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Fleetwood Mac
12+ albums
classic rockrock70sbluespop
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Fleetwood Mac were a British and American rock band formed in London in 1967 by singer and guitarist Peter Green. The band was named by combining the surnames of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, who joined shortly after its formation. Fleetwood Mac have sold more than 120 million records worldwide. Initially a British blues band, Fleetwood Mac achieved a UK number-one single in 1968 with the instrumental "Albatross" and had other UK top ten hits with "Man of the World," "Oh Well" (both 1969), and "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" (1970). Green left the band in May 1970, and Christine McVie joined as an official member on vocals and keyboards two months later, having previously contributed as a session musician. Other key early members included Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, and Bob Welch. By the end of 1974, the band lacked a guitarist and male singer, leading Fleetwood to recruit the American duo Buckingham Nicks, consisting of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, in December 1974. This addition brought a more pop rock sound to the band, with their 1975 album "Fleetwood Mac" topping the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. Their next album, "Rumours" (1977), reached number one in multiple countries and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. The line-up remained stable for three more studio albums but began to change in the late 1980s. After Buckingham left in 1987, he was replaced by Billy Burnette and Rick Vito, with Vito leav
