Possibly.įleetwood Mac, the album, was released in July 1975. This piece is to celebrate that brief window, possibly, of relationship harmony, maritally and otherwise. Mind you, the mayhem didn’t stop the follow-up, Rumours, from doing better still, and the various co-sanguinous shenanigans thereafter making Tusk the critics’ favorite. Luckily the rot didn’t really hit until 1975’s eponymous LP had been made and released to no small success. Fleetwood was also divorcing his wife (not a band member). What could go wrong? Well, the relationship of Buckingham and Nicks, as well as that of John and Christine McVie, were both going rapidly south. Buckingham said yes, but only if his girlfriend could also be recruited. Mick Fleetwood, drumming mainstay from the start, chances on Lindsey Buckingham, offers him a gig with the band. A blues band down on their luck, reeling from the loss of all their most potent forces, and of several replacements of lesser merit, come close to throwing in the towel. And, looking back, given the “other” music breaking through in 1975, the so-called year zero of punk rock, how was it that this epitome of smooth found (and still finds) such purchase?
Not that this pair, accomplished songwriters both, were the only pull Christine McVie continued to add value with a constant drip feed of classics.
Sure, loads of us (myself included) adore the 60’s into 70’s UK white-boy blues band, but c’mon–only a real curmudgeon would deny the greater pulling power of the Buckingham-Nicks Mark 1 years.
Fleetwood mac albums and songs full#
This is our third Full Album Fleetwood Mac feature, following on from Rumours and Tusk, the other exemplars of this most acclaimed iteration of the ever-evolving band. It seems that we like the Mac over here at Cover Me.
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