Dreams
The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac
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3.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac—the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story.
Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning over fifty years and includes some of the best-selling albums and greatest hits of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But the band’s unique story is one of enormous triumph and also deep tragedy. There has never been a band in the history of music riven with as much romantic drama, sexual tension, and incredible highs and lows as Fleetwood Mac.
Dreams is a must-read for casual Fleetwood Mac fans and die-hard devotees alike. Presenting mini-biographies, observations, and essays, Mark Blake explores all eras of the Fleetwood Mac story to explore what it is that has made them one of the most successful bands in history.
Blake draws on his own exclusive interviews with Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and the late Peter Green and Christine McVie, and addresses the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story, including the complicated relationships between the band's main members, but he also dives deep into the towering discography that the band has built over the past half-century.
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Music journalist Blake (Bring It On Home) stitches together a kaleidoscopic chronicle of one of rock's most fabled groups. In its earliest days, Fleetwood Mac was a blues band helmed by cofounders Mick Fleetwood and Peter Green, who composed such hit singles as "Albatross"and "Mr. Wonderful." A "folky, progressive" sound came to the fore in the 1970s with Then Play On, Green's last album with the band. In 1975, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, then a folk-rock duo, joined the group and ushered in a pop-rock style and a period of intense interpersonal drama. The pair, who were dating, broke up in 1976, as did married band members Christine and John McVie; Nicks later began an affair with Fleetwood. In loose, episodic sections drawing on interviews with bandmembers, Blake analyzes the makings of their famous ("Dreams," "The Chain") and lesser-known ("Tell Me All the Things You Do") songs; dissects their romantic rivalries; and traces the destructive effects of the rock and roll lifestyle (Peter Green, who departed in 1970 because of his eroding mental health, was being treated for schizophrenia by the time his former band found superstardom with 1977's Rumours). It's a colorful account of a fascinating chapter in rock history.
