Music Week article on The Visitor (June 1981)

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I was sifting through a website containing archived articles related to Eurythmics to find information for their debut album, In the Garden. During that search, I came across this writeup on The Visitor. I have included both the url and the text of the article below.

A lavish launch for Fleetwood
From David Dalton

Paris: RCA Records mounted a lavish international launch for the debut solo album of Mick Fleetwood here at the weekend. The Fleetwood Mac founder, member and drummer is signed for this one album, entitled The Visitor and released on June 30, through his layer Mickey Shapiro and said that "negotiations are currently underway" for further solo projects. Fleetwood stressed, though, that he would retain his commitment to Fleetwood Mac and that the band is currently recording a new album in France.

No comment was forthcoming on why the LP is not signed to WEA, but Shapiro praised RCA for its "great vision and foresight".

"It was not received with a great deal of enthusiasm by commercial recording interests in the US," he added. "A lot of people thought it was a joke."

The Visitor was recorded earlier this year in Ghana at a cost of $400,000, with recording equipment specially flown in.

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