Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac Is A British-American Rock Band Formed In London In 1967. Fleetwood Mac Was Founded By Guitarist Peter Green Drummer Mick Fleetwood And Guitarist Jeremy Spencer Before Bassist John McVie Joined The Lineup For Their Self-Titled Debut Album. Danny Kirwan Joined As A Third Guitarist In 1968. Keyboardist Christine Perfect Later Known As Christine McVie Who Contributed As A Session Musician From The Second Album Married McVie And Joined In 1970. Primarily A British Blues Band Fleetwood Mac Scored A UK Number One With "Albatross" And Had Other Hits Such As The Singles "Oh Well" And "Man Of The World". All Three Guitarists Left In Succession During The Early 1970s To Be Replaced By Guitarists Bob Welch And Bob Weston And Vocalist Dave Walker. By 1974 All Three Of Them Had Either Departed Or Been Dismissed Leaving The Band Without A Male Lead Vocalist Or Guitarist. In Late 1974 While Fleetwood Was Scouting Studios In Los Angeles He Was Introduced To American Folk-Rock Duo Lindsey Buckingham And Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac Soon Asked Buckingham To Be Their New Lead Guitarist And Buckingham Agreed On Condition That Nicks Would Also Join The Band. The Addition Of Buckingham And Nicks Gave The Band A More Pop Rock Sound And Their 1975 Self-Titled Album Fleetwood Mac Reached No. 1 In The United States. Rumours 1977 Fleetwood Mac's Second Album After The Arrival Of Buckingham And Nicks Produced Four U.S. Top 10 Singles And Remained At Number One On The American Albums Chart For 31 Weeks. It Also Reached The Top Spot In Various Countries Around The World And Won A Grammy Award For Album Of The Year In 1978. Rumours Has Sold Over 40 Million Copies Worldwide Making It One Of The Best-Selling Albums In History. The Band Went Through Personal Turmoil While Recording The Album As Both The Romantic Partnerships In The Band One Being John And Christine McVie And The Other Being Buckingham And Nicks Separated While Continuing To Make Music Together. The Band's Personnel Remained Stable Through Three More Studio Albums But By The Late 1980s Began To Disintegrate. After Buckingham And Nicks Each Left The Band They Were Replaced By A Number Of Other Guitarists And Vocalists. A 1993 One-Off Performance For The First Inauguration Of Bill Clinton Featured The Lineup Of Fleetwood John McVie Christine McVie Nicks And Buckingham Back Together For The First Time In Six Years. A Full Reunion Occurred Four Years Later And The Group Released Their Fourth U.S. No. 1 Album The Dance 1997 A Live Compilation Of Their Hits Also Marking The 20th Anniversary Of Rumours. Christine McVie Left The Band In 1998 But Continued To Work With The Band In A Session Capacity. Meanwhile The Group Remained Together As A Four-Piece Releasing Their Most Recent Studio Album Say You Will In 2003. Christine McVie Rejoined The Band Full-Time In 2014. In 2018 Buckingham Was Fired From The Band And Was Replaced By Mike Campbell Formerly Of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers And Neil Finn Of Split Enz And Crowded House. Fleetwood Mac Has Sold More Than 120 Million Records Worldwide Making Them One Of The World's Best-Selling Bands. In 1979 The Group Was Honoured With A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame. In 1998 The Band Was Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Received The Brit Award For Outstanding Contribution To Music. Danny Kirwan Guitarist Songwriter And Early Member Of Fleetwood Mac 1968–1972 Died In London England On 8 June 2018 Aged 68. An Obituary In The New York Times Said He Had Died In His Sleep After Contracting Pneumonia Earlier In The Year. The British Music Magazine Mojo Quoted Christine McVie As Saying "Danny Kirwan Was The White English Blues Guy. Nobody Else Could Play Like Him. He Was A One-Off ... Danny And Peter Green Gelled So Well Together. Danny Had A Very Precise Piercing Vibrato – A Unique Sound ... He Was A Perfectionist A Fantastic Musician And A Fantastic Writer." One Of Kirwan's Songs "Tell Me All The Things You Do" From The 1970 Album Kiln House Was Included In The Set Of The 2018–19 An Evening With Fleetwood Mac Tour. On 28 May 2020 Neil Finn Featuring Nicks And McVie With Campbell On Guitar Released The Song “Find Your Way Back Home” For The Auckland New Zealand Homeless Shelter Auckland City Mission. Founding Member Peter Green Died On 25 July 2020 At The Age Of 73. In October 2020 Rumours Again Entered The Billboard Top 10. The Album Received 30.6 Million Plays On Streaming Platforms The Week Of October 15 After A TikTok Video Of The Song "Dreams" Went Viral. On 30 November 2022 It Was Announced That Band Member Christine McVie Died At The Age Of 79 After A Short Illness. read less

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"Black Magic Woman" is a song written by Peter Green that first appeared as a Fleetwood Mac single in various countries in 1968, subsequently appearing on the 1969 Fleetwood Mac compilation albums English Rose (US) and The Pious Bird of Good Omen (UK). It became a classic hit by Santana and sung by Gregg Rolie in 1970, reaching #4 in the U.S. and Canadian charts, after appearing on their Abraxas album, becoming more closely associated with Santana than Fleetwood Mac. In 2005 the song was covered by ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Snowy White on his album The Way It Is. In 1996 the song was also covered by Gary Hoey on his album Bug Alley . Although not nearly as popular as Santana's arrangement two years later, "Black Magic Woman" nevertheless became a fairly popular blues-rock hit peaking at #37 in the UK Singles Chart. It was featured in Fleetwood Mac live set-lists even after Green had left the band, when it was often sung by Danny Kirwan, and during concerts in the early 1970s it would form the basis for long mid-concert jams. The song would often be preceded by a band member reminding the audience that it was a Fleetwood Mac song before it became such a big hit for Santana. Set in the key of D minor, the verse follows a twelve bar chord progression alternating between D minor7, A minor7, and G minor7, and the instrumentation consists of vocals, two guitars, bass guitar and drums. It is homophonic, the voice and lead guitar taking the lead roles, and set in common time (4/4), with the rhythm "pushing" on the upbeat, then breaking into a shuffle beat root - chord jam after the final verse. D minor 7 | D minor 7 | A minor 7 | A minor 7 | D minor 7 | D minor 7 | G minor 7 | G minor 7 | Dm 7 - C 7 | Bb 7 - A 7 | D minor 7 | D minor 7 It can also be noted that the origional recording by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac featured guitars that were slightly below standard pitch, probably due to them being tuned to a piano or another guitar in the recording studio (very much reminiscent of The Rolling Stones). For most performances, it is played in standard, although to create a performance faithful to the origional recording, the low E string is advised to be tuned down to D. It also believed that the haunting D triad from the 17 fret is played out on one guitar, and a slide guitar playing the same chord is faded in over the top. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.