Mick Fleetwood's relationship w/ Stevie Nicks detailed in his NEW Autobiography by @HodderBooks and @littlebrown

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The full and intimate autobiography of the legendary Mick Fleetwood:
The only original remaining member of super group Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood's book spans his chequered 40 year career as one of rock's greatest drummers and co-founder of the notorious group that bears his name. In this candid portrait of a life lived in music, Mick Fleetwood describes growing up in Cornwall, Egypt and Norway where his obsession wth drumming began, to his early days as a musician in Sixties London gigging with the Yardbirds and learning the blues from John Mayall. Among other subjects, Mick's close relationship with George Harrison, his marriage to Jenny Boyd and his relationship with Stevie Nicks are revealed. Including behind-the-scenes moments from Fleetwood Mac's sell out 2013 tour, his memoir sheds new light on Fleetwood's history as well as personal insights from a man who has been a major player in blues and rock n' roll since his teens. Mick describes the multiple incarnations of Fleetwood Mac: the early successes, the creative collaborations and confrontations, the intense loves and destructive feuds. Drugs, bankruptcy, madness and heartbreak frequently threatened to end it all, but through sheer love and determination one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time has endured.

Release Date: September/October, 2014
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (UK and AU) | Little Brown and Company (US and CA)
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Pages: 320

AmazonUK | AmazonUS | AmazonCA each have the release date as October 1, 2014

First mention of Mick's new book was in the Sunday Times from August 13th.  Read the article here.

Looking forward to this... 

Review: Fleetwood Mac eert vol verve eigen erfenis in Ziggo Dome

Fleetwood Mac brings Ziggo Dome in seventies spheres
by Liza De Boer
(Original Review: Metronieuws) Photo: epa

(Google Translation)

"Fleetwood Mac has often been apart, and every time we get back together is different." These are the words of singer / guitarist Lindsey Buckingham that yesterday with his band shone in the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. Their world tour will focus their successful album Rumours that worldwide more than forty million copies sold was in the seventies. And still, they let the hearts of the become older fans beat faster.

Long hair, leather jackets and boots with strings, so does the average Fleetwood Mac fans out there about. The audience consists mainly of old hippie middle-aged couples, but also runs occasional young people between. The beer flows freely and everyone is anxiously waiting for the rock band that already exists more than 46 years. The room is dark, but the stage is illuminated by all the cameras flash. If you look at the fans of Fleetwood Mac, you would think that they are walking around with an analog camera, but they also went along with their time.

Suddenly the crowd begins to cheer hard and get the stars. It seems as if time has stood still: singer Stevie Nicks still has her angelic appearance. With her long black dress and long blond hair dancing to the beat of her tambourine. See the other band members there is something older. Especially the hair of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie have lost all their color.

But that age is certainly not to hear the music, the band still plays very tight with no errors. The voice of Nicks sounds the same at age 65, although they may treble drops. The famous hit Dreams are the years to feel. Seventy strong vibes Especially when someone in the audience a joint rears and the smell of cannabis fills the room.

The highlight of the evening is the acoustic solo of the song Big Love that Buckingham plays. The old rocker is completely in his element and plays down the house. Also Nicks is still the magic dreamy hippie girl is dancing on stage. An emotional moment is when she embraces her ex Buckingham. But also special, because the real fans know that the two ever had a severe namely brief relationship. And that passion is still felt in the room.

Fleetwood Mac works passionately own legacy in Ziggo Dome

(Original Review: AD.NL) Photos: ANP

(Google Translation)

Is this the last time? It is the question that is equally topical again at every tour of Fleetwood Mac. Indeed, the band built their fortune on their tumultuous relationships with the brilliant album Rumours from 1977.

Since then keeps the number band explosions neatly pace with the number reunifications and is the Rumours-composition still for 80 percent complete. Only Christine McVie lacked last night in a full Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. In London made ​​the keyboardist - since 1998 not part more of the group - previous month yet equally her appearance during Do not Stop, but of a renewed accession is no question so also the written by her hits Little Lies and You Make Lovin Fun untouched remained. 

Nostalgia 

An even more pressing question: is a night Fleetwood Mac a nostalgiebad or the resurrection of a legendary group? The answer to that question actually was already in the merchandise booth where only the albums Rumours - that Fleetwood Mac in a battle transformed from finely tuned folk formation to rock band with stadium range - and Tusk (1979) were available. The overture of the concert confirmed the suspicion immediately three songs from Rumours:. Second Hand News, The Chain and Dreams. 

Own legacy 

with the verse written jumpy Sad Angel tried then to prove that there is enough new life is in the group, the quartet but the forties and fifties in the hall knew enough:. Fleetwood Mac was especially come to honor his legacy and that worked with gusts particularly well. Stevie Nicks sang Dreams delicious dreamy, fetched fashioned from during Rhiannon and had her tambourine features a new bouquet-colored ribbons. Lindsay Buckingham now carries the role of frontman and did his best as many songs a lesson in pop history to be accompanied. The band made ​​himself the least bit easy from and chose a set of about 2 hours and 3 minutes. Seven still always irresistible numbers of Rumours contained which eventually. All performed with craftsmanship and ovational welcomed. Thus fell it actually nobody on that the real magic out Fleetwood Mac has long been disappeared. On 26 October plays Fleetwood Mac again in the Ziggo Dome. This concert is sold out.

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Photos by Raymond Olphen

Review: Fleetwood Mac at its best in Ziggo Dome

Fleetwood Mac Live in Amsterdam
Monday, October 7, 2013 - Ziggo Dome

By: NU.nl / Pierre Oitmann

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With all relationship troubles and hassles at the end of the 70s it is surprising that the members of Fleetwood Mac still want to share the stage with each other but in the Ziggo Dome is the band on fire.

That missed the British-American band a bit when a few years ago the Rotterdam Ahoy was done. Fleetwood Mac did when at the beginning of the show more like a group of islands in a vast ocean than the metaphorical solid rock formation that the public Monday sees the Ziggo Dome.

With all the members from the acclaimed star formation, minus Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac is at its best. As low opening song Second Hand News shows the collective not just a bunch of musicians that because of the jubilee album Rumours (now 36 years old) sharing the stage, but a close-knit group.

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That was fun while still ever present, drummer, co-founder and co-namesake Mick Fleetwood but also the relationship between singer / guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks seems completely restored. Perhaps the old adage still true that time heals all wounds.

Modest

The majority of the large Fleetwood Mac hits is in the first half of the show. Fans do not have to wait long for accurately played versions of pop classics like Dreams , Rhiannon and a pompous implementation of Tusk . From the same album follow immediately afterwards Sisters Of The Moon and Sara , the modest highlight of the evening.

Although can be. Several times during this show labeled highlights The phenomenal solo acoustic version of Big Love by Buckingham example, where the kitschy 80's production is replaced by an arrangement that recalls to Bruce Springsteen's folk album Nebraska .

Disadvantage

The poignant Landslide and enchanting Gold Dust Woman also among the strongest moments, while Go Your Own Way as the general public is favorite. It can be considered that the passing hits early in the show, but as a drawback the tension still remains intact.

Nicks is particularly good voice, though the vocals of Buckingham clearly more ago. Just a few moments can be experienced as a nuisance. The members of Fleetwood Mac have the glorious past a given place and the chemistry between the band members is palpable to the back rows of the Ziggo Dome.

A little Cologne never hurt anyone..

A few really great captures from Fleetwood Mac's first German show in Cologne Sunday night.  The little chase at the end of Go Your Own Way is cute!

Love this... "SO AFRAID" 

"SAD ANGEL"

"GO YOUR OWN WAY"

Review | Video: Fleetwood Mac Live in Cologne "Fleetwood Mac showed that their power is by no means exhausted"

Fleetwood Mac convince the tour opener in Cologne
by Mark Ludwig
Nordbayern.de (original review)
Photo: Marius Becker

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COLOGNE  - It took only a few drums - and the fans of the rock band Fleetwood Mac felt the Germany tour kick-off on Sunday evening set in the sold-out Lanxess Arena in another time.

"Second Hand News," the song that opens the legendary 1977 released album "Rumours" was the start of a journey into the pop and rock world of the 1970s.

However, about two and a half hour show had no means dust. On the contrary, Fleetwood Mac showed that their power is by no means exhausted. Even with the fans, the band founded in 1967, has apparently still not lost their appeal. About 15,000 listeners had come to the concert in Cologne.

In London as a surprise as the former band member Christine McVie came on stage for a song, it was not though. But singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass - both belong since its founding in 1967 on the band - made it even live to elicit their songs the atmospheric density and brittleness, which they so special titles making.

Whether "Rhiannon," "Go Your Own Way," "Gypsy" or "Do not Stop" as an encore - almost all the major hits of the band was inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame» 1998, to hear . The focus was mainly the songs from the album "Rumours", which is around 40 million copies sold worldwide as one of the most successful albums in pop history.

In addition, the fans were excited about several songs from the 1979 released album "Tusk". Thus, as Buckingham, you have shown that you sometimes had to prevail against the record labels - and not always allowed to continue only that, what is going well.

Besides the big hits, there were also pieces of its new, digitally released 4-song EP, "Extended Play". Two songs the band has recorded over the course of the tour program. "Sad Angels" proved to be a rousing and catchy pop tune. "Without You", however, is a newly discovered piece which Buckingham and Nicks in 1974, recordings as a demo version.

The audience, many of them between 50 and 60 years old, Fleetwood Mac elicited with long applause finally four encores. With the delicate "Say Goodbye" the British-American band released the fans into the night. Fleetwood Mac is still in Stuttgart (October 14) and Berlin (16 October) to live.

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LANDSLIDE:
BIG LOVE
DON'T STOP

Review: FLEETWOOD MAC AT THE LANXESS-ARENA with hippie nostalgia Housekeeper

by Christian Bos
KSTA.de

(google translation)

The relationship boxes with Fleetwood Mac are one of the biggest soap operas in rock history. Now the aging blues band played in the sold-out Lanxess Arena and showed that the blended family still works well.

Cologne - Never stop on, to think about the future, warns the hit of Fleetwood Mac. Bill Clinton is drawn to the forward march sounds of "Do not Stop" to the White House. At his inauguration ceremony he was Stevie Nicks' hit with silks behangenes tambourine. However, the future often hides behind more bends than they could be as simple and easy as the politicians promise before the election. How could the members of Fleetwood Mac have guessed that they sold out to the Cologne Lanxessarena and numerous other buildings of similar size would blow the private storms of 1976?

At that time the songwriting pair Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks separated loud and ugly after eight years together, was the marriage of bassist John and pianist Christine McVie on the rocks, experienced drummer and band founder Mick Fleetwood that his wife cheated on him with his best friend . Soon after, he began a secret affair with Stevie Nicks. There were no debates, instead consoled themselves with the fragmented band members cocaine in Tony Montana amounts and wrote you-can-me-by-messages to the exes: "You Can Go Your Own Way". Amazingly enough, that it was an album, and not just any, but "Rumours", one of the biggest selling albums of all time and, as an American critic noted, "the biggest soap opera in rock history".

And so are the victims and perpetrators of that love affairs almost 40 years later, still on stage, alone,Christine McVie has long been tired, and open up on time at 19.15 clock with "Second Hand News." For much thousandth time Lindsay Buckingham Stevie Nicks sings a contemptuous "I will not miss you when you're gone" - and dancing shortly after a small clip blues with his long exes. Age grief connects.

And drives. Well, Mick Fleetwood (66) now requires a second guitar amplifiers hidden behind the drummer, who now and then helps him keep rhythm. And Stevie Nicks (65) rotates only in slow motion on their platform soles. But Lindsay Buckingham, only a year younger, titscht still as a man driven over the stage and the whole band sounds so punchy and alive, as if they had just awakened from a California Kryokonservierungsklinik. Maybe it's the long pauses that have individual members indulged repeatedly from one another. In any case, you can feel it yet, but the explosive animated family dynamics constitutes the Seventies With this version of Fleetwood Mac. 

Stevie Nicks bewusstseinstromernde songs - "Dreams," "Rhiannon," "Sara," "Gypsy" - contrast well with Buckingham's edgy, edgy pieces, "Not That Funny" and "Tusk" from the same, highly experimental triple album to Fleetwood Mac of her sudden superstar status to "Rumours" recovered. "Big Love," the last real hit of the band from 1987, Buckingham plays solo on acoustic guitar, aggressive and virtuosic. Also this song, says Buckingham, had once written as a rejection of love. Today the cynicism is gone, the love is still there, even if it is exhausting. After he shakes the aching fingers for plucking.

Anyone up to the stoic John McVie turns out that evening the family circle of colleagues and tens of thousands of fans. Stevie nicks once told how she had Buckingham funneled to the band, although she was still only been a "hippie cleaning lady." After two to three quarters of an hour they thank and Mick Fleetwood once more wordy the audience, Buckingham writes on stage autographs. "Dreamcatcher" are, praises the woman who "Dreams" has written her audience. And the tall Fleetwood bows with a bright red cylinder waving as if he could still not believe it, what has become of the little blue band he co-founded in 1967, how much unexpected, happy future Fleetwood Mac now already behind them, and how well they blended family still works.