Fleetwood Mac’s legacy is often considered in broad strokes. “It was a saga, with many verses people haven’t heard.” An emphasis on the latter two things distinguishes Mark Blake’s excellent new book “Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac.” The secret is that Blake, who’s also written books about Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant, treats Fleetwood Mac …
This is the album that started all the trouble. “Ironically,” Buckingham says, “nothing went down that night that was as the stuff we’d been through for 43 years.” But within a week, he was fired from Fleetwood Mac. “I’ll tell you what: Between the Fleetwood Mac stuff and the heart attack, it’s all been humbling,” Buckingham says now. “That was …
CROWDED HOUSE: Dreamers Are Waiting Rating: Verdict: Golden slumbers WOLF ALICE: Blue Weekend Rating: Verdict: Bares its teeth JAMES: All The Colours Of You Rating: Verdict: Kaleidoscopic pop Crowded House singer Neil Finn sees music as a family affair. Stevie Nicks and Neil Finn of Fleetwood Mac perform onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 21, …
Forty-three years after Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” topped the Billboard Hot 100, the soft-rock staple written and sung by Stevie Nicks took over pop culture again last week thanks to a viral video showing a dude on a skateboard lip-syncing to the song between swigs from a full-size bottle of cran-raspberry juice. Not Nicks: When she and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood …