Fleetwood Mac's 25 Year Old "Greatest Hits" Album Back in Australian Top 10 PLUS Tusk Love in UK

AUSTRALIA - October 14, 2013

Fleetwood Mac have albums spread all over the Australian charts this week which has been the case for most of the last year. 1988's "Greatest Hits" album, which was released 25 years ago this year leaps 71 places from No.80 back into the Top 10 this week at No.9. "25 Years - The Chain" box set moves down to No.22 from No.14 last week with The Very Best Of rounding out a trio of albums in the Top 100 this week coming in at No.98.

On the Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart, Fleetwood Mac's "Greatest Hits" takes over the No.1 spot from last week's No.1 album Fleetwood Mac's "25 Years - The Chain" box set.

TOP 100 ALBUM CHARTS
# 9 (80) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
#22 (14) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The Chain
#98 (84) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 50 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 4 (34)  Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 1 (19) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 4 (1)  Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The Chain
#33 (24) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD'S CHART
# 6 (8) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
#27 (24) Sound City - Real to Reel (Feat. Fleetwood Mac)

NEW ZEALAND - October 14, 2013

TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
#11 (9) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The Chain

CANADA - October 6, 2013
It's it's fifth week on the Canadian charts, Fleetwood Mac's "Opus Collection" moves down to No.195 from No.160 last week.

TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
#195 (160) Fleetwood Mac - Opus Collection (Starbucks Exclusive)

TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
#40  (31)  Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
#133 (140) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
#141 (101) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

U.S.A. - October 19, 2013
Fleetwood Mac's "Opus Collection" the Starbucks exclusive release drops off the Top 200 this week after spending four weeks on the chart - but "Rumours" keeps on selling, up to No.37 this week from No.46 on the Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart.

TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 37 (46) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

UK - October 19, 2013
Nice to see "Tusk" getting some love in the UK.  Haven't seen this album on any official album chart in a few years.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 37 (21) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The Chain
# 79 (59) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - October 12, 2013
# 2  - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 32 - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

SCOTLAND - October 19, 2013

TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
# 20 (11) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The Chain
# 24 (15) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

Fleetwood Mac Worldwide iTunes Performance
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BREAKING: Flying Bras Distract Lindsey Buckingham During Fleetwood Mac Show @FleetwoodMac

Too funny!... Lindsey doesn't know what to make of it with the flying bras coming his way.  This took place on his Birthday in Glasgow, Scotland October 3rd.  Made the show memorable for him I'm sure.  

Okay... Who went home Bra-less from the show?

Review | Video | Photos: The wounds of the past seem healed: Fleetwood Mac at the Hallenstadion

Fleetwood Mac Live in Zurich, Switzerland
October 13, 2013 - Hallenstadion

The wounds of the past seem healed: Fleetwood Mac at the Hallenstadion
by Stefan Künzli
Aargauer Zeitung

(Google Translation:)
The British-American band Fleetwood was in Zurich a live comeback with several lengths. The indoor stadium was completely gestuhlt with 7500 spectators and was almost sold out.

With "Second Hand News" was the legendary album "Rumours" opened in 1977, was now made the song also the start of the comeback concert in the Hallenstadion.

It started the nostalgic trip back to the pop and rock world of the 1970s and the memory of the greatest soap opera in pop history.

Because the song was guitarist Lindsey Buckingham addressed to his Elapsed time, singer Stevie Nicks, you had just been separated from him with a roar. "I will not miss you when you're gone," he sang for 36 years on and danced with her ​​a few songs engumschlugen later stage's songs, "Rumours", one of the most successful albums in pop history, but were only very thin thread of comeback concert.

Hits such as "Dreams" Nicks or "Go Your Own Way" by Buckingham were frenetically celebrated by the audience, but the songs of Christine McVie, the third major songwriter of the cult band missed. So the most important songs like "Oh Daddy," "Songbird" and "You Make Loving Fun." After her "Do not Stop" was played as an encore. Christine McVie had no desire to make a comeback. Quite in contrast to the two English founding members Mick Fleetwood (drums), her ex-husband John McVie (bass), as well as the two Americans Buckingham and Nicks, which are obviously having fun preparing to be back on stage together.

Especially Buckingham was highly motivated and shone with solo deposits.

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Mick Fleetwood said in an interview with the "North West Switzerland» that «some songs only really sound good today."

He has not promised too much. But not because the band would have been better, but because it was over extended earlier.

Off the headlights had a keyboardist, guitarist, another support Buckinham, two backing singers made ​​for the full vocal harmonies and even hidden behind amplifiers grooving another drummer. Thus, the sounds in the Hallenstadion worked amazingly dense, compact and fresh. During the nearly two and a half hour show, although many of the hits were played, but the concert had on several lengths - especially for the lesser-known songs of the album "Tusk".

This follow-up album "Rumours" in 1979 was a commercial flop, has developed with its easy experimental bond over the years become a cult album for insiders.

"Let's celebrate Tusk," Buckingham said. But the audience wanted to hear at the Hallenstadion in the first place the songs from "Rumours".

So only came towards the end of the concert atmosphere, and real and "Go Your Own Way", the last piece before the encore, the audience raised from their seats. Nevertheless, Fleetwood Mac played not only the nostalgia card. With "Sad Angels" and "Without You," she also presented two pieces of their new, digitally released 4-song extra plate (EP) "Extended Play".

While "Without You", a previously unreleased number of Buckingham and Nicks, was recorded in 1974, "Sad Angels" is really new.

A rousing uptempo party number that leaves you wanting more. "We are working on new song material," Buckingham said.

Maybe it create Fleetwood Mac still, record a new album with new songs. The wounds of the past seem in any case healed in four.

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Die Wunden von damals scheinen geheilt: Fleetwood Mac im Hallenstadion

Die britisch-amerikanische Band Fleetwood gab in Zürich ein Live-Comeback mit etlichen Längen. Das Hallenstadion war vollständig gestuhlt und war mit 7500 Zuschauern fast ausverkauft. von Stefan Künzli

Aargauer Zeitung

NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN
RHIANNON
GO YOUR OWN WAY
WITHOUT YOU... (partial intro with Mick Fleetwood now in the mix plus the song)
DON'T STOP (Band intro included)

What a wonderful piece of footage via @texasarchive! Fleetwood Mac Dallas 1980 Stevie Nicks Interview

This footage, taped for the CBS-affiliate KDFW, contains a short, unedited interview with Stevie Nicks, the frontwoman for the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Taped just after the band’s arrival in Dallas for a concert at the Reunion Arena in August 1980, the interview focuses on Fleetwood Mac’s decision to return to touring, the importance of playing live shows, and chemistry amongst members of the band. Nicks, who spent several of her childhood years in Texas, also briefly mentions the band’s preference for playing in the Lone Star State.

• Fleetwood Mac’s plane arrives at the Dallas airport 
• The pilot snaps some personal pictures of the band from the cockpit  
• Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie exit the plane  
• Interview with Stevie Nicks begins  
• Ruddy questions Nicks about how the band is getting along  
• Nicks talks about playing in Texas  
• Fans take pictures as the band prepares to leave the airport  
• Christine McVie in the limo  
• John McVie in the limo  
• Stevie Nicks gets in the car to leave  
• Lindsey Buckingham gives fans autographs 

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Review: HIER SOIR À PARIS… FLEETWOOD MAC

LAST NIGHT IN PARIS ... FLEETWOOD MAC
by Benjamin Locoge
Paris Match

There are four years, Fleetwood Mac gave a concert at the Zenith in Paris, the first after nearly 30 years of absence in France. Last night Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood had targeted larger, invading Bercy (sitting configuration), which did not display completely full at the start of the show. Surrounded by four additional musicians, Fleetwood Mac started out with a bang, linking three tracks on the album "Rumours" recently reissued. The sound is powerful, bass shook the bleachers, and Mick Fleetwood hits his drums with the precision of a metronome.

Photo by Amandine Reins
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Come hand in hand, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks take center stage in turn. Buckingham, a cross between Sting and Art Garfunkel will show throughout the 2:30 show what a great guitarist he is. Accurate, it has a unique sound and deliver solo anthology ("Big Love" alone on stage), cheered by 10,000 spectators. Nothing to say no more about Nicks who carry the crowd with a stripped down rendition of "Landslide" sublime. Very comfortable, she says her love paris, dedicating a song to Anthony, a server she met on the Ile St Louis or launches into a very, very long explanation before song "Without You."

But after an hour and a quarter together, the atmosphere begins to fall. Already she was not boiling hot, the fans of FM being rather discrete nature of ... Stretching titles, Fleetwood Mac tired and bordering on unbearable with too lengthened versions of "Gold Dust Woman" and "I'm so afraid. " A "Go your own way" at the end of a little set back on the flame, like "Do not stop." But nothing to do, if Fleetwood Mac has always been a blues band since its inception in 1968, this furrow dug too last night in Paris was ultimately boring and disappointing. Damage.

(Original Review)
HIER SOIR À PARIS… FLEETWOOD MAC
Paris Match

DREAMS

THE CHAIN

WORLD TURNING

DON'T STOP

REVIEW: An evening of perfect songs with Fleetwood Mac Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy

By Sylvain Siclier
Le Monde.fr

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As recalled at one time the singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, the story of Fleetwood Mac has consistently been full of ups and downs. For ten years, it is rather high, which dominates with three world tours in large rooms.

That of 2003-2004, with nearly one hundred forty concerts found himself in the twenty-five while generating the most revenue. The 2009 not far from aligned ninety dates, almost as much as the course in 2013, which began on April 4 at Columbus (Ohio) and the expected time until December 7 in Auckland, New Zealand .

In 2009, Fleetwood Mac had his Parisian stage at the Zenith. This time it is the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, the capacity of more than double when the pop-rock band played Friday, Oct. 11. From the documents filmed on phones that run on the Internet, the show does not vary from one night to another.

With twenty-two or twenty-three songs, most of which are tubes ( Second Hand News, Dreams, Rhiannon, Tusk, Sara, Gypsy, Go Your Own Way, Do not Stop ...) or sound familiar (Sisters of The Moon, Landslide, Eyes Of The World, Gold Dust Woman, Silver Springs ...) for two hours from concert.

Two of the four new songs sold on iTunes since late April are also the directory, the first since the last album date training Say You Will (2003). Sad Angel and Without You (not to be confused with a theme of the group in 1969, when he was a blues band led by guitarist Peter Green) sound like songs that have been included in major albums in the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.

There, at the end of the concert, the song during World Turning , a drum solo from Mick Fleetwood, one of the founders of the group in London in 1967. Today, only the hard rock bands still allow this time with Mick Fleetwood happens not to be too long chore. Because he is a craftsman of the first regular strikes, powerful, a drummer who accompanies others and do not play the demo. There is a well calibrated thanks to speech "best audience of the tour in the most beautiful city of the tour" . Nobody is fooled but that's part of the show.

Spins DANCING

There also has some long stories told by the group Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks, whose joint arrival in 1975, in the training party is to settle in the United States, corresponded to its global expansion. There is the impassive presence of bassist John McVie, also the first steps of Fleetwood Mac in England and one member, with Mick Fleetwood to have experienced all the various incarnations of the band. Dancing and whirling Stevie Nick, with top hat and tambourine, Short-billed no more today than it was decades.

And then there is, first and foremost, a perfect collection of songs, which occasionally take a little bite when Buckingham propels some solos (in finger-style playing, a bit like the flamenco guitar). Songs that mix pop and folk, country and rock vocal harmonies reinforced by two singers.

Music that appeals to fans of Californian rock 1970s, which saw spending a lot of musical modes without s' efforts to run after. She is played by sixties, which means voice are still there, as well as the ease of instrumentalist.

(Original Review)
Une soirée de chansons parfaites avec Fleetwood Mac au Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Le Monde.fr

RHIANNON

LANDSLIDE
BIG LOVE
GO YOUR OWN WAY