Friday, February 08, 2013
FLEETWOOD MAC | STEVIE NICKS: Rumours Reviewed
UNCUT MAGAZINE - MARCH, 2013
NME MAGAZINE - FEBRUARY, 2013
"If anybody ever told me what to wear... (she smiles, then winds up her middle finger). All they'd see was me spinning on my platform boot - I'd be out the door."
Rhino / Warner Bros.; 1977/2013
By Jessica Hopper; February 8, 2013
Pitchfork
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours would never be just an album. Upon its release in 1977, it became the fastest-selling LP of all time, moving 800,000 copies per week at its height, and its success made Fleetwood Mac a cultural phenomenon. The million-dollar record that took a year and untold grams to complete became a totem of 1970s excess, rock'n'roll at its most gloriously indulgent. It was also a bellwether of glimmering Californian possibility, the permissiveness and entitlement of the 70s done up in heavy harmonies. By the time it was made, the personal freedoms endowed by the social upheaval of the 60s had unspooled into unfettered hedonism. As such, it plays like a reaping: a finely polished post-hippie fallout, unaware that the twilight hour of the free love era was fixing and there would be no going back. In 1976, there was no knowledge of AIDS, Reagan had just left the governor's manse, and people still thought of cocaine as non-addictive and strictly recreational. Rumours is a product of that moment and it serves as a yardstick by which we measure just how 70s the 70s were.
Continue to the full review at Pitchfork
2nd & 3rd London Date + Additional Dublin Show Added for Fleetwood Mac!
On Sale Today...
Fleetwood Mac have added a second & third London Show
for September 25th & 27th PLUS a second Dublin Show for September 21st at the O2 Dublin.
Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster or Live Nation.
Also on sale today... Tickets for
October 7th - Live in Amsterdam at Ziggo Dome
October 9th - Live in Antwerpen at Sportpaleis
October 11th - Live in Paris at Omnisport de Bercy
Live Nation
Oct 13th - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion Ticketcorner
Oct 14th - Stuttgart, Germany - Schleyerhalle Eventim
Oct 16th - Berlin, Germany - 02 World Eventim
Live Nation
Oct 13th - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion Ticketcorner
Oct 14th - Stuttgart, Germany - Schleyerhalle Eventim
Oct 16th - Berlin, Germany - 02 World Eventim
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Thursday, February 07, 2013
Video: Fleetwood Mac Talks Tumultuous Past: “We All Paid A Price For That Emotionally”
by Kate Spencer
VH1
We had the nerve-wracking honor of sitting down with Fleetwood Mac recently and chatted with the iconic band about their upcoming tour and the re-issue of their album Rumours, which celebrated its 35th anniversary this week. Most interesting was the group’s willingness to discuss their torrid, rocky personal past with each other, which included break ups, make ups, affairs, drug abuse and lots of legendary songs about it all.
VH1
We had the nerve-wracking honor of sitting down with Fleetwood Mac recently and chatted with the iconic band about their upcoming tour and the re-issue of their album Rumours, which celebrated its 35th anniversary this week. Most interesting was the group’s willingness to discuss their torrid, rocky personal past with each other, which included break ups, make ups, affairs, drug abuse and lots of legendary songs about it all.
Never break the chain, guys. Never break the chain.
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Rolling Stone France Dedicate 11 Pages To Fleetwood Mac - Feb, 2013 issue
First Rolling Stone in Germany had that amazing cover and spread in their February issue.... Now Rolling Stone France are doing the same - except no Mac cover - but 11 pages! That's huge!! I think Rolling Stone in North America needs to step up to the plate, put them on the cover for the 5th time and celebrate this years 35th Anniversary release. The Buckingham Nicks Q&A appears to be the same Andy Greene interview with Stevie and Lindsey that ran on-line in North America and can be read here RollingStone
Look for the February, 2013 issue in France or anywhere else where french language magazines are sold... It's on newsstands now. Bono on the cover.
NEW Interview with Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie
‘We were never too stoned to play’ Fleetwood Mac: the comeback interview
The Mac are back, with live shows, songs and a re-release. Will Hodgkinson meets Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie
The Times
It is 36 years since Rumours, the soft-rock masterpiece by Fleetwood Mac, became the soundtrack to separation. Songs such as Go Your Own Way, The Chain and You Make Loving Fun articulated the new rules of relationships for the baby boom generation, capturing the reality of affairs, tensions, betrayals and break-ups and selling more than 40 million copies in the process. For much of the 1980s, arguing over who got the copy of Rumours was as much a part of divorce as lawyer’s fees and pretending to like each other in front of the
Rumours hit a nerve because it came from a place of truth. Fleetwood Mac’s keyboardist Christine McVie was divorcing its bassist John McVie. The singer Stevie Nicks was splitting with her childhood sweetheart, the band’s guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Stuck somewhere in the middle was the drummer Mick Fleetwood, who was recently divorced from his wife. Everyone dealt with the situation in the only way rock stars in the 1970s knew how: by taking huge amounts of cocaine.
It should have ended there, but as Fleetwood says, “Rumours is the thing that would not go away.” While the album has just gone back into the Top Three, four of the band members are putting aside the pain of the past and, in one of the biggest break up and make up stories of all time, getting ready to go out on the road again for a world tour. Only Christine McVie, who left the band in 1998, is staying away. She’s been leading a reclusive, distinctly non-rock’n’roll life in a Kent farmhouse ever since, having no involvement with Fleetwood Mac and never giving interviews — until now.
Read the full interview/article at FleetwoodMac-UK
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WIN Fleetwood Mac UK Tour Tickets #FLEETWOODMACUKTOUR
WIN TICKETS TO THE FLEETWOOD MAC 2013 UK TOUR!
A FREE PAIR OF TICKETS FOR EACH OF THE SHOWS WILL BE RELEASED THROUGH FAN TWEETS, STARTING AT 9AM, FRIDAY 8TH FEBRUARY.
Tweet the Hashtag #FLEETWOODMACUKTOUR to move the Twitter Bird along barometer. When it reaches the different dates the "WIN TICKETS" buttons will become live. Then just click through and leave your details. Keep an eye on the barometer though - THE MORE YOU TWEET, THE FASTER IT MOVES!
Full details at Fleetwoodmac.com/uktour
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Update on the 'In Your Dreams' Documentary
Dave Stewart on Stevie's 'In Your Dreams' Documentary...
Dave Tweeted a couple of days ago that he was meeting up with Stevie to discuss possible release dates for their "In Your Dreams" Documentary... It's been fairly quiet since the last screening of the flick in Las Vegas last November, so an update like this is appreciated. Fans are pretty eager to get their hands on this last installment of the In Your Dreams saga. This month marks the 3 year anniversary that Dave and Stevie began working together formulating the album... Man time flies by! I'm sure the wait will be worth it.
Awfully nice of Dave to keep fans up to date!
A still while making In Your Dreams Movie with Stevie Nickstalking tomorrow about poss. release dates fb.me/1yb0L1f8ZAnd a follow-up
— Dave Stewart (@DaveStewart) February 4, 2013
@jkmaletic yes great plans afoot
— Dave Stewart (@DaveStewart) February 5, 2013
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Audio: Interview with Mick Fleetwood from last week...
Interview: Mick Fleetwood on Magic Breakfast
Mick appeared on Magic Breakfast in the UK last week... Here's his audio segments where he spoke with Neil Fox. They're short, but Part 2 is interesting - talks about encouraging Chris to say hello in some sort of way on stage when they play London this year...
I think it's going to happen!
Mick appeared on Magic Breakfast in the UK last week... Here's his audio segments where he spoke with Neil Fox. They're short, but Part 2 is interesting - talks about encouraging Chris to say hello in some sort of way on stage when they play London this year...
I think it's going to happen!
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Photo: Christine McVie with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie on Maui
Christine McVie dinning with Mick and John in Maui.
Photo by: debbie_peek on instagram taken last evening I believe. Thanks to LucyDotAlex @LucyLawless on Twitter for pointing it out! |
Feb 7th:
Christine with Mick, Steven Tyler and Rick Vito on Maui
Christine with Mick, Steven Tyler and Rick Vito on Maui
She looks fantastic!
The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band featuring Rick Vito with Special Guest Steven Tyler will be playing at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center next Wed., Feb. 13 at 7:30. Pictured here with us is the lovely and majorly talented Ms. Christine McVie! A great time was had last night at dinner by all. Photo: Rick Vito - Facebook
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