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Fleetwood Mac review – all the hits, with a sour aftertaste | The Guardian


The Guardian
June 22, 2019

Wembley Stadium, London
3/5 Stars

Lindsey Buckingham’s absence casts a pall over a singalong show, despite sterling work from subs Neil Finn and Mike Campbell

‘Brutal calculation’: Fleetwood Mac onstage at Wembley Stadium, and on screen (clockwise from bottom left): Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Neil Finn, Mike Campbell and Christine McVie. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

There is no arguing with the numbers. Wembley Stadium is brimming with fans, even on a wet Tuesday. A dozen people fill the vast stage, reproducing some of the most opulent harmonies and venomous kiss-offs of the late 20th century. On Dreams, a bittersweet classic written by an enduringly swirly Stevie Nicks, a chandelier descends from the rigging. Amusingly, it goes back up afterwards, reappearing and disappearing with every one of her compositions on the final night of Fleetwood Mac’s European tour.

Superfan Harry Styles has brought his mum, Nicks reveals, complimenting her on what a well-brought-up young man he is. Super-producer Jimmy Iovine (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Nicks’s 1981 solo album Bella Donna) has flown over from the States, she says. The Fleetwood Mac setlist – barely varying from Berlin to London – is replete with peak-period hits and refreshed by a couple of deeper cuts. One, the Peter Green-era blues Black Magic Woman, made famous by Carlos Santana, finds Nicks vamping her way through a female reading of the tune as the chandelier glitters darkly. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac review – all the hits, with a sour aftertaste | The Guardian

Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood confirms the ‘tale’ of his seven-mile line of cocaine | The Sun

AS the backbone of rock legends Fleetwood Mac for more than 50 years, Mick Fleetwood has enjoyed more debauchery and hard living than just about anyone else.

Now 71, he became renowned as one of the wildest men in music, and in an exclusive interview during Fleetwood Mac’s world tour he even confirms a long-standing tale about a seven-mile line of cocaine.

Mike Campbell, John McVie, Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood Credit: AP:Associated Press

Chatting in a dressing room, where his only indulgence is a glass of red wine, drummer Mick says: “We could sit here and I go into some war story about snorting seven miles of cocaine.

“I guess we figured we did X amount a day, and then some goofball got out a calculator and came up with that seven miles figure and said, ‘Isn’t that funny?’ And it sort of is. But not in the context of where I want to end up.

“There was never a conscious decision on my part to stop that lifestyle. I think it naturally just drifted away.

“I speak for myself, although Stevie (Nicks) has been outspoken about some of the choices she made too. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood confirms the ‘tale’ of his seven-mile line of cocaine | The Sun

Fleetwood Mac: ‘We’ll burn in hell if we don’t play Glastonbury one day’ | The Independent

The Independent
27th April 2019

Cocaine, fights, love affairs and break-ups. Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie speak to Chris Harvey about the success, the hardship and the torment of the band as they prepare to play Wembley in June

Left to right: Mike Campbell, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood ( AFP/Getty )

This strange, funny band is complicated,” says Mick Fleetwood. “It’s all about people, it’s not horrific.” I’m talking to the man who has been the only member of Fleetwood Mac to appear in every line-up of the band since they were formed. When they step out on stage at Wembley Stadium in June, that will be coming up to 52 years ago.

We’ve been chatting about the period when Fleetwood Mac moved from stars to superstars with the release of Rumours in 1977. It was during the era of Seventies rock excess, when band mythologies are wreathed in tales of groupies, sexual exploitation, drug addiction and death.

Fleetwood Mac were no strangers to drugs: LSD had cost the group its original leader, Peter Green, at the end of the Sixties, and cocaine was an integral part of the band’s Seventies. Fleetwood wrote in his autobiography that Rumours was written with “white powder peeling off the wall in every room of the studio”.

“I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain,” the 71-year-old drummer says now, “and I think in truth there are moments where you could have said we got pretty close, you know. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac: ‘We’ll burn in hell if we don’t play Glastonbury one day’ | The Independent

Christine McVie: inside the world of Fleetwood Mac, then and now | Harper’s Bazaar

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As the band prepares for its UK return in June, Christine McVie talks Glastonbury, rock ‘n’ roll and retirement

June 2019 will be a big month for music fans for two reasons – an under-the-radar, little-known festival called Glastonbury and the return of Fleetwood Mac, the band’s first UK dates in six years. Sadly, this year at least, the two aren’t linked, but lead vocalist and songwriter Christine McVie says any decision to perform at Glastonbury isn’t down to the band itself.

“It isn’t up to me, it’s up to the management,” said McVie. “It’s their decision and down to logistics. I can’t say yes or no to Glastonbury, but I’d like to – so long as I don’t have to wear wellington boots on stage. Or maybe I’d just have to roll with it – wellie boots with mud.”

For now, fans will have to make do with two UK gigs at Wembley (the first time that McVie has performed in the UK with the group since officially rejoining), one of which sold out so fast that the band added a further date. Over 50 years after the band were first formed, appetite for Fleetwood Mac shows no signs of waning.

“Maybe people are just wondering when the first one of us is going to pop off because we’re not youngsters anymore,” laughs McVie. “Maybe people want to see us because they think it’s the last chance. We’re a young band at heart; you’d never think we are the age we are. We’re never static. It’s going to be fantastic.”

Continue reading Christine McVie: inside the world of Fleetwood Mac, then and now | Harper’s Bazaar

“It was too challenging”: Fleetwood Mac say Lindsey Buckingham left after feud with Stevie Nicks | NME


“A parting of company took place, and it had to take place.”

Fleetwood Mac have confirmed that Lindsey Buckingham left the iconic rock group after reigniting his feud with Stevie Nicks.

The singer left the band in acrimonious circumstances last year and said he had been fired by Stevie Nicks, who reportedly became enraged after he was seen “smirking” while she delivered a speech at a benefit concert.

While Stevie reportedly refused to ever share a stage with Lindsey again, founder Mick Fleetwood told Mojo that it was Lindsey who ultimately received his marching orders.

“Support really could not be given to ask the situation to continue. It was too challenging,” he explained. Continue reading “It was too challenging”: Fleetwood Mac say Lindsey Buckingham left after feud with Stevie Nicks | NME

Fleetwood Mac’s world keeps turning | The Age

By Michael Dwyer
March 14, 2019 — 11.45pm
The Age

The following is based on a true story. That is to say, there’s just enough reported fact, hearsay and dramatic licence for a really good scene in Rumours: The Fleetwood Mac Story, a future Hollywood biopic doubtless being written by someone, somewhere as we speak.

Scene: Backstage, post-gig, Radio City Music Hall, January 26, 2018.

Stevie Nicks: “Lindsay Adams Buckingham. How dare you smirk when I’m addressing my audience!”

Buckingham: “Babe, that monologue was longer than the super deluxe collector’s edition of Tusk!”

Nicks: “Don’t you ‘babe’ me, mister. I’m telling Mick. You’ll never work in this band again … er, again!” (Storms out.)

Buckingham: “Sigh. Been down one time, been down two times …”

Christine McVie: “Shhh, Lindsay. Don’tcha look back.”

John McVie: “Anybody wants me, I’m in the hot tub!”

As the music cue kicks in — “I can still hear you saying/ You would never break the (never break) the chain” — the subtext is clear: the music of Fleetwood Mac is bigger than the soap opera. It will outlive the “classic” Rumours line-up the world knows and loves, and it will outlast all who came before and after. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s world keeps turning | The Age

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie on ‘American Horror Story’, playing Wembley, and potential new music | Attitude

“I don’t see any reason why we can’t do another tour and make another record.”

2019-02-13
Words: Will Stroude

With a 50-year legacy of friendship, fallouts and iconic folk-rock hits, the Fleetwood Mac story is as epic as they come in music.

Over the years band members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks have married, divorced, made up, fallen out, and continued to release some of the most defining pop hits of the last century – and the drama hasn’t waned now most of them are in their seventies.

Disagreements over current world tour ‘An Evening with Fleetwood Mac’ led to Buckingham’s sacking from the group in April last year, with the guitarist and vocalist settling a lawsuit against his former bandmates in December.

Talk of that lawsuit is strictly off-limits as Attitude meets Christine McVie ahead of Fleetwood Mac’s two planned dates at Wembley Stadium this June, but the British-born singer is a characteristically open book when it comes to discussing the legacy of a band that has defined her life since 1970.

Despite standing as the (relative) calm at the centre of the Fleetwood Mac storm, McVie has had plenty her own ups and downs during the course of her career, most notably retiring from the group in 1998 for 16 long years after developing a debilitating phobia of flying

Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie on ‘American Horror Story’, playing Wembley, and potential new music | Attitude

Two Worlds Collide | Otago Daily Times

4 February 2019
Bruce Munro

Neil Finn joining Fleetwood Mac seems a bolt out of the blue – until you know the backstory. Bruce Munro talks to Mick Fleetwood about line-up changes, friendship with the Finn family and 50 years of making music with one of the world’s great bands.

The phone jangles.

“Hello, hello,” a rich, friendly, veteran voice says out of the ether.

It is a week out from the post-Christmas reboot of Fleetwood Mac’s year-long world tour; a tour that will close with a concert at Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium, on September 21.

So, is Mick Fleetwood, the co-founder of one of the world’s biggest selling bands, busy getting ready?

“I’m in Maui, at home,” 71-year old Fleetwood replies.

“I live in Maui, so I have no complaints.

“If your readers want a visual, I’m in an area called Kula, which is on the side of Haleakala crater. We hope it doesn’t explode,” he says dryly.

Is that the one spewing lava, slowly swallowing suburbs?

“No, that’s on the Big Island. They tell me this massive mountain I live on is dormant, for the moment.”

That’s comforting, sort of.

So, no, not a lot of rushing around right now. The hard yards were done in the lead up to the 50th anniversary tour that kicked off in October.

“We had a major change in Fleetwood Mac, parting company with Lindsey Buckingham,” he says. Continue reading Two Worlds Collide | Otago Daily Times

Fans’ anger as Fleetwood Mac tickets resell online for €740 | The Times (Ireland)

The Times (Ireland}

Fans of Fleetwood Mac who missed out when tickets for their Dublin concert sold out this week were disappointed to find touts advertising them for €740.

The band are taking their European tour to the RDS Arena in June and tickets sold out minutes after they went on sale on Ticketmaster yesterday morning.

Seats in the golden circle went on sale for €129.50, standing tickets were €89.50 and seated tickets ranged from €79.50 to €144, all excluding a service charge. Tickets quickly appeared on Viagogo, a secondhand retailer, for between €197 and €740 each.

Noel Rock, a Fine Gael TD, said that the high prices being charged by touts online underlined the need for the government to act faster on touting legislation. “Ticketless Fleetwood Mac fans have been left bitterly disappointed after touts snapped up hundreds of tickets today for next June’s much anticipated RDS concert,” he said.

“These tickets, predictably, immediately flooded secondary markets for prices up to €700 within hours. Viagogo are the main facilitators of this gouging of fans online, with tickets going for up to €697 a ticket for this concert already.” Continue reading Fans’ anger as Fleetwood Mac tickets resell online for €740 | The Times (Ireland)

Fleetwood Mac (without Lindsey Buckingham) announce European Tour including Wembley Stadium in the UK

FLEETWOOD MAC ANNOUNCE EUROPEAN TOUR

TICKETS ON SALE 26 OCTOBER 2018 AT 9AM

(LONDON, U.K. Monday 22 October 2018) – Legendary, GRAMMY-award winning band Fleetwood Mac announced today a European tour, set to kick off in June with three exclusive performances currently announced in London, Dublin and Berlin. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will feature the newly announced line-up of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie along with newcomers Mike Campbell and Neil Finn.

Tickets for the tour will go on-sale to the general public starting on Friday, October 26th at 9am local time.

A limited number of LaneOne VIP Packages will also be available, including amazing seats with premium benefits such as transportation, preferred entrance and more. LaneOne premium VIP packages are available here.

“Fleetwood Mac has always been about an amazing collection of songs that are performed with a unique blend of talents. We jammed with Mike and Neil and the chemistry really worked and let the band realize that this is the right combination to go forward with in Fleetwood Mac style. We know we have something new, yet it’s got the unmistakable Mac sound,” said Mick Fleetwood.

“We are thrilled to welcome the musical talents of the caliber of Mike Campbell and Neil Finn into the Mac family. With Mike and Neil, we’ll be performing all the hits that the fans love, plus we’ll be surprising our audiences with some tracks from our historic catalogue of songs,” said the group collectively. “Fleetwood Mac has always been a creative evolution. We look forward to honoring that spirit on this upcoming tour.” Continue reading Fleetwood Mac (without Lindsey Buckingham) announce European Tour including Wembley Stadium in the UK