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Mick Fleetwood just filed for legal separation from his third wife.

Mick Fleetwood -- the founder and drummer of Fleetwood Mac -- just filed for legal separation from his third wife.

Mick -- whose sexual escapades with Stevie Nicks are legendary -- married Lynn Susan Frankel Fleetwood in 1995.  They have twin daughters, who are now 11.

Mick cites irreconcilable differences and wants joint legal custody of the kids but wants Lynn to have primary physical custody.

And get this ... the guy who presumably is richer than you could ever dream of ... wants spousal support!

Now here's a big deal ... Mick claims all of his premarital musical royalties and memorabilia are his property -- which makes sense.

He has NOT filed for divorce -- at least not yet, but it looks like he's never going back again.

TMZ

Not really breaking news... His separation from his wife Lynn has been simmering for awhile.  We caught wind of Micks marital problems in March, 2012 in his Playboy interview.

Q&A Mick Fleetwood by phone in Philadelphia after the first stop on the tour stop

Mick Fleetwood on the New Tour, the Sexiest Fleetwood Mac Song, and How Restaurants Are Like Bands
Details

As an original member of one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, Mick Fleetwood has anchored Fleetwood Mac far beyond the drum kit, serving as the band's namesake, de facto manager during its late '70s reign atop the charts, chief mediator between warring factions during the turbulent Rumors recording sessions, and biggest cheerleader for the band after the members went their own way in the '80s. And he has been straightforward about the notorious excesses of the era, happily admitting that, when they traveled, they did everything "first class, all the way." Most famously, Fleetwood discovered Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1976 and convinced them to join the band, which had nearly disintegrated after it was originally formed as a London blues band nine years earlier.

Last week, Fleetwood Mac went back on tour. And in a surprising twist, the band has been embraced as a culturally relevant act (and not an oldies act) thanks to the growing interest in '70s-influenced pop melodies in general and to cuts like "Hypnotized" (from Fleetwood Mac's pre-Lindsay and -Stevie albums), which has found a modern audience at late-night after-parties in downtown New York.

Details caught up with Fleetwood, now 65, by phone in Philadelphia after the first stop on the tour, to talk about how running a band is like running a restaurant, the importance of breathing, and putting your nuts on the line for music.

DETAILS: You told Playboy last year you never thought you would tour again. What's it like being back?

MICK FLEETWOOD: No matter what—rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing—the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do. A lot of the performance is just muscle memory, but the band has been really active over the years so we were in good shape.

But that article, so you know: I'm usually the cheerleader; that at all costs, it's Fleetwood Mac forever, but I have to learn to let go after 45 years of waving banners. That was the first time I said that maybe this is never going to come back together. But it was certainly attached to the hope that it would—and it did.

DETAILS: The only downside is that you weren't able to persuade Christine [McVie] to come out.

Review | Photos: Fleetwood Mac New York "Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham offer up a musical reality show"

Old Songs and Regret, the Anger Still Fresh

Fleetwood Mac at Madison Square Garden

New York Times

By JON PARELES

The kid gloves were off when Fleetwood Mac performed its old songs at Madison Square Garden on Monday night. “Damn your love! Damn your lies!” Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks sang, bitter and enraged, in “The Chain,” from Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album, “Rumours,” which has sold 19 million copies in the United States and was reissued in an expanded version this year.

One factor in the blockbuster success of “Rumours” is that it sounds much prettier than what the songs say. The lyrics are full of heartbreak and recriminations, reflecting the breakup between Mr. Buckingham and Ms. Nicks and the failing marriages of Fleetwood Mac’s drummer, Mick Fleetwood, and bassist, John McVie (whose wife, Christine McVie, was also in the band). Yet the music was full of glossy guitar lines and companionable harmonies; it was radio-friendly California soft-rock.

The band didn’t ignore nostalgia. Between songs, Mr. Buckingham and Ms. Nicks talked about what the lyrics meant, then and now. Ms. Nicks, as always, wore glittery shawls and had many ribbons dangling from her tambourine; at one point she wore a top hat. Mr. Fleetwood, when he stepped from behind the drums, was wearing jodhpur-like cropped pants and dangling spheres, as on the “Rumours” album cover. (The band’s North American tour runs through the summer, stopping at the Prudential Center in Newark on April 24.)

Three decades later, the surfaces are rougher, the passions less restrained. It’s not just that Mr. Buckingham and Ms. Nicks both show wear in their voices: Mr. Buckingham taking on more rasp and bite, Ms. Nicks rationing her high notes. The absence of Ms. McVie, who retired from touring with Fleetwood Mac in 1998, has also shifted the band’s chemistry, since her alto voice offered some solace and her songs — like “Don’t Stop,” part of Monday’s set — provided some cautious optimism.

But Fleetwood Mac also sharpened other components of the songs. It started many of them with Mr. Fleetwood alone on drums, setting out the beat to reveal the music’s pounding, aggressive underpinnings. Mr. Buckingham’s guitar parts — fast, complex perpetual-motion patterns of thumb and fingers — pelted harder, more percussively, than they did in studio album mixes.

The band has reshaped some of its songs too: adding a slow introduction to “Tusk” that brought out its bitter verse — “Why don’t you tell me what’s going on?/Why don’t you tell me who’s on the phone?” — and shifting “Gold Dust Woman” from sullen calm to bluesy ferocity; even its cowbell sounded meaner. “I’m So Afraid” greatly expanded its lead-guitar coda until Mr. Buckingham was pummeling the fretboard with both hands.

Mr. Buckingham said that Fleetwood Mac had recorded new songs in the studio and would soon be releasing an EP, via its Web site; it played one of them, the countryish “Sad Angel,” with lyrics hinting at end-times revelations.

Yet what continues to stir Fleetwood Mac, it seems, is the Buckingham-Nicks romance, which ended after the duo joined Fleetwood Mac at the end of 1974. The band resurrected one of the pair’s songs from the 1970s, “Without You.” It’s a fond song that Ms. Nicks wrote for Mr. Buckingham when, she said, “We were really young and beautiful and in love,” and was lately rediscovered as a demo recording that had been posted to YouTube. And to end the concert, the two were onstage alone, singing “Say Goodbye” from Fleetwood Mac’s 2003 album, “Say You Will.” As his fingers flew through one more virtuosic picking pattern, Mr. Buckingham sang, “Once you said goodbye to me/Now I say goodbye to you.” But they were still together onstage.

Fleetwood Mac’s North American tour continues through July 6; a schedule is at fleetwoodmac.com.

Fleetwood Mac unveils new side at Madison Square Garden
Fleetwood Mac has reinvented itself again.
By Glenn Gamboa
Newsday.com

More than 45 years into a sometimes-tumultuous history marked by personnel changes and intra-band

breakups and makeups, Fleetwood Mac has recast itself as more of an alternative band than, well, the album-rock juggernaut that so many bands were rebelling against in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers plan to release an EP – yes, not a full album – later this week, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham said last night on stage at Madison Square Garden. It will feature a new song “Sad Angel,” which is anything but sad, as it plays up the bounciness of the mighty Mac rhythm section of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie and guitarwork that would be at home on an R.E.M. record. “Have you been conquered by the war?” ask Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in their trademark harmonies, while Buckingham pogos in place.

“Every time we come together, it’s different,” Buckingham said, following a gorgeous version of “Dreams.” “Even after all this time, we’re still evolving.”

As unlikely as that seems, on this current tour, it feels true. While there is no new album to promote this time, the tour is far from a greatest-hits nostalgia package.

They explore their punk-ish side on “Not That Funny” – part of a string of songs from their artistic, experimental album “Tusk” that formed the impressive heart of the show. Buckingham stripped back the title track’s opening to make it more like a White Stripes song, with just him and his guitar. Nicks was thrilling on “Sisters of the Moon,” adding that the band hadn’t played that song on tour since the late ‘70s, and the classic “Sara,” which had more of a guitar focus than the original.

The ever-evolving Buckingham-Nicks relationship also made up a big part of the set this tour, as they paired “Landslide,” Nicks’ song about their breakup, to “Never Going Back Again,” which Buckingham says is about a different relationship, but certainly could apply to theirs as he sings “Been down one time, been down two times, I’m never going back again.”

Their relationship is also part of the other “new” song, “Without You,” which was part of the recording sessions they did between the Buckingham Nicks’ debut album and the duo’s joining Fleetwood Mac. It’s a Cat Stevens-y love song about the happy part of their relationship.

The final encore “Say Goodbye,” from 2003’s “Say You Will” album, is about Buckingham finally being able to let go of their relationship.

“The war is over,” Nicks said, following “Landslide.”

“This is what keeps us going,” replied Buckingham.

(The tour returns to the Prudential Center on April 24 and Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on June 22.)

Fleetwood Mac played Madison Square Garden, releasing a new EP (pics, setlist, videos)
Photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin
Brooklyn Vegan

A ton of photos and every last one spectacular!  Check them out!  Brooklyn Vegan

Fleetwood Mac rocks Madison Square Garden
Former lovers and once and future bandmates Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham offer up a musical reality show
New York Daily News
by Jim Farber

At both the start and the finish of Fleetwood Mac's stellar set at Madison Square Garden on Monday, the group sang about the ties that bind.

"Chains keep us together," sang Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks early in the night, intoning the words like a warning.

"You can never get away from a woman who loves you," Nicks echoed in "Silver Springs,” stressing the lyric as a threat.  In a sense, she was being quite literal.

More than 30 years after Buckingham and Nicks flamed-out their romantic relationship they’re still re-inhabiting songs that chronicle every scar and slight.

You could say they’re milking it, but there’s a reason the dynamic continues to thrill. In fact, there are many — all of them on generous display at the Garden.

First, of course, there’s the music — an impeccable mix of pop sheen and rock fervor. Then, there’s the power of the singers’ personalities. More, there’s the enduring truths their songs have to impart about the kind of love that far outlasts romance.

In making the lives of all their members so porous — way back in the ‘70s — Mac arose as the culture’s first musical reality show. They whipped life and art into a scary, wondrous, self-exploiting mix — to their great commercial gain, no less. The result has given their songs so much subtext, there’s barely room left over for text.

These days, Mac has focused their view. Some years back, their third great songwriter, Christine McVie, retired, in the process changing the whole dynamic of the band. Without McVie’s breezy ballads, and affable air, the group turned harder, rockier and, obviously, more firmly centered on the Nicks/Buckingham axis.

The duo’s bond predates their Mac days. They put out one bomb album in 1973, a disc they alluded to during the show. They also performed a song written at that time, which they never recorded. That piece, “Without You,” had a folk-rock fluidity, typical of its era, along an idealized lyric. Hearing it in this context turned it into a moving testimony to failed dreams.

The show offered a tease of the future as well. The band performed one new song, “Sad Angels,” which, as Buckingham revealed, will be released on an EP this week. It had a country-rock gait and a chorus you could instantly hum.

In between, the band packed the night with hits, though they didn’t always pick the safest ones. A third of the way through they offered four pieces from their quirkiest album, “Tusk,” including Nick’s moody “Sisters of the Moon.” The singer said they haven’t performed that song in over 30 years.

Most of the hits were delivered faithfully, though with enough altered harmonies to shake off any mold. Buckingham performed the greatest alterations to “Never Going Back Again,” tearing down the verses to hone each word into a dagger.

Without McVie in the mix, Buckingham took more room for his fleet guitar work. His brisk fingerings on “Big Love,” treated Spanish guitar techniques like speed metal, while his long solo in “So Afraid,” built to an orgasmic peak.

For her part, Nicks sounded in fine voice, with more air behind her, and less nasality. The rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie retained its muscularity, aided by two extra musicians on keyboards and second guitar.

At the close of the two-and-a-half hour show, Buckingham performed the song, “Say Goodbye,” a sad kiss-off which he positioned as the flip side of their earlier ode to pie-eyed love, “Without You.” Singing the trembling melody with Nicks, the unending bonds of their lives seemed less like a chained burden than a sweet commitment, a vow that need never be revoked.

RHIANNON

I have to say... I'm missing the typical Rhiannon outfit.... Adds to the drama of the song.  The new sparkly shawl she's wearing is awesome, but when she lifts it up in the part she spreads here 'wings' it doesn't seem the same, plus the little twirling thing would look more cooler.

VIDEO | REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Live in NYC April 8, 2013

Fleetwood Mac Live 2013

New York City, NY

Madison Square Garden
April 8, 2013

NO RUMOUR, MAC'S BACK
New York Post
by Michaelangelo Matos

Photo by Joe Papeo irocktheshot.com

SECOND HAND NEWS
SISTERS OF THE MOON
WITHOUT YOU
SAD ANGEL
EYES OF THE WORLD
SO AFRAID
LANDSLIDE
SILVER SPRINGS AND SAY GOODBYE
GOLD DUST WOMAN

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REVIEWS | PHOTOS | VIDEO: Fleetwood Mac Live in NYC at Madison Square Garden

 Fleetwood Mac Live in New York City 

Madison Square Garden April 8, 2013

Fleetwood Mac always finds a way to keep things fresh.

By GLENN GAMBOA
Newday.com

Nearly the entire set Monday night at Madison Square Garden came from last century, including more than half of "Rumours," recently rereleased in a 35th anniversary format.

However, the band - singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie - still filled the songs with as much urgency as they gave the new, upbeat tune "Sad Angel," which feels a bit like an R.E.M. song, and the previously unreleased "Without You" from their Buckingham Nicks days, which convinced Fleetwood the duo should join his band.  Both new songs are on a new EP that could be released as soon as this week, Buckingham said from the stage. 

"Every time we come together, it's different," he said. "After all this time, we're still evolving."  He and Nicks each proved this in their own ways. Nicks, who was in fine voice the whole night, reworked "Rhiannon" to make it more emotional, while toughening up parts of "Landslide."  Buckingham, whose fiery guitar work kept the energy level high, stripped back the opening of "Tusk" to make it sound like a White Stripes song.  They offered plenty of surprises, which will only grow as the tour continues.

The tour returns to the Prudential Center on April 24 and Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on June 22.

Review: Fleetwood Mac live at Madison Square Garden
by The G
According2g.com

The Mac is back!  On April 8, 2013, Fleetwood Mac tore the roof off the sold out Madison Square Garden in New York.  I’ve been a Fleetwood Mac fan for as long as I can remember, and I have seen them in concert about 10 times since they reunited in 1997 plus numerous solo shows by both Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.  Separately, they are geniuses in their own right, but when they get together on stage, they are electric!  For the FM fans that have seen it all when it comes to this band, you cannot honestly say it anymore without seeing this tour.

Continue to the full review + Photos

FAN PHOTOS
Check out the gallery on Facebook of shots thrown out to the universe from the venue... Some cool captures

DON'T STOP

NEW BOOK: Led Zeppelin: Sound and Fury features an introduction written by Stevie Nicks

New Book Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury Set For Release

Led Zeppelin are releasing a digital book, Led Zeppelin: Sound and Fury, exclusively through the Apple iBookstore on April 15th. Neal Preston, a photographer with up-close access to the group during the 70s, wrote the book.

According to a presser, the book "blend[s] images, interviews, and information to allow readers inside access into some of the greatest moments in rock history."

The digi book features a host of content including 250 of photos of the band onstage and behind the scenes (including over 100 previously unseen images), audio introductions, written pieces, hi-definition video interviews, commentary from contemporary artists, technical camera info, a band discography and more.

Led Zeppelin: Sound and Fury features an introduction written by Stevie Nicks; it is available for pre-order at the iTunes store now.

NEAL PRESTON

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Philadelphia 4/6/13 "Lindsey Buckingham still plays head-shakingly good guitar"

Fleetwood Mac in Philly: Good playing, songs and singing don't add up to great show
Posted by John J. Moser
Lehighvalleymusic

Fleetwood Mac - Philadelphia April 6, 2013 - Photo by Brian Hineline

Fleetwood Mac’s show Saturday at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center had many of the ingredients that made the band such a force of nature in the 1970s, with nine Top 20 songs  and 28 million albums sold.

Lindsey Buckingham still plays head-shakingly good guitar – in fact, if anything, his playing was better than ever. Stevie Nicks still has a voice, and simply a presence, that invokes the emotions those songs carried.

And, of course, there are those songs themselves: Partially the soundtrack to the lives of many in the generally older, sold-out crowd.

But on Saturday, the parts of the 23-song, 140-minute show didn’t always add up to the whole you expect with Fleetwood Mac. And sometimes even the parts fell short of expectations.

Continue to the full review + More Photos

"There are two or three things we’re hoping to get on the Internet as an EP" - Mick Fleetwood on Fleetwood Mac's NEW Release

Drummer Mick Fleetwood talks 'Rumours' revival

AM New York
by: Hal Bienstock

Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” is one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time. What keeps it fresh 35 years later is not only the music itself, but the stories behind the songs. The album was recorded as two couples — Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and John and Christine McVie — were in the process of breaking up, and the album reflects that tension and emotion. A deluxe edition of “Rumours” was recently reissued, complete with outtakes and live tracks.

amNY spoke with drummer Mick Fleetwood as the 2013 edition of the band — with John McVie, Buckingham and Nicks — got ready for a tour.

What do you think when you listen to “Rumours” today? I think it was a miracle we were able to make it because of all the stuff that was going on. I love it. It’s a complete piece of work. They were really well put together songs, then you have the whole dynamic and the story of “How the hell did that bunch of people survive the emotional journey they were on?”

Is there still pain when you play these songs? We remember all of it. It makes us reconnect to what was going on then, but we look at it from increasingly different angles. We’re all older and more forgiving. It’s not super, super painful. What it is now is super, super interesting.

Are you working on new music? There are two or three things we’re hoping to get on the Internet as an EP. … In my opinion, Lindsey’s songs are some of the best stuff he’s done. I’d love to think we could put some of Stevie’s stuff together with it, then we’d have another Fleetwood Mac album. That’s my little pipe dream.

There’s a perception that these days Fleetwood Mac is a business as much as a band. Is there any truth to that? I so don’t identify with that. For one thing, if we were running a business, we’d be working a lot more. Stevie and Lindsey have been in love since they were 16. ... There are some bands that made great music, but don’t give a s--- about each other. In truth, we care too much about each other. That flame is very much about to get to lit up again.

If you go: Fleetwood Mac is at Madison Square Garden Monday night at 8, 4 Penn Plz., 212-465-6073, $79.50-$179.50. Ticketmaster

SILVER SPRINGS (Philadelphia April 6, 2013)

Box Office Gross: Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' Week 1

Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Box Office Gross 

For the week March 29, 2013 to April 4, 2013 the film, which was primarily released for only one night on April 2nd in the U.S. grossed $103,028 based on 76 theaters reporting an average take per screen of $1,356.

The film is continuing to screen in select theaters in the U.S. and Canada with it's next batch of showings happening next Tuesday, April 9th at Bow Tie Cinemas.  

LOCATIONS

• New Haven, CT - Criterion Cinemas®
• West Hartford, CT - Criterion Cinemas® at Blue Back Square
• Annapolis, Maryland - Harbour 9
• Schenectady, New York - Movieland 6
• Reston, Virginia - Reston Town Center 11 & BTX Theater
• Richmond, Virginia - Movieland at Boulevard Square

Check out inyourdreamsmovie.com for dates, ticket sales links and times.  Go see the film!  A VOD and Digital release is expected in the late spring.

FULL VIDEO: The Elusive "Sisters of the Moon" + More Photos - Fleetwood Mac Live in Philadelphia 4/6/2013

Fleetwood Mac Live in Philadelphia April 6, 2013

"Sister of The Moon"
Wells Fargo Center

Finally a full complete version!

This completely rocks!!... and Stevie's added the 'be my' a little more in front of the 'sistas' part, so the song is still evolving a little bit... She's into it!  Lindsey should be jumping in on the song with his "Some call her Sister of the Moon, some say illusions where her game, they like to wrap her in velvet, does anyone know her name" just like the Mirage video from 1982... and look at her while he's singing it - because the song IS about her... It would rock!  Other than that, Stevie sounds amazing on this... very dark, intense and even though you can't really hear the girls howling in the background, what you can hear sounds really cool. I think this sounds amazing! So happy it's back after 30 years!  

SO AFRAID

Check out these Youtube channels for some amazing video captures of the band in Philly

George Wagner | aerofan2007 | tyrant2525

Above 2 photos courtesy of Jill Shaw-Kuhn (Great shots Jill)