A previously unheard recording of “Need Your Love So Bad” — a blues song that late Fleetwood Mac frontman Peter Green sang with the group in its early days — will come out in conjunction with the release of a new book about Green, The Albatross Man, this October.
Green recorded the vocal in his mother’s attic sometime in the mid-Sixties; the more familiar recording of the track came out on Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 LP, The Pious Bird of Good Omen.
His voice echoes as he sings, “Tell me that you love me, stop driving me mad, ’cause I need your love so bad,” Gilmour’s guitars twanging around him.
It also features contributions from record producers Mike Vernon and Neil Slaven, Fleetwood Mac tour manager and sound engineer Dinky Dawson, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden.
Another recording — a new rendition of the Green-composed Fleetwood Mac single “Man of the World” — will feature Hammett, who owns Green’s famed “Greeny” guitar, and drummer Mick Fleetwood.