Mick Fleetwood Book Signing Monday, Dec 22, 2014 at Fleetwood's on Maui

Musician and Maui resident, Mick Fleetwood will be at Fleetwood’s General Store on Front Street on Monday, Dec. 22, where he will sign copies of his new book.

Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography, was released in October and tells the story of his life as a musician, playing drums since his teen years, to his long career as co-founder and member of the group Fleetwood Mac.

Born Michael John Kells Fleetwood in Cornwall, England, in 1947, Fleetwood now enjoys life on the Valley Isle where his Lahaina restaurant and general store bear his name.

The 352 page book takes a look at his life and love of music, as well as the “raucous history” of Fleetwood Mac, and the story behind the band’s longevity and success.

The in-store book signing event runs from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 22, 2014.

Source: Mauinews.com

MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND 
Featuring RICK VITO
Mick and Rick perform live on December 28th on the rooftop at Fleetwood's on Front St. For tickets, call 808-669-MICK.

Mick Fleetwood Interview "Stevie and Christine, they're a funny couple, a lot in common, and yet nothing in common"

Mick Fleetwood Interviewed by Mike The Intern on 104.7 The Cave Pure Classic Rock

Interview: Mick Fleetwood is as thrilled as anyone to see the soft-rock dream team back together

Mick Fleetwood on photography, Fleetwood Mac
by Ed Masley
AZCentral

The Fleetwood Mac lineup that gave the world "Rumours" is headed to Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 10, with Christine McVie back on board for her first tour of duty since her 1998 departure. And Mick Fleetwood is as thrilled as anyone to see the soft-rock dream team back together — something no one in that dream team thought would happen.

"But she came back and we are now very complete," Fleetwood says. "The chemistry is how it should be. It's truly amazing. I consider it a real pinnacle in this band's history, and thus the people in it, including me. I'm overjoyed that we're doing what we're doing. We are intact."

Having said that, what he'd really like to talk about is the exhibition of his photographs at DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal in Scottsdale, where Fleetwood is hosting a private reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9.

The drummer credits his father with having piqued his interest in photography.

Mick Fleetwood: "I felt like a whore"

CBC.ca
Q Arts Music Culture Entertainment

Fleetwood Mac has long been associated with chaos and change, but for the band's 47 years, there has been at least one constant: the steady drumming of Mick Fleetwood. 

The veteran musician joins guest host Tom Power to discuss his new autobiography, Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac, the blues-turned-rock band's many manifestations, and why he "felt like a whore" pulling his reluctant co-founder Peter Green along after the singer and guitarist became disillusioned. 

Click on this Link to hear Micks full 18 minute interview segment.

Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery

Fleetwood Mac were sitting around stoned in the studio one night with one of their engineers when they set about solving an arithmetic problem that had been niggling at them.

How much cocaine, they wondered, had drummer Mick Fleetwood put up his nose?  Working on the premise he had taken an eighth of an ounce every day for 20 years, the sound engineer calculated that if you laid out the drug in a single snortable line, it would stretch for 11km.

This full article originally appeared in The Daily Mail (UK) November 7, 2014.  Visit The Daily Mail to read the article on-line

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(Australia) November 29-30, 2014

Micks new book "Play On, Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac is available everywhere.

Mick Fleetwood's Los Angeles Book Signing Event - Cancelled

Mick's book signing event at Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market in Los Angeles originally scheduled for November 30, 2014 then

moved to December 1, 2014 has now been cancelled.

LOS ANGELES - CANCELLED 
Author Event: Date: Monday, December 1, 2014
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market 
189 The Grove Drive Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036, Ph: 323-525-0270

'Christine Returning Completes The Circle'

The father of the Mac Mick Fleetwood tells Clair Woodward how his bohemian childhood still inspires him and the band.

Sunday Express (UK)
November 16, 2014

The Urban Woo

Fleetwood Mac drummer tells Salon new "Rumours" stories, reflects on Stevie Nicks affair, shares regrets

Mick Fleetwood on “Rumours”-era excess: “I’m damn lucky I never killed anyone!”

Photo: Chris Pizzello

EXCLUSIVE: Fleetwood Mac drummer tells Salon new "Rumours" stories, reflects on Stevie Nicks affair, shares regrets

By David Daley
Salon.com

The Mick Fleetwood pictured on the back of his new memoir, “Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac,” looks fabulously content. This is the rock star as elegant dandy, stylish in tails, draped in an accent of gold jewelry, a trim white beard. It’s an advertisement for the good life, if not living right.

Crazy, isn’t it? Because the Fleetwood on the cover has a wicked gleam in his eye, as he peers out from under a rakish hat, hair down around his shoulders. This is the Fleetwood of the mid-t0-late ’70s, the drummer whose band was re-energized by the arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who recorded 1975′s “Fleetwood Mac” with “white powder peeling off the walls of every room” in the studio.

But the madness was only beginning: The relationships of Buckingham and Nicks, along with John and Christine McVie, were unraveling amidst angst, affairs and mountains of cocaine. “Rumours” chronicled the dissolution of it all, selling tens of millions of albums worldwide. They were among the biggest bands in the world, and they lived every moment of it to the extreme. “The drugs of course were plentiful,” Fleetwood writes, “and we partook of the finest Peruvian flake quite a bit, both to numb the pain and to find the energy to persevere.”

Even grander extravagance followed, and I don’t just mean “Tusk.” Their contracts required fleets of limos to be available on demand. Nicks and McVie wanted their hotel rooms freshly painted in specific colors before they arrived; Nicks also required a white piano. Cocaine was measured out to the entire touring party after the show — “everyone who lined up got their packet” — at a specific announced time in each city. “It was fabulously expensive, wonderful and sometimes depraved,” he admits.

The hits, of course, have fueled presidential campaigns and never gone away. Even the albums you think you know are studded with gems. The albums get discovered and rediscovered and continue to influence new generations. (Note to anyone in high school, or ahem, later than that, who I made of fun for loving them, from behind the righteousness of my Smiths shirt: Sorry about that!) And the five-piece band from those iconic albums is now back together and touring into next year — Fleetwood calls it a “victory lap” in the book, so you might check it out while you can — but he also reveals that the band is working on new material.

All of this, of course, is the stuff of great rock memoir, and “Play On” doesn’t hold back on the stories behind the songs or the dramas on the road and in the studio. Fleetwood is also deeply reflective on the relationships he sacrificed to the band, whether as a father, a husband or a son. We talked last week in New York. There was only 20 minutes and he gives long answers. The interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

Continue to the full interview at Salon.com

BBC INTERVIEWS: Mick Fleetwood "Play On: Now Than and Fleetwood Mac"

MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEWS

5 Interviews from this past week in London with Mick promoting his new book
 "Play On: Now, Then And Fleetwood Mac

Photo Gallery: BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends with
Mick Fleetwood, Matt Berry, Imtiaz Dharker, Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, GoGo Penguin

BBC RADIO 4 
Loose Ends - November 11, 2014

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BBC RADIO OXFORD
Howard Bentham
Friday, November 5, 2014
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BBC RADIO SCOTLAND

MacAulay and Co - November 5, 2014

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BBC RADIO 6

Radcliffe and Maconie - November 5, 2014

Listen below or at BBC Radio 6

BBC RADIO 2
The Chris Evans Breakfast show - Friday, November 7, 2014
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In an eye-popping new memoir, Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery

The rock star who snorted a line of cocaine 7 miles long! In an eye-popping new memoir, Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery... 

By Tom Leonard
The Daily Mail

The Daily Mail - November 7, 2014

Fleetwood Mac were sitting around stoned in the studio one night with one of their engineers when they set about solving an arithmetic problem that had been niggling at them.

How much cocaine, they wondered, had drummer Mick Fleetwood put up his nose? Working on the premise he had taken an eighth of an ounce every day for 20 years, the sound engineer calculated that if you laid out the drug in a single snortable line, it would stretch for seven miles.

Rock ’n’ roll is full of such apocryphal stories, but as Fleetwood admits in a candid new memoir, this one is completely true. But then, this is the band that in 1977 gave the world Rumours, one of the best-selling albums ever, and almost died in the process.

Though they appeared deceptively inoffensive, with their hippy-ish outfits and gentle, melodic hits such as Don’t Stop, Little Lies and Go Your Own Way, when it came to decadence and over-indulgence, Fleetwood Mac made the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin look like a Salvation Army band.

'As for a new Fleetwood Mac album, Mick is optimistic"

FLEETWOOD MAC LEGEND MICK FLEETWOOD: THE 5 BEST DRUMMERS EVER
And he talks about the Fleetwood Mac tour and his secret dream of being in the Rolling Stones.

By James Joiner
Esquire.com

It's safe to say that Mick Fleetwood, drummer and founding member Fleetwood Mac, with 47 years of rock stardom under his belt, has stories to share. And so he does in his new autobiography Play On, an intimate trip through memories that also double as an inside guide to one of the most influential periods and bands in music history, as told by one of its most pivotal figures. It's all there. And now that Fleetwood Mac are back together touring, it's all relevant again.

"With Christine McVie coming back, we're all intact, so it's really thought-provoking. I probably won't properly digest it all until six months into this phase, but in real time it's amazing. She's so happy to be doing what she's doing, and she's a really great influence on all of us. She's like a little kid. Not that we're all jaded and don't like doing this, but it does step up the action a bit. Stevie [Nicks] is overjoyed. She says on stage, 'I've missed having another blonde in the band.' So it's all good. You know, we'll have to be really stupid or try really hard to fuck this one up.

"All joking aside, it's truly amazing. The relationship with our audience has never been shabby. It's fair to say this particular band, maybe more than quite a lot of other bands, there's a lot of personal storytelling that people feel very connected to outside of the music. It's like performance art, it's really profound, and that's what we're in right now, which you can have no complaint about."

As for a new Fleetwood Mac album, Mick is optimistic. Surprisingly so.

"We have a whole lot of material from Lindsey [Buckingham] and me and John [McVie] from the last two and a half years, and also Christine, when she came to LA a little while ago. We have a whole bunch of tracks. We're hoping... We don't really know how it's going to be placed. My hope is, of course, that it becomes a full-fledged Fleetwood Mac offering. There's really not much time now, this tour is unfolding as we speak, but my heart tells me that, within the next couple of years or less, there will be a really, really cool Fleetwood Mac album. And that's certainly my hope."

Until then, we asked Mick Fleetwood to share and talk about the drummers who have inspired him throughout his career. 

Continue at Esquire for the full article

Video: Mick Fleetwood on meeting Stevie Nicks for the first time

Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood chronicles life in "Play On"
CBS This Morning

Mick Fleetwood on meeting Stevie Nicks for the first time: She's magnetic and gorgeous, but it was a musical dialogue that struck me.

Fleetwood Mac has sold more than 140 million records worldwide. The supergroup is known for its music, and for its wild ways off stage, too. Now in a new memoir drummer and bandleader Mick Fleetwood looks back at a long journey.

For nearly 50 years Mick Fleetwood has provided the beat and backbone for one of the world's most successful bands.

At just 15 years old, Fleetwood left home for London to become a drummer. There, he met bassist John McVie, forming a lifelong friendship and the band that would bear their names.

For eight years, through drugs, discord and affairs, they endured a constantly changing lineup.

They finally struck the right chord with McVie's wife, Christine, and Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

While their hard-partying became the stuff of rock and roll legend, it was their infamous love affairs that inspired "Rumours." The 1977 album sat at number one for 31 weeks and is the ninth best-selling album of all time.

Hits like "Go Your Own Way" captured their turmoil, which ultimately proved to be too much.

Fleetwood's new memoir, "Play On," chronicles the band's often painful past -- with a happy ending.

For the first time in 16 years, the band is back together and the beat goes on.

Video: Mick Fleetwood on BBC Breakfast November 5, 2014

Mick Fleetwood on never playing the same way twice
5 November 2014

BBC Breakfast

For many people, the songs of Fleetwood Mac are the sounds of the sixties and seventies, but they were a band who have been almost as famous for their relationships and break ups as their music.

The drummer, and founder member, Mick Fleetwood has steered the band through the trials and tribulations and line-up changes ever since.

He told BBC Breakfast that he still never plays a song the same way twice and spoke about life in Fleetwood Mac and the rumours that used to surround them.

Watch The Video

Mick Fleetwood on BBC Radio This Week (Multiple Listings)

Mick Fleetwood on BBC Radio 
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND
MacAulay and Co - Wednesday, November 5th - 10:30am
Mick Fleetwood and Russell Brand are guests.

BBC Radio 5 Live
Afternoon Edition - Wednesday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Sarah Brett and Dan Walker present an afternoon of engaging news, sport and conversation. Guests include music legend Mick Fleetwood, on his new Autobiography 'Play On'. We'll speak to Mick on the story of his life in rock 'n' roll and how the band that meant everything to him came to define him.

BBC Radio 6
Insight - Wednesday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Fleetwood Mac
Alan Black presents a profile of Fleetwood Mac in a documentary first broadcast in 1976.

BBC Radio 6
Radcliffe and Maconie - Wednesday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Mark presents the show solo, and is joined by none other than legendary drummer and Fleetwood Mac co-founder, Mick Fleetwood. Well known for being in one of the biggest bands of all time, he's also enjoyed a solo career and makes wine... and he's here to talk about his new autobiography.

BBC Radio 6
The Story of Rumours - Thursday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Paul Sexton tells the story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album Rumours

BBC Radio 2
The Chris Evans Breakfast show
Friday, November 7, 2014 6:30am
Chris gets that Friday feeling going with Mick Fleetwood, Billy Idol, Des O'Connor and Katherine Jenkins.

BBC Radio 4
Loose Ends - Tuesday, November 11th - 6:15pm
Clive talks to Mick Fleetwood about memoir 'Play On' - his life with Fleetwood Mac

Mick Fleetwood adds Manchester, Birmingham and Seattle to Book Signing Tour

Mick Fleetwood
Play on: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac
Book Signings

Mick Fleetwood will be signing copies of his new book Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac at the following UK WHSmith locations in Manchester and Birmingham.

MANCHESTER
WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 5th • (Call the location for time)
WHSmith Arndale Centre, Manchester, UK (Telephone 0161 834 8300)

BIRMINGHAM
THURSDAY • NOVEMBER 6th • 1:00PM
WHSmith Union Street, Birmingham, UK (Telephone 0121 631 3303)

Terms And Conditions
These are ticketed Events. Tickets can be purchased on the day from each store. Books must be purchased from WHSmith. Proof of purchase may be necessary.

Previously announced:

LIVERPOOL
An evening with Mick Fleetwood
TUESDAY • NOVEMBER 4th • 7:00PM
Oh Me Oh My, West Africa House, 25 Water Street Liverpool L2 0RG

Tickets £25 including a pre-signed bookplated copy of Play On available online. (booking fee will apply).

One of music’s greatest drummers & co-founder of Fleetwood Mac will be discussing his eagerly anticipated autobiography Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac.

BUY TICKETS
Admission £25.00

LONDON
Meet Mick Fleetwood
FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 7th • 5:00PM
Waterstone's Piccadilly - 203 - 206 Piccadilly
Mick will be signing copies of his eagerly anticipated autobiography Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac. Access to the queue will be on a first come first served basis. Mick Fleetwood will sign copies of Play On only. Due to time restraints there will be no opportunity for posed photography.

New Book Signing Date:
SEATTLE, WA 
FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 21 • 12:00PM
University Book Store, Seattle, WA - 4326 University Way, N.E. – Seattle, Washington.
After surviving nearly 50 years in one of rock 'n' roll's most legendary and tumultuous bands, Mick Fleetwood is back on the road with Fleetwood Mack and reflecting on all the miles he's traveled. In his new autobiography, Fleetwood shares the story of his life of abandon, extremes, and music on stages, tour buses, and alongside bandmates John McVie, Peter Green, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, and Stevie Nicks. From his childhood affinity for music to his greatest loves, his landmark albums, and his infamous drug habit, Fleetwood bares it all. And while he's in Seattle, he's invited his biggest fans even closer at this special signing and once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet the rock 'n' roll icon himself.

A Priority Signing Ticket guarantees you a place in the first group in the signing line and is free with your purchase of Play On from University Book Store.

LOS ANGELES, CA
SUNDAY • NOVEMBER 30 • 2:00PM
Location: Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market
189 The Grove Drive Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036, Ph: 323-525-0270
This signing is wristbanded. Please check back soon for complete event guidelines.

Mick's new book Play On is available at all book stores or on-line.

REVIEW: Play On — Now, Then, And Fleetwood Mac by Mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza

At 67 years old, the founder of the eponymous band Fleetwood Mac isn’t ready to reveal the secrets behind rumours of band’s debauchery

Toronto Star November 2, 2014

By: Georgie Binks
TheStar.com 

When I read a musician’s autobiography I really want to know what’s driven them to create their art, everything from musical influences to the inspiration for their lyrics. Some musicians, such as Graham Nash, deliver, others just don’t quite ‘bring it on home.’

For Mick Fleetwood, the drummer and mainstay of the wildly popular Fleetwood Mac, the responsibility to the reader becomes even more onerous, what with fractured relationships that simultaneously fascinated fans while threatening to tear the group apart. Who is the song, “Sara” about anyway? What about “The Chain?” Then of course the real nitty-gritty: just who was sleeping with whom?

Fleetwood, now 67, hails from a generation of British rockers who drew their inspiration from musicians such as Buddy Holly and Little Richard. He’s been playing rock for at least 50 years, 40 of those with the same musicians. Members drift in and out of the band over the years, while Fleetwood provides the glue that guides them through rocky times and back to where they are now. With the publication of Fleetwood’s book, Play On, his new photography exhibit and a new tour, he’s enjoying his life more than ever.

Mick Fleetwood talks about Fleetwood Mac and the need to be hot

Drumming icon Mick Fleetwood talks about Fleetwood Mac's Reunion, his new memoir and the need to be hot.

Time Magazine - November 3, 2014

Mick Fleetwood book signing - Barnes & Noble New York City 10/28 + L.A. 11/30

AVAILABLE IN NORTH AMERICA TODAY!

Meet Mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza at Barnes & Noble in New York City Today October 28, 2014

Mick has a two day break after the Oct 26th Fleetwood Mac show in Ottawa and before the show on the 29th in Philadelphia.  Perfect timing for the October 28th release of his new book "Play On: Now, Then, And Fleetwood Mac" and for a Book Signing in New York City. Barnes & Noble at 555 fifth avenue location will be hosting the event. Details below.

The UK so far has two events scheduled. The first in Liverpool on November 4th and the second in London on November 7th. Details below.

Also added to Mick's book tour itinerary is Los Angeles on November 30, 2014 also at Barnes & Noble.  The Grove at Farmers Market will host the event beginning at 2:pm Sunday November 30th.  

Mick Fleetwood
Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac

NEW YORK CITY
Author Event:
Date: Tuesday October 28, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00PM
Location: Barnes & Noble Fifth Ave
555 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017, Ph: 212-697-3048

LOS ANGELES - (CANCELLED)
Author Event:
Date: Sunday November 30, 2014
Time: 2:00PM
Location: Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market
189 The Grove Drive Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036, Ph: 323-525-0270

USA - Pre-order Mick's new book for $15.00. That's 50% OFF the cover price at Barnes & Noble
CANADA - Pre-order Mick's new book from Indigo for $21.78.


LIVERPOOL
An evening with Mick Fleetwood
Play on: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac 
Oh Me Oh My, West Africa House, 25 Water Street Liverpool L2 0RG

Tuesday, 4 November 2014, 7:00PM

Tickets £25 including a pre-signed bookplated copy of Play On available online. (booking fee will apply).

One of music’s greatest drummers & co-founder of Fleetwood Mac will be discussing his eagerly anticipated autobiography Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac.

BUY TICKETS
Admission £25.00

LONDON
Meet Mick Fleetwood
Play on: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac
WATERSTONE'S PICCADILLY
203 - 206 Piccadilly

Friday, 7 November 2014, 5:00PM

One of music’s greatest drummers & co-founder of Fleetwood Mac will be signing copies of his eagerly anticipated autobiography Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac. Access to the queue will be on a first come first served basis. Mick Fleetwood will sign copies of Play On only. Due to time restraints there will be no opportunity for posed photography.

Waterstones Events

Play on: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac will be released on October 30th in the UK

Visit mickfleetwoodofficial.com for UK Offers

Mick Fleetwood: There Will Be Another Lovely Album

Photo: Piper Ferguson

MICK FLEETWOOD: Fleetwood Mac’s perpetual motion machine gives the skinny to Dave DiMartino on his new autobiography and remarkable life.

Interview posted at Fleetwood Mac - UK

Look for the December, 2014 issue of Mojo Magazine, it will be on sale from Tuesday, October 28, 2014.

'Our lifestyle? Lunacy' Sex, drugs and Fleetwood Mac

Mick Fleetwood: 'We were cloaked in this crazy world’
Cocaine, affairs, reckless spending – Mick Fleetwood was the epitome of the rock ’n’ roll egomaniac. How did he, and his band, survive?

October 26, 2014 issue of Seven in The Telegraph (UK)

By Chrissy Iley
The Telegraph
October 26, 2014

I am waiting for Mick Fleetwood in a mansion that he has rented in Malibu. It is the size of a stately home. I am sitting in the kitchen, which is painted in ice-cream colours: pistachio, strawberry and vanilla.

He arrives shower fresh. He is as long and thin as you imagine him.

In his new autobiography, Play On, Fleetwood says that he’s 6ft 6in. He looks even taller, languid in navy chinos, a blue striped shirt with epaulettes, a gold medallion, a perfectly trimmed beard and a burnt copper tan.

The medallion is a scarab made by a goldsmith in Canterbury, and, Fleetwood tells me, a symbol of immortality because Ancient Egyptian scarabs, which are still being dug up by archaeologists, “survive against hopeless odds”. You could say the same about his band, Fleetwood Mac.

Founded by Fleetwood, John McVie and Peter Green in 1967, it is routinely compared to a dysfunctional family. The band’s fame peaked, along with their excesses, around the time of the album Rumours in 1977. A Rolling Stone cover featured the two couples – Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and Christine and John McVie – and Fleetwood, in a giant bed, but with everybody next to the wrong partner, which was more than just some art director’s mischievous wheeze.

Both the McVie and the Buckingham/Nicks relationship fell apart during the recording of Rumours, and not long afterwards, Fleetwood had an affair with Nicks before dumping her for her best friend, Sara Recor, whom the drummer went on to marry. All the while, the band were trying to squeeze the most out of every millisecond, all of them excessive, consuming giant amounts of cocaine. They would have hotel rooms repainted in advance of their arrival and insist on having fleets of limos put at their disposal. Nicks would demand there was a grand piano in her suite. Fleetwood Mac were patron saints of the ridiculous tour rider.

It was all fabulous and depraved and, at its worst, none of the band members was even talking to each other. Yet somehow they carried on, realising that the drama was also creating great art (and making them enormous sums of money). To date Rumours has sold more than 45 million copies and is one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.

Buckingham was out of the band for 16 years – between 1987 and 1997. Christine McVie only returned this year after a similar period of absence.

But throughout it all Fleetwood has remained wedded to the cause, chivvying his bandmates to patch up their differences. As we chat, guitars, amps and various other musical instruments are being collected from the house to prepare for another reunion tour that could last a year.

Full Interview at The Telegraph