Lindsey and I giving a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand, 1980.
Staying afloat.
What the hey? In the lotus position during the shoot for the Rolling Stone article announcing my bankruptcy, the Blue Whale, Malibu, 1984.
Fleetwood Mac, 1982.
At the US Festival with Steve Wozniak and Bill Graham in 1982.
John and I beside a crashed plane at the side of a runway we’d just landed on. From my Polaroid collection.
Seeing John off after he’d completed his parts for the Tusk session. Behind us is his boat - ‘Challenge’ he sailed to Tahiti.
Me with Duane Eddy. I learned to play drums to his records, following the moves of his drummer Sandy Nelson. I later played on Duane’s records.
My sister Susan, my mother Biddy, me and my sister Sally in the 1980s.
Lucy and Amelia, Van Nuys, 1983.
In Ghana working on The Visitor.
Africa by bus: Ghana, 1981.
Taking it in, Ghana, 1981.
Digging their spirit, London, 1981.
With the totem that hangs above my drum kit on my farm in Maui, 1987.
Backstage with Gary Busey and George Hawkins. We had a band called The Cholos together. Gary Busey would do Buddy Holly covers.
Me and Paul McCartney, late 80s.
Conducting Tusk, Dodger Stadium.
Hypnotized: Bob Welch at the Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas, 1978.
Great balls of fire: Keith Richards and I playing with Jerry Lee Lewis on television in 1986.
Christine, Rick Vito and Stevie, 1987.
Me and my sister Susan in 1988.
Cuffed and stuffed filming The Running Man in 1987.
I look a bit unwell: my guest spot on Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1987. I played an Antedean, a fish-like humanoid who was an assassin. I said I would shave my beard for the role only if my character were beamed onto the ship - he was, to Deck D where he got thrown in jail.
The longest marriage I’ve ever had: John McVie and I.
Me with a mandolin.
Hold on a minute!
Announcing our upcoming performance at Clinton’s inauguration, January, 1993.
A changed band. Me, Dave Mason, Billy Burnette, Bekka Bramlett and John McVie.
With Lynn in the 90s.
My daughter Amelia with my grandson Wolf, 1996.
Stevie and I at the premiere of Twister, 1996.
Blues Brother: With Dan Ackroyd at the Rolling Stone covers party, 1998.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction at the Waldorf Astoria, New York City, 1998.
At Bill Clinton’s farewell party at the White House, 2001.
Amelia, me, Lynn and Lucy about to board the tour plane, 2003.
With Bill Wyman at a sale of Beatles memorabilia in 2001 at Wyman’s Sticky Fingers restaurant, London.
With Stevie on our plane during the Say You Will tour, 2003.
My close friend and manager Carl Stubner and I at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona on the Say You Will tour, 2003.
Stevie, Lindsey, me and John, Australia, 2004.
A visit from Peter Green. At Wembley Arena, 2003.
My car Lettuce Leaf beside a Spitfire at Goodwood Racetrack, Chichester, England.
Madison Square Garden, 2009.
Tessa and Ruby and Lynn getting up close and personal with a wombat during an off day on the Fleetwood Mac Unleashed tour in November, 2009.
My girls Ruby and Tessa and I say goodnight to the audience in New Zealand, 2009.
With Tessa and Ruby backstage in Chicago, 2009.
Pattie Boyd and I standing before a picture of she and George at an art exhibit in Sydney, 2009.
With Jenny Boyd at her book launch in London, 2013.
With my daughter Lucy at a benefit for Haiti in Los Angeles in 2010.
Playing the talking drum at a fundraiser for Japanese tsunami victims in 2011.
Lynn and I playing with our daughters Ruby and Tessa in Lanai, May 2010.
There’s nothing like sunset on Maui, the island I call home.
My co-author Anthony and I donning a pair of my bowler hats during a stroll on my farm in Maui, 2013.
With the girls of Fleetwood Mac at the premiere of Stevie’s documentary In Your Dreams, London, 2013. Chris hadn’t agreed to re-join us at this point.
With my girlfriend Chelsea Hill in Sardinia, 2013.
Fleetwood Mac, 2014.
Step into my office!
About the Authors
Michael John Kells Fleetwood has been playing drums professionally since his teens in 1963. From his seat behind the kit, he watched the ’60s unfold, humbly taking his part in the play that defined rock and roll as we know it today. The band that bears his name, which he cofounded with John McVie and Peter Green and became iconic while fronted by Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, and Stevie Nicks, is one of the most successful, long-lasting, and beloved acts of the past half century. Fleetwood was born in Cornwall, England, and now lives in Maui, Hawaii.
Anthony Bozza remembers being twelve years old, sitting in the passenger seat of his father’s midnight-blue convertible, staring at the cassette cover of Tusk as the music took him in. That moment changed his life. Writing this book and befriending Fleetwood has been nothing short of an honor. Bozza is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. A native of Long Island, New York, he lives in New York City.
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Why AC/DC Matters
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Slash: It Seems Excessive… But That Doesn’t Mean
It Didn’t Happen (by Slash with Anthony Bozza)
INXS: Story to Story: The Official Autobiography
(by INXS with Anthony Bozza)
Tommyland
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Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem
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Most of the photographs are from the author’s collection.
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction: If Music Be the Food of Love…
1 The Old Mill
2 High Times on Carnaby Street
3 Jenny
4 The Bluesbreakers
5 And Away We Go
6 Flight of The Green God
7 A House Becomes a Home
8 A Series of Beginnings
9 Falling into Place
10 The ‘White’ Album
11 Things Fall Apart
12 Rumours
13 I Know I’m Not Wrong
14 Just Tell Me that you Want Me
15 A Stranger in a Strange Land
16 Isn’t It Midnight?
17 There and Back Again
18 My Partner, My Friend
19 It’s Good to be Back
Conclusion: I Sold My Soul to the Company Store
Acknowledgements
Photographs
About the Authors
Also by Mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza
Photograph Credits
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
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