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Pre-order a signed copy of Mick Fleetwood’s new book ‘Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac’

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PLAY ON: NOW, THEN AND FLEETWOOD MAC will publish in the UK on 30th October, 2014. This is your ONLY chance to pre-order a signed copy.

Purchase your signed copy of PLAY ON: NOW, THEN AND FLEETWOOD MAC by Mick Fleetwood – one of just 500 signed copies available for pre-order. There’s an incredible reward for the person who brings the most other people in, too – a trip to Washington DC to see Fleetwood Mac in concert and meet Mick before the show.

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“After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I’ve never done before: now and then. I’m looking forward to sharing it with you.”

Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world’s most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full and candid story of that life, and what it is to be part of the ever evolving Fleetwood Mac. His all-access autobiography spans the career of one of classic rock’s greatest drummers and band leaders, the co-founder of the deeply loved super group that bears his name.

PLAY ON: NOW, THEN AND FLEETWOOD MAC will publish in the UK on 30th October, 2014. This is your ONLY chance to pre-order a signed copy.

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Fleetwood Mac is back: Christine McVie sings again as the tour starts anew | The Guardian (UK)

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Dylan Hicks
theguardian.com
Wednesday 1 October 2014

Though Stevie Nicks and the band are older, they opened their first reunited show in 16 years with the hallmark brilliance for playing off each others’ strengths

Stevie Nicks sings at a Fleetwood Mac show in London in 2013. Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images
Stevie Nicks sings at a Fleetwood Mac show in London in 2013. Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images

The key selling point for Fleetwood Mac’s On With The Show tour, which opened on Tuesday at Minneapolis’s Target Center, is that it’s the first in 16 years to include keyboardist and singer-songwriter Christine McVie, lately relieved of her fear of flying and sprung from her doggy English countryside redoubt.

All of the band’s members except taciturn bassist John McVie, Christine’s ex-husband, paid vocal tribute to her over the course of a spirited two-and-half-hour set. “Our songbird has returned,” said drummer Mick Fleetwood during an extended encore. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac is back: Christine McVie sings again as the tour starts anew | The Guardian (UK) →

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Fleetwood Mac’s famously fractured family is together, including Christine McVie | Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Article by: JON BREAM
Star Tribune
September 26, 2014

Christine McVie is back in the picture after a 16-year separation. Fleetwood Mac talks about their oft-fractured ties and the reunion tour opening in Minneapolis Tuesday.

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She’s back! Finally. After a 16-year retirement, singer/keyboardist Christine McVie has returned to Fleetwood Mac.

The “Rumours” lineup is intact. The band can perform “Don’t Stop” and “You Make Lovin’ Fun” the way they were meant to be played. Fleetwood Mac will be whole once again.

Wait a minute, sister. It’s not that simple.

This is Fleetwood Mac, rock’s famously fractured family. You can’t just write McVie — one of the group’s three singer-songwriters — back into rock’s longest-running soap opera.

It’s a process. You need meetings, and maybe a little therapy, and more discussions. It wasn’t enough that McVie sat in with the Rock Hall of Fame band for one song in London last year.

“There were conversations,” McVie said before a recent rehearsal for the band’s On With the Show Tour that opens Tuesday in Minneapolis. “And we had conference calls, and everybody thought it was a great idea and asked, was I committed seriously? I couldn’t go in and out. I said: ‘I don’t have a problem with that.’ So next thing you know I was sending my demos to Lindsey [Buckingham] and he was sending them back with his guitar and his voice.” Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s famously fractured family is together, including Christine McVie | Minneapolis Star Tribune →

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Fleetwood Mac in talks for Glastonbury | Daily Express (UK)

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September 25th 2014
Daily Express (UK)

FLEETWOOD MAC are holding talks with tour organisers about the possibility of placing Glastonbury festival in their schedule, fuelling fans’ hopes they will headline the event next year (15).

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The classic line-up of the Go Your Own Way hitmakers was completed when Christine McVie returned to the fold earlier this year (14) after a 16-year absence.

The reunited band heads out on a North American tour later this month (Sep14), and now singer Stevie Nicks has revealed they are planning concerts in the U.K. next spring and are in talks about the possibility of including Glastonbury in their itinerary.

She tells Uncut magazine, “Chris is excited to come back to London. It’ll be soon, probably May… Glastonbury? You never know. You have to weave festivals in. It’s being discussed.”

Last year (13), Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis dismissed rumours suggesting the band had signed up for the 2014 festival and confirmed he was “hoping to get them for 2015”.

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Fleetwood Mac welcome Christine McVie back in the fold, and plan a British return | Uncut Magazine

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Uncut Magazine, November, 2014
by Piers Martin

‘DON’T STOP IT”LL SOON BE HERE…..’

Fleetwood Mac welcome Christine McVie back in the fold, and plan a British return. “It’s all about you, Chris,” says Stevie Nicks…

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The newly reformed 1970s blockbuster lineup of Fleetwood Mac starring Christine McVie will head to the UK for shows early next summer, singer Stevie Nicks tells Uncut, and their first ever Glastonbury is not being ruled out. “Chris is excited to come back to London. It’ll be soon, probably May,” says Nicks, as a rejuvenated Mac prepare to head out on their first US tour with the classic Rumours lineup since October 31, 1982, when the troubled five-piece played the final show of their Mirage tour. “Glastonbury? You never know. You have to weave festivals in [to the tour]. It’s being discussed.”

McVie, who quite the group in 1998, joined her former bandmates onstage for an emotional encore of “Don’t Stop” during their shows in London last September and became an official member again in January when the new tour, dubbed On With The Show, was announced. “The second people saw she was coming back, the tickets just sold,” says Nicks, “and I tell her: ‘It’s a good thing you’re in really great shape and you’re happy about this, because it is all about you.’ It’s fun to see it through her eyes, her being gone for so long, because she’s so excited.”

With the band not getting any younger, Nicks admits McVie’s return has plenty of benefits. “It’s less work when it comes down to it as Lindsey [Buckingham] and I don’t have to sing 50/50. Now we do a third each so it’s less singing and a little less physically difficult, so that’s nice. Her music is very different too, so it adds to everything.” Continue reading Fleetwood Mac welcome Christine McVie back in the fold, and plan a British return | Uncut Magazine →

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Could Fleetwood Mac headline Glastonbury? | Gigwise

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by Andrew Trendell
Gigwise.com

Industry website tips classic rockers as ‘to be confirmed’ for Worthy Farm next year

This year’s event may have only just passed, but Fleetwood Mac are already being tipped to headline Glastonbury Festival 2015. 

The ‘Go Your Own Way’ classic rockers were long-rumoured to headline this year, but this became impossible after bassist John McVie fell ill. But now, McVie is on the mend and the band are back on the road and gearing up to record a new album.

Now, music festival website eFestivals are listing the band as ‘To Be Confirmed’, meaning that based on industry knowledge, they believe them to be almost certain for the event. They did the same for Kasabian and Metallica this year long before they were confirmed and are a trusted source of festival rumours.

Speaking to Gigwise last year, we asked drummer Mick Fleetwood said: “We were asked to do some lovely festivals this year and it didn’t work out. Once you do the festivals then you can’t really do a tour of the other towns. We were asked to do Glastonbury this year and hopefully they’ll ask us again.”

When asked about the possibility of playing Glastonbury 2014, Fleetwood replied: “I don’t know – they’ve probably got fed up of asking us!”

However, when asked about Glastonbury earlier this year, Christine McVie replied: “If Michael Eavis provides the wellies I’ll be there.”

Meanwhile, the bookies’ favourites to headline Glastonbury 2015 have been named as Depeche Mode, while AC/DC and Prince are also rumoured. We have a year-long wait until we find out for sure.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed that three headliners are already booked.

 

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Ms Mac is Back | The Works | BASCA, June 2014

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Article and Images: Darren Haynes
Transcription: Nicole at The Ledge
The Works
The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Magazine
June 2014

 

It’s 5pm on the eve of the Ivor Novello Awards and Christine McVie is sat in her London home, excited and contemplating the forthcoming ceremony and the prospect of accepting her Lifetime Achievement Award.

“I’m thrilled to bits. It’s a huge honour and I’m overwhelmed, really.”

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No stranger to awards, Christine can count Grammy Awards, a BRIT Award, an honorary doctorate degree in music from the University of Greenwich and even one of BASCA’s Gold Badge Awards among her many trophies. But, this Ivor Novello Award is different.

“For me, this is really special because it’s for me as an individual writer. The others have always been connected with Fleetwood Mac.”

There’s much more excitement on the horizon for Christine too, following her announcement that she is the rejoin the band.

It’s been 15 years since she retired from Fleetwood Mac following the Dance Tour in 1998. She cited a fear of flying and wanting to move back to England where she’d bought a new property in Wickhamreaux, Kent as the public reasons for her departure.

“…and I wanted to just kind of get out of Los Angeles really. Although why I say that now after having just come back, I don’t know, because I really enjoyed it out there.”

She enjoyed her early retirement, for a while too… Continue reading Ms Mac is Back | The Works | BASCA, June 2014 →

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Fleetwood Mac New Album And Tour On The Way | MTV UK

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There’s new music AND a world tour on the way from a crowd-favourite band…

Thursday, 22 May 2014
MTV.co.uk

Christine McVie has confirmed that she has rejoined Fleetwood Mac, as well as announcing a new album is on the way.

Upon winning the Lifetime Achievement award at the Ivor Novello’s this afternoon, the singer said: “I would like to announce that I have rejoined Fleetwood Mac and we’re in the process of writing a new album for next year.”

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Christine also confirmed that Fleetwood Mac will be going on a world tour.

News of her return comes as no surprise after Mick Fleetwood told the crowd at Uncle Willie K’s BBQ Blues Festival in January: “This is the worst-kept secret there is, but Christine McVie will be rejoining Fleetwood Mac.”

McVie has not been with the band full-time for over 15 years.


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Fleetwood Mac’s New Music Will Override 40 Years Of Gossip | Huff Post, May 2014

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Jessica Goodman
Huffingham Post
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The most interesting narrative of Fleetwood Mac — one every music writer hopes to chronicle and every fan dreams about when reading between the lines of “Rumours” — involves romance and adultery. The stories behind lyrics of heartbreak and betrayal and love and acceptance are well-documented, but in recent interviews with Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, the bandmates assert that the past is just that.

Fleetwood Mac released its best-selling album “Rumours” nearly 40 years ago; Christine McVie left the band 16 years ago. Now, the five members have reunited for an album and an international tour, “On With The Show.”

“It’s been the most profound experience of my entire life,” Christine McVie said of returning to the group in an interview with HuffPost Entertainment. “The chemistry between the band is stronger than it ever was.” In March of this year, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie joined Buckingham and Christine McVie at Studio D in the Village Recorder in Los Angeles, where they made 1979’s “Tusk.” (Nicks was unable to be there due to prior scheduling conflicts, Buckingham and McVie said.) They laid the groundwork for eight tracks, mostly written by Christine McVie and began to reestablish the legacy and future of Fleetwood Mac. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s New Music Will Override 40 Years Of Gossip | Huff Post, May 2014 →

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Fleetwood Mac on new recordings: ‘We get chills when we hear them’ | The Guardian (UK)

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Minus Stevie Nicks, the band are recording ‘blues-based’ and ‘commercial’ songs in the studio in which they made Tusk

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Fleetwood Mac have almost finished eight songs for a possible new album. The new recordings feature Christine McVie but not yet Stevie Nicks, who has been absent due to other commitments. “The chemistry was just unbelievable,” Lindsey Buckingham has said.

Minus Nicks, Fleetwood Mac spent two months at Village Recorder studio, in Los Angeles, working in the same room in which they recorded their 1979 album Tusk. “We’re all very excited about [the new music],” Buckingham told Billboard in a recent interview. “Knowing me, I’m going to be pushing for a double album.” Though eight tracks are “75% done”, they are now putting the sessions on pause as McVie returns home to England. The group will reunite for live rehearsals at the end of July, ahead of their world tour, and are unlikely to release anything before 2015. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac on new recordings: ‘We get chills when we hear them’ | The Guardian (UK) →