Fleetwood Mac News

Monday, February 22, 2010

(PHOTOS) MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND - SUTTON GRANGE WINERY

THE MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND

FEB 20, 2010, SUTTON GRANGE WINERY

PHOTOS BY: Garry Chapman
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

(PHOTOS) AMAZING IMAGES OF FLEETWOOD MAC IN GLASGOW, 2009

Going Back to October 22, 2009

Fleetwood Mac - Glasgow, Scotland

Really great captures of the band that I haven't seen before...

by Photographer Pauline Keighley

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FLEETWOOD MAC'S "RUMOURS" BACK ON THE CHARTS IN AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA:

ARIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - Week of February 22nd:

"The Very Best Of" is sitting at #9 down 2 spots from last week on the Australian Top 50 Catalogue Charts. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 15.

Also, Fleetwood Mac's 12 times platinum (840,000 units) album Rumours enters the Top 50 Catalogue Chart in Australia at #38 for the week of February 22, 2010.

THE UK
In it's 18th week of release "The Very Best Of" slides from #16 to #25 on the UK Top 75 Chart. When it peaked again last week at #16 sales in the UK were 16,895.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN W/ NONE SALES FIGURES (2009 Best Of Version):
Week 1 #6 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763
Week 2 #10 - Nov 2, 2009 - 17,541
Week 3 #12 - Nov 9, 2009
Week 4 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 5 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 6 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 7 #31 - Dec 7, 2009
Week 8 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 9 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 4, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 1, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 8, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010

Friday, February 19, 2010

(PHOTO) STEVIE NICKS & MICK FLEETWOOD INTERSCOPE AFTER GRAMMY PARTY

Interscope, Geffen, A&M and Beats By Dre Grammy Party

SANTA MONICA, CA - JANUARY 31: Musicians Mick Fleetwood and Steve Nicks attend The Interscope, Geffen, A&M and Beats By Dre Grammy Party at Thom Thom Club on January 31, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.

(AUDIO) MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA

Mick Fleetwood Music Man, Winemaker and Mittagong local
ABC.net.au

Mick Fleetwood talked to Fiona Wyllie ahead of performing at Cassagrain Winery at Port Macquarie

Mick Fleetwood's music has provided the soundtrack to so many of our lives. Have you a particular Fleetwood Mac track that takes you back to a particular time and place? Have you heard stories or did you spend whole weekends listening to Fleetwood Mac on a cassette deck over and over.

A group of mates pulled off the road in a huge traffic jam on the old Pacific Highway through Newcastle and started playing cards and listening to Rumours, when they pulled back on the road, the traffic was clearer, the sky darker and the clock said it was 5 hours later. Back in 1977 there was a gig called RockArena held at the Sydney Showground with Santana, Little River band and Fleetwood Mac. In 2010 Mick Fleetwood Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald are performing at Cassagrain Winery at Port Macquarie on Sunday 28th February.

For the last nine years Mick Fleetwood has been in the wine business. It all started with a throwaway line to a business colleague, who took him seriously and the musician is now an accomplished wine maker. He puts his heart and soul into making wine and has won a number of awards. For a winemaker playing in a winery is a perfect fit however Mick has said he hopes they'll all make it on stage.

His latest album Blue Again has some wonderful early Fleetwood Mac blues songs. Mick Fleetwood says he was weaned on Blues Music when he first went to London at 17 years old, and learning the Blues was his boot camp for training as a musician. The Blues, he said, "Is the love of my life" and that Fleetwood Mac was originally a blues band.

When Fleetwood Mac toured in December last year, Mick met up with Billy Thorpe's widow and daughters. He played with Billy in a band called the Zoo and misses him greatly. Mick told ABC Statewide afternoons that Billy Thorpe was unique and how thrilled he was to have played on the album Thorpie was working on when he died, which is being finished posthumously. According to Mick Fleetwood, Billy could convince anyone to do things his way, because he was "an eager beaver who just wouldn't give up, a red headed fireball who had the energy of three men". Besides his character Billy was a fantastic musician, and had "that voice."

Not many people know Mick Fleetwood purchased a property "Wensley Dale" in Mittagong in the southern highlands and went through the process of immigrating to Australia. He has a great affinity with Australia and if he could turn the clock back to being 25 again and didn't have the same things happening in his private life he would be an 'aussie'. Even though he loves Australia he's more than happy in his island home of Maui, where surprisingly he has found all the musicians who play in his band.

Have a listen to his interview with Fiona Wyllie on ABC NSW Statewide afternoons.

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14 MINUTE INTERVIEW