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Dreams

The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac

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Dreams

By: Mark Blake
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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Fleetwood Mac have had a chart-topping career that spans over fifty years and includes some of the biggest-selling albums and greatest hits of the 20th and 21st centuries. But the band's story is one of enormous triumph and also unimaginable tragedy. There has never been a band in the history of music riven with as much romantic drama, sexual tension and incredible highs and lows as Fleetwood Mac.

Dreams is a must-listen for casual Fleetwood Mac fans and die-hard devotees alike. In this unique collection of mini-biographies, observations and essays, Mark Blake explores all eras of the Fleetwood Mac story to explore what it is that has made them one of the most successful bands in history.

Blake draws on his own exclusive interviews with Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and the late Peter Green and Christine McVie, and addresses the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story, including the complicated relationships between the band's main members, but he also dives deep into the towering discography that the band have built over the past half-century.

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Very informative and enjoyable account of the ‘soap-opera’ that was Fleetwood Mac. Almost certainly listeners will want to visit/revisit the band’s music as the story of the band(s) unfolds.

Informative and interesting

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The stories around Fleetwood Mac are always worth telling and this book doesn't disappoint. Rather than just focusing the most famous members, it covers all the various incarnations over time weaving in key backroom staff and how other groups have intertwined with the overall story. The book really does have tales of everything and was well narrated and presented. My only complaint is it wasn't a bit longer, An expanded postscript could have looked at how the industry has changed and how we may never see the likes such supergroups again.

Great stories

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Although I’m more in the Peter Green camp of Fleetwood Mac, I do like some later bits. This doesn’t matter . This story is almost like Spinal Tap more than Spinal Tap . Drugs , swapping partners , failed relationships , drugs , various bit part band members , fake band members , drugs, oh my , this story has it all . It does make you want to go back and listen to that phenomenal back catalogue . Mark Blake has done a sterling job , as he did with Pink Floyd’s Pigs Might Fly and The A to Z of Queen. So I’ll have a lie down and will 100% relisten . So much to take in !! Well done Mr Blake

I need a lie down !

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Just how can an author who has obviously taken a great deal of care researching the most fluid, long lasting and volatile bands make such a glaring error analysing the line from Go Your Own Way. He repeatedly says that 'shacking up is all you wanna do' is a put-down from Buckingham to Nicks when, in reality the line is 'packin' up shackin' up is all you wanna do'. Buckingham was surely rueing Nicks' decision to end the relationship rather than berating her for wanting to continue to live together. Other than this the book is well researched and a tribute to one of the most amazing bands of the 20th century (and a bit of the 21st).

Øne glaring error

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