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Monday, February 11, 2013

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"RUMOURS" AROUND THE WORLD - UK Sales Update

Debut Chart Postions and Updates on Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" Re-Release.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" remains within the UK's Top 10 for a second week on the Top 100 Albums Chart moving from #3 to #5 and selling 21,945 units down only slightly from last weeks 25,675. Two week UK total = 47,620. Not bad for a 36 year old album!

The album debuts at #12 in Ireland on the Top 100 Albums Chart and in Belgium the album zooms up to #18 after re-entering the Top 200 at #72 last week. The album also debuts in Canada at #33 and in Australia this week at #18 plus in Norway at #24. Rumours drops 10 places in the Netherlands to #17 in it's second week back on the chart after debuting in the #7 position on last weeks Top 40 Albums Chart.

Media traffic estimates that Fleetwood Mac's Rumours sold 43,000 copies in the first week of re-release in the countries they monitor giving it a #18 position on the World Albums Chart.

As previously reported, Rumours debuted this week at #40 in the US on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart.

Steven Tyler to join Mick Fleetwood Blues Band as a special guest - Wednesday!

“Sweet Emotions” are starting to flow now that it’s just been announced legendary Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will be a special guest at the Fleetwood @ the MACC show at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

“Get comfortable with legendary Fleetwood Mac founder-drummer and Maui resident and entrepreneur, Mick Fleetwood, in a living room setting on stage,” states a “hot-off-the-press” email release sent out from the Maui Arts & Cultural Center this morning.

“Mick Fleetwood will talk story about his world travels, and there will be behind the scenes antics and musical influences. Then the 2010 Grammy Award nominated Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, featuring Rick Vito on guitar and vocals, Lenny Castellanos on bass and vocals and Mark Johnstone on keyboards and vocals, will perform their hits.” Rumour has it that Christine will also be up their jamming!

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NEW on BBC Radio 2: Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop - Feb 17th

Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop
Duration: 1 hour, 56 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 17 February 2013 15:00 (3pm)
BBC Radio 2 - Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70's

Johnnie Walker re-visits the decade that brought us Pan's People, Punk and Pink Floyd. This week's show is dedicated to one of the most enduring and beloved albums of the 1970's: 'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac.

35 years on, with 45 million copies sold, the confessional 1977 LP from a band embroiled in personal drama still sounds as compelling and fresh as it did on release. Johnnie talks to the drummer who leant his name to the band, Mick Fleetwood, about how the album came to be written.

'Rumours' was the work of the second incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, at the turn of the 1970's founder member and blues guitarist Peter Green left the band. The next few years gave a flavour of what was to come; a revolving door of troubled band members and relationship drama. In 1974 Mick Fleetwood, along with John and Christine McVie recruited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks and 'Rumours'-era Fleetwood Mac was born. Mick talks to Johnnie about life in the Fleetwood Mac bubble, from the relationship dynamics of the band to drug abuse and rock and roll decadence and the strange alchemy that produced such iconic songs as 'Dreams', 'Go Your Own Way' and 'The Chain'.

Listen in on February 17th

Fleetwood Mac Live in Portland June 30th - AMEX Pre-sale Begins Today!

Fleetwood Mac Live in Portland
Sunday, June 30, 2013 - Rose Garden

AMEX Pre-Sale begins today February 11th at 10am running until Friday February 15th 10pm.

Live Nation / Venue / Radio Presale begins Wednesday, February 13th 10am ending Friday February 15th 10pm. General On-Sale date Saturday, February 16th 10am.

Tickets sold through Comcast Tickets

Live Nation Pre-Sale Code = DAZZLE

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Fleetwood Mac Live 1977 Rumours Tour: "This is the holy grail for Mac fans"

Fleetwood Mac, “Rumors: Deluxe Anniversary Edition” (Warner Bros., three discs).

It’s certainly not news that Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” is a pop masterpiece, a high-water mark in the annals of ’70s California-based rock and pop. Very few self-respecting record collectors or rock historians would consider their collection complete without it. We all know the story of its creation – how the songs reflected the romantic turmoil within the band, as various relationships crumbled, principally the very torrid one between singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham. What we may not know is what a fantastic live ensemble this particular lineup of Fleetwood Mac was. This new anniversary edition gives us a beautifully remastered version of the original album, with the inclusion of the revered outtake “Silver Springs” tacked on, and a whole disc’s worth of alternate versions and outtakes, too. But the grand prize is the full live concert from the 1977 “Rumors” world tour, which takes up a full disc. This is the holy grail for Mac fans, and makes the anniversary edition a must-have. 4 stars (Jeff Miers - The Buffalo News).

The Live component of the re-release can be streamed in it's entirety at Rolling Stone.

Rumours Expanded Edition (3XCD) Available now at Amazon or iTunes

Fleetwood Mac Kehren Zuruck
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Morgenpost am Sonntag Feb 9, 2013
(Germany)

Despite tragedies, drug excesses and separations it Fleetwood Mac 1977 managed to take one of the most successful pop albums. Now the united band is back on tour and released anniversary edition is one of "Rumours". "Go Your Own Way" and "Dreams" - these sellers are selling the album "Rumours" publish 45 million times, although it appeared 36 years ago, Fleetwood Mac a "35th Anniversary Edition" with three albums (including session recordings and live recordings). As a blues band Fleetwood Mac 1967 have begun. After Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks got on and changed the sound toward Softpop and mainstream rock, came the great success. Even the album "Fleetwood Mac" could sit up, followed with "Rumours" then the climax: 31 weeks, the album was number one on the Billboard charts and received a Grammy. In the list of "500 greatest albums of all time" by the magazine "Rolling Stone" is "Rumours" in the top 30 During the recording there was the purest sense of chaos. Singer Stevie Nicks has compared the history of Fleetwood Mac with a soap opera: The marriage of Christine and John McVie was as broken as the relationship of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was allegedly having an affair with Stevie Nicks. The well-known in an interview with "U.S. Magazine": "It was quite scandalous and incestuous." All these feelings dramas and separations were finally processed in the songs. The Canadian newspaper "The Globe and Mail" called "Rumours" even the "unofficial soundtrack to the distinctive culture". The History of Fleetwood Mac but is not over: The band, which was recorded in 1998 in the "Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame", has reunited and goes on To urnee - to Germany. In October, she will be in Cologne, Stuttgart and Berlin - but without Christine McVie.

Daily Express Feb 9, 2013
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