Video: Stevie Nicks on Her Mom's Passing & Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks on Her Mom's Passing & Fleetwood Mac

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After over four decades together, Fleetwood Mac is still thriving. The band is re-releasing their album Rumours and will soon be embarking on a newly expanded North American tour. Despite bumps along the way, lead singer Stevie Nicks partially credits the band's recent reconnection to her mother's passing.

Fleetwood Mac has been on many hiatuses throughout the years, which the band says has become an almost necessary cyclical process for them to break off and embark on solo endeavors amid spurts of recording and touring together.

A few years after the band wrapped its Unleashed tour, it is back together for another tour, which Nicks mainly credits to the passing of her mother, Barbara, in late 2011.

"My mom passed away a year and two months ago, so Lindsey (Buckingham, guitarist) and I have talked a lot about that," Nicks said in a sit-down with Buckingham and drummer Mick Fleetwood (bassist John McVie was not present).

"She was the last of the Old Guard, so it's been a little bit shocking for all of us, but I think in a strange sort of way it's kind of really reconnected us in a way because we miss her and we wish she wasn't gone. She loved Lindsey and she loved Mick, and she loved me. ...Losing Barbara has really, I think, brought us back together in a lot of ways."

While they've recently joined back together for the Fleetwood Mac Live 2013 tour--which was recently extended an additional twelve shows due to the high volume of demand for the shows-- Nicks, who has maintained a steady solo career over the years, divulged that it's only natural that the band will be on hiatus once again.

"It is like a marriage and if you're together 24 hours a day every single day, no matter how much you care about somebody, you need a break," she said. "So, we take that three-year break and it seems to work really beautifully for us."

In addition to the band's 2013 tour, it is also re-releasing its 1977 album Rumours, which has become one of the best-selling albums of all time with an astonishing 40 million estimated records sold. The reissued album will feature live recordings and previously unreleased music.

Watch the video to hear the band talk about the re-released edition of Rumours, which will be available January 29.

Mick Fleetwood: "We’re going to be touring in September and October in England and in Europe" Fleetwood Mac

Planet Rock can exclusively reveal that Mick Fleetwood is trying to persuade Christine McVie to re-join Fleetwood Mac. 

McVie retired from the band in the late 1990’s and hasn’t performed with them since. 

He also confirmed that Fleetwood Mac will announce the European leg of their forthcoming world tour in the coming weeks. 

Mick told Planet Rock’s Darren Redick, "I’m really looking forward to reconnecting with my sister, Christine McVie, and that’s sort of a lovely, nice thing to be doing. Getting her out of the English cold there for a few weeks... and me and Chris will be flying back [to Mick’s home in Hawaii] after my work in London”. 

Darren asked Mick if Christine would be with them for their shows in the UK and Mick went on to say, "I would love that and I would welcome that as we all would and I truly hope that happens. And it might just be the case and I will take that to the fore and be reminded that a lot of people would love to see that happen. It would be an emotionally charged moment that would be lovely to have happen. And I know everyone in the band would welcome that. So you never know!”. 

As far as the world tour goes, Fleetwood Mac look likely to be in England by the autumn. Mick said, 

"We’re going to be touring in September and October in England and in Europe, we’re going on a massive world tour, which is getting more massive by the second, and those shows will be announced in the next few days”. 

Planet Rock

Fleetwood Mac Expand Tour With 13 NEW Tour Dates

NEWLY ANNOUNCED - Fleetwood Mac Live 2013 Tour Dates:

Fleetwood Mac Live 2013 Adds 13 Additional Dates to Tour Due to Overwhelming Fan Reaction

RHINO RECORDS TO REISSUE LANDMARK RUMOURS ALBUM ON JANUARY 29TH

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on an overwhelming response to the recently announced Fleetwood Mac Live 2013 North American tour, which has already sold over 325,000 tickets, the band announced today that they will be adding 13 shows.  The newly announced leg of the tour includes second shows in Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles, new stops in Cleveland, Wantagh, Charlotte, Des Moines, Spokane, Portland, Sacramento, Albany, as well as, Montreal, Canada. A complete itinerary follows this release.  Tickets for the second leg of the tour go on sale beginning February 1st at  Ticketmaster.com. 

Fleetwood Mac Live 2013 begins in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena on April 4th with confirmed dates through July 6th in Sacramento, California at the Sleep Train Arena.

The multi-Grammy winning Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees last toured in 2009 with the sold out Unleashed Tour.  The current lineup includes Mick Fleetwood and John McVie – both original members since l967, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks who joined the band in l975.

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the release of the iconic Rumours album and in conjunction with their Fleetwood Mac Live 2013 tour, Fleetwood Mac, one of rock's most enduring, beloved and successful bands will also be reissuing an expanded and deluxe version of Rumours on Rhino Records January 29th.  The expanded edition includes the original album, the b-side of "Silver Springs," a dozen unreleased live recordings from the group's l977 world tour and an entire disc filled with unreleased takes from the album's recording sessions. The deluxe edition will include all of the music from expanded edition, plus an additional disc of outtakes on DVD that feature "The Rosebud Film," a l977 documentary about the album, as well as the album on vinyl.  Digital versions will also be available.

6/14/13 - Chicago, IL Allstate Arena - on sale Feb 2nd
6/15/13 - Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena - on sale Feb 1st
6/18/13 - Montreal, QC Bell Center - on sale Feb 2nd
6/19/13 - Albany, NY Times Union Center Arena
6/21/13* - Boston, MA Comcast Center - on sale Feb 1st
6/22/13* - Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre - on sale Feb 1st
6/24/13 - Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena - on sale Feb 1st
6/26/13 - Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Center - on sale Feb 2nd
6/29/13 - Spokane, WA Spokane Arena - on sale Feb 2nd
6/30/13 - Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena - on sale Feb 16th
7/3/13 - Los Angeles, CA Staples Center - on sale Feb 1st
7/5/13 - San Diego, CA Viejas Arena - on sale Feb 1st
7/6/13 - Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Arena - on sale Feb 1st

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Video: Fleetwood Mac prepares to go on tour again

Fleetwood Mac prepares to go on tour again

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- After a three-year break, Fleetwood Mac is hitting the road again for a major national tour. It also marks a milestone, the 35th anniversary of the release of "Rumours," one of the most successful albums of all time.

 Fleetwood Mac is preparing to go on a big arena tour, including stops in late May at Anaheim's Honda Center and the Hollywood Bowl.

"It makes you stay young. It makes you stay vibrant. We're in a wonderful, mysterious, crazy band. So we get to stay young because of this," said Stevie Nicks.

On the new tour, you will hear the songs that make up the foundation of the band, but it may have a different feel to it, according to Lindsey Buckingham.

"It's what you do around the edges, the colors that you use to sort of accent everything else that makes the set different," Buckingham said.

 A deluxe re-issue of "Rumours" comes out next week.

 George Pennacchio KABC

Get ready for Fleetwood Mac Friday tomorrow, celebrating the re-release of Rumours.

Get ready for Fleetwood Mac Friday tomorrow, The Sound in Australia is celebrating the re-release of Rumours and they'll be playing back-to-back tracks from the album PLUS un-released audio from the albums recording sessions and un-released live audio from their 1977 world tour and more. Starts at midnight! (Australian time) Listen Live Around The World at The Sound. AND enter the contest on their site to win a copy of the album.

Remember: If you are in North America, Australia can be anywhere from 16 to 19 hours ahead... consult google for the current time in Australia and count back from midnight depending on your location. 

New Photo of Fleetwood Mac + New CBS Interview Scheduled For 1/29

CBS News Correspondent Teresa Garcia just tweeted this photo saying "Just wrapped Fleetwood Mac interview. Band going on 34-city US tour Lindsey, Stevie & Mick".

When asked when or where we would see or read the interview Teresa responded with:

"Broadcast story scheduled for Tuesday January 29th on CBS affiliates nationwide, & possibly international TV affiliates in U.K., Australia, Japan, etc."

Japan?  Really?!... Could that mean their are tour plans for Japan? [just speculating here]. Would be cool, it's been decades since they've been!

They all look great!!  But they're missing John! (He's not a fan of the promotional wheel).