19 bands that have plowed through 3 or more frontmen without a name change
By David Anthony, Dan Caffrey, Jason Heller, Noel Murray, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, and Annie Zaleski
Apr 13, 2016 12:00 AM AV Club
http://www.avclub.com/article/19-ban...tmen-wi-234703
16. Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Bob Welch, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Rick Vito, Billy Burnette, Bekka Bramlett)
Named after its only two more-or-less consistent members, Fleetwood Mac is legendary for its internal drama. It began as an English blues band and, after enough lineup changes to warrant a separate Wikipedia entry, ended up as a hit-making, sonically ambitious Anglo-American soft-rock group with three singer-songwriters and a messy relationship history. The band’s original iteration was fronted by the gifted blues-rock guitarist Peter Green, with slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer contributing songs and vocals. For the next few years, Fleetwood Mac seemed to have a revolving door policy with singer-guitarists, and it wasn’t until 1975’s hugely successful Fleetwood Mac that it settled on its famous five-piece lineup of singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, singer Stevie Nicks, singer-keyboardist Christine McVie, drummer Mick Fleetwood, and bassist John McVie. That lineup would hold for five hit albums (until 1987’s Tango In The Night), and since then, the band has cycled through departures, reunions, hiatuses, and long-forgotten replacement vocalists. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]