Fleetwood Mac is a British-American rock band formed in London in 1967. Throughout their career, the band has sold more than 120 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling musical acts in history. Their 1977 album “Rumours” is one of the best-selling albums of all time and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. Fleetwood Mac received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2018, the band was honored with the MusiCares Person of the Year award.
During their early years, Fleetwood Mac were primarily a British blues band. The original lineup included Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. In 1968, the band reached number one in the UK with the instrumental “Albatross”, followed by further hits including “Man of the World”, “Oh Well” and “The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)”. Between 1970 and 1972, Green, Spencer and Kirwan successively left the band, while Christine McVie and Bob Welch joined the lineup.
In 1974, Fleetwood Mac relocated to the United States, and following Welch's departure, Mick Fleetwood and the McVies recruited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. The first album with this lineup, “Fleetwood Mac” (1975), topped the Billboard 200 and began one of the most successful periods in the band's history, followed by “Rumours”. The lineup recorded “Tusk” (1979), “Mirage” (1982) and “Tango in the Night” (1987) before Buckingham left the band.
Over the following decades, Fleetwood Mac went through several lineup changes and reunions. The 1975–1987 lineup reunited in 1997 for the live album “The Dance”, which became the band's fourth album to top the Billboard 200. Christine McVie left the group in 1998 but returned in 2014. The band's final studio album, “Say You Will”, was released in 2003. After Buckingham's departure in 2018, Mike Campbell and Neil Finn joined the lineup. Following Christine McVie's death in 2022, Stevie Nicks said in 2024 that she believed Fleetwood Mac would not continue as a band.
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