(PHOTOS) AMAZING IMAGES OF FLEETWOOD MAC IN GLASGOW, 2009

Going Back to October 22, 2009

Fleetwood Mac - Glasgow, Scotland

Really great captures of the band that I haven't seen before...

by Photographer Pauline Keighley

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FLEETWOOD MAC'S "RUMOURS" BACK ON THE CHARTS IN AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA:

ARIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - Week of February 22nd:

"The Very Best Of" is sitting at #9 down 2 spots from last week on the Australian Top 50 Catalogue Charts. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 15.

Also, Fleetwood Mac's 12 times platinum (840,000 units) album Rumours enters the Top 50 Catalogue Chart in Australia at #38 for the week of February 22, 2010.

THE UK
In it's 18th week of release "The Very Best Of" slides from #16 to #25 on the UK Top 75 Chart.  When it peaked again last week at #16 sales in the UK were 16,895.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN W/ NONE SALES FIGURES (2009 Best Of Version):
Week 1 #6 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763
Week 2 #10 - Nov 2, 2009 - 17,541
Week 3 #12 - Nov 9, 2009
Week 4 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 5 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 6 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 7 #31 - Dec 7, 2009
Week 8 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 9 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 4, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 1, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 8, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010

(PHOTO) STEVIE NICKS & MICK FLEETWOOD INTERSCOPE AFTER GRAMMY PARTY

Interscope, Geffen, A&M and Beats By Dre Grammy Party

SANTA MONICA, CA - JANUARY 31: Musicians Mick Fleetwood and Steve Nicks attend The Interscope, Geffen, A&M and Beats By Dre Grammy Party at Thom Thom Club on January 31, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.

(AUDIO) MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA

Mick Fleetwood Music Man, Winemaker and Mittagong local
ABC.net.au

Mick Fleetwood talked to Fiona Wyllie ahead of performing at Cassagrain Winery at Port Macquarie

Mick Fleetwood's music has provided the soundtrack to so many of our lives. Have you a particular Fleetwood Mac track that takes you back to a particular time and place? Have you heard stories or did you spend whole weekends listening to Fleetwood Mac on a cassette deck over and over.

A group of mates pulled off the road in a huge traffic jam on the old Pacific Highway through Newcastle and started playing cards and listening to Rumours, when they pulled back on the road, the traffic was clearer, the sky darker and the clock said it was 5 hours later. Back in 1977 there was a gig called RockArena held at the Sydney Showground with Santana, Little River band and Fleetwood Mac. In 2010 Mick Fleetwood Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald are performing at Cassagrain Winery at Port Macquarie on Sunday 28th February.

For the last nine years Mick Fleetwood has been in the wine business. It all started with a throwaway line to a business colleague, who took him seriously and the musician is now an accomplished wine maker. He puts his heart and soul into making wine and has won a number of awards. For a winemaker playing in a winery is a perfect fit however Mick has said he hopes they'll all make it on stage.

His latest album Blue Again has some wonderful early Fleetwood Mac blues songs. Mick Fleetwood says he was weaned on Blues Music when he first went to London at 17 years old, and learning the Blues was his boot camp for training as a musician. The Blues, he said, "Is the love of my life" and that Fleetwood Mac was originally a blues band.

When Fleetwood Mac toured in December last year, Mick met up with Billy Thorpe's widow and daughters. He played with Billy in a band called the Zoo and misses him greatly. Mick told ABC Statewide afternoons that Billy Thorpe was unique and how thrilled he was to have played on the album Thorpie was working on when he died, which is being finished posthumously. According to Mick Fleetwood, Billy could convince anyone to do things his way, because he was "an eager beaver who just wouldn't give up, a red headed fireball who had the energy of three men". Besides his character Billy was a fantastic musician, and had "that voice."

Not many people know Mick Fleetwood purchased a property "Wensley Dale" in Mittagong in the southern highlands and went through the process of immigrating to Australia. He has a great affinity with Australia and if he could turn the clock back to being 25 again and didn't have the same things happening in his private life he would be an 'aussie'. Even though he loves Australia he's more than happy in his island home of Maui, where surprisingly he has found all the musicians who play in his band.

Have a listen to his interview with Fiona Wyllie on ABC NSW Statewide afternoons.

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14 MINUTE INTERVIEW

FLEETWOOD MAC CREEM MAGAZINE JULY 77 "NATION GRIPPED IN MASSIVE MAC ATTACK!"

FLEETWOOD MAC - CREEM MAGAZINE

JULY, 1977

33 Years ago this month - Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was released

VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC PHOTOS 1976

Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and John McVie

Oakland, CA - 1976

by: Ken Regan 

Others you may have missed can be seen here

75 MINUTES WITH MICK FLEETWOOD - ROCKLINE INTERVIEW

MICK FLEETWOOD

ROCKLINE INTERVIEW

JANUARY 27, 2010

The full interview with Mick Fleetwood is up on the Rockline Replay site - it's about 75 minutes in length. The interview was originally broadcast January 27, 2010.  Mick is promoting the "Blue Again" DVD, CD and the upcoming tour in Australia and taking phone calls.  Not a lot of information regarding long term plans either with Fleetwood Mac or with the Blues Band, wants to keep on rockin regardless - he does suggest that maybe Fleetwood Mac as a band will tour again next year and hopes they make another studio album.

LINK TO ROCKLINE

MICK FLEETWOOD AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW.... WEDNESDAY FEB 17

MICK FLEETWOOD to be interviewed on Wednesday February 17, 2010 on ABC Local Radio Mid North Coast NSW at 2:35pm - on Statewide Afternoons with Fiona Wyllie.

You should be able to listen live here: ABC MID NORTH COAST

FLEETWOOD MAC BACK IN THE UK TOP 20

UK TOP 75 - Week of February 15th:
In it's 17th week of release "The Very Best Of" is back in the UK top 20 for the first time since the middle of last November. TVBO is up another 6 positions this week (it's third consecutive increase) to #16.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 Best Of Version):
Week 1 #6 - Oct 26, 2009 - Debut
Week 2 #10 - Nov 2, 2009
Week 3 #12 - Nov 9, 2009
Week 4 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 5 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 6 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 7 #31 - Dec 7, 2009
Week 8 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 9 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 4, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 1, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 8, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010

AUSTRALIA:
ARIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - Week of February 15th:
"The Very Best Of" is sitting at #7 up 1 spot from last week on the Australian Top 50 Catalogue Charts. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 14.

MICK FLEETWOOD "In My Own Words"

MICK FLEETWOOD
SUNDAY MAGAZINE
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

After surviving his fair share of band in-fighting and rock’n’roll excess, this 62-year-old drummer is following up the Fleetwood Mac renaissance with a blues revival of his own

I was a Royal Air Force brat. My father served in the RAF and we moved a lot. When people ask me where I’m from, I say, “Not really anywhere.” So I was well suited to the rock’n’roll life, because travelling and being in strange places is a very comfortable thing for me. 

My upbringing was universal – Egypt, all over England, Norway. As a young chap, I spoke fluent Norwegian. I can’t remember a word now.

My school days were always numbered. Today it would be known as a learning disability; I loved discussion and drama, but I couldn’t put it down on paper. As a result, I left school at 15 and went to London with my drum kit. Luckily, I was supported by my parents. 

By happenstance, I met [keyboard player] Peter Bardens. He lived next door to my sister, with whom I was staying, and he heard me play my drums. Peter had just crossed over into early R’n’B and blues and we listened to loads of his records. I blundered into blues. It suited me as a musician and, later on, I realised it suited me as a person, in terms of less is more; I was never a great technician. 

The Fleetwood Mac story is unique. We’ve had many changes stylistically and we’ve been blessed with many talented people. 

The original line-up was only really known in Europe and Australia. When we lost founding member Peter Green, we spent the next few years touring and concentrating on working in America; I decided we should make a stand there. Then came the fairytale story of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joining. 

We made Fleetwood Mac, our first album with Lindsey and Stevie, in 1975 and it sold well. Then we made Rumours in 1976 and all hell broke loose. It was to be the success story. It was incredibly gratifying. 

We also made lifestyle changes – not all of which were good. We had a lot of fun, which for many of us turned into a nightmare mist of alcohol and drugs, mixed with the belief in what we did. That’s what ended up saving us, but there were ramifications; trying to juggle a career, travelling and family is hard for anyone. 

I was first married to Jenny, who I ended up marrying twice. We have two daughters [Amy Rose, 38, and Lucy, 36], but it was dysfunctional in the later years. Then I married Sarah and, eventually, my present wife, Lynn. We have beautiful seven-year-old twins, Ruby and Tessa. I’m surrounded by ladies I love. 

My role in Fleetwood Mac has often been as piggy in the middle. It’s a fascinating story and hasn’t been, as Lindsey would say, “always easy”, but we’re emotionally connected people. The past year on the road together has been tremendous and could be the reason why there will hopefully be more music to put on an album. 

God knows why but, at 62, I’m playing harder and louder than ever. I can’t work it out. I feel blessed to have come through the patchwork of trying my best to kill myself in good shape. 

These days, we travel in style. We have our own plane, as opposed to driving in a van for 20 hours. When I tour with my blues band [The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band], I do exactly that. 

I live in Hawaii and I’m where I dreamed of being at this point in my life. I’m fortunate to have pulled that off. I have a lovely home, I play golf and I socialise, and I get to play with my band quite a lot. 

I also have a wine company. Not a winery, as it’s a very wealthy man’s game. When I started, many people thought I was another celebrity sticking my name on a bottle. It wasn’t that – we work very hard and about 80 per cent of the wines are blended by me. Sometimes I have to do short tasting sessions while I’m out on tour. 

I met Billy Thorpe though a friend. I was looking for someone to fulfil the singing chores in a band and he fitted really well. In truth, I had no idea of his stature in Australia; he truly was an icon. It’s fair to say that the AC/DCs of the world listened to a few of his records. 

Billy was a very talented man. Sadly, he departed in 2007. I saw his wife and children the last time I was in Australia. He’s definitely missed in my world.

The sort of humour I love is fairly stupid, really. It’s being able to laugh at yourself and end up with tears pouring down your face. It’s not very sophisticated. 

CLAIRE BRADLEY

The MickFleetwood Blues Band album, Blue Again (Universal Music), is out now. See them live with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald, February17 to 28. For tour details, visit www. ticketek.com.au and www.ticketmaster.com.au.

MICHELLE BRANCH PRODUCED BY STEVIE NICKS - FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE ALBUM

Over the last few hours, Michelle Branch has been dropping hints as to what she's been up to.  A few photos surfaced - one of which was the lyrics to "Say You Love Me" by Fleetwood Mac, the other was the snapshot below of Waddy Wachtel.

Now... According to Michelle Branch's twitter page, she's in the studio singing "Say You Love Me" for a Fleetwood Mac Tribute album.... And the cool thing is Stevie Nicks is producing the track for her.

Q&A WITH MICK FLEETWOOD AND RICK VITO

Q&A: THE MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND FT. RICK VITO
BY LAUREN TABAK
Rhapsody.com

The 2010 Grammys were a splendid time. We here at Rhapsody HQ headed down to Los Angeles for the event, where we had the opportunity to interview one cool pop star after another. The coolest of them all just might’ve been Mick Fleetwood, whose album Blue Again, recorded with guitarist Rick Vito, was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album.

Wait a minute. Did you say Mick Fleetwood? The blues?

That’s right. Long before “Rhiannon” and Stevie Nicks’ sexy-witch dance, the legendary drummer served time backing some of the great musicians in the British blues scene, including John Mayall. In fact, the Mac actually started life as a hardcore electric blues band, featuring Peter Green, mercurial guitarist and No. 1 rival of Eric Clapton. So yeah, Mick has kind of come full circle as of late.

We were lucky enough to sit down with both Mick and Rick, who gave us the scoop on Blue Again -- plus lots more on the blues, Peter Green and the long, tangled history of Fleetwood Mac. 

Check out the video here: Rhapsody