Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac

by Mark Blake

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"Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning over fifty years and includes some of the best-selling albums and greatest hits of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But the band's unique story is one of enormous triumph and also deep tragedy. There has never been a band in the history of music riven with as much romantic drama, sexual tension, and incredible highs and lows as Fleetwood Mac. Dreams is a must-read for casual Fleetwood Mac fans and die-hard devotees alike. show more Presenting mini-biographies, observations, and essays, Mark Blake explores all eras of the Fleetwood Mac story to explore what it is that has made them one of the most successful bands in history. Blake draws on his own exclusive interviews with Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and the late Peter Green and Christine McVie, and addresses the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story, including the complicated relationships between the band's main members, but he also dives deep into the towering discography that the band has built over the past half-century."--Publisher. show less

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This is a fun and light Fleetwood Mac almanac of their fifty years of music and long, long list of musician members. It isn't in any specific order, vaguely chronological but stops along the way for sections on the earlier (Peter Green, Danny Kerwin), later (Dave Mason, Bekka Bramlett), and the obscure (Rick Vito, Billy Burnette) guitarists and vocalists. But of course, the spotlight glows brightest on Stevie vs Lindsey, to excess, as was the entire band's addictions to booze and cocaine. Happily, Christine McVie's songwriting skills are also acknowledged. There's a lot of detail about their most highly regarded songs and some amusing commentary on their worst. You'd have to be a devoted fan to savor its length and breadth.

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Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who's violent live performances. His answer? 'Pretend you're in a war.' For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was notorious for acts of 'auto-destructive art', this could have served as a motto. Between 1964 and 1969, The Who released some of the most dramatic and show more confrontational music of the decade, including 'I Can't Explain', 'My Generation' and 'I Can See For Miles'. Now, acclaimed rock biographer Mark Blake reveals how The Who, in their explorations of sex, drugs, spirituality and class, refracted the growing turbulence of the time. As the decade closed, with The Who performing Tommy in front of 500,000 people at the Woodstock Festival, the 'rock opera' was born. In retrospect, it was the crowning achievement of a band who had already embraced pop art and the concept album; who had pioneered the power chord and the guitar smash; and who had embodied - more so than any of their peers - the guiding spirit of the age: war. show less

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Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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782.421660922Arts & recreationMusicVocal musicSecular forms of vocal musicSongsGeneral principles and musical formsTraditions of secular songs {genres}Rock songsmodified standard subdivisionsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyBiographyCollected biography
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ML421 .F56MusicLiterature on musicLiterature on musicHistory and criticismBiography
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