Olsen only had a handful of LP credits to his name when work began onFleetwood Mac. His background, in fact, wasn't in rock at all: Olsen was a cellist by training. "I was a bad acoustic guitar player, a bad piano player, a bad bass player … anything I could get my hands on ...
"I Don't Want to Know" was cut quickly. Originally written by Nicks before she joined Fleetwood Mac, the song landed onRumoursas a replacement for her "Silver Springs," which was considered too long. Nicks wasn't pleased. "I started to scream bloody murder and probably said every horribly...
Fleetwood Mac (White Album) The Band: Mick Fleetwood (drummer and percussionist), Christine McVie (keyboardist and vocalist), John McVie (bass guitarist), Lindsey Buckingham (electric, acoustic, and resonator guitarist, banjo, and vocalist), and Stevie Nicks (vocalist). Reception: After Bob Wel...
“Buckingham and Nicks” days and contains harmonized vocals throughout. The album’s closer, “Gold Dust Woman” features some cool sounds from a dobro, percussive instruments, and several acoustic guitars. This song about cocaine addiction is haunting...
Still, it's 'Go Your Own Way', the first single released off the album — and the only Fleetwood Mac number to have made the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame's list of '500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll' — that has proved to be the most enduring. And it's also the one that best...
:Five of the nine tracks were written or co-written by somebody else, and one of his originals is actually an update of an old Fleetwood Mac song. The presence of fellow band alum Bob Weston also makes it unclear how much of the guitar work was actually Kirwan's. He never released ...
Soon Green was standing in Marlebone Court in London, listening calmly as the judge read his verdict. Peter Green, blues-guitar-star-turned-ascetic, was ordered committed to a mental institution. After ten years and a particularly lean time just before the group’s 1975 smash,Fleetwood Mac,br...
As a recommendation, I would say this book is good and thorough, but for a recent book on the life of Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac I would refer anyone to Mick Fleetwood’s recent memoir ‘Play On‘ that was released in 2014, at least you know that much of the content is accurate...
Disco was in full swing when Donna Summer released her magnum opus in April 1979. A sprawling double record that crossed over genres and remained on the chart for nearly a year (six of those weeks at No. 1),Bad Girlswas both a pinnacle of the genre in album form and one of its last...
Written by Peter Green shortly before he left Fleetwood Mac, this miasmic proto-metal blues freakout was inspired by a dream that Green had while on mescaline, in which he was visited by a green dog that represented money. “It took me at least two years to recover from that song,” ...