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11-01-2014, 01:25 PM
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11-01-2014, 01:35 PM
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I wonder what a happened regarding that TV series he was due to present 'A day with Mick' (?????). No further mention of that- wonder if that got buried.
Away from music I think he'd make a great subject for a reality TV series.
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#48
11-01-2014, 01:39 PM
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Very sweet the way Mick talks about getting John's email, after undergoing treatment for colon cancer. "Hey Mick, how you doing? I hope well. Don't get too stressed out. Listen ... it's all different now ... isn't it? It's fun."
And he said though they waited to announce Christine's return, the truth is that after London, in their minds, the band was back together. Michele Last edited by michelej1; 11-01-2014 at 01:41 PM..
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11-01-2014, 02:05 PM
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Just a thought...
At the very end of the book Mick mentions this as a victory lap, goes on about the recent recordings and how great it has been in the studio. He goes on to say Stevie will be joining them later in the year. He then ends by suggesting Stevie will carry on performing long after Fleetwood Mac has ended. It struck me as odd that he'd choose to end his book talking about Stevie in particular. I might be reading too much into it but I couldn't help but wonder whether it was a veiled message to her; we are nearing the end as a band. You however will go on as a solo performer for a long time afterwards (i.e. get on board with us for this last album- you have plenty of time for yourself for at least another ten years after we're done).
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11-01-2014, 09:33 PM
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By:Georgie Binks Special to the Star, Published on Sat Nov 01 2014
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...ony_bozza.html Play On — Now, Then, And Fleetwood Mac by Mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza At 67 years old, the founder of the eponymous band Fleetwood Mac isn’t ready to reveal the secrets behind rumours of band’s debauchery When I read a musician’s autobiography I really want to know what’s driven them to create their art, everything from musical influences to the inspiration for their lyrics. Some musicians, such as Graham Nash, deliver, others just don’t quite ‘bring it on home.’ For Mick Fleetwood, the drummer and mainstay of the wildly popular Fleetwood Mac, the responsibility to the reader becomes even more onerous, what with fractured relationships that simultaneously fascinated fans while threatening to tear the group apart. Who is the song, “Sara” about anyway? What about “The Chain?” Then of course the real nitty-gritty: just who was sleeping with whom? Fleetwood, now 67, hails from a generation of British rockers who drew their inspiration from musicians such as Buddy Holly and Little Richard. He’s been playing rock for at least 50 years, 40 of those with the same musicians. Members drift in and out of the band over the years, while Fleetwood provides the glue that guides them through rocky times and back to where they are now. With the publication of Fleetwood’s book, Play On, his new photography exhibit and a new tour, he’s enjoying his life more than ever. He begins by talking about his early life and the formation of Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood received his first set of drums from his parents at the age of 11. His first band, the Cheynes, toured Britain with the likes of The Yardbirds, The Animals, the Spencer Davis Group, eventually opening for the Rolling Stones, tidbits any music aficionado loves to hear. He then did a stint with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers where he met John McVie. A fellow musician dubbed their rhythm section Fleetwood Mac; the name stuck when they formed their band which included McVie’s wife Christine, a talented pianist. They met with success in Britain and the U.S. but it wasn’t until they lost their lead guitarist in 1974 and offered Lindsey Buckingham the job that they really took off. Buckingham, who had been playing in a band with Stevie Nicks with limited success, accepted the offer on the condition Nicks come with him. The rest is history. One of Fleetwood’s big challenges is that, as he admits half way through Play On, he never wrote any of their songs. Rather they were the work of Nicks, Buckingham and Christine McVie. While, he offers some tidbits about their inspiration, it’s quite limited. Instead, he concentrates quite a bit on his own relationships, which gets to be a bit daunting after awhile. Twice-married to Jenny Boyd (sister of Patty Boyd, married to George Harrison), he and Jenny break up so many times, you find yourself screaming, ‘Jenny, do not jump on a plane again!’ Especially when, at one point, he’s still married to Jenny, having an affair with Stevie Nicks and sleeping with her friend, Sara, who, yes, is Nicks’ inspiration for the song, “Sara.” Fleetwood also talks about the drugs, especially cocaine; he describes the infamous studio Sound City, where they encountered Nicks and Buckingham, saying “there seemed to be white powder peeling off the walls in every room.” After reading the autobiography of a couple of rock musicians — Graham Nash, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton — you wonder if their prime motivator is cocaine rather than a burning desire to make music. Fleetwood says its use during their first album together — their breakout album Fleetwood Mac, which he’s dubbed the “white album” — fuelled stories of their debauchery that he won’t confirm or deny. “It’s all so tired at this point.” What’s with that? Inquiring minds might like to know. While he doesn’t offer those details, he does admit to going bankrupt twice and also apologizes to his children with Boyd for putting them through so much heartbreak. Despite its shortcomings, Fleetwood provides an interesting overview of the band which makes watching their current tour that much more enjoyable. His voice and outlook are happy and he comes across as a kind, thoughtful man. Even if the book is limited in what it can offer, it still makes for some fascinating reading. Georgie Binks is the author of A Crack in the Pavement
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11-02-2014, 02:40 PM
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Nov. 01 (Daily Mail) -- Radcliffe & Maconie 1PM, BBC 6 MUSIC ??? Mick Fleetwood, drummer and co-founder of the hugely successful Fleetwood Mac, joins Mark Radcliffe to talk about his solo career, winemaking and his new autobiography.
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11-02-2014, 10:40 PM
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11-06-2014, 12:00 AM
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News/November 5, 2014, 7:00 AM CBS This Morning
Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood chronicles life in "Play On" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fleetwoo...fe-in-play-on/ Fleetwood Mac has sold more than 140 million records worldwide. The supergroup is known for its music, and for its wild ways off stage, too. Now in a new memoir drummer and bandleader Mick Fleetwood looks back at a long journey. For nearly 50 years Mick Fleetwood has provided the beat and backbone for one of the world's most successful bands. At just 15 years old, Fleetwood left home for London to become a drummer. There, he met bassist John McVie, forming a lifelong friendship and the band that would bear their names. For eight years, through drugs, discord and affairs, they endured a constantly changing lineup. They finally struck the right chord with McVie's wife, Christine, and Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. While their hard-partying became the stuff of rock and roll legend, it was their infamous love affairs that inspired "Rumours." The 1977 album sat at number one for 31 weeks and is the ninth best-selling album of all time. Hits like "Go Your Own Way" captured their turmoil, which ultimately proved to be too much. Fleetwood's new memoir, "Play On," chronicles the band's often painful past -- with a happy ending. For the first time in 16 years, the band is back together and the beat goes on.
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11-06-2014, 12:02 AM
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Rolling Stone By Dave DiMartino | November 4, 2014
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ealed-20141104 Mick Fleetwood with Anthony Bozza: Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography (Little, Brown and Company) The second book to be had by Fleetwood Mac’s colorful drummer Mick Fleetwood is a good read, not only because he’s got a spectacular story to tell—the man has been on the scene making relevant music for a half-century—but because there’s a warmth and humanism to what he does, and the stories he tells, that makes him a very likeable, charismatic fellow. Here he talks much about the early days, the trials and tribulations of his band pre- and post-Peter Green, that odd period in the middle, and the soap opera that would come when Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks came aboard in the mid-‘70s and serious sales—and drama—ensued at length. Fleetwood seems very much a good guy; his band, despite its rotating casts of characters, has never been less than interesting; and the time to see him may indeed be now, while he and the current “classic” Mac crew are out on the road touring, maybe for the last time. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz3IGHZhv72 Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
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11-07-2014, 09:32 PM
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The rock star who snorted a line of cocaine SEVEN MILES long! In an eye-popping new memoir, Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery... ByTom Leonard for the Daily Mail Published: 20:19 EST, 6 November 2014 Fleetwood Mac were sitting around stoned in the studio one night with one of their engineers when they set about solving an arithmetic problem that had been niggling at them. How much cocaine, they wondered, had drummer Mick Fleetwood put up his nose? Working on the premise he had taken an eighth of an ounce every day for 20 years, the sound engineer calculated that if you laid out the drug in a single snortable line, it would stretch for seven miles. Rock ’n’ roll is full of such apocryphal stories, but as Fleetwood admits in a candid new memoir, this one is completely true. But then, this is the band that in 1977 gave the world Rumours, one of the best-selling albums ever, and almost died in the process. Though they appeared deceptively inoffensive, with their hippy-ish outfits and gentle, melodic hits such as Don’t Stop, Little Lies and Go Your Own Way, when it came to decadence and over-indulgence, Fleetwood Mac made the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin look like a Salvation Army band. Quite how they are still alive, still talking to each other and touring is a marvel to everyone, least of all themselves. It is a puzzle that Fleetwood, 67, tries to explain in his autobiography, Play On. He claims in his new book that he ‘refuses to be romantic in my perspective of drug abuse’, but admits ‘it was all new and undiscovered territory’ when he first bought cocaine in 1975. After innumerable line-up changes and personal tragedies, the band had taken on two new American recruits. Singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who joined as a romantically attached couple, injected Californian glamour into an otherwise all-British band made up of bassist John McVie, his wife and singer Christine, and Fleetwood, the 6ft 6in son of an RAF fighter pilot and the band’s drummer and de facto leader. The act, originally a Sixties London blues band, were to become a huge pop success with their album Fleetwood Mac. It was recorded at Sound City in Los Angeles, at a time when the city was hit by the ‘first wave of the tsunami of white powder that rolled in’ during the Seventies and Eighties, Fleetwood recalls. Cocaine was dispensed at the studio ‘as if it were simply another of the available services at your disposal’, and the album was written with ‘white powder peeling off the wall in every room of the studio’. A studio engineer would test it for purity, which the wide-eyed Brit compared with a ‘cool’ chemistry lesson. That album went to Number One in the U.S., and the fact that the band’s creative juices had been stimulated by drugs and drink encouraged even greater excess next time around. Making their following album, Rumours, ‘almost killed us’, says Fleetwood. By the time they started writing the album, he claims, ‘we had all fallen to pieces’: the McVies were ending seven years of marriage and only spoke to discuss music, while Nicks and Buckingham had also broken up. Fleetwood’s marriage to Jenny Boyd, sister of George Harrison’s first wife, Pattie, was heading for divorce. And Christine McVie was having a fling with the band’s lighting director. All this was worsened by creative tensions, the temptations of their new-found wealth, and by the band’s astronomical drug and alcohol consumption. The solution to the various relationship breakdowns, they decided, was to live together in two groups — the men sharing one flat and the two women in neighbouring ones elsewhere. At the studio, Fleetwood would go from room to room trying to keep spirits up. When his good humour didn’t suffice, there was always cocaine — lots of it ‘In the studio, we had a ritual, in which the engineers and band members all started humming a tune — it changed over the years — which would serve as a siren’s call for cocaine, specifically the cocaine that I was invariably holding,’ writes Fleetwood. The tune in later years was often Vangelis’s theme to Chariots Of Fire, to which the athletes run in slow motion. ‘As if in a trance, I would drop what I was doing and in slow-motion, beckon them over,’ recalls Fleetwood. In ‘homage to the film’, he would make them run in slow motion, ‘then get them on their knees and beg, before I’d administer the goods’. In those days, they would even include a ‘thanks’ to their drug dealer on their album credits. Rumours took a year to record, costing more than $1 million. But the album, released in 1977, stayed at Number One in the U.S. charts for 31 weeks, and has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide, producing a slew of chart-topping singles. Most of the songs were all about the band members’ break-ups. The lesson was obvious, said the gorgeous Stevie Nicks: Fleetwood Mac created its best music when the members were suffering the worst personal crises. The decadence — amazingly, all claimed against tax as ‘corporate expenses’ — continued on tour, Fleetwood says. The band’s ‘rider’, the requirements it laid down before each performance, was ‘extensive, detailed and exhaustive’. The band demanded 14 black limousines continually at their beck and call, while Nicks insisted her room be painted pink and have a white piano (a crane was often used to lift it through a window). ‘We were pleasantly out of control,’ muses Fleetwood. Cocaine was bought ‘in bulk’ and everyone — band and crew — would turn up each night and queue for their ‘ration’. The handing out of drugs was even listed on the band’s daily tour schedule. Nobody consumed more than Nicks and Fleetwood. He admits that, as acting manager ‘through all of that wonderful chaos’, he would often go around bullying other people to give him any of their ration they hadn’t consumed. The situation became even more complicated when Fleetwood and Nicks began an affair that lasted several years. They would ‘sneak away’ (which can’t have been hard given how stoned everybody else was). When Fleetwood told Lindsey Buckingham he had taken over duties from him as the singer’s lover, he simply said: ‘Nice of you to tell me. I appreciate it.’ The sexual free-for-all took another twist when — having split from Jenny, who was looking after their two daughters in England — Fleetwood started a relationship with one of Nicks’s best friends, Sara Recor. Fleetwood, a man who apparently didn’t know the meaning of the word ‘faithful’, admits he was ‘surprised’ that Nicks was ‘so hurt’. But at least, true to form for Fleetwood Mac, she was inspired to write a song, the hit single Sara. Fleetwood and Sara, who eventually wed, were ostracised by their friends, including the rest of the band. That marriage lasted seven years, before, bizarrely, he remarried Jenny. But their second union was no more successful than the first, and having divorced again, he married third wife Lynn, mother of their twin girls. You may not be surprised to learn that the couple are getting a divorce. After all this marital chaos, Fleetwood still appears to have a lot of affection for Nicks, and even believes they were connected in another life. But she doesn’t appear to see it the same way, last year blaming cocaine for turning them into ‘nutcases’ who started an affair after they got ‘completely drunk, messed up and coked out’ at a party. Last year she said their relationship was ‘a doomed thing and caused a lot of pain to everybody’. Estimating that she spent $1 million on cocaine in the ten years she was addicted, she said she only kicked the habit in 1986 when a plastic surgeon warned that her nose might disintegrate. (She still has a hole bigger than a 5p piece in her septum.) As hapless in personal finance as in love, Fleetwood says he never saved any money, and has no idea how much he earned or spent in those years. He went bankrupt in 1984, and says he can’t even remember how many times it has happened again since. As Fleetwood acknowledges in his book, the band’s bizarre saga of drug-induced disaster started long before Nicks and Buckingham came on the scene. He admits he and his bandmates failed to see that fellow founding member, the brilliant guitarist Peter Green, had mental problems. He blames these on the vast amount of LSD Green took — as did other band members. Fleetwood recalls one ‘trip’ during a U.S. tour. Imagining each other to be terrifying skeletons, the band sat holding hands in a circle on the floor of a New York hotel room, passing around a telephone so they could each ‘blubber’ to the man who had supplied them with the drug. Fleetwood says Green’s behaviour ‘changed fast and drastically’. He started talking incessantly about religion and his disillusionment with the greedy, music industry. He wanted the rest of the band to donate all their profits to charity. Green left the band in 1970 and became a recluse. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and later threatened the band’s accountant with a gun for trying to give him royalty cheques. He was only the first casualty of what Lindsey Buckingham has since called the ‘curse of the Fleetwood Mac guitarist’. Green’s fellow guitarist, Jeremy Spencer, the band’s other big LSD user, disappeared in 1971 in Los Angeles during the band’s U.S. tour, joining the Children of God, the sinister cult which used sex to win converts. ‘He’d been completely brainwashed,’ writes Fleetwood. The next guitarist to come unstuck was Danny Kirwan, whose problem was heavy drinking. During 1972, just as the band was about to go on stage one night, Kirwan started ranting about a bandmate’s guitar being out of tune and then wrecked his dressing room. He refused to play, and when his bandmates came off later and he tried to offer them tips on how to play better, his fate was sealed. Fleetwood sacked him. Kirwan would later spend periods living rough in London. His replacement, Bob Weston, had an affair with Fleetwood’s wife, Jenny. Weston died of a gastro-intestinal haemorrhage last year — within months, of another Mac guitarist, Bob Welch, committing suicide at 64 in his flat. Despite all this death and decline, the five members of Fleetwood Mac from the Rumours era soldier on. Christine became the last to rejoin in January. They have 40 tour dates lined up in the U.S. and more planned in Europe. Which, given their reckless carousel of sex and drugs, is something of a miracle. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...#ixzz3IRMPmObA Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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11-09-2014, 07:24 PM
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[I don't have the photo for Mick in this outfit, only the newspaper description]
[click for photo] Nov 7 2014 (Manchester Evening News (Manchester, United Kingdom)) -- ? ONE of Fleetwood Mac's most famous hits is Go Your Own Way. So it's no surprise that the band's co-founder Mick Fleetwood lives by that rule too when it comes to his fashion choices. Here's drummer Mick rocking a rather eclectic mix of prints on a visit to Manchester this week to promote his new autobiography Play On. Mick, 67, donned a paisley print jacket, printed scarf, waistcoat and tie teamed with a fedora hat as he made his way along MediaCityUK. He had earlier joined Bill Turnbull and Louise Minchin on the BBC Breakfast sofa. To top off the look he wore a long gold pendant chain with what looked like a winged creature. Perhaps an Albatross? Maxine Peake starred as a memorable Hamlet at. .The Royal Exchange Theatre
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