Two singles, Green's Black Magic Woman and a cover of Little Willie John's Need Your Love So Bad both reached the UK Top 40 and the band's first two albums Fleetwood Mac and Mr. In 1968, Fleetwood Mac became the leading band on the British blues-rock scene. McVie is generally regarded as an original member of the band in spite of his early absence, owing to the band partly taking its name from him (the Mac bit). He contacted the band and Bob Brunning stepped aside. It was around this time that John McVie decided to leave the Bluesbreakers as he was unhappy with the more jazz-oriented direction Mayall was heading in. In September the band recorded their first single, a cover of the blues standard I Believe My Time Ain't Long sung by Spencer, backed with Rambling Pony, a Peter Green original.
This line-up played its first gig at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival on 13th August 1967. Green did not want to be the sole frontman so recruited slide guitarist/pianist Jeremy Spencer to share the load. A stand-in bassist, Bob Brunning, was recruited and played with the band at their first few gigs. Fleetwood was available, having been fired for excessive drinking but McVie did not want to leave the security of the Bluesbreakers. He intended to recruit Fleetwood and McVie and name the band Fleetwood Mac. It was in 1967 that Mayall gave Green some studio time and along with Bluesbreakers' drummer Mick Fleetwood and bass guitarist John McVie, he recorded an instrumental he had named Fleetwood Mac after the pair.Įventually Green decided to leave Mayall to form his own band. The band were formed in 1967 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Peter Green, at the time a member of leading British blues-rock band John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. 13 Presidential inauguration and Superbowl.
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