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Fleetwood Mac

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Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac in 1977. From left to right: Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham.
Fleetwood Mac in 1977. From left to right: Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham.
Background information
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Years active
  • 1967 (1967)–1995 (1995)
  • 1997 (1997)–2022
Labels
Members
Past member(s)
List
Websitefleetwoodmac.com

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band that formed in London, England in 1967.[6] The group was started by Peter Green.[7] The original group included Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer and Bob Brunning.[7] In 1968 Danny Kirwan joined the band.[8] He was then an 18-year-old guitarist and singer.[8] Peter Green left and, in 1971 was replaced by Christine and John McVie plus Bob Welch.[9] When Welch left he was replaced by Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.[7] The band became famous with the release of the album Fleetwood Mac.[7], their self-titled debut album from February 1968.[10]

Discography

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Studio albums

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References

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  1. ↑ Fleetwood Mac at AllMusic Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Fleetwood Mac". Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 January 2015. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Smith, Chris (2006). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: From Arenas to the Underground, 1974–80. Greenwood Press. pp. 88, 94–95, 215. ISBN 0-313-32937-0.
  4. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Fireside. p. 303. ISBN 0-394-72107-1.
  5. ↑ Bennun, David (13 February 2017). "How Fleetwood Mac Invented Goth". The Quietus. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Donald Brackett, Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007), p. 2
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and, ed. Jacqueline Edmondson (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, 2013), p. 450
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Tim Sommer (November 2, 2015). "For Your (Re)Consideration: Danny Kirwan, the Sad, Beautiful Ghost of Fleetwood Mac". Observer. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Rolling Stone (June 7, 2012). "Former Fleetwood Mac Member Bob Welch Dead at 65". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Fleetwood Mack bio". Concerty.com.
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