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Old 02-12-2015, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by michelej1 View Post
[They use a picture from the Clinton performance in this article and it really was exciting. I was online at that time. I was on Prodigy, but I was not posting about music. I was talking about television. It would have been a wonderful time to see what other FM fans were saying about the reunion]

Life at Reading Eagle

Fleetwood Mac back to its full, most popular lineup


Saturday February 7, 2015 12:01 AM By Roger Catlin — Associated Press

http://readingeagle.com/life/article...popular-lineup

Though they began as a blues band of some note in England in 1967 and became better known through a succession of pop-minded leaders from Danny Kirwan to Bob Welch in subsequent years, Fleetwood Mac became a superstar band in the mid-1970s with the addition of Californians Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

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Here's a Fleetwood Mac refresher by the numbers:

•8: Years Fleetwood Mac existed before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined in 1975.
•34: Highest chart rank for the band before 1975.
•5: Millions of copies sold of the No. 1 1975 album "Fleetwood Mac."
•20: Millions of copies sold to date of the 1977 follow-up, "Rumours."
•6: Rank of "Rumours" on list of all-time best-selling albums.
•1: No. 1 singles in Fleetwood Mac's history. It was 1976's "Dreams."
•1987: Buckingham quits the band, replaced on tour by Billy Burnette and Rick Vito.
•16: Total Fleetwood Mac members over the years.
•2: Members of Fleetwood Mac who have been in every incarnation (luckily, the two who lent their names to the band: drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie).
•16 Years: since Christine McVie was part of Fleetwood Mac before returning last year.
•71: Age of Christine McVie.
•7: Number of McVie-led songs in the current tour.
•8: Songs reportedly finished for the reunited band's upcoming new album, due out next year.
•27: Age, in years, of the newest songs played on current Fleetwood Mac tour.
•0: New songs being played on the current tour.
•9: Songs on current tour from the "Rumours" album.
•24: Total songs typically played in the current tour.

- See more at: http://readingeagle.com/life/article....2gNTq8CG.dpuf
The thesis of this is US-based. Item two, for example, is only true when one ignores the band's major chart successes in the UK from 1968-70.
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