Christine McVie was fed up with all of them.
Stevie Nicks didn’t want to walk on the sand with her platforms. Though a pair of mediocre releases in the '90s threatened to end the band's career with a whimper, The Dance (1997) restored Buckingham and Nicks to the fold and dusted the cobwebs off Fleetwood Mac's rich legacy. John McVie was drunk and tried to punch me. From the giddy, self-deprecating "Second Hand News" to the achingly beautiful "Gold Dust Woman," the album is painfully intimate - and that's precisely what gives it power. Witness Rumours, to this day one of the top ten best selling albums of all time. VH1 lists them as one of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock and Roll, and their 1977 album Rumors stands at 16 on the 100 Greatest Albums. Over their career, they have sold over 100 million records, making them one of the world’s best-selling rock bands. Though incestuous liaisons within the group threatened to tear it apart, these also sparked some of the band's greatest material. The group Fleetwood Mac started in London, England, in 1967. In Buckingham the band acquired a prodigious guitar talent and a gifted lyricist whose occasionally daffy sensibilities nicely complemented the tender intimacies of Nicks and McVie. Wonderful, The Pious Bird of Good Omen and Fleetwood Mac in Chicago) and 1971 outtakes album The Original Fleetwood Mac have been remastered and reissued on CD, as have the 19751987 era. The 19671969 era Blue Horizon albums (Fleetwood Mac, Mr. It wasn't until Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie enlisted the services of soft-rock duo Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham that the band took on its definitive form. Albatross (1969) Bare Trees (1972) Big Love (1987) Don't Stop (1977) Dreams (1977) Everywhere (1987). The discography of Fleetwood Mac consists of 18 studio albums, nine live albums, 23 compilation albums, one extended play single, and 62 singles. A band with a long and convoluted history, Fleetwood Mac was originally conceived as a heavy blues outfit in the tradition of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.