Christine McVie, uma das vocalistas dos Fleetwood Mac, morreu há dois anos...

Christine Anne McVie,  née Perfect (Greenodd, 12 July 1943 – London, 30 November 2022) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as keyboardist and one of the vocalists of Fleetwood Mac.

McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She began working with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a session player, before joining the band in 1970. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits" and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. She also released three solo studio albums.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O₂ Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.

McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006. She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

     

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McVie married John McVie in 1968, with Peter Green as best man. Instead of a honeymoon, they celebrated at a hotel in Birmingham with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before going on the road with their own bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but remained friends and maintained a professional partnership. During the production of Rumours, Christine had an affair with Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, Curry Grant, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun". From 1979 to 1982, she dated Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela on 18 October 1986. Quintela and McVie collaborated on a number of songs together, including "Little Lies". They divorced in 2003, and Quintela died in 2020.

During the height of Fleetwood Mac's success in the 1970s, McVie resided in Los Angeles in a house that had previously been owned by Joan Collins and by Elton John. In 1990, she moved to a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house in Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent, to which she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998, and worked on her solo material. For years McVie found inspiration in the home's country setting, not only writing songs there, but also restoring the house. After rejoining Fleetwood Mac in 2014, she began spending more time in London, and put the house on the market in 2015.

   

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McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79. Her death was announced by her family through social media. In a statement following her death, Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had been her "best friend in the whole world". According to her death certificate revealed in April 2023, McVie died of a stroke and suffered from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.

 

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Peter Green, co-fundador dos Fleetwood Mac, nasceu há 78 anos...

Peter Green, nascido Peter Allen Greenbaum (Bethnal Green, 29 de outubro de 1946 – Canvey Island, 25 de julho de 2020), foi um cantor, compositor e guitarrista de blues rock britânico. Como co-fundador da banda Fleetwood Mac, foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 1998. As músicas de Green, como "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" e "Man of the World", apareceram nas paradas de singles, e várias foram adaptadas por uma variedade de músicos.

Foi uma figura importante na "segunda grande época" do movimento blues britânico. B.B. King comentou: "Ele tem o tom mais doce que eu já ouvi; foi o único que me fez suar frio". Eric Clapton elogiou o seu estilo como guitarrista. Ficou conhecido pelo uso de flexões de cordas, vibrato e economia de estilo.

A revista Rolling Stone colocou Green no número 58 na sua lista dos "100 Maiores Guitarristas de Todos os Tempos". Seu tom no instrumental "The Supernatural" foi classificado como um dos 50 maiores de todos os tempos pela Guitar Player. Em junho de 1996, foi eleito o terceiro melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista Mojo.

Morreu no dia 25 de julho de 2020, aos 73 anos.

  

 
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Hoje é dia de ouvir Fleetwood Mac...

Lindsey Buckingham nasceu há 75 anos...!

Lindsey Adams Buckingham (Palo Alto, 3 de outubro de 1949) é um cantor, compositor, guitarrista e produtor musical americano, mais conhecido por ter sido um dos integrantes da banda Fleetwood Mac de 1974 a 1987 e de 1997 a 2018. Fora seu trabalho com o grupo, o músico lançou seis álbuns solo inédito e três registos ao vivo. Como membro dos Fleetwood Mac, foi inserido no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll em 1998. Foi considerado o 100º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

Com Lindsey, os Fleetwood Mac tiveram o seu período de maior sucesso, após a transição de banda de blues nos anos 60 até o som pop rock que gerou o álbum Fleetwood Mac (1975), projeto que marcou a sua estreia. A sua participação e influência no grupo se tornou dominante a medida que o sucesso cresceu, estando responsável por parte da composições, arranjos e produção musical de álbuns como Rumours (1977), Tusk (1979) e Mirage (1982), os quais venderam, juntos, mais de 40 milhões de cópias no mundo. Em 1987, logo após gravar o álbum Tango in the Night, o cantor decidiu deixar a banda, retornando apenas em 1997 para o projeto ao vivo The Dance. Buckingham ainda permaneceu no grupo por mais 21 anos, gravando projetos de estúdio e ao vivo, até ser demitido em 2018. Em 2019, o cantor passou por uma cirurgia de emergência por problemas cardíacos.

Paralelamente ao Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham iniciou a sua carreira a solo em 1981 com o álbum Law and Order, que incluiu a canção "Trouble". A sua obra também inclui projetos como Out of the Cradle (1992), Under the Skin (2006), Seeds We Sow (2011) e Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie (2017), este último gravado em parceria com Christine McVie e a maioria dos integrantes dos Mac. Além disso, participou de bandas sonoras de filmes como Férias Frustradas e De Volta para o Futuro e também colaborou como produtor musical e músico convidado para vários artistas, incluindo Nine Inch Nails, Eric Clapton, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers e Queens of the Stone Age. Também é conhecido por sua técnica de guitarra e viola, sem o uso de palhetas.

   

  

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Buckingham was in the same high school as Stevie Nicks but a year behind her. He started a relationship with Nicks after the breakup of their band Fritz. He then suffered from a bout of mononucleosis, which delayed their move to Los Angeles in 1971. They recorded a studio album together before joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, while their relationship had broken down by 1977. The breakup was chronicled in a number of songs written by the two, such as "Silver Springs" and "Dreams" by Nicks and "Go Your Own Way" and "Second Hand News" by Buckingham.

Buckingham had his first child, William Gregory, with Kristen Messner on July 8, 1998. Buckingham then married Messner in 2000, and they had two daughters, Leelee in 2000 and Stella in 2004. Buckingham and Messner, who is a photographer and interior designer, have developed homes in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.

Buckingham underwent emergency open heart surgery in February 2019. His wife Kristen said that "the life-saving procedure caused vocal cord damage, the permanency of which is unclear." He eventually yet slowly recovered at home.

Kristen Messner filed for divorce from Buckingham in Los Angeles on June 2, 2021. It was reported later in September that the couple were "working on their marriage.

  

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O músico Bob Welch nasceu há 79 anos...

Bob Welch (esquerda) e o engenheiro de gravação Jimmy Robinson, na Record Plant, em Sausalito, Califórnia

 

Robert Lawrence "Bob" Welch, Jr. (Hollywood, 31 de agosto de 1945 – Antioch, Tennessee, 7 de junho de 2012) foi um cantor e compositor norte-americano de rock.

Bob tornou-se notável como vocalista e guitarrista dos Fleetwood Mac, de 1971 a 1974, na fase de transição do grupo entre a sua formação original de blues e a formação clássica, de orientação pop rock. Ao sair da banda, por problemas pessoais, foi substituído por Lindsey Buckingham e, com a colaboração de integrantes dos Mac como Buckingham e Christine McVie, teve uma carreira a solo bem-sucedida no fim dos anos 70, mas que declinou na década de 80. Os seus singles incluem "Hot Love, Cold World," "Ebony Eyes," "Precious Love" e a famosa faixa "Sentimental Lady."

Welch morreu em 2012, vítima de suicídio.

 

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Peter Green, fundador dos Fleetwood Mac, faleceu há quatro anos...

  

Peter Green, nascido Peter Allen Greenbaum (Bethnal Green, 29 de outubro de 1946 – Canvey Island, 25 de julho de 2020), foi um cantor, compositor e guitarrista de blues rock britânico. Como co-fundador da banda Fleetwood Mac, foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 1998. As músicas de Green, como "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" e "Man of the World", apareceram nas paradas de singles, e várias foram adaptadas por uma variedade de músicos.

Foi uma figura importante na "segunda grande época" do movimento blues britânico. B.B. King comentou: "Ele tem o tom mais doce que eu já ouvi; foi o único que me fez suar frio". Eric Clapton elogiou o seu estilo como guitarrista. Ficou conhecido pelo uso de flexões de cordas, vibrato e economia de estilo.

A revista Rolling Stone classificou Green em número 58 na sua lista dos "100 Maiores Guitarristas de Todos os Tempos". Seu tom no instrumental "The Supernatural" foi classificado como um dos 50 maiores de todos os tempos pela Guitar Player. Em junho de 1996, foi eleito o terceiro melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista Mojo.

Morreu no dia 25 de julho de 2020, aos 73 anos.

 

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Christine McVie, uma das vocalistas dos Fleetwood Mac, nasceu há 81 anos...

Christine Anne McVie,  née Perfect (Greenodd, 12 July 1943 – London, 30 November 2022) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as keyboardist and one of the vocalists of Fleetwood Mac.

McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She began working with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a session player, before joining the band in 1970. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits" and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. She also released three solo studio albums.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O₂ Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.

McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006. She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

     

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McVie married John McVie in 1968, with Peter Green as best man. Instead of a honeymoon, they celebrated at a hotel in Birmingham with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before going on the road with their own bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but remained friends and maintained a professional partnership. During the production of Rumours, Christine had an affair with Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, Curry Grant, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun". From 1979 to 1982, she dated Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela on 18 October 1986. Quintela and McVie collaborated on a number of songs together, including "Little Lies". They divorced in 2003, and Quintela died in 2020.

During the height of Fleetwood Mac's success in the 1970s, McVie resided in Los Angeles in a house that had previously been owned by Joan Collins and by Elton John. In 1990, she moved to a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house in Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent, to which she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998, and worked on her solo material. For years McVie found inspiration in the home's country setting, not only writing songs there, but also restoring the house. After rejoining Fleetwood Mac in 2014, she began spending more time in London, and put the house on the market in 2015.

   

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McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79. Her death was announced by her family through social media. In a statement following her death, Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had been her "best friend in the whole world". According to her death certificate revealed in April 2023, McVie died of a stroke and suffered from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.

 

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Saudades de Christine McVie...

Say You Love Me...

Os Fleetwood Mac lançaram um álbum, dito o álbum branco, há 49 anos

Fleetwood Mac é o décimo álbum da banda anglo/norte-americana Fleetwood Mac e o segundo auto-intitulado, lançado em 1975. É o primeiro álbum da banda após a inclusão de Lindsey Buckingham como guitarrista e Stevie Nicks como vocalista e o primeiro após a saída de Bob Welch.

O álbum vendeu cerca de 5 milhões de cópias e colocou vários singles nos tops de sucesso, fazendo com que a nova formação, unida até meados de 1987, fosse a mais importante comercialmente de toda a carreira da banda e lançasse, posteriormente, álbuns de sucesso ainda maior, como o sucessor Rumours (1977).

 

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Bob Welch morreu há doze anos...

Bob Welch (left) and recording engineer Jimmy Robinson at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California

 

Robert Lawrence Welch Jr. (Hollywood, California, August 31, 1945 – Antioch, Tennessee, June 7, 2012) was an American musician who was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974. He had a successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included "Hot Love, Cold World", "Ebony Eyes", "Precious Love", "Hypnotized", and his signature song, "Sentimental Lady". 

 

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Música adequada à data...!

Música da aniversariante de hoje...

Stevie Nicks - 76 anos...!

    

Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (Phoenix, 26 de maio de 1948) é uma cantora e compositora norte-americana que, na sua carreira como cantora da banda de rock Fleetwood Mac e como cantora a solo, já vendeu mais de 140 milhões de discos em todo o mundo. Conhecida como "Rainha Reinante do Rock and Roll" em 1981 pela revista Rolling Stone, é considerada um dos "100 Maiores Cantores(as) de todos os Tempos" pela mesma revista. Colocada no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em conjunto com seus companheiros dos Fleetwood Mac em 1998, ela tem treze nomeações para os Grammy, divididos entre a banda e como cantora a solo.

Nicks juntou-se aos Fleetwood Mac em 1974, juntamente com o seu companheiro Lindsey Buckingham. O segundo álbum da banda com a dupla, Rumours, lançado em 1977, foi aclamado pela crítica e tornou-se o álbum mais vendido de todos os tempos até ao ano de seu lançamento e, ainda hoje, ocupa a oitava posição nesta lista, com mais de 40 milhões de cópias vendidas. Rumours manteve-se em nº1 nas paradas norte-americanas por 31 semanas não consecutivas, alcançou a mesma posição em vários países do mundo e conquistou o Prémio Grammy de Álbum do Ano. Ele produziu quatro canções que fizeram parte do Top 10 da Billboard, com a canção Dreams, escrita e cantada por ela, atingindo o nº 1 na parada de singles.

Em 1981, ela começou uma carreira solo com o álbum Bella Donna, que alcançou o disco de platina três meses após lançado e hoje já acumula o certificado de 4 Platinas. Nicks já gravou mais sete álbuns solo de estúdio até hoje, e seu mais recente trabalho chama-se In Your Dreams, lançado em 2011. Superando o vício em cocaína e dependência de tranquilizantes, ela continua sendo uma das mais populares cantoras em seu país. É conhecida por sua voz característica, estilo visual místico e letras simbólicas, assim como por sua famosa (e tensa) química com seu ex-companheiro de vida e de banda, Lindsey Buckingham.

Teve uma participação especial, em 2013, na série American Horror Story: Coven. Uma de suas canções a solo, "Edge of Seventeen", figurou na banda sonora do jogo eletrónico Grand Theft Auto IV, mais precisamente na rádio Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 com Edge of Seventeen e em Grand Theft Auto V, mais precisamente na rádio Los Santos Rock Radio com "I Can't Wait". Também teve a sua banda sonora da música "Edge of Seventeen" no filme Escola de Rock em 2003. 

  

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Christine McVie, uma das vocalistas dos Fleetwood Mac, deixou-nos há um ano...

Christine Anne McVie,  née Perfect (Greenodd, 12 July 1943 – London, 30 November 2022) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as keyboardist and one of the vocalists of Fleetwood Mac.

McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She began working with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a session player, before joining the band in 1970. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits" and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. She also released three solo studio albums.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O₂ Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.

McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006. She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

     

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McVie married John McVie in 1968, with Peter Green as best man. Instead of a honeymoon, they celebrated at a hotel in Birmingham with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before going on the road with their own bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but remained friends and maintained a professional partnership. During the production of Rumours, Christine had an affair with Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, Curry Grant, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun". From 1979 to 1982, she dated Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela on 18 October 1986. Quintela and McVie collaborated on a number of songs together, including "Little Lies". They divorced in 2003, and Quintela died in 2020.

During the height of Fleetwood Mac's success in the 1970s, McVie resided in Los Angeles in a house that had previously been owned by Joan Collins and by Elton John. In 1990, she moved to a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house in Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent, to which she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998, and worked on her solo material. For years McVie found inspiration in the home's country setting, not only writing songs there, but also restoring the house. After rejoining Fleetwood Mac in 2014, she began spending more time in London, and put the house on the market in 2015.

   

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McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79. Her death was announced by her family through social media. In a statement following her death, Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had been her "best friend in the whole world". According to her death certificate revealed in April 2023, McVie died of a stroke and suffered from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.

 

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Peter Green, co-fundador dos Fleetwood Mac, nasceu há 77 anos...

Peter Green, nascido Peter Allen Greenbaum (Bethnal Green, 29 de outubro de 1946 – Canvey Island, 25 de julho de 2020), foi um cantor, compositor e guitarrista de blues rock britânico. Como co-fundador da banda Fleetwood Mac, foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 1998. As músicas de Green, como "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" e "Man of the World", apareceram nas paradas de singles, e várias foram adaptadas por uma variedade de músicos.

Foi uma figura importante na "segunda grande época" do movimento blues britânico. B.B. King comentou: "Ele tem o tom mais doce que eu já ouvi; foi o único que me fez suar frio". Eric Clapton elogiou o seu estilo como guitarrista. Ficou conhecido pelo uso de flexões de cordas, vibrato e economia de estilo.

A revista Rolling Stone classificou Green em número 58 na sua lista dos "100 Maiores Guitarristas de Todos os Tempos". Seu tom no instrumental "The Supernatural" foi classificado como um dos 50 maiores de todos os tempos pela Guitar Player. Em junho de 1996, foi eleito o terceiro melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista Mojo.

Morreu no dia 25 de julho de 2020, aos 73 anos.

  

 
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Lindsey Buckingham nasceu há 74 anos

Lindsey Adams Buckingham (Palo Alto, 3 de outubro de 1949) é um cantor, compositor, guitarrista e produtor musical americano, mais conhecido por ter sido um dos integrantes da banda Fleetwood Mac de 1974 a 1987 e de 1997 a 2018. Fora seu trabalho com o grupo, o músico lançou seis álbuns solo inédito e três registos ao vivo. Como membro dos Fleetwood Mac, foi inserido no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll em 1998. Foi considerado o 100º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

Com Lindsey, os Fleetwood Mac tiveram o seu período de maior sucesso, após a transição de banda de blues nos anos 60 até o som pop rock que gerou o álbum Fleetwood Mac (1975), projeto que marcou a sua estreia. A sua participação e influência no grupo se tornou dominante a medida que o sucesso cresceu, estando responsável por parte da composições, arranjos e produção musical de álbuns como Rumours (1977), Tusk (1979) e Mirage (1982), os quais venderam, juntos, mais de 40 milhões de cópias no mundo. Em 1987, logo após gravar o álbum Tango in the Night, o cantor decidiu deixar a banda, retornando apenas em 1997 para o projeto ao vivo The Dance. Buckingham ainda permaneceu no grupo por mais 21 anos, gravando projetos de estúdio e ao vivo, até ser demitido em 2018. Em 2019, o cantor passou por uma cirurgia de emergência por problemas cardíacos.

Paralelamente ao Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham iniciou a sua carreira a solo em 1981 com o álbum Law and Order, que incluiu a canção "Trouble". A sua obra também inclui projetos como Out of the Cradle (1992), Under the Skin (2006), Seeds We Sow (2011) e Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie (2017), este último gravado em parceria com Christine McVie e a maioria dos integrantes dos Mac. Além disso, participou de bandas sonoras de filmes como Férias Frustradas e De Volta para o Futuro e também colaborou como produtor musical e músico convidado para vários artistas, incluindo Nine Inch Nails, Eric Clapton, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers e Queens of the Stone Age. Também é conhecido por sua técnica de guitarra e viola, sem o uso de palhetas.

   

  

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O músico Bob Welch nasceu há 78 anos

Bob Welch (esquerda) e o engenheiro de gravação Jimmy Robinson na Record Plant em Sausalito, Califórnia

 

Robert Lawrence "Bob" Welch, Jr. (Hollywood, 31 de agosto de 1945 – Antioch, Tennessee, 7 de junho de 2012) foi um cantor e compositor norte-americano de rock.

Bob tornou-se notável como vocalista e guitarrista dos Fleetwood Mac, de 1971 a 1974, na fase de transição do grupo entre a sua formação original de blues e a formação clássica, de orientação pop rock. Ao sair da banda, por problemas pessoais, foi substituído por Lindsey Buckingham e, com a colaboração de integrantes dos Mac como Buckingham e Christine McVie, teve uma carreira a solo bem-sucedida no fim dos anos 70, mas que declinou na década de 80. Os seus singles incluem "Hot Love, Cold World," "Ebony Eyes," "Precious Love" e a famosa faixa "Sentimental Lady."

Welch morreu em 2012, vítima de suicídio.

 

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Peter Green morreu há três anos...

   

Peter Green, nascido Peter Allen Greenbaum (Bethnal Green, 29 de outubro de 1946 – Canvey Island, 25 de julho de 2020), foi um cantor, compositor e guitarrista de blues rock britânico. Como co-fundador da banda Fleetwood Mac, foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 1998. As músicas de Green, como "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" e "Man of the World", apareceram nas paradas de singles, e várias foram adaptadas por uma variedade de músicos.

Foi uma figura importante na "segunda grande época" do movimento blues britânico. B.B. King comentou: "Ele tem o tom mais doce que eu já ouvi; foi o único que me fez suar frio". Eric Clapton elogiou o seu estilo como guitarrista. Ficou conhecido pelo uso de flexões de cordas, vibrato e economia de estilo.

A revista Rolling Stone colocou Green no número 58 na sua lista dos "100 Maiores Guitarristas de Todos os Tempos" e foi classificado como um dos 50 maiores de todos os tempos pela Guitar Player. Em junho de 1996, foi eleito o terceiro melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista Mojo.

Morreu no dia 25 de julho de 2020, aos 73 anos.

 

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Christine McVie, uma das vocalistas dos Fleetwood Mac, nasceu há oitenta anos...

Christine Anne McVie,  née Perfect (Greenodd, 12 July 1943 – London, 30 November 2022) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as keyboardist and one of the vocalists of Fleetwood Mac.

McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She began working with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a session player, before joining the band in 1970. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits" and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. She also released three solo studio albums.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O₂ Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.

McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006. She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

     

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McVie married John McVie in 1968, with Peter Green as best man. Instead of a honeymoon, they celebrated at a hotel in Birmingham with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before going on the road with their own bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but remained friends and maintained a professional partnership. During the production of Rumours, Christine had an affair with Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, Curry Grant, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun". From 1979 to 1982, she dated Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela on 18 October 1986. Quintela and McVie collaborated on a number of songs together, including "Little Lies". They divorced in 2003, and Quintela died in 2020.

During the height of Fleetwood Mac's success in the 1970s, McVie resided in Los Angeles in a house that had previously been owned by Joan Collins and by Elton John. In 1990, she moved to a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house in Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury in Kent, to which she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998, and worked on her solo material. For years McVie found inspiration in the home's country setting, not only writing songs there, but also restoring the house. After rejoining Fleetwood Mac in 2014, she began spending more time in London, and put the house on the market in 2015.

   

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McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79. Her death was announced by her family through social media. In a statement following her death, Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had been her "best friend in the whole world". According to her death certificate revealed in April 2023, McVie died of a stroke and suffered from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.

 

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