Fleetwood Mac have 2 albums in the UK Top 50 this week... PLUS Chart Updates for other contries

UK - March 15, 2014
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours takes a giant leap up the Top 100 Albums Chart this week in the UK moving almost 50 place to No.48 this week from No.97 last week.  Clearly all digital sales if you look at the Digital Albums Chart, the album rockets from No.159 last week to No.40 this week.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 45 (37) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 48 (97) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Remastered)

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 18 (21) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 40 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 39 (159) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Remastered)

SCOTLAND - March 15, 2014
TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
# 38 (34) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

USA - March 15, 2014
Stevie's DVD 'In Your Dreams' drops off the Top 40 Music DVD Chart this week after a 12 week run. The good news is that if you have Netflix, the documentary can be streamed online.  Look for it in the documentary section under the documentary subheading 'Music'.

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD SALES CHART
# 26 (20) Sound City - Real To Reel (Feat. Stevie, Lindsey and Mick)

AUSTRALIA - March 10, 2014
For the first time in a really long while Fleetwood Mac don't have an album in the top half of Australia's Top 100 Albums Chart.  "25 Years - The Chain" slides back to No.52 from No.45 last week.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 52 (45) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The Chain [box set]

TOP 50 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 48 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHARTS
# 32 (29) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 36 (40) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 50 (47) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

IRELAND - March 6, 2014
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 53 (42) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

CANADA - March 2, 2014
TOP 150 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 49 (43) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 

Mick Fleetwood: 50 years since the Marquee Club shaped and changed the course of my life

IT WAS 50 years since The Beatles first played the Ed Sullivan Show, and 50 years since the Marquee Club shaped and changed the course of my life.

By: Mick Fleetwood
Published: Sun, March 9, 2014
Sunday Express

It was there I made life-long friends, saved sweethearts and survived fights. It was there I went from complete obscurity to learning the tools of my trade from the musical masters of our time.

The Marquee was the jewel of the London clubs. All the musicians wanted to play there. It was a jazz club until the brilliant, groundbreaking management of John Gee, who guided its metamorphosis into the seminal rock and roll/rhythm and blues club whose influence is still relevant today.

I have a first, stomach-turning memory of playing the Marquee with my band The Cheynes. We had no following and it was a miracle to have been asked to back the legendary blues star Sonny Boy Williamson. This giant of a man played a tiny harmonica and dressed in the coolest suits, all mismatched fabrics in wild designs. We had studied his albums and learned his every note by heart to prepare for this honour.

On the night Sonny Boy went totally off book, dropping into the middle eight at different places. We just didn’t get it and kept trying to play the song the way we had learned it. We even tried to correct him by corralling him back to the way the song was supposed to go.

This did not go over well. He stopped playing in mid-song and bawled us out in front of the audience for not following his lead, not listening or watching for his signals.

The Marquee Club relocated to Wardour Street, where I saw the greats: Zoot Money and Cyril Davies, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, the Stones, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Mick Taylor, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues, John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers just to name a few. So many screaming fans, crammed into that tiny sweatbox!

Early Fleetwood Mac was actually banned for a time from playing the Marquee. We were opening for John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers. Jeremy Spencer and I had a running joke at every gig involving a sex toy (that we had named Harold) which would be ceremoniously hung on the top of my bass drum for the duration of the show.

People loved Harold but one night, Jeremy appeared on stage with Harold dangling out of his trousers! Suffice it to say that we were severely reprimanded and Harold would never again make an appearance at the Marquee. (Harold’s showbiz life came to a crashing end at an American Southern Baptist college, where we were very nearly arrested for his performance. Poor Harold was too much for them and, much to my wife’s chagrin, he ended his days on show, sitting on our pine corner cabinet).

It’s a funny thing, going back to an iconic place to commemorate the fact that something great happened there.

I remember walking into the Marquee on a rainy day in the early 1980s like a ghost, wandering through a unique moment in time. I was there at the club’s inception and became a part of its history. This was where I came up the ranks, this was where I met John McVie, this was where the rhythm section of Fleetwood Mac was born. I hold it in my heart with utmost gratitude.

Mick Fleetwood joined the Sunday Express (UK) as a guest columnist beginning with his first column on February 16th . Previous columns below:

Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: New Technology 
Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Custom fashion
Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Dreams of vinyl

For more on the Marquee club, check out these websites: the Marquee Club | The Famous Marquee Club

Coming Soon: Mick Fleetwood's Memoir co-written by @AnthonyBozza1 #FleetwoodMac

Mick Fleetwood's Memoir
co-written by Anthony Bozza
Scheduled for release: Fall 2014

A Tweet from Anthony a few days ago indicate things are progressing along...

Looking forward to this!

Having so many good moments sculpting #MickFleetwood's story into prose. #blessed The man is a marvel! Cherish ALL eras @fleetwoodmac
— Anthony Bozza (@AnthonyBozza1) March 4, 2014

UK TV March 8-12: New Show "Discovering: Fleetwood Mac" PLUS Stevie Nicks Soundstage

Discovering: Fleetwood Mac

New. Discussing the soap opera that is Fleetwood Mac’s 46-year history is a big ask for a show of only 30 minutes, but critics Camilla Pia, Will Hodgkinson and John Aizlewood tackle the incredible story tonight. They focus on how the group’s turmoil-filled personal lives were exposed in Rumours, their 1977 masterpiece. - Length 30 mins

Sky Arts 1
March 8th  - 8:30pm
March 9th  - 1:30am
March 11th - 6:00pm
March 12th - 2:00pm

Soundstage Presents Stevie Nicks

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stevie Nicks gives a radiant performance of her greatest hits, proving why she is one of the best-loved female artists in rock history. - Length 1 hour

Sky Arts 1
March 8th  - 9:00pm
March 9th  - 2:00am
March 9th  - 8:30am
March 11th - 6:30pm
March 12th - 2:30pm

AUDIO: Stevie Nicks indicates Fleetwood Mac Tour Rehearsals begin end of Summer, or do they?

Nicky Campbell from BBC 5 Live Breakfast spoke with Stevie Nicks on the Red Carpet at Vanity Fairs Oscar Party on Sunday night. Stevie revealed that Fleetwood Mac will not be playing Glastonbury this year (no surprise), but said one day it'll happen. She also said that tour rehearsals for Fleetwood Mac possibly begin at the end of Summer... Then she almost back tracks a bit as if she's giving away too much information.

BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast

Gold Dust Woman: A Biography of Stevie Nicks Out Oct 21, 2014 #FleetwoodMac

A new biography on the queen of Fleetwood Mac looks like it finally has a release date: October 21, 2014. October 27, 2015

Update: US Amazon now has the book listed as Oct, 2015

AMAZON - Canada | AMAZON - USA | AMAZON - UK

We first told you about the biography back in August, 2012 when details first emerged that St. Martin's Press had acquired the rights to the biography - to be written by Stephen Davis.

Stephen Davis, met Ms. Nicks in the 90s when working on Mick Fleetwood’s autobiography, Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac. This new book will chronicle the songstress’ forty year career, including those ten years she spent shying away from the spotlight after the breakup of her band and the dissolution of both her major love affairs.

Read more from the initial post

Couple of side notes:  Steven Davis on the book cover is spelled wrong, it should be Stephen Davis.  And shouldn't the book be a "Biography" and not an "Autobiography"?