Sunday, March 28, 2010

CHRISTINE MCVIE DENY'S VILLAGERS ACCESS TO STOUR RIVER

AN IDYLLIC village is being shaken by a row between a retired rock star and one of Big Brother’s most notorious contestants.

This time, however, “Nasty” Nick Bateman, kicked out of Big Brother’s first series for his double-dealing with his housemates, is not seen as the villain. That role is being assigned to Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, who wrote Don’t Stop, which became President Clinton’s campaign song.

Tensions rose after Ms McVie joined a consortium last year to buy fields next to the Little Stour river in the village of Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent. She has lived in the village for more than a decade and was worried that the fields near her home would be used for unsightly poly-tunnels. However, her consortium promptly fenced off the fields, denying the villagers access to the river.

Ms McVie, now 66, left Fleetwood Mac in 1997 and now guards her privacy ferociously. Her palatial home is surrounded by high hedges and big fences and she rarely emerges except to walk her dogs. She hasn’t been photographed for a decade.

In an interview 10 years ago she said she enjoyed shopping in Canterbury without being mobbed.

A pair of water engineers wanting to check drainage on her land were told to go away because she didn’t want to see anybody.

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FLEETWOOD MAC USA, AUSTRALIA & UK ALBUM CHARTS UPDATE

AUSTRALIA
TOP 50 ALBUM CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours is up one spot to #41 this week after re-entering last weeks Top 50 at #42.

TOP 50 PHYSICAL ALBUM CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours slips to #42 on the Top 50 Physical Albums Chart from last week's #40.

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours in week 6 on the Catalogue Chart reaches a new high of #4 - up 4 spots from last week #8.

"Rumours" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run
#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10
#08 - Week of 3/8/10
#09 - Week of 3/15/10
#08 - Week of 3/22/10
#04 - Week of 3/29/10

Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum "The Very Best Of" is up 22 spots on the Catalogue chart to #28. Total weeks on the Chart = 20.

U.S.A.
US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - April 3, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits in it's 459th non-consecutive week charting drops down 6 spots to #44.

"Best of" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/10
#38 - 03/27/10
#44 - 04/03/10

UK TOP 75
TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART
In it's 23nd week of release and out of the top 40 for only the 2nd time since being released in October, 2009 "The Very Best Of" is down 4 spots to #41 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 29, 2010.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763 units sold
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541 units sold
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895 units sold
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010
Week 22 #37 - Mar 22, 2010
Week 23 #41 - Mar 29, 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Peter Green announces concert at Olympia Theatre

Peter Green announces concert at Olympia Theatre:
Founding member and former guitarist of Fleetwood Mac will play the Dublin venue in May

The Rock and Rock Haller of Famer will play a fully-seated gig at Dublin's Olympia Theatre on Sunday 16th May.

After becoming a legend in the 1960s with Fleetwood Mac, Green began touring as Peter Green and Friends in February 2009. He brought his show to a sold-out crowd at Dublin's Academy last year.

For this return gig, tickets are €33 and go on sale Wednesday 24th March at 9 am from http://www.ticketmaster.ie.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

STAND BACK TMZ PHOTOGRAPHERS... STEVIE NICKS IS IN CHARGE!

Spotted at Boa Steakhouse this week, Stevie was filmed and photographed by TMZ heading inside with her assistant Karen leading the way... followed by Stevie then Sharon Celani one of Stevie's background singers... Karen can be heard at the beginning saying "Oh my god you guys... " Stevie then pipes in and says... "Okay you guys... This doesn't even happen to me anymore, I'm way too old"... All the while she's smiling, holding up her hand, probably abit blinded by the flashing lights and frantically trying to get inside. Sharon Celani behind her laughing sounds like she's enjoying the whole ordeal.


Monday, March 22, 2010

(PHOTOS) VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC SHOTS - JOHN, CHRISTINE, MICK

More shots by Ken Regan up for auction

STEVIE NICKS SIGHTING - BOA STEAK HOUSE

It’s always a delight to run into Stevie Nicks somewhere. This week she dined at Boa steak house, dressed all in black as usual. We like everything but the tinted aviator glasses – they don’t do her any favors. She finished her world tour with Fleetwood Mac in December, you last saw Stevie on the Grammys singing with Taylor Swift and now she’s writing songs with Dave Stewart. Did you know Lindsay Lohan tried to buy the rights to Stevie’s life so she could produce and star in the movie? Stevie responded “Over my dead body!”

Janet Charltons Hollywood




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