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November 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Lindsey Buckingham: Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham Lindsey Buckingham Rhino I was so excited about this album I did something I don’t normally do and couldn’t keep up with if it became the norm: I wrote a gushing “preview” basically suggesting the greatness of the album and anticipating it after just one listen, also surveying the past solo catalogue.Archive
October 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Continuing Saga of Loving Fleetwood Mac
Some nights, listening to Fleetwood Mac is all I want to do and almost enough – why bother with any other music. They were a blues band and a musical soap-opera too, a stadium monolith, all those songs they sing at one another as much as at any audience – and then there’s the ‘lost […]Archive
October 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Silver Springs
Stevie Nicks gets told her song won’t make the cut. She leaves it in the vault for 20 years, takes it out, dusts it off, decides it’s time to bring it to life. She runs it by Lindsey. It’s got lyrics about how she would have loved him if he would only have let her. […]Archive
September 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of ‘Lindsey Buckingham’
Lindsey Buckingham has a brand new solo album available. It’s called Lindsey Buckingham. By the time you read this I might have heard it four or five times – but as I’m writing this, I’m hearing it for the first time. I’m so excited about this. I have been for months. Lindsey Buckingham is one […]Archive
August 6, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of Reading About Fleetwood Mac
In celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80th I thought of the dozens of great books I’ve read about him (and a few pretty average ones). I’ll never read them all. There are thousands. But maybe I’ve read 40-50. The Beatles have inspired the most books of any musician – apart from maybe Elvis Presley. And I’ve read […]Archive
May 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Listening To Tusk, Thinking It’s The Greatest
Five years old and listening to Tusk – thinking it’s the greatest album, well to be fair I really just love the title track. When the drums go bananas I think of Animal from The Muppet Show. He’s my absolute hero. Ten years old and listening to Tusk – thinking it’s the greatest album, well […]Archive
July 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Peter Green
Peter Green has died. He was 73. The creator of Fleetwood Mac. One of the fathers of the British blues boom – and sound – a tormented soul, a talented player, by default a brilliant bandleader, it wasn’t an easy road at all for Green and he was one of the first prominent “casualties” of […]Archive
June 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 104
Fleetwood Mac, Need Your Love So Bad [Single] (1969) A Facebook chum messages. Says he’s found a double-up in his collection and would I like to have it. It’s only Need Your Love So Bad by Fleetwood Mac. Of course I’d fucking love it! It arrives – and it plays just fine. Any tiny little […]Archive
March 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Keith Olsen
Reports are coming in just now that record producer and sound engineer Keith Olsen has died. There’s a chance that you have several records he had a hand in as part of your record collection. Put another way, there’s almost no chance his fingerprints aren’t all over the albums you know and love. He’s perhaps […]Archive
February 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 245 – Fleetwood Mac, Auckland, 2019
I wasn’t sold on seeing Fleetwood Mac again straight away – which is to say I was real happy for anyone that was planning to go, but I’d seen them and even if it wasn’t with Christine it was with Lindsey! (And I’m Team Lindsey all the way). But I’m also a Neil Finn fan […]Archive
December 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman