Thursday, July 23, 2020

Fleetwood Mac Early Years CD / LP Collections Available September 4th




FLEETWOOD MAC’S EARLY YEARS 
SPOTLIGHTED IN TWO NEW BOXED SETS 

8-CD Set Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974 
Includes Remastered Versions Of Seven Studio Albums Plus An Unreleased 1974 Concert

4-LP Fleetwood Mac 1973-1974 Collection 
Features Penguin, Mystery To Me And Heroes Are Hard To Find, Plus 1974 Concert And A 7” Single

Limited Edition, Colored-Vinyl Edition Available For Pre-Order Now Exclusively From Rhino.com

All Three Sets Will Available On September 4, 2020
PRE-ORDER NOW.


LOS ANGELES – After Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, John McVie, and Jeremy Spencer started Fleetwood Mac in 1967, they quickly found an audience eager for their British-style blues. Over the next seven years, the band would sign with Reprise Records, release seven studio albums, and release many classic tracks that are still beloved today. Fleetwood Mac’s early rise to fame takes centerstage on two upcoming Rhino releases that spotlight the group’s deep-blues roots.

8-CD BOXED SET 1969-1974

The first release is an 8-CD boxed set that includes remastered versions of all seven studio albums the band recorded between 1969 and 1974, several bonus tracks, and an unreleased 1974 concert recorded just a few months before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the band. On September 4, FLEETWOOD MAC 1969-1974 will be available on CD for $54.98.

The set covers a five-year time frame that encompasses several different band lineups, from founding members Fleetwood, Green, McVie and Spencer; to later additions like Danny Kirwan, Christine McVie, Dave Walker, Bob Welch, and Bob Weston.

The collection includes seven studio albums: Then Play On (1969), Kiln House (1970), Future Games (1971), Bare Trees (1972), Penguin (1973), Mystery To Me (1973), and Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974). Those records fueled Fleetwood Mac’s early popularity in the U.K. and propelled them into the Top Ten with singles like “Man Of The World,” “Oh Well – Pt. 1,” “The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown),” and the #1 hit “Albatross.”

The CD set concludes with an unreleased recording of the band’s December 15, 1974 concert at The Record Plant in Sausalito, California. The performance captures the band – Fleetwood, Welch and the McVies – on tour supporting their latest album, Heroes Are Hard To Find. Originally, the show was simulcast on the legendary rock radio station KSAN-FM in San Francisco.

4-LP / 7" BOXED SET 1973-1974

For the second release, Rhino continues to bring Fleetwood Mac’s early albums back into print on vinyl with a 4-LP/7” boxed set that will be available on September 4 for $119.98. FLEETWOOD MAC 1973-1974 includes the unreleased 1974 live album along with Penguin (1973), Mystery To Me (1973) and Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974).

To ensure superb sound quality, Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering cut the lacquers for all the albums from the original analog masters, which are pressed on 140-gram vinyl and presented in replica sleeves made to look like the original pressings. As a final touch, the set also includes a 7” single with “For Your Love” (Mono Promo Edit) on one side, and the previously unreleased “Good Things (Come To Those Who Wait)” on the flipside.

4-LP / 7" BOXED SET 1973-1974
(LIMITED EDITION COLORED VINYL)

On the same day, a limited edition, colored-vinyl edition of FLEETWOOD MAC 1973-1974 will be available exclusively from www.rhino.com. The studio albums, live recording, and 7” single will each be pressed on a different colored vinyl. Limited to 1500 and individually numbered in Bronze.

  • Penguin (yellow)
  • Mystery To Me (orange)
  • Heroes Are Hard To Find (gold)
  • Live from the Record Plant 12-15-74 (white) 
  • 7” (blue). 

Monday, July 20, 2020

Fleetwood Mac – ‘Before The Beginning Vol. 2’

Peter Green’s 
Fleetwood Mac – ‘Before The Beginning Vol. 2’



Following on from last year’s collection of Fleetwood Mac rarities, Sony Legacy is pleased to announce that Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac ‘Before The Beginning Vol. 2’ will be released on August 7th.

Taken from recently discovered, lovingly restored, live recordings from 1970, the release consists of a triple vinyl set and will also be available digitally.  Information on Volume 1's release last year can be found here


That tracklisting in full:


VINYL 1 SIDE A (all tracks remastered) VINYL 1 SIDE B (all tracks remastered)

Before the Beginning (Live)
Only You (Live)
Madison Blues (Version 2) (Live) 
Can’t Stop Lovin’ (Live) 
The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) (Live)                   
Albatross (Live) 
World In Harmony (Version 1) (Live) 
Sandy Mary (Live) 
Only You (Live) 
World In Harmony (Version 2) (Live) 

VINYL 2 SIDE A (all tracks remastered)

VINYL 2 SIDE B (all tracks remastered)

I Can’t Hold Out (Live)
Oh Well (Part 1) (Live) 
Rattlesnake Shake (Live)
Underway (Live)
Coming Your Way (Live) 

VINYL 3 SIDE A (all tracks remastered)

VINYL 3 SIDE B (all tracks remastered)

Homework (Live)
My Baby’s Sweet (Live) 
My Baby’s Gone (Live) 
You Need Love (Demo) 
Talk With You (Demo)
If It Ain’t Me (GK Edit) (Demo) 
Mean Old World (Demo) 


Friday, July 17, 2020

Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" Certified 2X Platinum in the UK

Fleetwood Mac's "THE CHAIN" was certified 2X PLATINUM on July 17, 2020 by the Official Charts Company in the UK as having sold 1.2 million units in the UK.



Monday, July 13, 2020

Fleetwood Mac 2019 Tour Programs Available

Fleetwood Mac 2019 Tour Programs 
Available in the Fleetwood Mac Store FleetwoodMac.com  Nice piece of memorabilia if you missed out on picking one up at a show. Great photos. It's the size of a 12"LP and produced on heavy card stock so a pretty solid piece.


Thursday, July 09, 2020

Fleetwood Mac have 2 of the Best Selling Albums in the UK in 2020

The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2020 so far in the UK

TOP SELLING ALBUMS IN THE UK
Classic greatest hits albums see resurgence in lock down. A number of greatest hits albums have seen a resurgence on the Official Albums Chart this year as the public returned to classic favorites in lock down. Among them, 50 Years – Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac at number 14 and Rumours sitting at number 21.

TOP SELLING VINYL ALBUMS IN THE UK
Fleetwood Mac have the top selling vinyl album in the UK so far this year with “Rumours”! 

MOST STREAMED ALBUMS IN THE UK
Of the Most Streamed Albums of 2020, “50 Years-Don’t Stop” is the 12th and “Rumours” is 29th

Official Charts






Wednesday, July 08, 2020

STEVIE NICKS 24K GOLD (CONCERT FILM) PERTH AUSTRALIA SCREENING

STEVIE NICKS 24K GOLD
Tickets on sale July 16
Perth, Australia

A concert performance by the woman with one of the most recognizable voices in music history. Stevie's string of hits songs as a solo artist and as a part of rock legends Fleetwood Mac has provided the soundtrack of our lives. Filmed over the last two shows of her solo tour including hits Edge of Seventeen, Rhianon & Landslide and including cinema exclusive content of Stevie discussing personal moments with Tom Petty, Prince, Lindsey Buckingham. (Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian)

The event comes with the full support of the Stevie Nicks and the Fleetwood Mac teams and record labels.

Screening Wed September 9 at 7.00pm  @ Luna Leederville & Luna on SX plus matinee session on Sun September 13 TBA at Luna & Luna on SX


Luna Palace Cinemas
(the information has disappeared from their website, looks like they possibly jumped the gun on posting)

Thursday, July 02, 2020

Fleetwood Mac's 1975 Album "Fleetwood Mac" Turns 45


FLEETWOOD MAC 
"FLEETWOOD MAC" 45th ANNIVERSARY

Truth be told, I was not eager to hear the album simply titled  Fleetwood Mac that July  of 1975. Don’t get me wrong, I was a big fan beginning with their 1972 album Bare Trees , and had played it on the radio along with subsequent Fleetwood Mac albums Mystery to Me (one of my favorite “desert island discs”) and Heroes Are Hard to Find  in 1974. I even sought out the earlier Peter Green / Danny Kirwan/ Jeremy Spencer-era Fleetwood Mac albums, playing the original ” Black Magic Woman”,”Rattlesnake Shake”,”Green Manalishi”,”Oh Well” and “Station Man” on the radio as well, but I thought that the chemistry of the late American Bob Welch and Christine McVie‘s songwriting brought out the best in the band.

After Bob Welch left Fleetwood Mac, his first solo album in the Fall 1975 came and went in about 15 minutes, not unlike the 1973 Buckingham Nicks  album, which was the sole output of Welch’s replacements, singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer/songwriter Stephanie”Stevie” Nicks. So on balance I didn’t see how this major change could do anything except diminish Fleetwood Mac.

Boy was I wrong! That 1975 Fleetwood Mac album sold over twenty times as many copies as any previous Fleetwood Mac album. The unsung hero is actually producer/recording engineer Keith Olsen, who had produced and recorded the Buckingham Nicks album, imparting a fat, warm, upfront sound to their music. It was in that context that bandleader Mick Fleetwood first noticed Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar-playing and singing abilities, but at the time it was Keith Olsen’s studio and recording techniques that Mick was auditioning, not the musicians. When Fleetwood fell in love with the sound that he heard, he wisely decided to embrace all of it – the musicians Buckingham and Nicks, the producer Keith Olsen – and incorporate it all into the next Fleetwood Mac album, which featured “Monday Morning”,”Over My Head”,”Say You Love Me”,”Rhiannon”,”Crystal”, and “Landslide”. Not only did that decision change the fortunes of all involved, it would also change the sound of contemporary music for years to follow. Nicks, Fleetwood, and former member Buckingham all share their recollections with me in great detail in this classic rock interview In the Studio . –Redbeard

56 minute show with archival interview footage from Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham - with tracks played from the album. Listen below.




WIN Fleetwood Mac's "Then Play On" Celebration Edition

COMPETITION 
Next week MICK FLEETWOOD AND FRIENDS will be drawing 2 names at random from their mailing list subscribers to win a copy of the new deluxe ‘Celebration’ edition of Fleetwood Mac’s Then Play On. If you want to enter, sign up to their mailing list www.mickfleetwoodandfriends.com 

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT

FLEETWOOD MAC, STEVIE NICKS AND LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM INDEPENDENCE DAY SALE

INDEPENDENCE DAY SALE! 20% OFF STORE WIDE 
FLEETWOOD MAC, STEVIE NICKS AND LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM RELEASES THROUGH RHINO RECORDS ON NOW THROUGH SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020
(Free Domestic Shipping)
Rhino Records



FLEETWOOD MAC RUMOURS
(DELUXE EDITION) (4CD)
Regular Price: $49.98
Special Price $39.98
FLEETWOOD MAC THE DANCE 2LP 
Regular Price: $31.98
Special Price $25.58

Regular Price: $31.98 
Special Price $25.58
FLEETWOOD MAC 50 YEARS – DON’T STOP 5LP 
Regular Price: $99.98 
Special Price $79.98
FLEETWOOD MAC 50 YEARS – DON’T STOP
1CD 
Regular Price: $18.98 
Special Price $15.18
FLEETWOOD MAC 50 YEARS – DON’T STOP
3CD
Regular Price: $34.98 
Special Price $27.98
FLEETWOOD MAC 1975-1987 BOXED SET 
Regular Price: $119.98 
Special Price $95.98

STEVIE NICKS BELLA DONNA
(REMASTERED)(VINYL)
Regular Price: $21.98 
Special Price $17.58
STEVIE NICKS THE WILD HEART
(REMASTERED)(VINYL)
Regular Price: $21.98 
Special Price $17.58
STEVIE NICKS 24 KARAT GOLD - 
SONGS FROM THE VAULT (2LP)
Regular Price: $26.98 
Special Price $21.58
      
STEVIE NICKS STAND BACK 1-CD 
Regular Price: $14.98 
Special Price $11.98

STEVIE NICKS STAND BACK: 1981-2017 (3CD)
Regular Price: $34.98 
Special Price $27.98



LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM SOLO ANTHOLOGY: 
THE BEST OF LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM 
(DELUXE EDITION)
3CD 
Regular Price: $29.98 
Special Price $23.98

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM SOLO ANTHOLOGY
6LP
Regular Price: $119.98 
Special Price $95.98

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Fleetwood Mac's "SEVEN WONDERS" Certified SILVER in the UK

Fleetwood Mac's "SEVEN WONDERS" was certified SILVER on June 26, 2020 by the Official Charts Company in the UK as having sold 200K units in the UK.


Other certifications in the UK in 2020 include Gypsy, Landslide, Everywhere, You Make Loving Fun, Big Love and Go Your Own Way.






Fleetwood Mac UK and Ireland Album Charts Update

Fleetwood Mac soldiers on in the UK on the Top 100 albums chart. "50 Years - Don't Stop", now in it's 84th week in the Top 100, is currently at No.11 down from No.9 last week.  The 50 track compilation was released in November, 2018.

Rumours in this latest 172 week chart run of it's 884 overall weeks within the Top 100 since it's release is still within the Top 20 after re-entering seven weeks ago. This week the album is down to No.17 from No.14. On Vinyl, Rumours is at No.7, down from No.5 last week on the Top 40 Vinyl Albums Chart.

In Ireland, 50 Years - Don't Stop is up to No.9 from No.10 and Rumours up to No.15 from No.18 on the Top 50 Albums chart. 

In the US, Rumours is at No.70 on the Billboard Top 200 up from No.75 last week.
In Canada, Rumours is at No.50 on the Top 100 Albums Chart up from No.55 last week.


Thursday, June 25, 2020

SPOTIFY LISTENERS VOTE FOR FLEETWOOD MAC TO HEADLINE GLASTONBURY

Fleetwood Mac have been named the ultimate Glastonbury headline act by Spotify listeners.



The annual music festival was forced to cancel its 2020 event - which was due to take place this weekend - due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and as festival goers around the country lament the lack of live music, Spotify have unveiled the list of the ultimate Glastonbury line-up.

The streaming service had the UK public vote for the artists they'd most like to see take to the stage at the iconic festival, and have revealed 'The Chain' hitmakers Fleetwood Mac came out on top as the most sought after festival headliner.

The band were closely followed by legendary musician Sir Elton John and Led Zeppelin, indicating a theme of nostalgia which is currently sweeping the nation. - MSN

Photo Kevin Mazur