Dallas Morning News, October 30, 1987
The Hard Rock Cafe hopes to block McKinney Avenue on Nov. 14 so a new star can join those of James Brown, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and others on the restaurant's Rock 'n' Roll Walk of Fame.
Fleetwood Mac will be in Dallas for a Reunion Arena concert that weekend, and the HRC has arranged for the group -- including original members Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, John McVie and Christine McVie, as well as new additions Billy Burnett and Rick Vito -- to be on hand for the dedication of their star.
HRC personnel say the group also has decided to make a donation to the restaurant's notable collection of music memorabilia. But it won't be the ordinary single guitar or drum set.
Jon Dillon, assistant curator of the HRC collection, says he and curator Steve Routhier have arranged to scavenge their way through the group's warehouse of instruments and costumes ranging back to the early '70s.
The donation is also unusual because, Dillon says, the HRC sometimes buys replacement instruments for donors, but Fleetwood and company were especially, dare we say, laid back about the arrangement.
"They were great,' he reports. "They said, "Nah, take whatever you want.' ' No little town blues
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