“I just thought that so many people really don’t know how the band started… People say, well, Mick Fleetwood must have started the band, and of course, it’s not true, Peter Green started this band, with me as a side.
He formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Fleetwood in London in 1967, after a stint in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers as he filled in for Eric Clapton.
Green’s instrumental Albatross remains Fleetwood Mac’s only UK number one single, hitting the top of the charts in January 1969.
He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time in hospitals undergoing electro-convulsive therapy during the mid-70s.
He really almost disconnected himself from having done any of this and written so many incredible songs.
She said ‘No, no, you don’t understand, they never played Fleetwood Mac music on stage, but Oasis, they used to in their soundcheck, he would often do original Fleetwood Mac songs to warm up the band’.
“And I said, ‘You’re kidding me?’ And he’s like, shouting in the back now ‘I love Peter Green, I love all the early stuff that you did’.
“I don’t think any of them had any egos… everyone just was so enthralled with hearing everyone else play.
I mean, when you think of what happened in England, with all genres of music and The Beatles, The Stones, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, and The Yardbirds and Eric Burdon and The Animals, all just really, really, really digging deep into blues and soul music, etcetera.
“What happened in England was so gigantic, you know, with bands like The Stones and The Beatles literally changing the whole complexion of, you know, sort of sociological outcome on the planet.
“I don’t think there’s anything quite that I’ve seen that powerful, but there are elements of things that are for sure there or will be there.
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