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Peter Green's appreciation is based on those few years with Fleetwood Mac. Without those years, no one would know about him. Can we honestly say whether he achieved anything great musically in his later years?

The key work to understanding this is Martin Celmins's meritorious biography "Peter Green - Founder of Fleetwood Mac" - especially its new updated edition.

The book shows the point at which Green's drug use had done its job - destroying him as a uniquely masterful creative musician.

Green's brother Mike says that he was shocked when he met his brother at the airport when Peter returned to London in March-April 1971, how bad Peter had fallen on this trip - and from which he never recovered.

After this, Peter Green's musical genius only burst forth from time to time in small drops, as if brought out by the automation of finger motion memory.