Re-listen to Johnnie Walkers Sounds of The 70's

If you missed Johnnie Walkers broadcast on BBC2 today interviewing Mick and Lindey - you can relisten to the broadcast on Johnnie's site: HERE It's available for 7 days. The section with Fleetwood Mac begins at 1:11:33 - advance the player up to that point to listen.

Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham join Johnnie Walker to discuss the stories behind their incredible 70s back catalogue, which includes the hits Go Your Own Way, Dreams, The Chain and Rhiannon.

Mick and Lindsay have reunited with Stevie Nicks and John McVie for Fleetwood Mac's first live tour in five years and have released a remastered collection of their greatest hits.

(PHOTOS) FLEETWOOD MAC - LONDON (October 30th)

FLEETWOOD MAC
LONDON

OCTOBER 30th - WEMBLEY ARENA

Unlike the Press Photographers who are restricted to taking pictures of the band during the first two songs of the night, Monday Morning and The Chain (hense the reason they pretty much all look the same).  Fan Photos give you a real sense of the whole show as it progresses through the set... Here's another example of Fleetwood Mac in London on October 30th at Wembley Arena. All photos by: Pip Fidler, who from the look of these shots, had an amazing spot right up front at the stage.  See her full gallery of shots on facebook

(PHOTOS) FLEETWOOD MAC WEMBLEY (NIGHT #1) PHOTOS FROM THE STAGE

FLEETWOOD MAC, WEMBLEY ARENA

LONDON, ENGLAND

10.30.09

Photos by: suzyvermoesen (gallery)

Checkout this gallery of shots from the Wembley show 10/30.
Some really exceptional supper close-up shots of the band.

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac - Manchester "Mystery-and-Magic isn't merely an act for Stevie Nicks"

Fleetwood Mac, MEN Arena, Manchester
Reviewed by Simon Price
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Independent on Sunday

If she didn’t mean it, it wouldn’t work. Stephanie Lynn Nicks may have been working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when Fleetwood Mac found her, and cleaning the producer’s toilets to pay for her first record, but the bucktoothed blonde from Phoenix never stopped imagining herself as a Welsh witch goddess.

Thirty-five years on, she hasn’t ceased: swishing about in a bat-winged cape and a diamante half-moon pendant, and bleating about a “ woman taken by the sky”. Mystery-and-magic isn’t merely an act for Stevie. She believes it, and bless her to bits for that.

If Stevie on a British stage is what really sends the hackles tingling for the faithful, then it’s only in the context of a truly stunning Fleetwood Mac concert. Her foil and sometime lover Lindsey Buckingham, spindlylegged and still offensively handsome, is a fast-fingertipped phenomenon on guitar. His solo spots for “ Big Love” and “ Oh Well” are breathtaking; the title track of his 1979 folly Tusk is so berserk you can almost taste the Hollywood A-grade in your septum.

Together, they conjure such an electricity that the rhythm section John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, whose British blues band was transformed by the BuckinghamNicks takeover in 1974, can only stand and watch. “ I think I had met my match,” she sings in the sublime “ Sara”, and she looks at him with lazy eyes. He catches the glance, and bites his lip. As the song ends, they waltz and he kisses her hair. It must drive their current partners insane. Because it sure as hell sends a shiver through everyone else.

Sunday: Don't Stop Documentary... Johnnie Walker's Sound of the 70's

[repost - reminders]
FLEETWOOD MAC
DON'T STOP DOCUMENTARY
BBC ONE

NEXT ON:
Today, November 1st - 22:20
(except Northern Ireland)

Fleetwood Mac, one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, are back on the road again. Their story, told in their own words, is an epic tale of love and confrontation, of success and loss.

Few bands have undergone such radical musical and personal change. The band evolved from the 60s British blues boom to perfect a US West Coast sound that saw them sell 40 million copies of the album Rumours.

However, behind the scenes relationships were turbulent. The band went through multiple line-ups with six different lead guitarists. While working on Rumours, the two couples at the heart of the band separated, yet this heartache inspired the perfect pop record.

BROADCASTS
Sun 1 Nov 2009 22:20 BBC One (except Northern Ireland)
Sun 1 Nov 2009 22:50 BBC One (Northern Ireland only)
Fri 6 Nov 2009 21:00 BBC Four
Sat 7 Nov 2009 02:25 BBC Four
Mon 9 Nov 2009 01:30 BBC Four

DURATION
60 minutes

Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70's
On BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70's - Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham join Johnnie Walker to discuss the stories behind their incredible 70s back catalogue, which includes the hits Go Your Own Way, Dreams, The Chain and Rhiannon.

Mick and Lindsay have reunited with Stevie Nicks and John McVie for Fleetwood Mac's first live tour in five years and have released a remastered collection of their greatest hits.

Next on: Sunday, November 1st - 15:00 on BBC Radio 2

The Broadcast is now available on the BBC2 site to re-listen to: HERE

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Live in Manchester "These Old Mac's Need a Makeover"

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE - MEN ARENA

MANCHESTER, UK

10.27.09

The Mail on Sunday Section 2

November 1, 2009

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