BBC Radio 4 Thursday 11:30am FLEETWOOD MAC Follow-up Albums "TUSK" with Pete Paphides

Re-play this great piece on Fleetwood Mac at the link below
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Part 2 of a 3 part documentary on Follow-up albums.  

Music Critic Pete Paphides presents the second in this 3 part documentary series on Follow-up albums.  Part 2 features Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" album and includes a fresh NEW interview with Lindsey Buckingham

BBC Radio 4 - Episode 2 of 3

Lindsey Buckingham Wraps Up the West in Spokane - Next Stop.. Boston!

Lindsey Buckingham "So Afraid" The Bing Crosby TheatreSpokane, WA May 21, 2012
Photos of Lindsey performing in Portland, OR at the Aladdin Theatre by Anthony PidgeonLink to view

Next stop BOSTON May 29th at the Wilbur TheatreTickets in the upper sections of the theatre are still availableTICKETMASTER

Win Rod Stewart And Stevie Nicks Tickets All Week Long From Cleveland's New 102

What’s NEW at Cleveland’s New 102? Work Perks! 

This week listen at 8:20am with Trapper & Toohey, 11:20am with Kory and 4:20pm with Desiray for you chance to win a pair of tickets to see Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks in concert together at Quicken Loans Arena on Friday, July 20th.

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Mick Fleetwood Art Exhibit & Appearance Mouche Gallery, Beverly Hills June 18th

Mouche Gallery in Beverly Hills to present
Mick Fleetwood Art Exhibition & Appearance June 18th

Mouche Gallery
340 N. Beverly Dr.
Beverly Hills, CA

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Review: Lindsey Buckingham Is Gracious and Youthful at the Neptune Theatre on Saturday Night

Lindsey Buckingham appeared on stage at the Neptune on Saturday night in a black leather jacket, ankle boots, and skinny jeans.

Seattle Weekly
By Erin Thompson

Buckingham does everything with flair. He shakes his head as he sings, like he's willing the notes out. He paws at his guitar strings like a dog, picks at them like a pianist. He pumps his guitar up in the air and soaks in the applause. After playing a few midtempo songs--2006's "Cast Away Dreams"; Fleetwood Mac's "Bleed To Love Her"--someone in the audience shouted, "kick it up a notch!", which was rude, but as if on cue Buckingham switched to electric for "Come" and heated up the room bawling out the chorus ("Think of me sweet darling every time you don't come/Can you feel the fever?"). 

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Live Review: Lindsey Buckingham at the Neptune Theatre
Fleetwood Mac's Main Man Pares Down to the Essentials for an Awed Seattle Crowd

by Levi Fuller
ssgmusic.com

If the name Lindsey Buckingham means nothing to you, and yet you are a human possessed of the ability to hear, I can just about guarantee that his unique voice and brilliant pop songcraft are in fact quite familiar to you. As a key songwriter and singer in Fleetwood Mac from 1975 on, Buckingham penned and sang some of the most recognizable and enduring tunes to grace the FM rock radio airwaves, including “Go Your Own Way,” “Second Hand News,” and “Never Going Back Again” (and that’s just from side 1 of Rumours).

Buckingham has had a relatively prolific solo career for decades – during Saturday’s concert he referred to it as the “small machine” to Fleetwood Mac’s “big machine” – probably the most recognizable product of which for the casual listener would be “Holiday Road,” the theme from the 1983 movie “National Lampoon’s Vacation.” That little pop gem aside, Buckingham’s solo career has generally been about experimenting as an artist and letting himself be creative without worrying about hits. He spoke on Saturday about the importance of having these two elements in his life, and it was plain that his work with the “small machine” brought him much joy. By all appearances the audience at the Neptune was here not to witness a slice of the big Fleetwood Mac machine, but to revel in the brilliance of the small machine on a small stage. And revel we did.

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Shows I’ll Never Forget: Lindsey Buckingham, May 19, 2012
by Glen Boyd
Something Else Reviews

At Neptune Theatre, Seattle, Washington: “The small machine appears to have just gotten a little smaller,” was how singer-songwriter, and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham described it during the Seattle stop of his current solo tour this past Saturday night at the Neptune Theatre.

Buckingham returned to this topic again and again during the show. Comparing what he does with the “big machine” of Fleetwood Mac, to the more left-of-center music he plays as a solo artist — both with smaller groups, and now, as a virtual one man band — Buckingham talked about how the two seeming extremes are a necessary compliment to one another. Performing songs from a setlist which drew equally from his solo work (from “Trouble” to the recent “Seeds We Sow”), his platinum smashes with Fleetwood Mac (“Go Your Own Way,” “I’m So Afraid”), and even the relatively obscure, pre-Fleetwood Mac Buckingham-Nicks album (“Stephanie”), Buckingham made a very convincing case for how these individual pieces form a more complete artistic whole.

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CHART UPDATE: Fleetwood Mac - UK, IRELAND, AUSTRALIA, USA

IRELAND, UK, AUSTRALIA & US ALBUM CHARTS

IRELAND - MAY 17, 2012
After re-entering the chart last week at #76 Rumours drops to last place #100.  It'll likely disappear from the chart next week.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
#100 (76) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

AUSTRALIA - MAY 21 2012
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 80 (R/E) FLEETWOOD MAC – The Very Best Of

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
#15 (26) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

UK - May 26, 2012
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
#62 (49) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

USA - MAY 26, 2012

For the week ending May 13th and Billboard chart date May 26, 2012, Rumours is down 6% in sales in the US this past week to 1,736 units vs 1,847 last week placing the title at #138 down from #116 last week.  Total US sales for Rumours = 2,955,735.  On the Top Catalogue Digital Chart the album dropped 15% in downloads to 1,012 units vs 1,191 the previous week.

Greatest Hits is up 10% in sales in the US to 1,582 units vs 1,433 units last week placing the title at #170 up from #172 last week.  Total US sales for Greatest Hits = 4,546,509.  On the top Catalogue Digital Chart the album increased in downloads by 19% to 820 units vs 690 the previous week.

The Very Best Of re-enters the Top 200 Physical Catalogue Chart this week at #139 on an increase in sales of 28% or 1,233 units sold for the week vs 964 the previous week.  Total US sales for The Very Best Of = 1,475,530, which given it's a double cd release, it needs just under 25k to qualify for triple platinum status in the US (each 2cd package sold is counted twice towards certification).

TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 138 (116) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 170 (172) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 200 CATALOGUE PHYSICAL ALBUMS CHART
# 139 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 200 CATALOGUE DIGITAL CHART
# 53 (27) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 71 (98) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits