Unterberger - Fleetwood mac - the complete illustrated history

For many fans, this is the classic lineup of Fleetwood Mac, when the band reached the height of their fame in the mid- to late 1970s. From left to right: Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, and John McVie. Getty Images

The COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER

2016 Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.

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First published in 2016 by Voyageur Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., 400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA. Telephone: (612) 344-8100 Fax: (612) 344-8692

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Digital edition: 978-1-62788-975-9

Hardcover edition: 978-0-76035-176-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Unterberger, Richie, 1962- author.

Title: Fleetwood Mac : the complete illustrated history / by Richie Unterberger.

Description: Minneapolis, MN : Voyageur Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008388 | ISBN 9780760351765 (plc : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Fleetwood Mac (Musical group) | Rock musicians--Biography.

Classification: LCC ML421.F57 U57 2016 | DDC 782.42166092/2--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016008388

Acquiring Editor: Todd R. Berger

Project Manager: Alyssa Bluhm

Art Director: Brad Springer

Cover Designer: Amelia LeBarron

Interior Designer: Bradford Foltz

Layout: Amelia LeBarron

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1. Chapter 1
   THE ROOTS OF FLEETWOOD MAC: 19631966
2. Chapter 2
   THE PETER GREEN ERA: 19671970
3. Chapter 3
   THE MIDDLE YEARS: 19701974
4. Chapter 4
   SUPERSTARDOM, RUMOURS, AND TUSK: 19751979
5. Chapter 5
   HITS, SPLITS, REUNIONS, AND SOLO PROJECTS: 19802010
6. Chapter 6
   THE CLASSIC QUINTET, REUNITED: 20102015

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F ew bands have sold as many records as Fleetwood Mac. Yet few bands have suffered such internal turmoil. And no superstar rock act changed so much, in style and actual personnel, from the time they formed to the point at which they finally achieved superstardom a good decade later.

When that goal was reached with the mega-selling 1977 album Rumours, it was something of a miracle Fleetwood Mac hadnt broken upnot just once, but several times. Their founder, and original lead guitarist and principal singer-songwriter, had unexpectedly (and, to many observers, inexplicably) left the group fewer than three years after its birth. The other guitarist and frontman on their first several albums would jump ship a year later in even odder, more unsettling circumstances.

Two other guitarists and singer-songwriters would leave Fleetwood Mac in the next few years. By the end of 1974, they were down to a trio with just one singer-songwriter, who herself hadnt joined the band until the early 1970s. They were living and working in a different country than their native England; had yet to score a big hit in their adopted homeland, the United States; and had nearly lost the rights to even work under the name Fleetwood Mac. Their sudden enlistment of two Californian singer-songwriters they didnt even know seemed not so much a calculated risk as a desperate push for survival.