{"id":3123,"date":"2015-09-13T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T09:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fleetwoodmac-uk.com\/wp\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2022-10-02T13:12:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T12:12:55","slug":"introducing-fleetwood-mac-the-ultimate-music-guide-uncut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fleetwoodmac-uk.com\/wp\/introducing-fleetwood-mac-the-ultimate-music-guide-uncut\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing\u2026 Fleetwood Mac: The Ultimate Music Guide – Uncut"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There\u2019s blood and guts and disagreements still to this day\u2026”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Early 1969. California has been hit by a series of destructive floods, so bad that the international telephone operator is sceptical a connection can be made between London and Los Angeles. When the call goes through, however, the NME\u2019s Nick Logan has a few demanding questions for the first leader of Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green. One is how Green\u2019s band will sustain their reputation as blues purists in the wake of a big hit single, the expansive \u201cAlbatross\u201d. Will their next single be another change from what their fans have come to expect?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really care,\u201d says Green, yawning. \u201cI never have done really. We\u2019ve never done what was expected of Fleetwood Mac \u2013 we\u2019ve always done the opposite. We just do what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus begins the remarkable story of Fleetwood Mac \u2013 a saga unparalleled in rock, as our new Uncut Ultimate Music Guide dedicated to the band makes clear (on sale in the UK on Thursday Sept 10, but available to order now at our online shop). Over the next four and a half decades, the band\u2019s history has often read like an infinite series of surprise plot twists, where radical upheavals arrive with every new album. Key members come and go, lost to religious cults and mental breakdowns, victims of multiple romantic traumas. Musical directions and locations change as frequently as the lineup: the blues evolve into the apotheosis of sophisticated pop; and a remote Hampshire commune is swapped for the LA highlife.<\/p>\n

As the revealing features collected in this Ultimate Music Guide prove, the journalists of Uncut, NME and Melody Maker have been alongside Fleetwood Mac every step of the way. They documented the rise and fall of Peter Green\u2019s band, the emergence of Christine McVie, the transitional lineups of the early \u201970s, the dramatic arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and the glory and devastation that soon followed. \u201cBeing in Fleetwood Mac is more like being in group therapy,\u201d noted the mostly redoubtable Mick Fleetwood in 1977, as he contemplated the seismic impact of \u201cRumours\u201d and laid bare \u2013 not for the last time \u2013 the private lives of its key players<\/p>\n

Our Ultimate Music Guide, though, focuses on Fleetwood Mac\u2019s extraordinary music as much as their intimate affairs. To that end, we\u2019ve commissioned new, in-depth reviews of every single one of their albums, from lost gems to some of the biggest-selling releases of all time. Like everything about Fleetwood Mac, it makes for an uncommonly long and complicated story, but one that is never less than compelling.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, it\u2019s like listening to war stories,\u201d Mick Fleetwood told Uncut in 2002. \u201cBut you have to remember there were people yelling in pain with their legs shot away. There\u2019s blood and guts and disagreements still to this day. But that\u2019s what makes it mean a shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don\u2019t Stop! Uncut\u2019s newest Ultimate Music Guide tells the incredible story of Fleetwood Mac \u2013 an infinite series of surprise plot twists, where radical upheavals arrive with every new album. \u201cWe\u2019ve never done what was expected of Fleetwood Mac,\u201d says the band\u2019s first leader, Peter Green, \u201cwe\u2019ve always done the opposite.\u201d<\/h1>\n

Fleetwood Mac: The Ultimate Music Guide collects revealing features, unseen for decades, from the archives of Uncut, NME and Melody Maker They document the rise and fall of Green\u2019s band, the emergence of Christine McVie, the transitional lineups of the early \u201970s, the dramatic arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and the glory and devastation that soon followed. \u201cBeing in Fleetwood Mac is more like being in group therapy,\u201d noted the mostly redoubtable Mick Fleetwood in 1977, as he contemplated the seismic impact of Rumours and laid bare \u2013 not for the last time \u2013 the private lives of its key players.<\/p>\n

Our Ultimate Music Guide, though, focuses on Fleetwood Mac\u2019s extraordinary music as much as their intimate affairs. To that end, we\u2019ve commissioned new, in-depth reviews of every single one of their albums, from lost gems to some of the biggest-selling releases of all time. Like everything about Fleetwood Mac, it makes for an uncommonly long and complicated story, but one that is never less than compelling. \u201cLooking back, it\u2019s like listening to war stories,\u201d says Fleetwood. \u201cThere\u2019s blood and guts and disagreements still to this day. But that\u2019s what makes it mean a shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Order Print Copy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There\u2019s blood and guts and disagreements still to this day\u2026” Early 1969. California has been hit by a series of destructive floods, so bad that the international telephone operator is sceptical a connection can be made between London and Los Angeles. 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