Fleetwood Mac (album) turns 50!
To all my fellow Fleetwood Mac fans…
The band’s second eponymous album was released on July 11, 1975.
This is the cover of the album Fleetwood Mac (1975) by Fleetwood Mac.
Fleetwood Mac is the tenth studio album by the British-American Rock band Fleetwood Mac. It is the band's second eponymous album, the first being their 1968 debut album, and is sometimes referred to by fans as the White Album. It is the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as a vocalist, after Bob Welch departed the band in late 1974. The album peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart on September 4, 1976, 58 weeks after entering the chart, and spawned three top-twenty singles: "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", and "Say You Love Me". Though the band experienced only modest success immediately after the release, they were determined to promote their new album, and after touring for several months, they started to see the results of their hard work. In an interview with Uncut, Stevie Nicks said of the album: "We just played everywhere and we sold that record. We kicked that album in the ass."
Source: Wikipedia.org
I’ve heard these iconic songs on the radio for as long as I can remember. As a young child, I often heard this album, along with the band’s magnum opus Rumours (1977), playing on my parents’ record player console that sat in our living room right across from the pea green sofa.
A future “rockstar”… Photo of me circa 1976.
Courtesy of Anthony Woodard
There also were many trips and times spent in the car with these great tunes playing on the radio. Fleetwood Mac’s music, style, and story are the stuff of legends; authentic pieces of ‘70s Americana.
Fleetwood Mac was (is) one of my late father’s (and my) favorite bands. This legendary outfit was formed in London in 1967 by guitarist and singer Peter Green after he left another of my dad’s favorite bands (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers). Green had previously replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers and had received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. Peter had been in two bands with Mick Fleetwood and recommended him as a replacement for drummer Aynsley Dunbar when Dunbar left the Bluesbreakers to join the Jeff Beck Group. John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood joined the Bluesbreakers. The Bluesbreakers then consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie, and Mayall. John Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, which Fleetwood, McVie and Green used to record five songs. The fifth song was an instrumental that Green named after the rhythm section, "Fleetwood Mac" ("Mac" being short for McVie). Soon after this, Green suggested to Fleetwood that they form a new band and in turn, Fleetwood Mac was born.