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As Eric Clapton's replacement in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Peter Green was already a brilliant guitarist when he formed Fleetwood Mac with Bluesbreakers drummer Mick Fleetwood and Jeremy Spencer, another Bluesbreaker John McVie joining soon afterwards. Initially playing hardcore blues, they added Danny Kirwan and struck it big in 1969 with Green's haunting instrumental smash, Albatross. With his mental state deteriorating, Green quit the following year but the band added Chicken Shack keyboard player Christine Perfect - John McVie's wife - to open a rocky new chapter. After more changes, American guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and his partner Stevie Nicks joined Mick Fleetwood and the McVies. It was their most successful line-up and when both the McVie marriage and the Buckingham-Nicks relationship collapsed, the resultant conflicts inspired their legendary 1977 album Rumours, one of the biggest-selling albums of all time with 40m sales. The Rumours line-up split in 1987 but reformed a decade later, only for Christine McVie to quit again the following year.Artist biography compiled by BDS/West 10. All rights reserved
