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Originally posted by David
Mick's book is juicy. If you find that interesting, you may like it. It's also virtually the only book on Fleetwood Mac that concentrates to a large degree on the band's tours. A lot of it, however, is very silly ("we achieved transcension") & much of it is suspiciously paraphrased from articles that were previously published in Rolling Stone & other magazines.
The solidest book on Fleetwood Mac in terms of just a plain, boring biography is the Samuel Graham "Authorized History of Fleetwood Mac," which was published in 1978. But, like most anything else that's authorized, it's bland & pollyanna.
You get some great criticism & writing in "Rumours 'n' Fax" by Steve Clarke & Roy Carr, published in '78, but not a stupendous collection of raw data, if that's what you're looking for.
If you want to know as much as possible about the band, don't bother with the books for now. Get yourself over to the Blue Letter Archives (or any of the collections of articles on sites like Burnish) & just start reading the articles. It's been recommended to you twice already that you do this, so we'll see just how interested you are.
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Well, if Mick's book is juicy, like you say, then I think I'm going to love it. I really want to learn more about the fights and some of the more crazy things. I want to know who wasn't talking to who. Who hated who. Who was sleeping with who. You know....
I was going to check burnish for articles, but the site is shut down. Does anyone know why?