Peter Green: Looking Back Through the Smoky Prism of Time

[LeoL]

Quote from above:

"…Some of his views about 'Albatross' and 'Man Of The World' also changed over time.

In 1981 Kremer asked if Mac’s singles were a means of exploring something new: “Yes, singles were different since they originated at the beginning of the recording process. I would say, ‘This thing ‘Albatross’, will be on the album’ but no! They would nag and nag, and then release it as a single! ‘Man Of The World’ was a track for Then Play On – but they would say this and this has to be a follow-up and then it would end up as a single. But I didn’t want to make new versions of ‘Albatross’. And then, when we finished Then Play On, the studio jams had to be added afterwards. Nevertheless it is a very good album. We loved it, we had a lot of good will for it but it did not turn out so great…”

Listen to Chuck Berry's "Deep Feeling" at the link below. It's impossible not to notice where the idea for "Albatross" came from. It's unlikely that Chuck Berry could have missed Fleetwood Mac's million-selling version of "Deep Feeling", but he kept quiet, because according to his own account, he had also borrowed ideas for his own songs "from here and there".

Deep Feeling by Chuck Berry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOuh0IvlA8