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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
CERTIFIED GOLD! Fleetwood Mac - Landslide Single
TICKETS DROPPING FOR FLEETWOOD MAC AT WEMBLEY NOV 6TH
Apparently really good tickets are popping up on Ticketmaster for Fleetwood Mac at Wembley - November 6th.
RETURN OF THE MAC - FLEETWOOD MAC IN GLASGOW THURSDAY
As Fleetwood Mac return to Britain 40 years after they first formed, the band that once outsold The Beatles have proved extraordinary survivors
RETURN OF THE MAC
‘We were selfabsorbed… it’s more fun now’
By Adam Edwards
IF THE brass trumpet that kicks off the Beatles’ All You Need Is Love is the defining sound of the late-Sixties then the falsetto chorus of Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way is the soundtrack to the second half of the Seventies.
It was the opening track to the band’s 1977 album Rumours, the best-selling LP of that decade and still one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time. I doubt if there are many fortysomething men who don’t think fondly of blonde singer Stevie Nicks when they hear The Chain, the music that nowadays introduces Formula One motor racing on TV.
Yet there was no more curious group than this unstable offspring of the Sixties that metamorphosed into a soap opera. And despite the madness that was “The Mac”, the one-time blues combo still managed to become one of the biggest bands in the world.
This week The Mac return, starting tomorrow in Glasgow and taking in Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Dublin and London’s Wembley Arena, after a six-year absence. The Unleashed Tour is their latest offering in a saga that has lasted 40 years.
And yet when they started the band’s fans believed that there was not a gang of more ordinary blokes. Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, so-called because its three stalwarts were Green on lead guitar, John McVie on bass and Mick Fleetwood on drums, was heir to the legendary British blues acts such as John Mayall, the Yardbirds and Cream.
The music transcended the fashion – or lack of it. The band’s raw first LP, released in 1968, called simply Fleetwood Mac, has variously been described as “a masterpiece” and “the best electric blues album in a generation”.
It had to be good, as were its two follow-ups, because when one looked behind the album covers it was impossible to believe that the collection of hairy musicians could ever be rock stars, let alone one day win adulation as superstars.
The 6ft 7in drummer looked like an upturned mop, the brilliant lead guitarist Peter Green went bonkers after taking too much LSD, a second lead guitarist Jeremy Spencer joined a religious sect and guitarist Danny Kirwan was such an alcoholic that he was sacked. And all this was before the girls joined.
In California, left with only the rump of the band, Fleetwood and McVie teamed up with singer Stevie Nicks and her partner Lindsey Buckingham. With McVie’s wife Christine on vocals the five began to evolve into what the world would come to know as the classic Fleetwood Mac.
Furthermore, while the members were beginning to establish themselves as a first-rate soft rock outfit their relationships were in turmoil. Nicks and Buckingham were breaking up while the marriage of McVie and Christine was on the rocks. Meanwhile Mick Fleetwood (who was having an on-off affair with Nicks) was in the throes of divorce from his first wife Jenny Boyd – sister of Eric Clapton’s wife Patti.
The break-ups were chronicled in the Rumours album, so-called because the band members were all writing songs about one another (Buckingham’s Go Your Own Way was aimed at Nicks, for example, while Christine McVie’s Don’t Stop was about her husband.) The record was described by one band member as “bringing out the voyeur in everyone”.
Whether that was true or not it was a piece of recording brilliance that sold more than 40 million and sent the band into the stratosphere.
But the record came with a price. Christine McVie began a series of relationships with various rock stars including Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. Nicks became addicted to cocaine and then prescription drugs and had affairs with two different members of The Eagles.
McVie became an alcoholic and was arrested for possession of a gun while Fleetwood incomprehensibly went bankrupt after a series of property deals. He also remarried Jenny Boyd and then divorced her again.
“We decided to be comfortable and lost control,” was how Fleetwood would later describe those years in his autobiography.
Since those heady days the band has broken up and re-formed at regular intervals. Buckingham left for nine years and in 1998 Christine McVie retired and lives quietly in Kent.
Now The Mac are about to perform their greatest hits across the UK. Despite the current incarnation of the band featuring Nicks, Buckingham, Fleetwood and John McVie, it is, says Stevie Nicks, very different to its heyday in the Seventies. There are no drugs, no dippy guitarists and no damaging affairs (and no Christine McVie of course).
“Thirty years ago we were all so self-absorbed,” says Nicks. “Things are a lot more fun now.”
But it is worth remembering that self-absorption produced one of the great post-war musical achievements. For if the Sixties legacy was Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, then the Seventies have left us Rumours by rock ’n’ roll’s strangest band – Fleetwood Mac.
(REVIEW) Fleetwood Mac: Nur noch Akkordfolgen (BERLIN)
(translated)
Fleetwood Mac: Just one chord
VON HARALD PETERS
Fleetwood Mac have now experienced during her 42-year career, so many disasters, highlights, crashes, and personnel changes that it is almost a miracle that one of the core cast of the middle 70s today may live on stage. While singer and keyboardist Christine McVie has now folded, but guitarist / vocalist Lindsey Buckingham, singer Stevie Nicks, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie are miraculously back as a unit. On Monday evening they were seen in the sold-out 02-World in Berlin. Thus devised and disciplined the Fleetwood Mac albums still sound like today, their formation was always accompanied by hysterical chaos - excesses of drugs, intrigue and extreme shopping attacks. If you went on tour together, which usually led to excesses and plays incredible proportions.
This was at the O2 World feel nothing more, however, Lindsey Buckingham recalled repeatedly in his moving announcements at the time: "As probably all know here in the hall, had Fleetwood Mac is often an emotionally difficult past." It fit beautifully into the context that even the band played hits from the past. "Second Hand News," "Go Your Own Way", "Looking Out For Love" - all songs about interpersonal turmoil that support the old theory that inspires great suffering to great art.
But the pain only time history, artists sometimes tend to forget the original idea behind their work. For Buckingham, the songs were only chord that had to be present with the greatest possible gesture. "Tusk" was prepared not only by horns from the preserve, but by howling and panting, just as if Buckingham, the chief of the Indians.
Clearly worthy was the presence of Stevie Nicks, who know and share with lumps aufgerüschten witches clothes and fashion accents. Now caught up with her husky voice, she sang hits like "Rhiannon," "Sara," "Gypsy" and the touching "Landslide," where she is constantly on gloves and went out - short and long gloves, with or without fingers, and sometimes with long tinsel fringe-turn. Remarkably their footwear: For much of the concert was wearing leather boots with lace-up nicks orthopedic meaningful platform shoes. Where they turned against the light, spread her shawl when she was a bat on his way to himself
So the time passed. The totally unnecessary solo by drummer Mick Fleetwood was then, even for some stubborn fan too much. With all the prejudices, too, again confirmed to the band: They were never very cool, but for a longer period in the middle of the 70s Fleetwood Mac was once the best band in the world.
Fleetwood Mac - ein Schatten ihrer selbst
Berliner-Morganpost
Von Harald Peters
(same review - only a little longer)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
(REVIEW) Mit Fleetwood Mac ins Pop-Paradies (BERLIN)
Mit Fleetwood Mac ins Pop-Paradies
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Unübersehbar: Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham und John McVie, sie sind jetzt auch schon 60 und drüber. Mrs. Nicks hat Pfunde zugelegt, ihre Stimme aber, die steckt noch immer voller süßer Geheimnisse. Und zusammen als Fleetwood Mac konnten sie gestern in der O2 World ohnehin beweisen, dass guter Pop nie altert. "Don't Stop" und "Tusk" brachten die Augen der Fans zum Leuchten. Einige hatten sogar ihre Sprösslinge dabei. Die konnten lernen, dass es vor dem HipHop noch Melodien gab. Doch eine gefällige Jukebox wollten Fleetwood Mac bei ihrem fast dreistündigen Abend auch nicht sein. Sie brachten nicht nur Hits zu Gehör. Leider teilweise viel zu laut und die Vollbestuhlung störte beim Tanzen. Für uns Ältere war's trotzdem ein Dauerschwelgen im Paradies Pop. kü
(TRANSLATED)
With Fleetwood Mac into the pop paradise
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Obvious: Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie, they are now already 60 and upward. Mrs. Nicks has risen pounds, but her voice, which is still always full of sweet secrets. And together as Fleetwood Mac, they were able to show yesterday at the O2 World in any case, that good pop never grows old. Do not Stop "and" Tusk "brought to light the eyes of the fans. Some even had their offspring there. They could learn that there was still before the hip-hop tunes. But a pleasing jukebox wanted Fleetwood Mac during their nearly three-hour evening, maybe not. They brought not only hits can be heard. Unfortunately, sometimes too loud and disturbed Vollbestuhlung dancing. For us, it was nevertheless a mature Dauerschwelgen in Paradise pop. kii
OBSESSION WITH STEVIE NICKS - CLINTON
I'm not even sure what to think about this... It's just odd, but I suppose it's a tribute in some strange David Lynch type of way... DAVID LYNCH INTERVIEW PROJECT: CLINTON
We met Clinton on an overcast afternoon. He was standing on the side of the road as if he had been waiting for us to come along. We quickly turned around and drove back to ask him for an interview. He agreed and began telling us his story. He told us about his obsession with Stevie Nicks and about his trip to Hollywood where he met Rosanne Barr. Clinton also told us a story about his friend Johnny S. who was murdered and dumped into his fireplace one night during a three day party. When we finished the interview we said goodbye to Clinton and drove north, listening to Fleetwood Mac at high volume.
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