Monday, March 29, 2010

(PHOTO) LATEST PHOTO OF CHRISTINE MCVIE OF FLEETWOOD MAC


 Above: Christine with Jenny Boyd and Mick Fleetwood at Jenny's book launch in London, Sept 26, 2013

Christine performed with Fleetwood Mac Sept 25 and 27, 2013 - London
Photo by Lolly Does London 
 Above: Christine attends the Ivor Awards as a presenter in London, May, 2013
Steven Tyler | Christine McVie - Maui Feb, 2013
Christine supports
Trevor's Trek Foundation
Christine traveled to Maui in February, 2013 for a few weeks vacation, visiting with Mick, seeing John McVie and also playing live during one of Mick's appearances on the island. This was the first public live performance seen by anyone since leaving Fleetwood Mac back in 1998.  Visit these links to read all about it, see vids and view more photos.

Christine McVie Live - Maui Feb 13th.
Christine McVie with Mick and John on Maui

Christine subsequently rehearsed with Fleetwood Mac in Los Angeles after her vacation with Mick.  During Mick's recent VIP Meet and Greets on the current 2013 Fleetwood Mac tour he has been indicating that she will likely appear at ONE of the London shows later this fall for a few songs... No word yet on which show, or what they will sing.  But he said she's feeling very inspired to create and play music.. not for Fleetwood Mac but for herself.  Who knows, we may end up getting more music from Ms. McVie!





CHRISTINE MCVIE - 2010
Not sure how old these photos are, looks fairly recent... As the article suggests the only time she ventures out is to walk her dogs.... And I see Christine hasn't lost her sense of humour... Check out what it says on her dog leash... If I'm reading that correctly, and I think I am... it says "One of us has no balls"

This is the photo of Christine that ran in the UK newspaper The Sunday Express on March 28, 2010 along with the article posted yesterday... Additional Images by Mike Gunnill




(PHOTOS) VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC 1976 OAKLAND, CA "DAY ON THE GREEN"

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The young girl photographed mimicking Stevie Nicks quite possibly could be Mick Fleetwood's daughter.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

ANALYSIS OF STEVIE NICK'S STOP DRAGGIN' MY HEART AROUND

"Leather and Lace" is my favorite track on Stevie Nicks’ solo debut.
Bob Lefsetz
The Lefsetz Letter
First in Music Analysis

But it’s not the best.

"Leather and Lace" has that vibe that’s fallen by the wayside, you know, the one where a woman in a long dress takes you into the dell and reveals her inner truth as you stare into her eyes and fall in love. Today’s female artists are in your face, competing with the men, kicking you to the curb, or so wimpy as to be disposable, completely irrelevant.

But as much as I love "Leather and Lace"’s intimate feel, its circular nature, what puts it over the top comes halfway through, when Don Henley starts to sing:

You in the moonlight
With your sleepy eyes
Could you ever love a man like me

This is who we wanted to be. A sweet man, with substance inside, a certain solid quality. And you could infer a sexual meaning to what I just said, and maybe that’s just the point. Sex today is portrayed as rough, you take your woman, or vice versa, but reality is more about those who are self-conscious, yet are finally honest with another human being and end up connecting, coming inside.

Take that either way you want to. Metaphorically or sexually. That’s just the point. When done right, sex is an opening up, a connection. But our society is too fearful to portray it that way. Movies are laden with special effects, but sometimes songs get it right. And "Leather and Lace" does.

The reason "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" triumphs is not because of Tom Petty’s vocal, however great it might be, but the riffs, the underlying song. It’s Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers backing Stevie Nicks, as she reveals her frustration with a certain intimacy, that doesn’t want for power.

Baby you’ll come knocking on my front door
Same old line you used to use before

Truth. She’s busting him.

But that’s not the complete story…

I had to go to the bathroom. Which is why I entered City Market solo. Felice, her brother and my two college buddies were ensconced in the store, deep into the belly of the beast, long after dark, when the food emporium was almost empty, except for the catatonic cashiers up front.

And I hear something in the background, over the sound system, a record playing.

It’s like the song scooped me up and took me for a ride.

Suddenly, there was a bounce in my step. I’d missed the explosive opening riff. But that groove was so wide, it swallowed me whole, carried me away.

"Leather and Lace" is a great song.

"Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" is a classic.

Not something they sing on "American Idol", not something that can be sanitized and sung at pep or political rallies. It sits at the nexus of rock and roll and its audience. When the most important item you owned wasn’t your cell phone, but your stereo. You came home and CRANKED IT!

Yes, I turned up "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" so loud the neighbors freaked. But who could resist? You just wanted to get closer, you just wanted to be enveloped.

As necessary as Ms. Nicks is to this rendition, it’s Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers who shine. What mutation happened on stage, in rehearsal, that made them come up with this sound? Yes, it’s uniquely theirs… They listened to the same British Invasion tracks we did, but with these influences they created something unique. That nestled perfectly alongside the rest of the FM hit parade. Bands didn’t go to Timbaland to get the same sound as every other outfit, they crafted their own!

It’s hard to think about what you’ve wanted
It’s hard to think about what you’ve lost

You bet. That’s what I told Ron the night before. Life was about closing doors. Yup, as you’re watching TV, as you’re wasting time, doors are shutting behind you like crazy. There goes your chance to be a movie director, there goes your chance to be a famous author, there goes your chance to have kids. They tell you life goes by fast, but they don’t tell you how hard it is to accomplish a single thing. They don’t tell you how hard it is to be a rock and roll star, one with a career, who lasts.

I don’t want to think about what I wanted. It freaks me out to think about what I’ve lost. But when I heard "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" in the supermarket Friday night my life worked. By spending those endless hours listening to the radio, the stereo, digging ever deeper, I’d come across this great record, which I’d played so many times it was in my DNA, to the point when it came over the sound system the other night it was better than being greeted by an old friend, it was like being welcomed by God.

Yup, that’s what’s in those rock and roll records.

Don’t listen to the charlatans telling you to go to a house of worship, where you’ll be instructed what you can and cannot do.

Rock and roll is a big tent. It allows all comers. Any height, any skin color. Just put on the record and turn it up. You’ll see something that eludes every edition of the Bible. You’ll see life itself, in all its glory, the warts and the inspiration.

Fuck instant stardom. Tom Petty played more gigs in bars than most people in today’s hit parade have played in their entire lives. Malcolm Gladwell said the Beatles were so good because of all that woodshedding in Hamburg? Tom Petty and his band are so fucking great because of all those hours in Gainesville. Listening to the radio. Practicing. Gigging.

We baby boomers know the difference. Because when the Fab Four hit, we all picked up instruments, formed bands. But we gave up when it got tough, we went to college, but Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers PERSISTED!

CHRISTINE MCVIE DENY'S VILLAGERS ACCESS TO STOUR RIVER

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.

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FLEETWOOD MAC USA, AUSTRALIA & UK ALBUM CHARTS UPDATE

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.

"Best of" 2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/10
#38 - 03/27/10
#44 - 04/03/10

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

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Peter Green announces concert at Olympia Theatre

Peter Green announces concert at Olympia Theatre:
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.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

STAND BACK TMZ PHOTOGRAPHERS... STEVIE NICKS IS IN CHARGE!

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.


Monday, March 22, 2010

(PHOTOS) VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC SHOTS - JOHN, CHRISTINE, MICK

More shots by Ken Regan up for auction

STEVIE NICKS SIGHTING - BOA STEAK HOUSE

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!”

Janet Charltons Hollywood




Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News

Sunday, March 21, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC CHART ROUNDUP - AUSTRALIA, UK & US ENTRIES

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

Saturday, March 20, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC CERTIFIED 4 X PLATINUM IN THE UK "The Very Best Of"

FLEETWOOD MAC - THE VERY BEST OF
4 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, March 19, 2010
WARNER MUSIC (WSM)
Released Monday, October 19, 2009
Certification History:
3 x Platinum Certification Friday, October 16, 2009
2 x Platinum Certification Friday, July 08, 2005
Platinum Certification Friday, January 31, 2003
Gold Certification Friday, December 06, 2002
Silver Certification Friday, December 06, 2002
Silver = 60,000; Gold = 100,000; Platinum = 300,000

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.