#FLEETWOOD MAC TOUR DATES IN US 2016 FREE#
#FLEETWOOD MAC TOUR DATES IN US 2016 MAC#

The band soon released two singles ' Black Magic Woman' (later a big hit for Santana) and ' Need Your Love So Bad.' The album was successful in the UK, hitting no.4, though it did not have any singles on it. In fact there were no other players on the album (except for the song 'Long Grey Mare', which was recorded with Brunning on bass). Within weeks of this show, John McVie agreed to join the band as permanent bassist.įleetwood Mac's first album, Fleetwood Mac, was a no-frills blues album and was released on the Blue Horizon label in February 1968.

#FLEETWOOD MAC TOUR DATES IN US 2016 MAC#

The Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, Brunning version of the band made its debut on 13 August 1967 at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer.

In the meantime Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood teamed up with slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning, who was in the band on the understanding that he would leave if McVie agreed to join. However, McVie opted to keep his steady income with Mayall rather than take a risk with a new band. The pair wanted McVie on bass guitar and even named the band 'Fleetwood Mac' as a way to entice him. Soon after, Green contacted Fleetwood to form a new band. The fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, 'Fleetwood Mac.'

#FLEETWOOD MAC TOUR DATES IN US 2016 FREE#

Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie and Green recorded five songs. The Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band. Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood- Peter B's Looners and the subsequent Shotgun Express (which featured a young Rod Stewart as vocalist). After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road.

įleetwood Mac were formed in July 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. She left the band in 1998 but returned in 2014. Keyboardist Christine McVie, who joined the band in 1970 while married to John McVie, has appeared on every album except the debut album, either as a member or as a session musician. Although band founder Green named the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood and McVie) from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist John McVie played neither on their first single nor at their first concerts, as he initially decided to stay with Mayall. The band achieved more modest success between 19, when the line-up included Bob Welch, during the 1990s in between the departure and return of Nicks and Buckingham, and during the 2000s between the departure and return of Christine McVie.ĭue to numerous lineup changes, the only original member present in the band is drummer Mick Fleetwood. To date, the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-selling album of all time. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song ' Dreams'), and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Buckingham and Nicks, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with ' Albatross' and from 1975 to 1987, as a more pop-oriented act, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

In 1998, selected members of Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The band have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack, Buckingham Nicks, Bekka & Billy, Eddie Boyd, Duster Bennettįleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in July 1967, in London. Left to right: John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood at Saint Paul, Minnesota on 3 March 2009īlues rock, British blues, pop rock, soft rock īlue Horizon, Reprise, Warner Bros., LMJS Productions

Fleetwood mac tour dates in us 2016