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Don't Stop: 50 years on, Fleetwood Mac are still rising from the ashes of their own self-destruction


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Don't Stop: 50 years on, Fleetwood Mac are still rising from the ashes of their own self-destruction

by Alexandra Pollard

 

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Fleetwood Mac taking part in a US interview broadcast in 1975 ( Polaris )

 

Affairs, breakups, terrifying brawls between lovers, damage to instruments (and skulls), divorce, drug abuse, alcoholism, rows about money, musical differences, and lots and lots and lots of hit records: Fleetwood Mac might have sounded mellow at times, but off stage they were anything but.

 

“We’re a group of people who, you could make the argument, don’t belong in the same band together,” Lindsey Buckingham once said of his fractious group. “It’s the synergy of that that makes it work.”

 

Whether they’ve triumphed because of their famously volatile relationship, or in spite of it, Fleetwood Mac have risen from the ashes of their own self-destruction more times than seemed possible.

 

In the past 50 years, they have found a home for themselves teetering on the brink of implosion – unwilling, or perhaps unable, to let each other go.

 

Full Story: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/fleetwood-mac-50-years-dont-stop-stevie-nicks-mick-lindsey-buckingham-tour-2019-a8634716.html

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