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Although Fleetwood Mac was initially conceived as a hard-edged British blues combo in 1966, over the course of the next decade, the band gradually evolved into a polished pop/rock act. Through the years, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie were the only consistent members of Fleetwood Mac, and they provided the band with its name. Ironically, they had the least influence over the musical direction of the band. Originally, guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer gave the band its neo-psychedelic blues-rock sound; later pianist Christine McVie wrote many of the songs that moved the group toward its pop/rock sound. By the mid-'70s, Fleetwood Mac had relocated to California, where they added the soft-rock duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to their lineup. Now more a soft-rock band, Fleetwood Mac recorded the 1977 album "Rumours," which would become one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.
The band was one of the most popular of the '70's, and retained their popularity through the early '80s, when Buckingham, Nicks, and Christine McVie all went on to pursue solo careers. They reunited for one album, 1987's "Tango in the Night," before beaking up in the late '80s. The band made more albums during the 1990's, with a variety of guitarists, with the core group of Fleetwood, the McVies, Buckingham and Nicks reuniting to play at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. Later that year Nicks and Christine McVie left the group, and a new lineup began touring in 1994, but it wasn't very successful, commercially. In 1997, there was a brief reunion of the core group, and Fleetwood, John McVie and Buckingham played together from 1999-2002. Fleetwood, John McVie, Nicks and Buckingham got back together for another reunion tour in July, 2003.
Last updated: August 29, 2004.
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