AN IDYLLIC village is being shaken by a row between a retired rock star and one of Big Brother’s most notorious contestants.
This time, however, “Nasty” Nick Bateman, kicked out of Big Brother’s first series for his double-dealing with his housemates, is not seen as the villain. That role is being assigned to Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, who wrote Don’t Stop, which became President Clinton’s campaign song.
Tensions rose after Ms McVie joined a consortium last year to buy fields next to the Little Stour river in the village of Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent. She has lived in the village for more than a decade and was worried that the fields near her home would be used for unsightly poly-tunnels. However, her consortium promptly fenced off the fields, denying the villagers access to the river.
Ms McVie, now 66, left Fleetwood Mac in 1997 and now guards her privacy ferociously. Her palatial home is surrounded by high hedges and big fences and she rarely emerges except to walk her dogs. She hasn’t been photographed for a decade.
In an interview 10 years ago she said she enjoyed shopping in Canterbury without being mobbed.
A pair of water engineers wanting to check drainage on her land were told to go away because she didn’t want to see anybody.
AUSTRALIA TOP 50 ALBUM CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours is up one spot to #41 this week after re-entering last weeks Top 50 at #42.
TOP 50 PHYSICAL ALBUM CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours slips to #42 on the Top 50 Physical Albums Chart from last week's #40.
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 29, 2010
Rumours in week 6 on the Catalogue Chart reaches a new high of #4 - up 4 spots from last week #8.
"Rumours" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run
#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10 #08 - Week of 3/8/10
#09 - Week of 3/15/10
#08 - Week of 3/22/10
#04 - Week of 3/29/10
Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum "The Very Best Of" is up 22 spots on the Catalogue chart to #28. Total weeks on the Chart = 20.
U.S.A.
US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - April 3, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits in it's 459th non-consecutive week charting drops down 6 spots to #44.
UK TOP 75 TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART
In it's 23nd week of release and out of the top 40 for only the 2nd time since being released in October, 2009 "The Very Best Of" is down 4 spots to #41 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 29, 2010.
UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version): Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763 units sold Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541 units sold Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009 Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009 Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009 Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009 Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009 Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009 Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009 Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009 Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010 Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010 Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010 Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010 Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010 Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010 Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895 units sold Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010 Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010 Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010 Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010 Week 22 #37 - Mar 22, 2010 Week 23 #41 - Mar 29, 2010
Founding member and former guitarist of Fleetwood Mac will play the Dublin venue in May
The Rock and Rock Haller of Famer will play a fully-seated gig at Dublin's Olympia Theatre on Sunday 16th May.
After becoming a legend in the 1960s with Fleetwood Mac, Green began touring as Peter Green and Friends in February 2009. He brought his show to a sold-out crowd at Dublin's Academy last year.
For this return gig, tickets are €33 and go on sale Wednesday 24th March at 9 am from http://www.ticketmaster.ie.
Spotted at Boa Steakhouse this week, Stevie was filmed and photographed by TMZ heading inside with her assistant Karen leading the way... followed by Stevie then Sharon Celani one of Stevie's background singers... Karen can be heard at the beginning saying "Oh my god you guys... " Stevie then pipes in and says... "Okay you guys... This doesn't even happen to me anymore, I'm way too old"... All the while she's smiling, holding up her hand, probably abit blinded by the flashing lights and frantically trying to get inside. Sharon Celani behind her laughing sounds like she's enjoying the whole ordeal.
It’s always a delight to run into Stevie Nicks somewhere. This week she dined at Boa steak house, dressed all in black as usual. We like everything but the tinted aviator glasses – they don’t do her any favors. She finished her world tour with Fleetwood Mac in December, you last saw Stevie on the Grammys singing with Taylor Swift and now she’s writing songs with Dave Stewart. Did you know Lindsay Lohan tried to buy the rights to Stevie’s life so she could produce and star in the movie? Stevie responded “Over my dead body!”
Three albums and one DVD are charting around the world this week.
THE UK
TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART
In it's 22nd week of release and 21st non-consecutive week in the top 40 "The Very Best Of" is down 1 spot to #37 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 22, 2010. Estimates for number of units sold is: 369,500 since October, 2009.
UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763 units sold
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541 units sold
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895 units sold
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010
Week 22 #37 - Mar 22, 2010
AUSTRALIA TOP 50 ALBUM CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Rumours re-enters the Top 50 Album Chart at #42 selling 875 copies in Australia.
TOP 50 PHYSICAL ALBUM CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Rumours re-enters the Top 50 Physical Album Chart at #40
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Rumours in week 5 on the Catalogue Chart is up one spot to #8.
"Rumours" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run
#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10
#08 - Week of 3/8/10
#09 - Week of 3/15/10
#08 - Week of 3/22/10
Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum (350,000 units) "The Very Best Of" is in for one more week in the TOP 50 Catalogue chart - sitting at #50. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 19.
"DESTINY RULE" IN THE TOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHART - MARCH 22, 2010
Entering the DVD Chart at #26 is the Fleetwood Mac 2004 documentary "Destiny Rules" which follows Fleetwood Mac through the process of recording 2003's "Say You Will", the bands first studio album with the Rumours era lineup (except Christine) since 1987's Tango In The Night.
U.S.A. US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - MARCH 27, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits in it's 458th non-consecutive week charting on the Top 200 Catalogue chart will be sitting at No.38, up 2 spots.
"Best of" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/10
#38 - 03/27/10
On October 19, 2009 Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" was reissued as a double disc set for the first time in the UK. Certifications from December, 2002 up to October, 2009 were based on the single disc version which was released in 2002.
In the age of the single download, Jeff Harford rediscovers the album...
Throughout 1976, the five members of Fleetwood Mac each rode a wave of private turmoil for the greater good. Rancour, grief and splintering relationships just had to be worked around; breaking up the band was unthinkable.
Convening for the sessions that would produce chart-busting album Rumours (1977), the group was riding high professionally but on shaky ground personally.
The previous year the Fleetwood Mac album had hit No 1 on the United States charts, but with the marriage of singer-keyboardist Christine McVie and bassist John McVie now ended due to the latter's heavy drinking, drummer Mick Fleetwood reeling from his wife's affair with his best friend, and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks fighting through the death throes of their fiery liaison, potential disaster loomed.
But the Mac beat the odds, harnessing the songwriting potential in the highly-charged atmosphere and stringing together a Grammy-winning slice of album-oriented rock that went on to dominate the playlist of every FM and AM pop music station in the Western world for a full year.
Heartfelt lyrics were the key, with Nicks, Buckingham and Christine McVie each taking a different philosophical approach to the dysfunction.
Nicks penned Dreams as a cautionary ode to Buckingham, urging him to take stock of what he had and was about to lose; Buckingham's riposte was the cynical Go Your Own Way, in which he trivialised the concerns of Nicks by proclaiming "shacking up is all you want to do".
McVie, meanwhile, had taken up with the band's lighting director and told him You Make Loving Fun, also writing Don't Stop in a surge of optimism that surely had to sting her unhappy ex.
Ironically, the album's mass appeal lay in the harmonies created by these three distinct voices, and in the warm and comfortable sound production. The rhythm section was strident, tribal and to the fore yet somehow blunted. Rumours' poisonous barbs and hooks were cleverly disguised.
I don't typically post auction items, but I've really enjoyed seeing these vintage Ken Regan shots up for auction.... most of which I've never seen before.
THE UK TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART
In it's 21st week of release "The Very Best Of" is up 2 places to #36 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 15, 2010.
UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010
AUSTRALIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 15, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum (350,000 units) "The Very Best Of" is in free fall slipping 18 places to #41 on the Australian Top 50 Catalogue Charts. Look for it to disappear next week unless it turns around. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 18. RUMOURS ON THE CATALOGUE CHART:
In week 4 Rumours drops one place to #9 on this weeks Catalogue Chart.
2010 Catalogue Chart Run - Austalia
#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10
#08 - Week of 3/8/10
#09 - Week of 3/15/10
U.S.A.
US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - MARCH 20, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits will be sitting at No.40, down 3 places, on the upcoming chart. So far Greatest Hits has racked up 457 non-consecutive weeks on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart.
2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/20
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