP 50 PHYSICAL ALBUM CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours slips to #42 on the Top 50 Physical Albums Chart from last week's #40.

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours in week 6 on the Catalogue Chart reaches a new high of #4 - up 4 spots from last week #8.

"Rumours" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run
#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10
#08 - Week of 3/8/10
#09 - Week of 3/15/10
#08 - Week of 3/22/10
#04 - Week of 3/29/10

Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum "The Very Best Of" is up 22 spots on the Catalogue chart to #28. Total weeks on the Chart = 20.

U.S.A.

US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - April 3, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits in it's 459th non-consecutive week charting drops down 6 spots to #44.

"Best of" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/10
#38 - 03/27/10
#44 - 04/03/10

UK TOP 75
TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART
In it's 23nd week of release and out of the top 40 for only the 2nd time since being released in October, 2009 "The Very Best Of" is down 4 spots to #41 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 29, 2010.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763 units sold
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541 units sold
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895 units sold
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010
Week 22 #37 - Mar 22, 2010
Week 23 #41 - Mar 29, 2010

A FEW MORE SHOTS OF STEVIE NICKS ARRIVING AT BOA

Peter Green announces concert at Olympia Theatre

Peter Green announces concert at Olympia Theatre:

Founding member and former guitarist of Fleetwood Mac will play the Dublin venue in May

The Rock and Rock Haller of Famer will play a fully-seated gig at Dublin's Olympia Theatre on Sunday 16th May.

After becoming a legend in the 1960s with Fleetwood Mac, Green began touring as Peter Green and Friends in February 2009. He brought his show to a sold-out crowd at Dublin's Academy last year.

For this return gig, tickets are €33 and go on sale Wednesday 24th March at 9 am from http://www.ticketmaster.ie.

STAND BACK TMZ PHOTOGRAPHERS... STEVIE NICKS IS IN CHARGE!

Spotted at Boa Steakhouse this week, Stevie was filmed and photographed by TMZ heading inside with her assistant Karen leading the way... followed by Stevie then Sharon Celani one of Stevie's background singers... Karen can be heard at the beginning saying "Oh my god you guys... " Stevie then pipes in and says... "Okay you guys... This doesn't even happen to me anymore, I'm way too old"... All the while she's smiling, holding up her hand, probably abit blinded by the flashing lights and frantically trying to get inside. Sharon Celani behind her laughing sounds like she's enjoying the whole ordeal.

(PHOTOS) VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC SHOTS - JOHN, CHRISTINE, MICK

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Mick Fleetwood | John McVie & Christine McVie | Lindsey Buckingham

STEVIE NICKS SIGHTING - BOA STEAK HOUSE

It’s always a delight to run into Stevie Nicks somewhere. This week she dined at Boa steak house, dressed all in black as usual. We like everything but the tinted aviator glasses – they don’t do her any favors. She finished her world tour with Fleetwood Mac in December, you last saw Stevie on the Grammys singing with Taylor Swift and now she’s writing songs with Dave Stewart. Did you know Lindsay Lohan tried to buy the rights to Stevie’s life so she could produce and star in the movie? Stevie responded “Over my dead body!”

Janet Charltons Hollywood

Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News

FLEETWOOD MAC CHART ROUNDUP - AUSTRALIA, UK & US ENTRIES

Three albums and one DVD are charting around the world this week.

THE UK

TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART

In it's 22nd week of release and 21st non-consecutive week in the top 40 "The Very Best Of" is down 1 spot to #37 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 22, 2010. Estimates for number of units sold is: 369,500 since October, 2009.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763 units sold
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541 units sold
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895 units sold
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010
Week 22 #37 - Mar 22, 2010

AUSTRALIA
TOP 50 ALBUM CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Rumours re-enters the Top 50 Album Chart at #42 selling 875 copies in Australia.

TOP 50 PHYSICAL ALBUM CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Rumours re-enters the Top 50 Physical Album Chart at #40

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Rumours in week 5 on the Catalogue Chart is up one spot to #8.

"Rumours" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run

#38 - Week of 2/22/10

#16 - Week of 3/1/10

#08 - Week of 3/8/10

#09 - Week of 3/15/10

#08 - Week of 3/22/10

Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum (350,000 units) "The Very Best Of" is in for one more week in the TOP 50 Catalogue chart - sitting at #50. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 19.

"DESTINY RULE" IN THE TOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Entering the DVD Chart at #26 is the Fleetwood Mac 2004 documentary "Destiny Rules" which follows Fleetwood Mac through the process of recording 2003's "Say You Will", the bands first studio album with the Rumours era lineup (except Christine) since 1987's Tango In The Night.




U.S.A.
US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - MARCH 27, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits in it's 458th non-consecutive week charting on the Top 200 Catalogue chart will be sitting at No.38, up 2 spots.

"Best of" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/10
#38 - 03/27/10

FLEETWOOD MAC CERTIFIED 4 X PLATINUM IN THE UK "The Very Best Of"

FLEETWOOD MAC - THE VERY BEST OF

4 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, March 19, 2010

WARNER MUSIC (WSM)

Released Monday, October 19, 2009

Certification History:

3 x Platinum Certification Friday, October 16, 2009

2 x Platinum Certification Friday, July 08, 2005

Platinum Certification Friday, January 31, 2003

Gold Certification Friday, December 06, 2002

Silver Certification Friday, December 06, 2002

Silver = 60,000; Gold = 100,000; Platinum = 300,000

On October 19, 2009 Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" was reissued as a double disc set for the first time in the UK. Certifications from December, 2002 up to October, 2009 were based on the single disc version which was released in 2002.  

BARBS well hidden in FLEETWOOD MAC'S chart-topping 'RUMOURS'

Long Player: Barbs well hidden in chart-topping 'Rumours' | Otago Daily Times Online News:

In the age of the single download, Jeff Harford rediscovers the album...

Throughout 1976, the five members of Fleetwood Mac each rode a wave of private turmoil for the greater good. Rancour, grief and splintering relationships just had to be worked around; breaking up the band was unthinkable.

Convening for the sessions that would produce chart-busting album Rumours (1977), the group was riding high professionally but on shaky ground personally.

The previous year the Fleetwood Mac album had hit No 1 on the United States charts, but with the marriage of singer-keyboardist Christine McVie and bassist John McVie now ended due to the latter's heavy drinking, drummer Mick Fleetwood reeling from his wife's affair with his best friend, and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks fighting through the death throes of their fiery liaison, potential disaster loomed.

But the Mac beat the odds, harnessing the songwriting potential in the highly-charged atmosphere and stringing together a Grammy-winning slice of album-oriented rock that went on to dominate the playlist of every FM and AM pop music station in the Western world for a full year.

Heartfelt lyrics were the key, with Nicks, Buckingham and Christine McVie each taking a different philosophical approach to the dysfunction.

Nicks penned Dreams as a cautionary ode to Buckingham, urging him to take stock of what he had and was about to lose; Buckingham's riposte was the cynical Go Your Own Way, in which he trivialised the concerns of Nicks by proclaiming "shacking up is all you want to do".

McVie, meanwhile, had taken up with the band's lighting director and told him You Make Loving Fun, also writing Don't Stop in a surge of optimism that surely had to sting her unhappy ex.

Ironically, the album's mass appeal lay in the harmonies created by these three distinct voices, and in the warm and comfortable sound production. The rhythm section was strident, tribal and to the fore yet somehow blunted. Rumours' poisonous barbs and hooks were cleverly disguised.

(PHOTOS) MICK AND JOHN - FLEETWOOD MAC (1977 - 1980)

I don't typically post auction items, but I've really enjoyed seeing these vintage Ken Regan shots up for auction.... most of which I've never seen before. 

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John McVie | Mick Fleetwood

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FLEETWOOD MAC CHART ROUNDUP (USA, AUSTRALIA & UK)

THE UK
TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART
In it's 21st week of release "The Very Best Of" is up 2 places to #36 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 15, 2010.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010

AUSTRALIA
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 15, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum (350,000 units) "The Very Best Of" is in free fall slipping 18 places to #41 on the Australian Top 50 Catalogue Charts. Look for it to disappear next week unless it turns around. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 18.

RUMOURS ON THE CATALOGUE CHART:
In week 4 Rumours drops one place to #9 on this weeks Catalogue Chart.

2010 Catalogue Chart Run - Austalia
#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10
#08 - Week of 3/8/10
#09 - Week of 3/15/10

U.S.A.

US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - MARCH 20, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits will be sitting at No.40, down 3 places, on the upcoming chart. So far Greatest Hits has racked up 457 non-consecutive weeks on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart.

2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/20

MICK FLEETWOOD AUDIO INTERVIEWS - OCT, NOV, DEC, 2009

MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW

OCTOBER 1, 2009 - PODCAST

Saturday Night Blues interview with Mick Fleetwood (CBC Radio) Canada

Mick Fleetwood, founder and drummer of Fleetwood Mac in conversation with Holger Petersen.

Running Time: 30:11

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MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW

NOVEMBER 4, 2009 - PODCAST

The Mark Goodier Show - Smooth Radio 97.5 UK

Running Time: 10:03

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MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW

NOVEMBER 26, 2009 - PODCAST

Chris Smith Afternoons - 2GB873am Austalia

Running Time: 17:00

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DAVE STEWART "THE HOUR" WRITING WITH STEVIE NICKS

Dave Stewart was interviewed on Canadian TV show "The Hour" on March 11th.  He's in Toronto for Canadian Music Week and he mentions to George that he's currently writing with Stevie Nicks.

You can watch the interview on "The Hour" website.  It's episode 117.

Fleetwood Mac - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times

Fleetwood Mac - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times: The Times is working on adding more biographical information about Fleetwood Mac.

Do you think Fleetwood Mac should be a top priority for a more complete page? If so, leave a comment letting them know why.

As The Times continues to work on the Hollywood Star Walk database, readers are asked to help identify other stars on the Walk of Fame whom Fleetwood Mac should be connected to, as well as locations in the world that were meaningful.

Share your suggestions, as well as any additional information.

WELL DONE COVER... Didi Benami "Rhiannon" Video & MP3 American Idol Top 16

Didi Benami sings Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac on the American Idol Top 16 - and does a pretty amazing job I might add... I think Stevie would be pleased with this.

Hit the link to view the vid and there's an mp3 download of the live performance as well.

Didi Benami – Rhiannon – HD Video MP3 American Idol Top 16 Performance | American Idol 9 - Rickey.org

The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, Riverstage Gig Review

Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs and The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band

Riverstage, Brisbane, AU - 27 February, 2010
Fiona Laughton
Yourgigs.com

Before Mick Fleetwood and his Blues Band took to the stage, the fine punters at Brisbane's Riverstage - those that had bothered to show up on time - were thoroughly soaked from a summer downpour and clutching feverishly to their $5 ponchos, which did little. Could the mood better be set for a little summer blues?

Fleetwood, naturally of Fleetwood Mac fame, cut a swarthy figure behind his black and gold-plated drum kit and you saw just how gigantesque he was as he leapt to his feet and saluted the crowd between songs. His blues band was fronted by the dapper Rick Vito, who impressed with some elegant slide playing, an epic vintage guitar collection and some nods to Peter Green on 'Black Magic Woman' and 'Love that Burns'. The band funked it up with 'Shake your Moneymaker' and the chemistry between the jolly Santa-like Fleetwood and the refined style of Vito was fun to watch.

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$4 Download Deal: Fleetwood Mac | From the Vault

$4 Download Deal: Fleetwood Mac | From the Vault:

$4 Download Deal: Fleetwood Mac
ByPETER OBERG

Fleetwood Mac at Roundhouse Chalk Farm (London, England) on April 24, 1970.

When I tell people I work for Wolfgang’s Vault, one of the questions I am most frequently asked is “What have you found that you love?” The reply changes from week to week, but I do have a stock answer that I rely on if I’m too drunk to recall what I had been working on. That answer is Peter Green.

It’s embarrassing in retrospect, but I had never known Peter Green before I started working here; I’ve always assumed Rumors was the pinnacle and epitome of Fleetwood Mac. Well, I’m wiser now and eternally grateful for it. If you don’t know who Peter Green is, I urge you to inform yourself. He can melt your heart and mind with his blues guitar playing. But most of you probably do know who he is though and I don’t have to tell you what deal it is to own a piece of music legend for that much money.

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Fleetwood Mac’s Future

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After a pretty busy period, Fleetwood Mac have been quiet lately, but we caught up with drummer Mick Fleetwood who filled us in on the band’s future plans."

“We’ve been working like dogs for about a year and a half nearly. So that ended just before Christmas in Australia and we had a fantastic tour, went all over the world, and a happy one, a happy tour. So I would say knowing us bunch, we’ll probably take about 18 months off. And then there is definitely the want to do more work and hopefully we’ll do more recording. I don’t know whether that’s really gonna happen or not.”

In the meantime, Mick is working with his Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, setting up an American tour. Keep up to date on all things Mick at MickFleetwood.com.

We Were the World: 86 Words Aboard the Crossover Express < Features | PopMatters

We Were the World: 86 Words Aboard the Crossover Express < Features | PopMatters: "In the second of our Tusk pieces, Alice Singleton explores how Fleetwood Mac fleetingly broke racial barriers in music and captured the heart of black girls raised on funk, R&B, and segregation politics."

Christine McVie’s Warm Ways < Features | PopMatters

Christine McVie’s Warm Ways < Features | PopMatters: "With Fleetwood Mac's Tusk recently turning 30, PopMatters offers some reflection on the too-often-overlooked Mac classic. In the first piece, Alfred Soto explores Tusk as the apex of the work of singer and keyboardist Christine McVie."

UK CHART UPDATE: FLEETWOOD MAC "THE VERY BEST OF"

THE UK
In it's 20th week of release "The Very Best Of" slides from #31 to #38 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 8, 2010.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC US CHART RE-ENTRY + EURO CHART UPDATE

BILLBOARD CATALOG ALBUMS CHART UPDATE - MARCH 6, 2010

In the US - Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits has reached the Top 200 Catalogue Chart for the first time in 2010 landing at #49.

BILLBOARD CATALOG ALBUMS CHART UPDATE - MARCH 13, 2010

Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits will be sitting at No.37 on the upcoming chart - up twelve places from last week. So far Greatest Hits has racked up 456 non-consecutive weeks on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart.

EUROPEAN TOP 200

Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best Of re-entered the chart on February 20, 2010 at #143, moving up to #94 the following week February 27, 2010. It didn't last long, dropping out of the Top 200 the following week.

CHART ROUND-UP: FLEETWOOD MAC AUSTRALIA.... RUMOURS & TVBO

AUSTRALIA:

ARIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - Week of March 8, 2010:
Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum (350,000 units - New accreditation) "The Very Best Of" slips twelve spots to #23 on the Australian Top 50 Catalogue Charts. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 17.

RUMOURS CONTINUES TO FLY UP THE CHART:
In week 3 the 12 x Platinum (840,000 units) Rumours takes another leap from #16 to #8 on this weeks Catalogue Chart.

#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10
#08 - Week of 3/8/10