Fleetwood Mac is a group of Rock whose one can divide the existence into two quite distinct parts, even if one finds members common to each one of its periods.

British Fleetwood Mac

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The British Fleetwood Mac is one of the most famous groups of than one called the British Blues Boom at the end of the Années 1960. It was constituted in 1967 around 3 former members of the Bluesbreakers of John Mayall. It is of the Bassiste John McVie, of the Batteur Mick Fleetwood and about the Guitariste and Chanteur Peter Green. These 3 men are joined by the guitarist slide Jeremy Spencer. The group is called then officially the Peter Green' S Fleetwood Mac .

Guitarist virtuoso (it had replaced Eric Clapton within the Bluesbreakers), and type-setter of quality, Peter Green are the true leader of a group which plays a blues-rock'n'roll all in smoothness and introspection, with counter-current of the other major groups of the british blues (Cream, Ten Years After, Jeff Beck Group, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), whose technical and sound higher bid is giving rise to the hard rock. Compositions such as Black Magic Woman (immortalized later by Carlos Santana), or Albatross , Man off the World symbolize with wonder the style of the Peter Green' S Fleetwood Mac and cotoient the resumptions of old standards of the Blues.

From 1969, Fleetwood Mac is joined by a third guitarist, in the person of Danny Kirwan. The group is with its apogee commercial and artistic, as testifies some excel it album Then Play One . Fleetwood Mac makes profitable its new structure with three guitarists to leave the marked out ways of the blues. The American round programmed with the beginning of the year 1970 makes it possible to the spectators to hear extraordinary improvisations of blues-rock'n'roll, in which it is difficult not to perceive the influence of some Drogue S Hallucinogène S to which the members of the group have initiated by the Grateful Dead, crossed in way. For Fleetwood Mac, it is the song of the swan. Very fragile psychologically, and supporting the statute of the " badly; guitar-hero" that the press and the public try to impose to him, Peter Green brutally leaves the group in the month of May 1970. In prey with increasingly acute crises, it will end up being made intern in a psychiatric hospital.

Deprived of its leader emblematic, Fleetwood Mac tries despite everything to survive and records the arrival of the singer Christine McVie ex-singer of the group of blues Chicken Shack, which is not other than the wife of the bass player. But the group continues to be surbedded. After Peter Green, the two other guitarists leave successively the group in turbid circumstances. Jeremy Spencer leaves to join a sect in 1971, while Danny Kirwan, undermined by alcohol problems, from goes away in its turn in 1972.

Fleetwood Mac first version died.

Fleetwood Mac American

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The Fleetwood Mac American, which was gradually formed in the middle of the Années 1970, became one of the most popular formations of its time, and a genuine heavy truck of the industry of the disc, thanks to a very effective music pop-rock'n'roll, sometimes qualified with a certain contempt of " FM" rock'n'roll;.

In spite of the successive departures of its three guitarists virtuosos and in particular of Peter Green, who was the principal type-setter of the group, Fleetwood Mac tries to survive, in particular thanks to the perseverance of Mick Fleetwood. After a certain period of undulation, the group is fixed at the United States where Mick Fleetwood makes the meeting of the couple made up of Lindsay Buckingham (guitarist and singer) and Stevie Nicks (singer). The first album of this new formation, ( Fleetwood Mac in 1975) is a success, but without comparison with the tidal wave which is Rumors in 1977, true tube factory which will be sold with more than 25 million specimens and will devote the Fleetwood Mac like one of greatest groups of its generation.

After a third album in 1979 ( Tusk ), the group, without dissolving officially, returns in a certain idle period, its members being let try by various adventures in solo.

It is a blow of glare at the time of the American presidential election of 1992 when Bill Clinton uses Don' T Stop for its electoral campaign, one of successes of Fleetwood Mac. The group, is reformed vis-a-vis this mediatization and connects the new albums and the rounds. The last round goes back to it (which follows Say you Will in 2003) is a real success.

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