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June 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie: Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie Atlantic/Rhino Records Add another chapter to best (and ongoing) rock’n’roll soap opera that is the versions and vestiges of Fleetwood Mac. This time it’s a duo/duets album between Buckingham and McVie.

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March 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

A Bunch of Rumours: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours

Christine McVie believes it was her estranged husband John who made the call that the new record Fleetwood Mac was creating sounded like “a bunch of rumours”. And so, Rumours was what it was called. Rumours came into my life when I was about 11 years old; by that stage it had been out a decade […]

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November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Stevie Nicks: Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition)

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition) Rhino Entertainment Company It was an interesting time – and very creative – for Fleetwood Mac and its members post-Rumours. The popular narrative suggests they never bettered it, but they did something much better in a way, they diversified. Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood both made solo records in […]

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August 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 11 – Lindsey Buckingham

You never even used to see this guy considered for The Best Guitarist lists…and, actually, maybe you still don’t, come to think of it…but I reckon something changed when the core version of Fleetwood Mac, the classic FM-music version of the group, reformed for Bill Clinton’s inauguration and started a victory-lap tour of sorts. (One […]

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February 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours – 35th Anniversary Edition

Fleetwood Mac Rumours: 35th Anniversary Edition Warners The album remains a revelation to me – and it’s not even my favourite Fleetwood Mac record; I prefer Tusk and many of the pre-Buckingham/Nicks albums/line-ups. But I do love Rumours. And I have the feeling that even people who don’t (want to) like Rumours possibly own it, […]

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February 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1608

  Fleetwood Mac, Tusk (1979) One of the defining albums of my childhood – and therefore always my favourite Fleetwood Mac record. I still have the copy that my mum used to play when I was four-five-six-seven-eight years old. And that I started playing myself from then too – and on through high-school and university. […]