The Sunday Times: Excess all areas

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Originally Posted by SpyNote

He quit taking coke “a long time ago,” but the booze has been harder to let go. “I haven’t been drunk for five months now,” he announces. With a 46-date tour of America about to begin soon after we meet, followed by European dates including four in Britain in September, he has had to shape up. “I knew I was drinking too much,” he says. “And the more I don’t drink, the more I realise I was really drinking too much.”


"I suppose I was late getting off the bus.”


It seems extraordinary that he still feels so shaky — despite having spent the last 47 years performing in one of the most commercially successful British rock bands since the Beatles.

“It goes way back,” he says. “So this is going to be interesting. I’ll have a glass of wine beforehand, but I don’t want to drink myself into a stupor just so I don’t get frightened. If I have four glasses of wine during a show, that’s cool — so long as I don’t get on the plane and finish off two more bottles.”

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As the Fleetwood Mac tour got underway, news broke that Fleetwood’s third marriage had crumbled — it was reported that he had filed for joint custody of his twin 11-year-old daughters.

I'm scratching my head as I read this. Mick's got an addictive personality. He has no self control over money, cocaine, or booze. Yet he sells the stuff, he's thinking four glasses of wine during a show is cool (any of you guys drink 4 glasses of wine during your jobs?) and "news broke" that his marriage had crumbled. And with all of this excess going on, he is filing for joint custody of his twin 11 year old daughters. If he admits to drinking four glasses of wine during a show, what's he doing when he's not performing? Lots of regret expressed about the past, and yet his current course isn't looking too safe either.