My condolences to Mick Fleetwood and family on the passing of Mick's Mother

Richard Dashut (Rumours Co-Producer/Engineer) posted to his Truth and Consequences Tumblr blog today his personal message of condolence following the confirmation that Mick's mother has passed away.

Mick with his Mother
Photo: Annabel Mehran

RIP Bridget Maureen Fleetwood (Biddy)

"I’m sorry to report that I have just received personal confirmation from Mick Fleetwood, that his Mother, Bridget Maureen Fleetwood, has passed away at the age of 98 1/2. If you want to know the origins to the character of Fleetwood Mac, you need look no further than Mick’s Mum for that answer. From all of the Punters on this blog and myself at the head of that list, we salute the life of one of the most extraordinary women to ever walk the face of this planet. This is not Biddy’s world anymore, but heaven has a new Mum and we still have Fleetwood Mac! Biddy, may you rest in the eternal peace of death, you have earned in life and I shall carry your memory in my back pocket, for the rest of my days."



So sorry Mick!

I don't know if this will affect the next few shows or not. I'll keep you posted if an official statement is made or if any shows are postponed.

Mick Fleetwood Book Signing Monday, Dec 22, 2014 at Fleetwood's on Maui

Musician and Maui resident, Mick Fleetwood will be at Fleetwood’s General Store on Front Street on Monday, Dec. 22, where he will sign copies of his new book.

Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography, was released in October and tells the story of his life as a musician, playing drums since his teen years, to his long career as co-founder and member of the group Fleetwood Mac.

Born Michael John Kells Fleetwood in Cornwall, England, in 1947, Fleetwood now enjoys life on the Valley Isle where his Lahaina restaurant and general store bear his name.

The 352 page book takes a look at his life and love of music, as well as the “raucous history” of Fleetwood Mac, and the story behind the band’s longevity and success.

The in-store book signing event runs from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 22, 2014.

Source: Mauinews.com

MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND 
Featuring RICK VITO
Mick and Rick perform live on December 28th on the rooftop at Fleetwood's on Front St. For tickets, call 808-669-MICK.

VIDEO: Mick Fleetwood Interview with CBS 46 Atlanta on his Photography Collection

Reflections of Life: Mick Fleetwood at the Ann Jackson Gallery - Atlanta December 16th

Mick Fleetwood spoke exclusively with me at Ann Jackson's Art Gallery in Roswell, GA. The legendary drummer and founding member of Fleetwood Mac has started to exhibit his photography in art galleries in towns where the band will perform. This began after his friends and family urged him to display his talent. Mick has received a welcoming response from fans that turn out to witness and support his new outlet of art.

Mick Fleetwood Interview "Stevie and Christine, they're a funny couple, a lot in common, and yet nothing in common"

Mick Fleetwood Interviewed by Mike The Intern on 104.7 The Cave Pure Classic Rock

Mick Fleetwood displays art in Scottsdale gallery

By Lindsey Reiser
CBS 5 News

CBS 5 - KPHO

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (CBS5) - You wouldn't expect to see a Rock 'n' Roll legend used to screaming fans meeting folks at a quiet art gallery in Scottsdale, but that's exactly where Mick Fleetwood, founding member of Fleetwood Mac, was Tuesday evening.

The group is scheduled to perform in downtown Phoenix Wednesday evening.

Fleetwood said displaying his art can sometimes be more nerve-wracking than performing on stage.

"I don't write songs, and I don't sing them. I play in a band and it's a lot of work one way or another, but this more personal for me," Fleetwood said.

Before he gets an arena full of people going Wednesday night, he's showing his talents go beyond the stage.

"When I became a drummer, I sort of was doing what we did as a family. We traveled all the time, and I was the boring snapshot-taker in the band," Fleetwood said.

He admits his photographs in the collection Reflections are not what people might expect. They show moments of calm, either in his birthplace of England or his new home in Maui.

"I understand they were probably expecting ladies hanging off chandeliers and things," Fleetwood said.

"The contrast in this photo between the old rusty worn-out truck, and this new burst of super green light from the leaves," said Scottsdale resident Sari Lewis, describing what drew her to the piece she purchased.

She said she's not surprised he chose the Valley as one of his first exhibitions in the states.

"Scottsdale has an awesome gallery district, and we earn and deserve a lot of great art here," Lewis said.

As for his favorite piece? Fleetwood prefers a pair of swans he photographed individually that he said remind him of his parents because swans mate for life.

"In a way, these are my babies," Fleetwood said.

If you'd like to take a look at the pieces, they'll be on display until Thursday at DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal.

Mick Fleetwood follows a path of art and music
By John Hook
FOX 10 News

PHOENIX (KSAZ) - It's been 16 years since every original member of the legendary group Fleetwood Mac performed and toured together. 

They are one of the greatest Rock and Roll bands of all time, selling over 100 million albums.

On Wednesday night the band will be rocking U.S. Airways Arena, but first tonight FOX 10 caught up with drummer and founder of the band Mick Fleetwood at a gallery in Scottsdale. 

Fleetwood's other passion besides music is his photography.

For such an imposing figure, Mick Fleetwood is 64, and he's an incredibly gentle, thoughtful, soft spoken man.

"I still have periods where I take a lot of pictures and think about it a lot, this is the sum of what I've taken," said Mick Fleetwood.

He's still following the path, in music and photography.

"And then I joined a rock and roll band many years later, and was the boring member of the band who took pictures all day long," he said. Then at night he would take his place behind a great band and was hardly boring. "We have affected people, and people love our music that still exists."

He says the band is still relevant today for one reason; they all love making music.

"They would truly be doing music with or without the money; it was nothing about being successful," said Fleetwood. 

People always ask him whether he'll release something like "Life on the Road with Fleetwood Mac" , he says he doesn't think so.

In less than 24 hours from the airing of this story, he will play in front of a sold out crowd. So how does Fleetwood keep his mind on photography? "I don't get overly thinking about it until I get to the show and get in the complete routine... you would have brought up that I suffer from stage fright, so you've actually triggered me already, I'll be drinking heavily tonight!" he said.

For the first time in 16 years, Christine McVei is back touring with the band so the lineup that produced "Rumours" , one of the best selling albums of all time, is back together.

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Well any one of these options would be cool if you are game for something a little different for your Wedding on Maui - and have the cash to do so.

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Interview: Mick Fleetwood is as thrilled as anyone to see the soft-rock dream team back together

Mick Fleetwood on photography, Fleetwood Mac
by Ed Masley
AZCentral

The Fleetwood Mac lineup that gave the world "Rumours" is headed to Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 10, with Christine McVie back on board for her first tour of duty since her 1998 departure. And Mick Fleetwood is as thrilled as anyone to see the soft-rock dream team back together — something no one in that dream team thought would happen.

"But she came back and we are now very complete," Fleetwood says. "The chemistry is how it should be. It's truly amazing. I consider it a real pinnacle in this band's history, and thus the people in it, including me. I'm overjoyed that we're doing what we're doing. We are intact."

Having said that, what he'd really like to talk about is the exhibition of his photographs at DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal in Scottsdale, where Fleetwood is hosting a private reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9.

The drummer credits his father with having piqued his interest in photography.

DENVER: Fleetwood Mac drummer steps out front with photo show

MICK FLEETWOOD 

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT

Fascination St. Fine Art presents recent work by the founder and drummer of the band Fleetwood Mac through December 26th.  Mick Fleetwood will also appear at the gallery to greet fans from 7:30 to 9:00 PM on December 11th, prior to the band's concert at Pepsi Center on December 12th at 315 Detroit St. The gallery is free but register for the appearance in advance by calling. 303-333-1566 or fascinationst.com.

Mick Fleetwood: "I felt like a whore"

CBC.ca
Q Arts Music Culture Entertainment

Fleetwood Mac has long been associated with chaos and change, but for the band's 47 years, there has been at least one constant: the steady drumming of Mick Fleetwood. 

The veteran musician joins guest host Tom Power to discuss his new autobiography, Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac, the blues-turned-rock band's many manifestations, and why he "felt like a whore" pulling his reluctant co-founder Peter Green along after the singer and guitarist became disillusioned. 

Click on this Link to hear Micks full 18 minute interview segment.

Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery

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 11km.

This full article originally appeared in The Daily Mail (UK) November 7, 2014.  Visit The Daily Mail to read the article on-line

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Micks new book "Play On, Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac is available everywhere.

Mick Fleetwood's Los Angeles Book Signing Event - Cancelled

Mick's book signing event at Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market in Los Angeles originally scheduled for November 30, 2014 then

moved to December 1, 2014 has now been cancelled.

LOS ANGELES - CANCELLED 
Author Event: Date: Monday, December 1, 2014
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market 
189 The Grove Drive Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036, Ph: 323-525-0270

Mick Fleetwood bangs the drum for his photos

Mick Fleetwood bangs the drum for his photos. Mick Fleetwood’s doing it. Steve Nicks is, too. No, we’re not referring to the recently announced reunion of Fleetwood Mac, but the other side project that has engaged two members of the enduring rock quintet: their fine-art photography. Fleetwood, the band’s drummer and co-founder, is presenting a collection of his photos, titled “Reflections: The Mick Fleetwood Collection,” which will be on view Monday at Wentworth Galleries (819 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). The Grammy winner will also make an appearance from 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 18 at the gallery, the night before Fleetwood Mac’s performance at the BB&T Center in Sunrise. Visiting the gallery is free, but the Fleetwood appearance requires an RSVP. Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. 954-468-0685 or WentworthGallery.com.

Source: Sun Sentinel (Palm Beach edition)

More info at RoadShowCompany.com

'Christine Returning Completes The Circle'

The father of the Mac Mick Fleetwood tells Clair Woodward how his bohemian childhood still inspires him and the band.

Sunday Express (UK)
November 16, 2014

The Urban Woo

Fleetwood Mac drummer tells Salon new "Rumours" stories, reflects on Stevie Nicks affair, shares regrets

Mick Fleetwood on “Rumours”-era excess: “I’m damn lucky I never killed anyone!”

Photo: Chris Pizzello

EXCLUSIVE: Fleetwood Mac drummer tells Salon new "Rumours" stories, reflects on Stevie Nicks affair, shares regrets

By David Daley
Salon.com

The Mick Fleetwood pictured on the back of his new memoir, “Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac,” looks fabulously content. This is the rock star as elegant dandy, stylish in tails, draped in an accent of gold jewelry, a trim white beard. It’s an advertisement for the good life, if not living right.

Crazy, isn’t it? Because the Fleetwood on the cover has a wicked gleam in his eye, as he peers out from under a rakish hat, hair down around his shoulders. This is the Fleetwood of the mid-t0-late ’70s, the drummer whose band was re-energized by the arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who recorded 1975′s “Fleetwood Mac” with “white powder peeling off the walls of every room” in the studio.

But the madness was only beginning: The relationships of Buckingham and Nicks, along with John and Christine McVie, were unraveling amidst angst, affairs and mountains of cocaine. “Rumours” chronicled the dissolution of it all, selling tens of millions of albums worldwide. They were among the biggest bands in the world, and they lived every moment of it to the extreme. “The drugs of course were plentiful,” Fleetwood writes, “and we partook of the finest Peruvian flake quite a bit, both to numb the pain and to find the energy to persevere.”

Even grander extravagance followed, and I don’t just mean “Tusk.” Their contracts required fleets of limos to be available on demand. Nicks and McVie wanted their hotel rooms freshly painted in specific colors before they arrived; Nicks also required a white piano. Cocaine was measured out to the entire touring party after the show — “everyone who lined up got their packet” — at a specific announced time in each city. “It was fabulously expensive, wonderful and sometimes depraved,” he admits.

The hits, of course, have fueled presidential campaigns and never gone away. Even the albums you think you know are studded with gems. The albums get discovered and rediscovered and continue to influence new generations. (Note to anyone in high school, or ahem, later than that, who I made of fun for loving them, from behind the righteousness of my Smiths shirt: Sorry about that!) And the five-piece band from those iconic albums is now back together and touring into next year — Fleetwood calls it a “victory lap” in the book, so you might check it out while you can — but he also reveals that the band is working on new material.

All of this, of course, is the stuff of great rock memoir, and “Play On” doesn’t hold back on the stories behind the songs or the dramas on the road and in the studio. Fleetwood is also deeply reflective on the relationships he sacrificed to the band, whether as a father, a husband or a son. We talked last week in New York. There was only 20 minutes and he gives long answers. The interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

Continue to the full interview at Salon.com

BBC INTERVIEWS: Mick Fleetwood "Play On: Now Than and Fleetwood Mac"

MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEWS

5 Interviews from this past week in London with Mick promoting his new book
 "Play On: Now, Then And Fleetwood Mac

Photo Gallery: BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends with
Mick Fleetwood, Matt Berry, Imtiaz Dharker, Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, GoGo Penguin

BBC RADIO 4 
Loose Ends - November 11, 2014

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Howard Bentham
Friday, November 5, 2014
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MacAulay and Co - November 5, 2014

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Radcliffe and Maconie - November 5, 2014

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The Chris Evans Breakfast show - Friday, November 7, 2014
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In an eye-popping new memoir, Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery

The rock star who snorted a line of cocaine 7 miles long! In an eye-popping new memoir, Fleetwood Mac's leader reveals the true epic scale of their debauchery... 

By Tom Leonard
The Daily Mail

The Daily Mail - November 7, 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.

'As for a new Fleetwood Mac album, Mick is optimistic"

FLEETWOOD MAC LEGEND MICK FLEETWOOD: THE 5 BEST DRUMMERS EVER
And he talks about the Fleetwood Mac tour and his secret dream of being in the Rolling Stones.

By James Joiner
Esquire.com

It's safe to say that Mick Fleetwood, drummer and founding member Fleetwood Mac, with 47 years of rock stardom under his belt, has stories to share. And so he does in his new autobiography Play On, an intimate trip through memories that also double as an inside guide to one of the most influential periods and bands in music history, as told by one of its most pivotal figures. It's all there. And now that Fleetwood Mac are back together touring, it's all relevant again.

"With Christine McVie coming back, we're all intact, so it's really thought-provoking. I probably won't properly digest it all until six months into this phase, but in real time it's amazing. She's so happy to be doing what she's doing, and she's a really great influence on all of us. She's like a little kid. Not that we're all jaded and don't like doing this, but it does step up the action a bit. Stevie [Nicks] is overjoyed. She says on stage, 'I've missed having another blonde in the band.' So it's all good. You know, we'll have to be really stupid or try really hard to fuck this one up.

"All joking aside, it's truly amazing. The relationship with our audience has never been shabby. It's fair to say this particular band, maybe more than quite a lot of other bands, there's a lot of personal storytelling that people feel very connected to outside of the music. It's like performance art, it's really profound, and that's what we're in right now, which you can have no complaint about."

As for a new Fleetwood Mac album, Mick is optimistic. Surprisingly so.

"We have a whole lot of material from Lindsey [Buckingham] and me and John [McVie] from the last two and a half years, and also Christine, when she came to LA a little while ago. We have a whole bunch of tracks. We're hoping... We don't really know how it's going to be placed. My hope is, of course, that it becomes a full-fledged Fleetwood Mac offering. There's really not much time now, this tour is unfolding as we speak, but my heart tells me that, within the next couple of years or less, there will be a really, really cool Fleetwood Mac album. And that's certainly my hope."

Until then, we asked Mick Fleetwood to share and talk about the drummers who have inspired him throughout his career. 

Continue at Esquire for the full article

Video: Mick Fleetwood on meeting Stevie Nicks for the first time

Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood chronicles life in "Play On"
CBS This Morning

Mick Fleetwood on meeting Stevie Nicks for the first time: She's magnetic and gorgeous, but it was a musical dialogue that struck me.

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.

Video: Mick Fleetwood on BBC Breakfast November 5, 2014

Mick Fleetwood on never playing the same way twice
5 November 2014

BBC Breakfast

For many people, the songs of Fleetwood Mac are the sounds of the sixties and seventies, but they were a band who have been almost as famous for their relationships and break ups as their music.

The drummer, and founder member, Mick Fleetwood has steered the band through the trials and tribulations and line-up changes ever since.

He told BBC Breakfast that he still never plays a song the same way twice and spoke about life in Fleetwood Mac and the rumours that used to surround them.

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Mick Fleetwood on BBC Radio This Week (Multiple Listings)

Mick Fleetwood on BBC Radio 
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND
MacAulay and Co - Wednesday, November 5th - 10:30am
Mick Fleetwood and Russell Brand are guests.

BBC Radio 5 Live
Afternoon Edition - Wednesday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Sarah Brett and Dan Walker present an afternoon of engaging news, sport and conversation. Guests include music legend Mick Fleetwood, on his new Autobiography 'Play On'. We'll speak to Mick on the story of his life in rock 'n' roll and how the band that meant everything to him came to define him.

BBC Radio 6
Insight - Wednesday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Fleetwood Mac
Alan Black presents a profile of Fleetwood Mac in a documentary first broadcast in 1976.

BBC Radio 6
Radcliffe and Maconie - Wednesday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Mark presents the show solo, and is joined by none other than legendary drummer and Fleetwood Mac co-founder, Mick Fleetwood. Well known for being in one of the biggest bands of all time, he's also enjoyed a solo career and makes wine... and he's here to talk about his new autobiography.

BBC Radio 6
The Story of Rumours - Thursday, November 5th - 1:00pm
Paul Sexton tells the story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album Rumours

BBC Radio 2
The Chris Evans Breakfast show
Friday, November 7, 2014 6:30am
Chris gets that Friday feeling going with Mick Fleetwood, Billy Idol, Des O'Connor and Katherine Jenkins.

BBC Radio 4
Loose Ends - Tuesday, November 11th - 6:15pm
Clive talks to Mick Fleetwood about memoir 'Play On' - his life with Fleetwood Mac