One of music’s most durable rock band’s, Fleetwood Mac, embark on the UK leg of their world tour this year, over a decade since the band last toured and over thirty years since the spectacular success of Rumours in 1977.
The Fleetwood Mac Unleashed world tour will feature the band’s greatest hits along with some of their favourite album tracks, such as Gold Dust Woman, Storms and I know I’m not wrong.
The tour reunites probably the best known Fleetwood Mac line up from the Rumours era, featuring Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lyndsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Christine McVie, who retired from Fleetwood Mac to pursue other musical interests in 1998 will not be involved in the reunion.
Despite much speculation over the past couple of years, plans to recruit Sheryl Crow as a replacement for Christine McVie have never come to fruition, with band members saying that the collaboration “lost it’s momentum.”
Also plans to release a studio album have fallen by the wayside, forcing Mick Fleetwood to enthuse ” This is the first time we have gone on the road without an album. This is truly a new experience for Fleetwood Mac to go out and play songs that we believe and hope people are going to be familiar with and love.”
Stevie Nicks adding; “there isn’t any plan at this point… for any album. We’re going to get through this tour before deciding what to do with an album.
The Unleashed, Greatest Hits tour will draw heavily on the mid seventies output of Fleetwood Mac- the band’s most successful era to date, featuring tracks from the phenomenal best seller Rumours and the subsequent albums Tusk and Tango in the Night and also the lesser known 1975 album Fleetwood Mac.
Rumours remains one of the best selling albums of all time, featuring tracks like Dreams, Don’t Stop, You Make Loving Fun and The Chain as well as Gold Dust Woman. The album had sold over 40million copies worldwide by 2003 and continues to sell thirty years on!
The Fleetwood Mac Unleashed, Greatest Hits Tour 2009, will arrive in Glasgow SECC on the 22nd October, the first of just seven arena dates in the UK, ending in Birmingham’s NEC on 3rd November.
To whet your appetite, here is a clip of Dreams from the album Rumours, circa 1977.
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1 Burtbow of IDMproductionsteam youtube. // Jul 20, 2009 at 9:20 am
This is one concert i will be going to, it’s a shame christine won’t be playing. The mac are one of the few bands that are just timeless with there music old or new. (added by Mobile using Mippin)