I’ve been a bit of a closet Fleetwood Mac fan for around 20 years now and no, they weren’t cool then either. Fortunately I’m now at an age where cool doesn’t matter. Fleetwood Mac are named after the drummer Mick Fleetwood but oddly enough he wasn’t the driving force behind the music initially. That honour went to Peter Green, author of such awesome tunes as Oh Well, Albatross, Black Magic Woman (NOT a Santana original at all) and Green Manalishi. Still, this post isn’t about the more blues orientated early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, it’s about the entirely more surreal late 70′s pop influenced version. Decidedly odd because by that stage a number of personal problems were assaulting the band members. Two of them, Christine (keyboards/vocals) and John (bassist) McVie, were in the … Read entire article »