Wonderful, which added a horn section and session keyboardist Christine Perfect. Within six months, Fleetwood Mac rattled off new singles “Black Magic Woman” (later a hit for Santana) and “Need Your Love So Bad” and another album, Mr. By February 1968, they released their self-titled debut album, a mix of Green and Spencer originals and blues standards that became an instant hit in the UK. McVie soon changed his tune, and Fleetwood Mac were off and running. Green named Fleetwood Mac after his preferred rhythm section of Fleetwood and McVie (the three of them had previously recorded an instrumental called “Fleetwood Mac” during studio sessions funded by Mayall), though for the new band’s first few weeks, Bob Brunning played bass because McVie was reluctant to leave the security of Mayall’s band. It began in 1967, when guitarist Peter Green, bassist John McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood – all coming off brief stints with the prolific London rock-star incubator John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – started a new band in the same vein with slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer.
Evolving from British blues-rock upstarts to West Coast pop-rockers extraordinaire, Fleetwood Mac spent decades compiling one of the most beloved catalogs in music.
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