57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelations
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Mark Blake calls Dreams: the Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac a “mosaic biography”, their almost six-decade saga presented as a series of enthralling short stories with titles like ‘Mick Fleetwood’s Great Epiphany’ and ‘Rumours: A Doomed Romance in Six Acts’. It opens in fact with a “cast of characters”, the 18 one-time members, as if dramatis personae in a play, a play that gets more outlandish and dumbfounding with every new discovery and much of it based on his interviews and meetings with most of them (including Peter Green). A few highlights here …
… how Stevie Nicks arrived as the spare part of a package deal and rose to become indispensable.
… the fake Fleetwood Mac and the Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green impersonators (which involves an egg and potato farmer from Essex).
… why you should watch the Tusk video repeatedly (and its ruinous cost).
… Bill Clinton, Daisy Jones & the Six, the dancing pony, Guardians of the Galaxy and other key factors in the return of the Mac.
… from model to muse to psychotherapist, the story of the real life Black Magic Woman.
… “Oh Lord, she’s writing another song.”
… internal romantic tangles that give their music a poignancy.
… the horrors of Kiln House.
… Lyndsey Buckingham’s Armani/Clash episode.
… Stevie’s love affair with Derek Taylor who then had to promote a slow-selling album containing a secret song about it.
… Mick Fleetwood, “old ham”, drag act, compulsive show-off, unsuitable band manager.
Order ‘Dreams: the Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac’ here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreams-Many-Lives-Fleetwood-Mac/dp/1639367322
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