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

16 Similar Artists To Fleetwood Mac - Frogtoon Music

Stevie Nicks

Electric Light Orchestra

Daisy Jones & The Six

"Dreams" is a song written by singer Stevie Nicks, for the group Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album "Rumours". The song was the only U.S. number one hit for the group, and remains one of their best known songs. In the lyrics, a woman warns a man that he can be driven mad by loneliness in the wake of a broken love affair. The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording "Rumours". Drummer Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. Bass player John McVie was separating from his wife, keyboard player Christine McVie. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. "We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explains Buckingham to Blender Magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other." These circumstances inspired the writing of "Dreams." Nicks wrote the song at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, in early 1976. "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers singer Stevie Nicks to Blender, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes." "I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me," continues Nicks. "I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote 'Dreams' in about 10 minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me." When Nicks played the song to the rest of the group, they decided to record it the following day. Only a basic track was recorded at Sausalito. Recording assistant Cris Morris remembers that "all (they) kept was the drum track and live vocal from Stevie — the guitars and bass were added later in Los Angeles." Christine McVie described the song as having "just three chords and one note in the left hand" and "boring" when Nicks played a rough version on the piano. McVie changed her mind, after Lindsey "fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there’s a thread running through the whole thing." "Dreams" reached the number one spot in the United States on June 18, 1977, and held it for one week. It went to #24 in the United Kingdom. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.