In an eye-popping new memoir, Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery

The rock star who snorted a line of cocaine 7 miles long! In an eye-popping new memoir, Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery... 

By Tom Leonard
The Daily Mail

The Daily Mail - November 7, 2014

Fleetwood Mac were sitting around stoned in the studio one night with one of their engineers when they set about solving an arithmetic problem that had been niggling at them.

How much cocaine, they wondered, had drummer Mick Fleetwood put up his nose? Working on the premise he had taken an eighth of an ounce every day for 20 years, the sound engineer calculated that if you laid out the drug in a single snortable line, it would stretch for seven miles.

Rock ’n’ roll is full of such apocryphal stories, but as Fleetwood admits in a candid new memoir, this one is completely true. But then, this is the band that in 1977 gave the world Rumours, one of the best-selling albums ever, and almost died in the process.

Though they appeared deceptively inoffensive, with their hippy-ish outfits and gentle, melodic hits such as Don’t Stop, Little Lies and Go Your Own Way, when it came to decadence and over-indulgence, Fleetwood Mac made the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin look like a Salvation Army band.

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'As for a new Fleetwood Mac album, Mick is optimistic"

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And he talks about the Fleetwood Mac tour and his secret dream of being in the Rolling Stones.

By James Joiner
Esquire.com

It's safe to say that Mick Fleetwood, drummer and founding member Fleetwood Mac, with 47 years of rock stardom under his belt, has stories to share. And so he does in his new autobiography Play On, an intimate trip through memories that also double as an inside guide to one of the most influential periods and bands in music history, as told by one of its most pivotal figures. It's all there. And now that Fleetwood Mac are back together touring, it's all relevant again.

"With Christine McVie coming back, we're all intact, so it's really thought-provoking. I probably won't properly digest it all until six months into this phase, but in real time it's amazing. She's so happy to be doing what she's doing, and she's a really great influence on all of us. She's like a little kid. Not that we're all jaded and don't like doing this, but it does step up the action a bit. Stevie [Nicks] is overjoyed. She says on stage, 'I've missed having another blonde in the band.' So it's all good. You know, we'll have to be really stupid or try really hard to fuck this one up.

"All joking aside, it's truly amazing. The relationship with our audience has never been shabby. It's fair to say this particular band, maybe more than quite a lot of other bands, there's a lot of personal storytelling that people feel very connected to outside of the music. It's like performance art, it's really profound, and that's what we're in right now, which you can have no complaint about."

As for a new Fleetwood Mac album, Mick is optimistic. Surprisingly so.

"We have a whole lot of material from Lindsey [Buckingham] and me and John [McVie] from the last two and a half years, and also Christine, when she came to LA a little while ago. We have a whole bunch of tracks. We're hoping... We don't really know how it's going to be placed. My hope is, of course, that it becomes a full-fledged Fleetwood Mac offering. There's really not much time now, this tour is unfolding as we speak, but my heart tells me that, within the next couple of years or less, there will be a really, really cool Fleetwood Mac album. And that's certainly my hope."

Until then, we asked Mick Fleetwood to share and talk about the drummers who have inspired him throughout his career. 

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Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood chronicles life in "Play On"
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Mick Fleetwood on meeting Stevie Nicks for the first time: She's magnetic and gorgeous, but it was a musical dialogue that struck me.

Fleetwood Mac has sold more than 140 million records worldwide. The supergroup is known for its music, and for its wild ways off stage, too. Now in a new memoir drummer and bandleader Mick Fleetwood looks back at a long journey.

For nearly 50 years Mick Fleetwood has provided the beat and backbone for one of the world's most successful bands.

At just 15 years old, Fleetwood left home for London to become a drummer. There, he met bassist John McVie, forming a lifelong friendship and the band that would bear their names.

For eight years, through drugs, discord and affairs, they endured a constantly changing lineup.

They finally struck the right chord with McVie's wife, Christine, and Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

While their hard-partying became the stuff of rock and roll legend, it was their infamous love affairs that inspired "Rumours." The 1977 album sat at number one for 31 weeks and is the ninth best-selling album of all time.

Hits like "Go Your Own Way" captured their turmoil, which ultimately proved to be too much.

Fleetwood's new memoir, "Play On," chronicles the band's often painful past -- with a happy ending.

For the first time in 16 years, the band is back together and the beat goes on.

Video: Mick Fleetwood on BBC Breakfast November 5, 2014

Mick Fleetwood on never playing the same way twice
5 November 2014

BBC Breakfast

For many people, the songs of Fleetwood Mac are the sounds of the sixties and seventies, but they were a band who have been almost as famous for their relationships and break ups as their music.

The drummer, and founder member, Mick Fleetwood has steered the band through the trials and tribulations and line-up changes ever since.

He told BBC Breakfast that he still never plays a song the same way twice and spoke about life in Fleetwood Mac and the rumours that used to surround them.

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TODAY: Stevie Nicks FACEBOOK Q&A (Nov 5th 3:45 PM EST)

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Stevie week continues on Wednesday November 5th with a Facebook Q&A beginning at 3:45pm ET.  

Tonight she's on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tuesday morning she's on "Today" with Kathie Lee and Hoda (10-11am hour) and now a Facebook Q&A on Wednesday - which is a FIRST!!

Head on over to her official Facebook Page... Like it... and check in on Wednesday afternoon.  This is pretty exciting actually! She's never done anything like this before. Think of something cool to ask her other than the usual questions which she's answered a million times before.  She's obviously promoting the new album, so maybe now that you've had a month to listen to it, you are left with questions about something on the album, or a song... or maybe it's about what she plans on doing in the future solo wise.

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