The Original Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

25 Years - Selections From The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

For their 25th Anniversary in 1992, Fleetwood Mac decided to release two boxsets one with 4 cds and an abridged version with 2 cds. It was the first time that the whole history of the band was gathered together in one compilation - the Peter Green version of the band and the Buckingham-Nicks line-up are almost considered to be two different bands who happen to have the same name. And the line-ups of the band between these two eras are usually ignored (and have been ignored here yet again!). The boxset turned out to be something of a disappointment, it was light on rarities and stuffed with material readily available on previous releases. The packaging wasn't ...

Mirage - Fleetwood Mac

Mirage was released in 1982 and proved to be, undoubtedly, the weakest album of the Buckingham/Nicks era. In the previous year Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood had all released solo albums and I think its fair to say that some of Stevie and Lindsey's songs were probably leftovers from their own albums. Inspite of this the album does contain some highlights, Stevie's Gypsy is particularly lovely. She wrote this song for her best friend Robin, who was dying of leukemia at the time of the album's release. Robin died the same year, three days after giving birth to a son, lines like "I still see your bright eyes" are sad and ...

Kiln House - Fleetwood Mac

amongst the fog filled hazes of the memorable departure of future blues legend, Peter Green, a weary, long haired, messy looking band wondered along what road the next era of Fleetwood Mac would take them. Since the infancy of FM had been a disillusionment of lost days due to too much booze, it was any wonder how one of the greatest world wide rock bands ever got off the ground. Since all the original members of the band had once been members of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers who had either left or been fired, what was left standing were the off cuts of a rapidly growing Blues scene in the bohemian underworld of late Sixties British youth culture. After sharing old ...