Fleetwood Mac announced as 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year

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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

Apologies if this has been discussed earlier but this award is to honor a recording artist who has made important contributions to the world of music and demonstrated extraordinary humanitarian and philanthropic efforts. per the Musicares website.

It pains me to say that I'm not particularly aware of extraordinary humanitarian and philanthropic efforts. by the Mac. Maybe I'm out of the loop- I know Stevie has her work with the US armed forces, and royalties from Beautiful Child go to UNICEF, and Mick seems to get involved with good causes out in Hawaii, but other than that I'm not aware of that much that they've done. Maybe it's all under the radar. If anyone would care to enlighten me, please do.

I've been meaning to make this EXACT post myself since this thread started! HOW DID THEY GET THIS AWARD?? Nothing mentions specifically what they've done to get it & we all know many bands are far better known for humanitarian and philanthropic efforts. I mean, I'm happy they got it-it's great exposure & the night seemed to go off without a hitch, I just still can't figure out why on earth they were chose!