Our list of the band’s 50 greatest songs pulls from all these eras. They began as a vehicle for the blues visions of tragic genius Peter Green, continued through fascinating, often overlooked, transitional records during the early Seventies with Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch, and hit an astonishing peak when songbird Christine McVie, mad drummer Mick Fleetwood and ultra-reliable bassman John McVie hooked up with the Southern California songwriting team of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Days and nights would just go on and on.”īut the soul of the Mac’s magic has always been their songs.
The band's current lineup includes Fleetwood, bassist John McVie (since. Wonderful, The Pious Bird of Good Omen and Fleetwood Mac in Chicago) and 1971 outtakes album The Original Fleetwood Mac have been remastered and reissued on CD, as have the 19751987 era. The 19671969 era Blue Horizon albums (Fleetwood Mac, Mr. This sprawling compilation cherry-picks the best of their remarkable ’70s and ’80s output, highlighting Christine McVie’s lovelorn lyrics and sweet melodies. West Coast sound, Fleetwood Mac contained three gifted songwriters and remarkable vocalists who all wrote enduring anthems. Formed in July 1967, the group originally consisted of lead guitarist and vocalist Peter Green, slide guitarist and vocalist Jeremy Spencer, bassist Bob Brunning and drummer Mick Fleetwood. The discography of Fleetwood Mac consists of 18 studio albums, nine live albums, 23 compilation albums, one extended play single, and 62 singles. A band at the forefront of the smooth U.S. Huge amounts of illicit materials, yards and yards of this wretched stuff. Their most successful album, Rumours from 1977 that was made by the best known occupation of the Group: Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks is one of the best-selling albums of all time. Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, originally formed in London. “Parties going on all over the house,” John McVie told Rolling Stone in 1977, recalling the making of their classic Rumours LP. Their 1975 self titled album was placed at 183.
Through it all, there’s been brutal romantic blowups and historic levels of drug use. Their 1977 album Rumours was placed 25th on Rolling Stone magazines list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Over their career, they have sold over 100 million records, making them one of the world’s best-selling rock bands.VH1 lists them as one of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock and Roll, and their 1977 album Rumors stands at 16 on the 100 Greatest Albums. Fleetwood Mac have been rock’s greatest soap opera for five decades - from their Sixties origins in the English blues-rock scene to their Seventies reinvention as California rock superstars through their smooth Eighties hits and right up to today. The group Fleetwood Mac started in London, England, in 1967.