Friday, March 14, 2014

Lady Antebellum and Stevie Nicks set to perform on the ACM Awards April 6th

Country stars Eric Church, Toby Keith and Lady Antebellum with special guest Stevie Nicks have been added to the performers lineup at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music. The show will take place SUNDAY, APRIL 6th at the MGM GRAND in LAS VEGAS, and be televised live on CBS-TV at 8p (ET).


LIVE IN AUSTRALIA FOR THE FIRST TIME
The 49th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, Country Music’s Party of the Year®, will broadcast LIVE for the first time in Australia on Monday, April 7, 2014 at 10:00AM AEST on Foxtel’s Country Music Channel (CMC) and again in primetime at 8:00PM AEST.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Music's Top 40 Money Makers 2014: The Rich List Fleetwood Mac No.10

Fleetwood Mac
2013 Earnings: $19,123,101.98
Billboard


As befits this classic rock mainstay, the bulk of Fleetwood Mac’s earnings came from its 2013 world tour, which covered 34 cities and take-home pay of $17.4 million. The trek’s high point included three nights at London’s O2 Arena. There, Christine McVie, 70, joined the band for the final two shows to perform “Don’t Stop” — a prelude to her coming back full-time for 2014’s Reunion Tour (that trek was potentially sidetracked due to the recent cancer diagnosis of John McVie, 68). The band also released its first new studio material in a decade, "Extended Play." It reached No. 48 on the Billboard 200.

Continue to Billboard for the Top 40 Money Makers 2014

Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones earn more than 
One Direction in the US
The two 70s bands break into the top ten for US earnings in 2013

Continue to The Telegraph

"Stevie Nicks has to me, maybe the best voice of any female artist, I think, ah ever" - Adam Levine

Kat Perkins Audition: "Gold Dust Woman" (The Voice Highlight) - from last nights show (March 10th).

Obviously she's no match to Stevie Nicks and the original "Gold Dust Woman", but Kat Perkins did the song justice and she does have a pretty strong amazing voice.

You can download her performance of Gold Dust Woman on iTunes.




Sunday, March 09, 2014

Fleetwood Mac have 2 albums in the UK Top 50 this week... PLUS Chart Updates for other contries


UK - March 15, 2014
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours takes a giant leap up the Top 100 Albums Chart this week in the UK moving almost 50 place to No.48 this week from No.97 last week.  Clearly all digital sales if you look at the Digital Albums Chart, the album rockets from No.159 last week to No.40 this week.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 45 (37) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 48 (97) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Remastered)

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 18 (21) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 40 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 39 (159) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Remastered)

SCOTLAND - March 15, 2014
TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
# 38 (34) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

USA - March 15, 2014
Stevie's DVD 'In Your Dreams' drops off the Top 40 Music DVD Chart this week after a 12 week run. The good news is that if you have Netflix, the documentary can be streamed online.  Look for it in the documentary section under the documentary subheading 'Music'.

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD SALES CHART
# 26 (20) Sound City - Real To Reel (Feat. Stevie, Lindsey and Mick)

AUSTRALIA - March 10, 2014
For the first time in a really long while Fleetwood Mac don't have an album in the top half of Australia's Top 100 Albums Chart.  "25 Years - The Chain" slides back to No.52 from No.45 last week.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 52 (45) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The Chain [box set]

TOP 50 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 48 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHARTS
# 32 (29) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 36 (40) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 50 (47) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

IRELAND - March 6, 2014
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 53 (42) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

CANADA - March 2, 2014
TOP 150 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 49 (43) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 

Mick Fleetwood: 50 years since the Marquee Club shaped and changed the course of my life

IT WAS 50 years since The Beatles first played the Ed Sullivan Show, and 50 years since the Marquee Club shaped and changed the course of my life.


By: Mick Fleetwood
Published: Sun, March 9, 2014
Sunday Express

It was there I made life-long friends, saved sweethearts and survived fights. It was there I went from complete obscurity to learning the tools of my trade from the musical masters of our time.

The Marquee was the jewel of the London clubs. All the musicians wanted to play there. It was a jazz club until the brilliant, groundbreaking management of John Gee, who guided its metamorphosis into the seminal rock and roll/rhythm and blues club whose influence is still relevant today.

I have a first, stomach-turning memory of playing the Marquee with my band The Cheynes. We had no following and it was a miracle to have been asked to back the legendary blues star Sonny Boy Williamson. This giant of a man played a tiny harmonica and dressed in the coolest suits, all mismatched fabrics in wild designs. We had studied his albums and learned his every note by heart to prepare for this honour.

On the night Sonny Boy went totally off book, dropping into the middle eight at different places. We just didn’t get it and kept trying to play the song the way we had learned it. We even tried to correct him by corralling him back to the way the song was supposed to go.

This did not go over well. He stopped playing in mid-song and bawled us out in front of the audience for not following his lead, not listening or watching for his signals.

The Marquee Club relocated to Wardour Street, where I saw the greats: Zoot Money and Cyril Davies, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, the Stones, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Mick Taylor, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues, John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers just to name a few. So many screaming fans, crammed into that tiny sweatbox!

Early Fleetwood Mac was actually banned for a time from playing the Marquee. We were opening for John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers. Jeremy Spencer and I had a running joke at every gig involving a sex toy (that we had named Harold) which would be ceremoniously hung on the top of my bass drum for the duration of the show.

People loved Harold but one night, Jeremy appeared on stage with Harold dangling out of his trousers! Suffice it to say that we were severely reprimanded and Harold would never again make an appearance at the Marquee. (Harold’s showbiz life came to a crashing end at an American Southern Baptist college, where we were very nearly arrested for his performance. Poor Harold was too much for them and, much to my wife’s chagrin, he ended his days on show, sitting on our pine corner cabinet).

It’s a funny thing, going back to an iconic place to commemorate the fact that something great happened there.

I remember walking into the Marquee on a rainy day in the early 1980s like a ghost, wandering through a unique moment in time. I was there at the club’s inception and became a part of its history. This was where I came up the ranks, this was where I met John McVie, this was where the rhythm section of Fleetwood Mac was born. I hold it in my heart with utmost gratitude.

Mick Fleetwood joined the Sunday Express (UK) as a guest columnist beginning with his first column on February 16th . Previous columns below:

Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: New Technology 
Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Custom fashion
Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Dreams of vinyl

For more on the Marquee club, check out these websites: the Marquee Club | The Famous Marquee Club

Friday, March 07, 2014

Coming Soon: Mick Fleetwood's Memoir co-written by @AnthonyBozza1 #FleetwoodMac


Mick Fleetwood's Memoir
co-written by Anthony Bozza
Scheduled for release: Fall 2014

A Tweet from Anthony a few days ago indicate things are progressing along...

Looking forward to this!