“It took me at least two years to recover from that song,” Green recalled. Written by Peter Green shortly before he left Fleetwood Mac, this miasmic proto-metal blues freakout was inspired by a dream that Green had while on mescaline, in which he was visited by a green dog that represented money. “The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)” Nicks grew up singing old-time country with her grandfather, and that side is especially present on “That’s Alright,” a lilting shuffle first recorded as the acoustic “Designs of Love,” in the Buckingham Nicks days, then slicked up years later for Mirage. The rootsier alternate take is a gem among the extras on the 2016 reissue of Mirage. “That’s Alright”įleetwood Mac have exerted a massive influence on country music, with artists from the Dixie Chicks to Little Big Town covering them. “Even though I love it and it came out great.” 49. “That always put a shadow over ‘I Don’t Want to Know,’ ” she recalled. Nicks later speculated that it was chosen to assuage her because it was one of her own compositions, written before she joined the group. On Rumours, it was just an afterthought, tacked on when the band realized that Nicks’ “Silver Springs” was too long to fit on the LP. “I Don’t Want to Know”įor any other band, a song like “I Don’t Want to Know” might be a focus track.
What brings it all together is an almost mystical chemistry, wrought from grueling personal drama and heartbreak that they somehow found a way to turn into some of the most beloved rock & roll of all time. Our list of the band’s 50 greatest songs pulls from all these eras. They began as a vehicle for the blues visions of tragic genius Peter Green, continued through fascinating, often overlooked, transitional records during the early Seventies with Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch, and hit an astonishing peak when songbird Christine McVie, mad drummer Mick Fleetwood and ultra-reliable bassman John McVie hooked up with the Southern California songwriting team of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Days and nights would just go on and on.”īut the soul of the Mac’s magic has always been their songs. Huge amounts of illicit materials, yards and yards of this wretched stuff. “Parties going on all over the house,” John McVie told Rolling Stone in 1977, recalling the making of their classic Rumours LP. Through it all, there’s been brutal romantic blowups and historic levels of drug use. Weingarten & David Browne & Jon Dolan & Corinne Cummings & Keith Harris & Rob Sheffield & Angie Martoccioįleetwood Mac have been rock’s greatest soap opera for five decades - from their Sixties origins in the English blues-rock scene to their Seventies reinvention as California rock superstars through their smooth Eighties hits and right up to today.
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