Mick Fleetwood

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Michael John Kells Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor best known as the drummer, co-founder, and de facto leader of Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood, whose surname was merged with that of the group's bassist John "Mac" McVie's to form the band's name, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Fleetwood, a native of Redruth, Cornwall, spent a significant portion of his childhood in Egypt and Norway as his father travelled with the Royal Air Force.

Fleetwood Mac's firstincarnation of Fleetwood Mac became a hit in London at the age of 15, eventually collaborating with Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, and Bob Brunning at Green's behest to become the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood will remain the band's only member through the band's ever-changing lineup. The band returned to the United States in 1974 in an attempt to raise the band's success after numerous album launches and line-up changes.

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were welcomed to join Fleetwood.

Buckingham and Nicks were instrumental in the band's later commercial success, as well as the critically acclaimed album Rumours, in particular, although Fleetwood Mac's continued survival was crucial to the band's longevity, although Fleetwood's insistence on keeping the band together was crucial.

He has enjoyed a solo career, published written works, and briefly dabbled in acting and vinification, as well as opened blues-themed restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, and Hawaii.

Early life

Michael John Kells Fleetwood was born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, his second child with John Joseph Kells Fleetwood and Bridget Maury. (née Breton) Fleetwood, Michael John Kells Fleetwood was born in Liverpool, Cornwall. Susan Fleetwood, his elder sister, died of cancer in 1995. Fleetwood and his family followed his father, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, to Egypt in early childhood. They migrated to Norway, where his father was stationed by NATO. They arrived six years later. He went to school there and became fluent in Norwegian.

The teen Fleetwoods, according to biographer Cath Carroll, was "a dreamer, an empathetic youth" who, although intelligent, did not excel academically. Fleetwood had an extremely challenging and trying time academically at the English boarding schools he attended, including King's School, Sherborne, Gloucestershire, and Wynstones School, both Gloucestershire, according to his own autobiography. He did poorly on exams, owing to his inability to recall facts. He loved being in drag while attending school and was an excellent fencer. He was a imposing figure with a beard and long hair for a majority of his life, and at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) tall, he was an imposing figure. Ken Caillat, a sound engineer on Rumours, recalls "Mick was very aristocratic." "The way he wrote sentences was flawless." Everybody paused and listened as he spoke. He was quiet and wise, with a keen sense of humor. He loved to laugh, but he was also a straight shooter."

Fleetwood, a student at the University of Florida, picked up the drums after his parents, knowing that he might have a future in music, bought him a "Gigster" drum kit when he was thirteen. His family encouraged his artistic side as his father wrote poetry and was an amateur drummer himself. Fleetwood was inspired—as he said at the Brit Awards ceremony in 1989—by Cliff Richard, Tom Meehan, drummer of the Shadows, and the Everly Brothers. He dropped out of school at 15 years old and, in 1963, he moved to London to pursue a career as a drummer with his parents' help. He stayed in Notting Hill with his younger sister Sally. He discovered his first love in music after a brief stint at Liberty in London.

Personal life

Fleetwood has been married to three women and has four children.

Fleetwood became obsessed with model Jenny Boyd, the sister of Pattie Boyd, who would marry both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Fleetwood and Jenny Boyd were married in June 1970. Boyd was having an affair with band member Weston in the mid-1970s. Fleetwood, who was struggling with the prospect of leaving the band, was later critical of his own role in "neglecting" his family. In late 1975, Fleetwood and Boyd divorced. Fleetwood travelled to Zambia to convalesce with Christine McVie, who was also experiencing marital difficulties, and travelled with him for a portion of the trip.

Boyd and Fleetwood became married in 1976 and briefly returned to help their children migrate to the United States. Fleetwood and Nicks had an affair in November 1977. The affair raged for the next two years before the pair mutually decided to end it. Fleetwood and Boyd's second marriage resulted in divorce. They had two daughters together and had to move to the United States.

Fleetwood and Nicks' Sara Recor, a mutual friend of Fleetwood and Nicks who was at the time married to another music artist, joined Fleetwood and Nicks in November 1978. Fleetwood married Recor in 1988; the couple divorced in 1995.

Lynn Frankel was married by Fleetwood in 1995. Ruby and Tessa, two twin girls who were born in 2002, were born in Fleetwood and Frankel. In 2015, the couple divorced.

Fleetwood was a heavy cocaine user in the 1970s.

Fleetwood became a resident of the United States on November 22, 2006, in Los Angeles.

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Career

Peter Bardens, a keyboard player, lived just a few doors away from Fleetwood's first home in London, and Bardens gave Fleetwood his first gig in Bardens' band the Cheynes in July 1963, thus seeding the young drummer's musical career. It would take him from the Cheynes — with whom he adored early performances by the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds — to stints in the Bo Street Runners, where he took over original drummer Nigel Hutchinson, who had briefly enjoyed television fame on Ready Steady Go! However, by April 1965, when Fleetwood joined the band, it was faded into obscurity. Bardens, who had left the group, called on Fleetwood to join his new band, the Peter Bs, which soon expanded to become Shotgun Express (with Rod Stewart). Peter Green, a Peter Green, a guitarist in the Peter Bruins, left John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in April 1967 to join Fleetwood. John McVie was already a member of his new band.

Green became a mentor in Fleetwood's early experiments with the drum kit. Fleetwood, on the other hand, was kicked from the Bluesbreakers for repeated insobriety during gigs. Both Fleetwood and McVie were heavy drinkers, and their combined efforts were too much for Mayall and the band to cope with. Green, who felt trapped in the Bluesbreakers, was left in June 1967. "Fleetwood Mac," Mick Fleetwood and John McVie—Green's new band, Fleetwood Mac, has welcomed them both to join him. Despite the fact that McVie held off for a short time due to financial constraints, both McVie and Green were both employed by Green in 1967, with a historic deal in the horizon.

The initial Fleetwood Mac incarnation appeared at its first gig at the seventh annual Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967, playing a Chicago-style blues. McVie, who was initially reluctant to commit, was compelled to leave the Bluesbreakers and join Fleetwood Mac full-time after the former skipper started with a horns section, which he opposed. Bob Brunning, the original bassist, was replaced by him. The first stable line-up of Fleetwood Mac was established by McVie, Fleetwood, Green, and guitarist Jeremy Spencer.

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Following the departure of Green in May 1970, Fleetwood retained a steady presence in the company's ever-changing line-up after Spencer and Kirwan assumed greater prominence in the group's song-writing. Spencer, Kirwan, John McVie, and Fleetwood were among the line-ups on August 19, 1970, with Christine McVie providing keyboards and backing vocals. Fleetwood, "a social creature that valued community and contact," was particularly taken by the group's new living arrangements: they moved into a massive Victorian-era mansion near Headley, Hampshire, England.

Fleetwood and the crew boarded a plane to San Francisco early 1971, with Christine McVie as a founding member of the band. Spencer, who was concerned about the wreckage of 1971 San Fernando, was reluctantly boarded the plane. He escaped the hotel just one afternoon and left the hotel. He was discovered several days later to have joined Family International, also known as Children of God, a religious group. Fleetwood attempted to mediate once more; however, Spencer did not return; Bob Welch will be their next member. Future Games, their new album, was announced later this year. Bare Trees appeared in 1972, a year later. Fleetwood also took on the role of mediator on subsequent tours to promote the latter. Kirwan's self-destructive personality and alcoholism culminated in a refusal to appear on stage until one performance; Fleetwood himself had to fire the band member. In addition, the union of John and Christine McVie showed early signs of strife. Fleetwood stepped in to mediate between the two members, telling Christine of a decision not to leave the company because of a decision not to leave the organization. Former Savoy Brown and the Idle Race guitarist Bob Weston has been joined by the band and vocalist Dave Walker. The resulting chaos, however, has had a negative influence on their forthcoming album, Penguin, which was released in 1973 to poor reviews. Walker was asked to leave the company later this year, and the new album Mystery to Me was released more warmly.

Fleetwood Mac was ordered by Fleetwood in October 1973 to drop Fleetwood Mac. Weston, who had been embroiled in a marriage with Fleetwood's wife, had been ordered to leave Fleetwood Mac. Meanwhile, manager Clifford Davis began to lead a separate group of musicians under the name 'Fleetwood Mac', and his increasing legal trouble pushed Fleetwood and his fellow band members to consider governing themselves. Fleetwood took on more managerial responsibility and leadership roles for the company.

The band migrated to Los Angeles, where they released the song Heroes Are Unobtainable in 1974. Bob Welch had left the band by November 1974. During this time, Fleetwood was planning a sequel to Heroes Are Hard to Find, Welch's last with the company, which had landed at #34 in the United States. Fleetwood was shopping with his children when he was guided by a chance meeting with an old friend that led him to visit Sound City and producer Keith Olsen. Olsen performed excerpts from his album Buckingham Nicks while in the studio. Fleetwood was in awe right away. Fleetwood's Eve, 1974, he called Olsen to inform him that their planned project was on hold after Welch's departure, but he then suggested that Nicks and Buckingham join Fleetwood Mac. The group ate at a local restaurant with Nicks and Fleetwood before practising in the new studio for the first time.

Fleetwood Mac has been announced next year as the new line-up's new line-up. The album was a breakthrough for the band and became a huge success, debuting at No. 1 in the United States and selling over five million copies. Fleetwood and Olsen collaborated on a number of drumming inventions. "It was all about 'plastic puke.' First of all, Mick had to kick drum with a real skin, not a plastic head. Both the bass drums had snap and racket, as well as heat, but the snare drum on the whole album was a plastic puke." The album had reached its peak. 1 came in November 1976, and Fleetwood Mac became self-managing, with Fleetwood's assertion that an external manager would be less able to bring together such a diverse group of dynamic individuals. In an attempt to raise the company's profile and gain more gigs, he suggested promising to cover any losses suffered by promoters if they occur. "Self-management was the correct decision," Rolling Stone writer John Grissim said. "Mick Fleetwood had a wealth of experience... had a wealth of knowledge, having lived in the United States for almost 30 years." They were always competitive, they always delivered the product, and they had the right attorneys and accountants for the job. They didn't need what Van Morrison called "pressure mongers"; they just had to get going and make a really good album." Fleetwood's "outright intuition and a natural curiosity for taking risks," Ken Caillat, a forensic engineer on Rumours, told him.

Fleetwood Mac began using copious amounts of cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1970s, as many other musicians. Fleetwood will continue to recollect in his autobiography that "Flexwood Mac had no expertise with this Andean rocket fuel before that." Now we found that a toot now and then helped with long hours of arduousness in the studio with little food." The band members' personal lives were becoming more intimate. The McVies divorced in August 1976, capping almost eight years of marriage after six months of non-stop touring. The couple stopped socially and focused solely on musical topics. Buckingham and Nicks fought often, a fact that was not revealed to followers by Rolling Stone in April 1976. The pair's arguments came only as they began to perform together on songs. Christine McVie and Nicks became closer at the same time. Fleetwood, meanwhile, began looking for a new recording location and landed on the Record Plant of Sausalito, California. Grissim, a Rolling Stone employee, regularly visited the company and took a special interest in Fleetwood, whom he described as a "true pro."

Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut, two software engineers, arrived at Fleetwood Mac in February 1976. The majority of band members reacted angrily to the studio and demanded to perform at their homes, but Fleetwood refused to allow any moves. Despite his talent at retaining the company together, Rumours' recording was fraught with emotional turmoil as a result of the line's growing rivalry. Christine McVie and Nicks chose to live in two condominiums near the city's harbour, while the male contingent stayed at the studio's lodge in the nearby hills. "The band would arrive at 7 p.m., have a big dinner, dance until 1 or 2 a.m., and then go back to do something" when they were so jacked out they couldn't do anything." To help Caillat's and Dashut's reactions to the music's groove, Fleetwood played his drum kit outside the studio's partition screen. The band members noticed something "pretty solid" after the final mastering stage and hearing the songs back-to-back.

Rumours was a huge commercial success and became Fleetwood Mac's second longest-serving week, while also ranking top of the Billboard 200 for 31 weeks, Canada, and New Zealand. After one million units and 300,000 units were delivered respectively, the album was certified platinum in America and the United Kingdom within months of being released. The band and co-producers Caillat and Dashut earned the 1978 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The album had sold more than ten million copies around the world by March, with over eight million in the United States alone.

Fleetwood Mac's 12th studio album, Tusk, was released in 1979. Buckingham's work represented a more experimental approach to Buckingham's work. Fleetwood, who was recently diagnosed with diabetes after suffering from regular bouts of hypoglycaemia during several live shows, was instrumental in the band's cohesion. Buckingham was chastised for his feelings of creative claustrophobia and anxiety when playing with Nicks. Fleetwood recounts that Buckingham took creative control away from other members of the organisation for the creation of Tusk, including the former Queen, leading to him telling the latter that "if it's fine, then go ahead." Despite the fact that the album strained friendships within the band, particularly John McVie, a long-serving blues musician who disliked the album's experimental nature—Fleetwood himself rates the album as his favorite by Fleetwood Mac, who also points to the freedom of expression allotted to each band member as vital to the band's longevity. The album's return was noticeably lower than Rumours, with four million copies sold around the world. Though Buckingham was criticized by the record companies, Fleetwood traced the album's relative inability to the RKO radio chain's playing the album in entirety prior to its release, allowing mass home taping.

Fleetwood has also been involved in a number of side projects. The Visitor, a 1981 film directed by Richard Dashut, featured heavy African stylistics as well as a rerecording of "Rattlesna Shake" with Peter Green. Because of its use in a famous telenovela (soap opera), Australian pop-jazz singer Billy Field's single "You Weren't in Love" (written by Australian pop-jazz singer Billy Field) was a big hit in Brazil.

Fleetwood began Mick Fleetwood's Zoo in 1983 and the saying I'm Not Me appeared. "I Want You Back" by a minor hit on the album, as well as a beach Boys' "Angel Come Home" on the radio. Bekka Bramlett on vocals and 1991's Shaking the Cage were included in a later version of the group. Fleetwood Mac's 2004 album Something Big, and Mick Fleetwood Blues Band's most recent album is Blue Again!, which was interspersed with Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed tour.

Fleetwood has appeared on many of his bandmates' solo albums, including Law and Order, where he appeared on the album's biggest hit, "Trouble." Also available on French Kiss, Three Hearts, The Wild Heart, Christine McVie, Try Me, Under the Skin, Gift of Screws, and In Your Dreams are among the many albums. In 2007, he appeared on drums with Jack's Mannequin in the Pop album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, a series of John Lennon songs.

Fleetwood Mac's book titled "My Life and Adventures" was coauthored by Fleetwood Mac with writer Stephen Davis. In 1990, the book was published. Eric Clapton, members of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin, as well as the controversy with Stevie Nicks and his heroin use and personal bankruptcy, were all covered in the book. Reception was mixed. The piece, according to Robert Waddell of the New York Times, was described as "a blithe, slapdash memoir." "Fleetwood tells the tale as if he were sitting in your living room, which is good for the story's warmth, but not so rambling, often redundant telling," Los Angeles Times reporter Steve Hochman said. Fleetwood was "one of rock's more colorful characters," Hochman said.

Fleetwood has worked as a TV and film actor, most often in minor roles. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Manhunt," a resistance figure in The Running Man and as a guest alien.

The 1989 BRIT Awards, which featured a number of gaffes and flubbed lines, were co-hosted by Fleetwood. The BRIT Awards were pre-recorded for the next 18 years before 2007; they are now broadcast live to the British people in the aftermath of this public mishap;

Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as a member of Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood Mac had been a member of Fleetwood Mac for 53 years, and the first band member to be in the band for the entire history as of March 2021.

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