Many pop singers and musicians these days put out recordings with other performers and use the term "featuring." It's so common there is an accepted abbreviation ("ft."), for example, "Beyonce ft. Jay-Z" (random example). I don't have enough knowledge of the music biz to know why they do this, why they don't just call their collaboration "Beyonce and Jay-Z," but it seems to me that that's what Fleetwood Mac should do. They should call this new version of the band "Fleetwood Mac ft. Mike Campbell and Neil Finn."
If they did this, it would acknowledge that this band is still FM (which it is, as long as Mick and John are in the band), while revealing that there has been a major personnel change. To just go on calling this Fleetwood Mac without an explanation seems really inaccurate.
I will be really surprised if there is anything recorded with this configuation. I really hope there isn't, after we didn't get a final album from the Rumours lineup. I am not in the slightest bit interested in contributions from the new guys or from Stevie, and if Christine has any songs left in her I hope she saves them for BuckVie II.
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-Joanne (from Cape Cod)
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