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Origin: London, England
Genre(s): Blues-Rock, British Blues, Adult Contemporary, Soft Rock, Pop/Rock, Pop

Years active: 1967—Present

Website: www.fleetwoodmac.com

Members:
John McVie
Stevie Nicks
Mick Fleetwood
Lindsey Buckingham

Former members:
Christine McVie
Peter Green
Jeremy Spencer
Bob Brunning
Danny Kirwan
Bob Welch
Bob Weston
Dave Walker
Billy Burnette
Rick Vito
Dave Mason
Bekka Bramlett

Fleetwood Mac (formed in July 1967) is an influential and commercially successful Anglo-American band. It has had a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success.

The only two members who have been in the band from the beginning are its namesake drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. Keyboardist Christine McVie has, to date, appeared on all but two albums, either as a member or as a session musician.

The two most successful periods for the band were: during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green, and from 1975-1987, with the pop band that consisted of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham.

Fleetwood Mac's album and single sales total more than 100 million, easily making them part of the list of best-selling music artists.
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While most bands undergo a number of changes over the course of their career, few groups experienced such radical stylistic changes as Fleetwood Mac. Initially conceived as a hard-edged British blues combo in the late '60s, the band gradually evolved into a polished pop/rock act over the course of a decade. Throughout all of their incarnations, the only consistent members of Fleetwood Mac were drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie -- the rhythm section who provided the band with its name. Ironically, they had the least influence over the musical direction of the band. Originally, guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer provided the band with its gutsy, neo-psychedelic blues-rock sound, but as both guitarists descended into mental illness, the group began moving toward pop/rock with the songwriting of pianist Christine McVie. By the mid-'70s, Fleetwood Mac had relocated to California, where they added the soft-rock duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to their lineup. Obsessed with the meticulously arranged pop of the Beach Boys and the Beatles, Buckingham helped the band become one of the most popular groups of the late '70s. Combining soft rock with the confessional introspection of singer/songwriters, Fleetwood Mac created a slick but emotional sound that helped 1977's Rumour’s become one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. The band's retained their popularity through the early '80s, when Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie all began pursuing solo careers. The band reunited for one album, 1987's Tango in the Night, before splintering in the late '80s. Buckingham left the group initially, but the band decided to soldier on, releasing one other album before Nicks and McVie left the band in the early '90s, hastening the group's commercial decline.

The roots of Fleetwood Mac lie in John Mayall's legendary British blues outfit, the Bluesbreakers. John McVie (bass) was one of the charter members of the Bluesbreakers, joining the group in 1963. In 1966 Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton and a year later, Mick Fleetwood (drums) joined. Inspired by the success of Cream, the Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix, the trio decided to break away from Mayall in 1967. At their debut at the British Jazz and Blues Festival in August, Bob Brunning was playing bass in the group, since McVie was still under contract to Mayall. He joined the band a few weeks after their debut; by that time, slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer had joined the band. Fleetwood Mac soon signed with Blue Horizon, releasing their eponymous debut the following year. Fleetwood Mac was an enormous hit in the U.K., spending over a year in the Top 10. Despite its British success, the album was virtually ignored in America. During 1968, the band added guitarist Danny Kirwan. The following year, they recorded Fleetwood Mac in Chicago with a variety of bluesmen, including Willie Dixon and Otis Spann. The set was released later that year, after the band had left Blue Horizon for a one-album deal with Immediate Records; in the US, they signed with Reprise/Warner Bros., and by 1970, Warner began releasing the band's British records as well. Fleetwood Mac released English Rose and Then Play On during 1969, which both indicated that the band were expanding their music, moving away from their blues-purists roots. That year, Green's "Man of the World" and "Oh Well" were number two hits. Though his music was providing the backbone of the group, Peter Green was growing increasingly disturbed. After announcing that he was planning to give all of his earnings away, Green suddenly left the band in the spring of 1970; he released two solo albums over the course of the '70s, but he rarely performed after leaving Fleetwood Mac. The band replaced him with Christine Perfect, a vocalist/pianist who had earned a small but loyal following in the UK by singing with Spencer Davis and the Chicken Shack. She had already performed uncredited on Then Play On. Contractual difficulties prevented her from becoming a full-fledged member of Fleetwood Mac until 1971; by that time she had married John McVie. Christine McVie didn't appear on 1970's Kiln House, the first album the band recorded without Peter Green. For that album, Jeremy Spencer dominated the band's musical direction, but he had also been undergoing personnel problems. During the band's American tour in early 1971, Spencer disappeared; it was later discovered that he left the band to join the religious cult the Children of God. Fleetwood Mac had already been trying to determine the direction of their music, but Spencer's departure sent the band into disarray. Christine McVie and Danny Kirwan began to move the band towards mainstream rock on 1971's Future Games but new guitarist Bob Welch exerted a heavy influence on 1972's Bare Tree’s. Kirwan was fired after Bare Tree’s and was replaced by guitarists Bob Weston and Dave Walker, who appeared on 1973's Penguin. Walker left after that album, and Weston departed after making its follow-up, Mystery to Me (1973). In 1974, the group's manager Clifford Davis formed a bogus Fleetwood Mac, and had the band tour the US. The real Fleetwood Mac filed and won a lawsuit against the imposters -after losing, they began performing under the name Stretch- but the lawsuit kept the band off the road for most of the year. In the interim, they released Heroes Are Hard To Find. Late in 1974, Fleetwood Mac moved to California, with hopes of re-starting their career. Welch left the band shortly after the move to from the group Paris.

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Late in 1974, Mick Fleetwood was looking at Recording Studios for the band's new album when he heard a track from Buckingham Nicks being played to him by the owner of Sound City Studios, the Buckingham Nicks album was recorded by the soft-rock duo Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. The duo were then asked to join the group on the strength of that recording and their addition revived the band's musical and commercial fortunes. Not only did the pair write songs, but they brought distinctive talents the band had been lacking. Buckingham was skilled pop craftsman, capable of arranging a commercial song while keeping it musically adventurous. Nicks had a husky voice and a sexy, hippie gypsy stage persona which gave the band a charismatic frontwoman. The new lineup of Fleetwood Mac released their eponymous debut in 1975 and it slowly became a huge hit, reaching number one in 1976 on the strength of the singles "Over My Head," "Rhiannon," and "Say You Love Me." The album would eventually sell over five million copies in the US alone. While Fleetwood Mac had finally attained their long-desired commercial success, the band was fraying apart behind the scenes. The McVies divorced in 1976, and Buckingham and Nicks’ romance ended shortly afterward. The internal tensions formed the basis for the songs on their next album, Rumours. Released in the spring of 1977, Rumours became a blockbuster success, topping the American and British charts and generating the Top 10 US singles "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," "Don't Stop," and "You Make Loving Fun." It would eventually sell over 17 million copies in the US alone, making it the second biggest-selling album of all-time. Fleetwood Mac supported the album with an exhaustive, lucrative tour and then retired to the studio to record their follow-up to Rumours. A wildly experimental double-album conceived largely by Buckingham, Tusk (1979) didn't duplicate the enormous success of Rumours, yet it did go multi-platinum and featured the Top 10 US singles "Sara" and "Tusk." In 1980, they released the double-album Live. Following the Tusk tour, Fleetwood, Buckingham and Nicks all recorded solo albums. Of the solo projects, Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna (1981) was the most successful, peaking at number one and featuring the hit singles "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Leather and Lace" and "Edge of Seventeen." Buckingham's Law and Order (1981) was a moderate success, spawning the US Top 10 "Trouble." Fleetwood, for his part, made a world music album called The Visitor. Fleetwood Mac reconvened in 1982 for Mirage. More conventional and accessible than Tusk, Mirage reached number one in the US and featured the hit singles "Hold Me" and "Gypsy."

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Following its supporting tour, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie announced they would continue to record with the group, but not tour. Rick Vito left the band in 1991, and the group released the box set 25 Years -- The Chain the following year. The classic Fleetwood Mac lineup of Fleetwood, the McVies, Buckingham and Nicks reunited to play President Bill Clinton's inauguration in early 1993, but the concert did not lead to a full-fledged reunion. Later that year, Nicks left the band after a dispute with Mick Fleetwood over her song Silver Springs and was replaced by Bekka Bramlett and Dave Mason. The new lineup of Fleetwood Mac began touring in 1994, releasing Time the following year to little attention. Christine McVie appeared on the album but declined to tour with the band. While the new version of Fleetwood Mac wasn't commercially successful, neither were the solo careers of Buckingham, Nicks and McVie, prompting speculation of a full-fledged reunion in 1997.

The Dance, an MTV special, reunited the Rumours era line up of Fleetwood Mac, the album hit No.1 on the US Billboard charts and was followed by a US tour. 1998 saw Fleetwood Mac get inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame and pick up a lifetime achievement award at the Brits. With Stevie Nicks fresh off her 2001 release and accompanying tour to promote Trouble In Shangri La tour, she joins Fleetwood, John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham in the studio to work on their forthcoming studio album, the first with Nicks since Behind The Mask and the first with Buckingham since Tango In The Night.
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In 1998, Fleetwood Mac (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan) was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed at the Grammy Awards program that year. They were also the recipients of the "Outstanding Contribution to Music" award at the Brits (British Phonographic Industry Awards) the same year.

In 1998, Christine McVie left the band and returned to the UK to retire from touring (though not from the music business entirely as she created a new album, In The Meantime, in 2004). This left Buckingham and Nicks to sing the vocals for the band's 2003 album, Say You Will. The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart (#6 in the UK) and yielded chart hits with "Peacekeeper" and the title track, and a successful world arena tour lasted through 2004. In interviews given in November 2006 to support his solo album Under the Skin, Buckingham stated that plans for the band to reunite once more for a 2008 tour were still in the cards. Recording plans have been put on hold for the foreseeable future. However, in a September 2007 interview Stevie Nicks gave to the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, she noted that she is unwilling to carry on with the band unless Christine McVie returns. However in a recent interview, Mick Fleetwood said "...be very happy and hopeful that we will be working again. I can tell you everyone's going to be extremely excited about what's happening with Fleetwood Mac".

On March 14, 2008, the Associated Press reported that Sheryl Crow has said that she will be working with Fleetwood Mac in 2009. She and Stevie have collaborated a great deal in the past and she has stated that Stevie has been a great teacher and inspiration for her. It is undeterminable at this time if the collaboration between Crow and Fleetwood Mac will produce a new album and a tour.
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Discography

* 1968 Fleetwood Mac (#4 UK, #198 U.S.)
* 1968 Mr. Wonderful (UK release) (#10 UK)
* 1968 English Rose (U.S. release) (#184 U.S.)
* 1969 The Pious Bird Of Good Omen (UK release) (#18 UK)
* 1969 Then Play On (#6 UK, #109 U.S.)
* 1969 Fleetwood Mac In Chicago/Blues Jam In Chicago vols 1 & 2 (#118 U.S.)
* 1970 Kiln House (#39 UK, #69 U.S.)
* 1971 The Original Fleetwood Mac (released as Black Magic Woman in the U.S.) (#143 U.S.)
* 1971 Future Games (#91 U.S.)
* 1971 Greatest Hits (#36 UK)
* 1972 Bare Trees (#70 U.S.)
* 1973 Penguin (#49 U.S.)
* 1973 Mystery To Me (#67 U.S.)
* 1974 Heroes Are Hard to Find (#34 U.S.)
* 1975 Fleetwood Mac (#23 UK, #1 [1 week] U.S.)
* 1977 Rumours (#1 [1 week] UK, #1 [31 weeks] U.S.)
* 1979 Tusk (#1 [1 week] UK, #4 U.S.)
* 1980 Live (#31 UK, #14 U.S.)
* 1982 Mirage (#5 UK, #1 [5 weeks] U.S.)
* 1987 Tango in the Night (#1 [5 weeks] UK, #7 U.S.)
* 1988 Greatest Hits (#3 UK, #14 U.S.)
* 1990 Behind the Mask (#1 UK [1 week], #18 U.S.)
* 1992 25 Years - The Chain
* 1995 Time (#47 UK)
* 1997 The Dance (#15 UK, #1 [1 week] U.S.)
* 2002 The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (#7 UK, #12 U.S.)
* 2003 Say You Will (#6 UK, #3 U.S.)
* 2004 Live In Boston (#84 U.S.)
* 2007 The Essential Fleetwood Mac
* 2008 Perfect Days
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