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Reviews, Videos, Photos Fleetwood Mac Live in Auckland, NZ

Fleetwood Mac Live in Auckland, NZ
November 21st and 22nd - 2015. Final shows for the On With The Show Tour.

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Review Fleetwood Mac Live in Auckland, NZ November 21, 2015

Review: Fleetwood Mac in Auckland
by Lydia Jenkin
NZHerald

The title of Fleetwood Mac's current 15-month world tour 'On With The Show' felt especially fitting as the heavens opened above Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland last night in a pre-summer monsoon.

But the rain did little to dampen the spirits of the 38,000 people who'd turned out for the second to last night of the tour - the biggest crowd the legendary five-piece have played to since they reunited in September 2014.

They might've been getting soaked, but for many this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie all together once more, and they were ready to let the rain wash them clean, go their own way, and break some chains.

And so were Fleetwood Mac. Their two hour set was laden with hits, and right from opener The Chain, it was clear the five longtime band mates and past lovers have put the years of turbulence well behind them, and now delight in giving these songs a truly heartfelt rendition.

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Download Alternate Version of Fleetwood Mac's TUSK Today with iTunes pre-order

Lindsey Buckingham on Fleetwood Mac's Risk-Taking Classic Album 'Tusk': Exclusive Premiere
Billboard.com

Lindsey Buckingham has long told the story of reaction inside and around Fleetwood Mac when 1979's Tusk fell far short of sales for its predecessor, Rumours. "The conventional wisdom was, 'You blew it,'" Buckingham recalls with a laugh. "A lot of people were pissed off at me for that."

Not so now.

Listen to an alternate version of TUSK at Billboard.com and The Guardian

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The often experimental Tusk -- which will be celebrated with a deluxe edition box set on Dec. 4 -- may not have lived up to Rumours​' diamond-certified status, but it was still a double-platinum release that hit No. 1 in the U.K. and No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and spawned a pair of top 10 hits in "Tusk" and "Sara." More importantly it became a sonic inspiration (and has been cited as such) for many that followed and, in Buckingham's mind, gave Fleetwood Mac a broader artistic license that his bandmates would later appreciate.

"For me, being sort of the culprit behind that particular album, it was done in a way to undermine just sort of following the formula of doing Rumours 2 and Rumours 3, which is kind of the business model Warner Bros. would have liked us to follow," Buckingham tells Billboard. "We really were poised to make Rumours 2, and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band. You know, there have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the Tusk album was one of those times."

Coming in three- and five-CD versions -- the latter of which comes packaged with two vinyl LPs and a DVD -- the Tusk (Deluxe Edition) is brimming with outtakes, demos and remixes, particularly of the title track and "I Know I'm Not Wrong." There's also The Alternative Tusk comprised of unreleased outtakes and two discs of live tracks recorded during shows in St. Louis, Omaha, Neb., and London during 1979-90. The studio material in particular demonstrates just how ambitious Buckingham was in making the album, recording vocals in bathrooms and deploying a variety of effects on its 20 songs.

"My big rap on stage was how I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall when Warner Brothers first put that album on in the boardroom, 'cause they really didn't hear it until it was done and we gave it to them," Buckingham says. "From a marketing point of view it was not what they wanted or what they expected. It was a ballsy thing to do."

Tusk has, of course, stood up to the test of time and now enjoys a kind of classic status for its creative adventurousness. Ironically, last spring Fleetwood Mac found itself back in the same studio -- Studio D at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles -- working on new material which has yet to see the light of day, while Buckingham is gratified that high regard has replaced any reservations about Tusk back in the day. 

"I'd like to think the younger generation has certainly been able to understand that, not only in terms of appreciating the music but more importantly understanding why we did it -- just a philosophy of taking risks, which is not something that you necessarily even get the chance to do," Buckingham says. "So it kind of worked out OK, I guess, but it did take some time because it was immediately embraced by a certain faction but it was a much more marginal faction that seems to embrace it now, from what I can tell."

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Fleetwood Mac relive Tusk in January's @MOJOMagazine - On Sale 24th Nov.

FLEETWOOD MAC Take a trip to “complete crazy land” as we relive the making of Tusk.

Fleetwood Mac are featured in the upcoming January issue of Mojo Magazine talking about the creation of Tusk and the height of Rumours.

This issue featuring David Bowie on the cover is on sale in the UK beginning Tuesday, November 24th.

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Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 album Inducted into Grammy Hall of Fame

THE RECORDING ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2016 GRAMMY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

26 Recordings Added to the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® Residing at the GRAMMY Museum®

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Nov. 18, 2015) — Continuing the tradition of preserving and celebrating timeless recordings, The Recording Academy® has announced the newest additions to its vaunted GRAMMY Hall Of Fame®. This latest round of inducted recordings continues to highlight diversity and recording excellence, and acknowledges both singles and album recordings of all genres at least 25 years old that exhibit qualitative or historical significance. Recordings are reviewed annually by a special member committee comprised of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts, with final approval by The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees. With 26 new titles, the list, now in its 43rd year, currently totals 1,013 recordings and is on display at the GRAMMY Museum® at L.A. LIVE.

"The Recording Academy remains dedicated to celebrating a wide variety of great music through the decades," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "Spanning more than 50 years, the 2016 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame entries are an outstanding collection, marked by both historical and cultural significance. These works have influenced and inspired both music creators and fans for generations and we are proud to induct them into our catalog of distinguished recordings."

Representing a great variety of tracks and albums, the 2016 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductees range from the Andrews Sisters' "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)" to the Grateful Dead's American Beauty album. Also added to the highly regarded list are Blondie's "Heart Of Glass," Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful," John Coltrane's 1961 album Lush Life, Roberta Flack's 1969 album First Take, Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 album, and the O'Jays' "For The Love Of Money." Other inductees include recordings by Jimmy Buffett, Fats Domino, Bob Dylan And The Band, John Lee Hooker, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, the Pretenders, and the Zombies, among others.

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003.

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