Vanishing members, a cult, affairs—Fleetwood Mac had drama from the very beginning
A British pop group as well known for dysfunction and drama as its string of hits in the ’70s and ’80s that includes “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams,” and “You Make Loving Fun.” At the pinnacle of the band’s success, John and Christine McVie were in the midst of a divorce, and Stevie Nicks was dating Lindsay Buckingham but cheating on him with Mick Fleetwood .
Green was not interested in rejoining the group, so a friend recommended guitarist Bob Welch, who they hired before they had actually played with him, based on listening to tapes of his playing. But by that point, Danny Kirwan’s drinking was becoming a problem. He smashed his guitar before a show, refused to go on stage, and then criticized the band’s performance when they went on without him. They fired him on the spot.
They replaced him with guitarist Bob Weston and singer Dave Walker. They fired Walker after a year because they didn’t think his vocal style fit with the band. Then two weeks into the 1973 tour, it came out that Weston had been having an affair with Fleetwood’s wife, Jenny Boyd. Fleetwood fired Weston, canceled the tour, and the band decided to break up.
Legs’ first few gigs went well, but then word started getting around that they weren’t the real Fleetwood Mac. Audiences booed, promoters canceled shows, and after fans started throwing bottles on stage, the New Fleetwood Mac also broke up. It took a full year for the real members to wrangle the legal rights to the name back . They fired Davis, decided to manage themselves, moved to Los Angeles, and recorded an album,, with only Welch on guitar.
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