10 of the Best Fleetwood Mac Member Solo Albums

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Some bands are the sum of their parts and nothing more: the individual musicians need to feed off each other to achieve good music. They need that chemistry of the players. Other bands are the opposite, featuring great solo musicians that don’t play well with others. Those bands don’t usually last long, as the music doesn’t gel or interpersonal conflicts cause the band to splinter.

It’s a rare band that achieves both ends of this spectrum, and Fleetwood Mac is one group who has somehow found a way to thrive artistically as a band while also spawning a plethora of creative solo works. (Granted, of course, that many of those solo works came from artists who left the band due to conflict.)

In Fleetwood Mac’s tangled 40-plus year existence, there have been 16 band members. Drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie have been the only constants, while others, such as Dave Walker, only make fleeting appearances on one album and are fairly unknown now. For Dave Mason, on the other hand, his brief time in the band is merely a footnote in a successful solo career and as a member of Traffic. Stevie Nicks has been the only band member to have consistent major album success both inside and outside the band, though many of the others have released artistic and critically acclaimed works over the years.

However, the band, in its massiveness, has tended to overshadow much of the solo output of its members. Let’s take a look at a sampling of the lost and forgotten entries, and a few maybe not so forgotten, in this list (in no particular order) of some of the solo best of the Fleetwood Mac alumni and current members

Danny Kirwan: Second Chapter
Bob Welch: Paris
Peter Green: In The Skies
Rick Vito: Mojo On My Side
Jeremy Spencer: Jeremy Spencer
Mick Fleetwood: The Visitor
Christine McVie: The Legendary Christine Perfect Album
Bob Weston: Nightlife
Stevie Nicks: The Wild Heart
Lindsey Buckingham: Under The Skin