Fleetwood Mac's 5x platinum "The Very Best Of" leaps back onto the Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart in Australia at #9 for the week of September 27th. The disc was last seen on the chart at the end of May, 2010.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
THE FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 AUSTRALIAN TOUR - MICHAEL CHUGG MEMOIR
Medieval banquets, card tables full of cocaine… spoiled ’70s superstars Fleetwood Mac lived up to their mantra, writes promoter Michael Chugg in his new memoir
Released in Australia: 01/10/2010
Michael Chugg was only fifteen years old when he began managing and promoting music in his hometown of Launceston, Tasmania. That was in 1962. Fast forward to the present, and "Chuggi", as he is affectionately known, has been a pioneer in bringing the newest, biggest and baddest musical acts to Australia.
These include The Police, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli and Sammy Davis Jr., Fleetwood Mac, R.E.M., Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kiss, Pearl Jam, and many more. Chuggi has developed a reputation as a hard-arse, often walking on stage to shout down the crowd or pull the talent into line. He also never minces words writing in shocking detail about what goes on behind closed doors when big international acts come to town.
This honest, open and blunt expose of the underbelly of Australian music events is both hilarious and fascinating.
Released in Australia: 01/10/2010
These are pages from The Weekend Australian Magazine September 25-26th edition
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Fleetwood Mac,
Rumours Tour 1977
(Sales Update) FLEETWOOD MAC'S "GREATEST HITS"
Released in 1988, Fleetwood Mac's "Greatest Hits" continues to sell well.
For the most recent Billboard 200 Catalogue chart for the week ending September 19, 2010 "Greatest Hits" is sitting at #83 with sales for the week of 1,582 units down from the previous week of 1,798 units. Total US sales (1991 to present) the disc has sold 4,384,136 units. Since September, 2009 the compilation has sold a total of 112,152 units in the US.
"Greatest Hits" was last certified by the RIAA in 2000 at 8x platinum (8 million units shipped in the US). Soundscan tracks actual sales, over the counter and digital, the RIAA tracks shipments.
Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada. It began tracking point of sale (POS) sales in early 1991. SoundScan is the sales source for the Billboard music charts, making it the official source of sales records in the music industry.
For the most recent Billboard 200 Catalogue chart for the week ending September 19, 2010 "Greatest Hits" is sitting at #83 with sales for the week of 1,582 units down from the previous week of 1,798 units. Total US sales (1991 to present) the disc has sold 4,384,136 units. Since September, 2009 the compilation has sold a total of 112,152 units in the US.
"Greatest Hits" was last certified by the RIAA in 2000 at 8x platinum (8 million units shipped in the US). Soundscan tracks actual sales, over the counter and digital, the RIAA tracks shipments.
Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada. It began tracking point of sale (POS) sales in early 1991. SoundScan is the sales source for the Billboard music charts, making it the official source of sales records in the music industry.
Labels:
Album Sales Data,
Charts
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Never going back again | The Australian
Never going back again | The Australian: "MICHAEL Chugg was an up-and-coming 30-year-old music promoter when his employer, Paul Dainty, gave him the gig of looking after the now legendary Fleetwood Mac tour in 1977."
Just as the band’s recently released album, Rumours, raised the bar for pop albums (it would go on to sell 40 million copies), the corresponding tour would similarly set new standards for rock and roll excess, especially in Australia.
“The promoter’s rep will meet the band’s tour manager in the car park of Sydney Airport with two ounces of cocaine,” was one of the first instructions Chugg received from Fleetwood Mac’s management. It set the scene for the rest of the tour, if not Chugg’s ensuing career.
Chugg was not a coke user – not then, anyway – and enlisted a roadie to score for him. The band had a crew of 67 people, which meant that they were able to float from one gig to the next with only their cocaine-fuelled performances to worry about.
Despite the lavish demands the band put on catering – extensive banquets accompanied by French champagne and Courviosier – Mick Fleetwood and his colleagues were never seen consuming food. “All of them were too wired to eat,” Chugg recalls. “The excess was outrageous. There was just too much coke and too much weed.”
Chugg, originally from Tasmania, was soon embracing the lifestyle. “That 1977 tour was the entrée to many wayward nights on the rock’n’roll circuit,” he says. “At its most outrageous, the nights rolled into days and just occasionally the days turned into weeks.”
Read more about Chugg’s initiation into rock promoting in Go Your Own Way, by music writer Iain Shedden, tomorrow in the Weekend Australian Magazine.
Labels:
Rumours Tour 1977
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Story of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac BBC Radio 2
Next on: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 22:00 on BBC Radio 2
Duration: 60 minutes
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On 4 February 1977, an album was released that would go on to be one of the best selling albums of all time. Paul Sexton tells the remarkable story behind the making of Fleetwood Mac's Grammy Award-winning album.
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac was made under the most bizarre circumstances. The two couples at the heart of the band, John and Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, were in the process of splitting up. No songs were written before going into the studio. And everyone was zonked on cocaine. So they wrote about it all as it happened, and one of the most successful albums of all time was the result.
The Story Of Rumours is told through new interviews with Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham, as well as some amazing studio tales from producer Ken Caillat. The other band members feature through archive interviews.
It's interspersed with classic hits from the album, including The Chain, Dreams, Don't Stop and Go Your Own Way.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
STEVIE NICKS MOURNS THE LOSS OF TOM WHALLEY AT WARNER
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Hollywood Reporter
The move came as a shock to some who hailed Whalley's commitment to Warner's acts. "He's an artist-friendly guy," one former staffer said. "A lot of the artists love him, and he loves them."
Among those mourning Whalley's departure was Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks. "I love Tom Whalley," she told The Hollywood Reporter. "He has always been there for me and has been a huge support to artists during his tenure at Warner Bros. I'll miss him."
Hollywood Reporter
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Tom Whalley,
Warner Bros
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