Fleetwood Mac

United Kingdom • 1967-07-01 – 2022-01-01

Biography

Fleetwood Mac were a British and American rock band formed in London in 1967 by singer/guitarist Peter Green. He named the band by combining the surnames of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. Fleetwood Mac have sold more than 120 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling musical acts. Primarily a British blues band in their early years, the line-up of Green, Fleetwood, McVie, and singers/guitarists Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan achieved a UK No. 1 single in 1968 with the instrumental "Albatross", and had other UK Top 10 hits with "Man of the World", "Oh Well" (both 1969), and "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" (1970). Green, Spencer, and Kirwan left the band in succession during 1970–1972, with McVie's wife, singer/keyboardist Christine McVie, and American singer/guitarist Bob Welch joining during this period. 1974 saw the band's relocation to the United States and Welch's departure. Fleetwood and the McVies recruited singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks at the end of that year, and the first album with this line-up, Fleetwood Mac (1975), topped the Billboard 200 chart in the US. Their next album, Rumours (1977), is one of the best-selling albums of all time and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. The line-up remained stable through three more studio albums - Tusk (1979), Mirage (1982), and Tango in the Night (1987) - before Buckingham left in 1987, and was replaced by Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. The sole studio album from this line-up, Behind the Mask (1990), reached No. 1 in the UK, but was less successful in the US. The 1975–1987 line-up reunited for a one-off performance for the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, before a full-scale reunion took place four years later, resulting in the band's fourth US No. 1 album, The Dance (1997), a live album marking the 20th anniversary of Rumours and the band's 30th anniversary. Christine McVie left in 1998

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