Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in July 1967, in London. The band have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with “Albatross”; and from 1975 to 1987, as a more pop-oriented act, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac’s second album after the incorporation of Buckingham and Nicks, 1977’s Rumours, has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-selling album of all time. (More from Wikipedia)
To the surprise of the folks at Record Collector, numerous Klubs fans responded to the mention of the band; they were even contacted by one of the original bandmembers, Norris “Noz” Easterbrook. Within months, Tenth Planet Records rushed a vinyl-only album called Midnight Love Cycle to market; the 1,000 discs in the pressing were nearly sold out when Record Collector justly named the record “Album of the Year” for 1999, ahead of releases that year of albums by much better known bands like Fleetwood Mac and Small Faces.
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The backing band for Chimera included Bob Weston on guitar; he was a prominent member of Fleetwood Mac for about a year in 1972 and 1973. Roy O’Temro (or Roy Temro) was the drummer; other bandmembers on some of the songs are Nick South (bass guitar) and Ian Milne (keyboards). Orchestral arrangements were by Wil Malone.
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John Mayall’s band was a revolving door of famous British musicians; but even more remarkably, bandmembers who left John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers often helped form other rock bands. For instance, shortly after Eric Clapton left for good, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers consisted of John Mayall plus three of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood.
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The bandmembers in the Chantays were high school friends in Orange County, California; they were Bob Spickard, Brian Carman, Bob Welch (not the Bob Welch who joined Fleetwood Mac), Warren Waters and Rob Marshall. Spickard and Carman co-wrote “Pipeline”, and it made #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1963 and #16 on the UK charts.
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