Newsweek Discusses Rock Evolution

[michelej1]

Newsweek Reviews Baby Boomer Music that endures. This is an excerpt that mentions FM:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/113779?tid=relatedcl

The unifying conviction of baby-boomer fans is that their music (in fact, everything about them) was better than anything that followed. They are not the first generation to believe that, only the first in a long time with the demographic clout to convert it into conventional wisdom. It is ironic that those who ushered their own into the White House to the tune of "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" in truth can't stop thinking about "Yesterday." And perhaps with good reason. Most of the '70s was a musical wasteland, forcing true rock fans to cling to the past or surrender to pop. Fleetwood Mac may have been a megagroup in the '70s, but in the '60s, they were in their rightful place-a second-rank blues group out of England, deep in the shadow of Cream, akin in prominence to, say, Ten Years After.

[Gailh]

Fleetwood Mac may have been a megagroup in the '70s, but in the '60s, they were in their rightful place-a second-rank blues group out of England, deep in the shadow of Cream, akin in prominence to, say, Ten Years After.

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Gail

[aleuzzi]

Newsweek Reviews Baby Boomer Music that endures. This is an excerpt that mentions FM:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/113779?tid=relatedcl

The unifying conviction of baby-boomer fans is that their music (in fact, everything about them) was better than anything that followed. They are not the first generation to believe that, only the first in a long time with the demographic clout to convert it into conventional wisdom. It is ironic that those who ushered their own into the White House to the tune of "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" in truth can't stop thinking about "Yesterday." And perhaps with good reason. Most of the '70s was a musical wasteland, forcing true rock fans to cling to the past or surrender to pop. Fleetwood Mac may have been a megagroup in the '70s, but in the '60s, they were in their rightful place-a second-rank blues group out of England, deep in the shadow of Cream, akin in prominence to, say, Ten Years After.

Getting rock advice from newsweek is a lot like shopping for tampons at a hardware store.

Any responsible music journalist will tell ya, FM were a premier blues band, at the top of the pack. Cream was big commercially in America, too, whereas FM's sucess was largely confined to England at that time.