Jack’s Music Box: Fleetwood Mac – Landslide

Fleetwood Mac are a band with a very long and complicated history. The band were originally founded by blues guitar player Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie in 1967.

This version of the band was very much rooted in the blues. They scored their first number one hit in 1968 with Albatross. Other popular songs from this era include Oh Well and Man of the World.

By the end of the 1960s Fleetwood Mac were one of the most well respected blues bands in the UK, however the band went through several significant sound changes in the 1970s due to members leaving and new members joining. These changes continued until the mid 1970s when the band arrived at what is perhaps their most famous line up with Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. With this line up the band released 2 of their most commercially successful and critically acclaimed albums, Fleetwood Mac in 1975 and Rumours in 1977. 

From this point on the band were global superstars, however due to internal, tensions the band broke up in the late 1980s. Reforming only a few times over the next few decades for sporadic performances.