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John McVie, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Mick Fleetwood and Peter Green: an early line-up who made the album ‘Then Play On’. Green named the band after Fleetwood and McVie, who have (luckily) been the only constant members ever since.
‘Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow,’ Fleetwood Mac warned us in 1977, with the very first song on their timeless album ‘Rumours’. But now that the five members who made that album have reunited for their first tour together in 16 years, we reckon they’d forgive us for a nostalgic look back at the band’s own tortuous history.
Accompanying our new Fleetwood Mac interview as the band return to London, here are 15 incredible photos of Fleetwood Mac. Scroll through to follow their journey – via divorce, drugs and ‘Dreams’ – from the London blues scene to globe-straddling success. Yesterday’s gone, but somehow Fleetwood Mac are still going strong.
