It enabled him to both bathe in and shun the limelight that focussed upon him. Peter was a complex individual the modesty already noted was counteracted by a fierce sense of his own worth.
Although democracy was the watchword, everyone looked to Peter to have the final say on and off-stage. More than other bands of the time, each man had a distinct personality with enough rough edges to guarantee a healthy friction in the inevitable clashes. Their camaraderie was tight, a closeness to which they could retreat when the pressure got too much. playing music as much to amuse ourselves as to please an audience and make money'. a funny, vulgar, drunken vaudeville blues band. But Fleetwood Mac were always more than just a blues band, even when in their early days they were, as Mike Fleetwood wrote later,'.
Finally, in the week ending February 1st, 1969,'Albatross', a masterpiece of atmosphere and control - an unlikely product of a blues band - became the best-selling single in Britain. The instrumental, 'Albatross', came out in November 1968 and climbed the charts relentlessly while Scaffold's 'Lily the Pink' and Marmalade's 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da' exchanged the no. The statistics were impressive but there was one further to add to the list. Two singles, Peter's own 'Black Magic Woman' and 'Need Your Love So Bad', emerged during these months and frequented the lower reaches of the Top Forty. By that time a second album, 'Mr Wonderful', had been released in August and reached a very respectable no. Nevertheless, such was its impact that it remained on the album chart for an astonishing nine months after topping out at no. The advent of the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers made blues commercially viable in Britain but the wave had peaked by the time Fleetwood Mac's self-titled debut album was released in February 1968. Even so, he was eager to share this gift with those that wanted to hear it and that number swelled as his talent took wings.įleetwood Mac was a phenomenon of the late Sixties. Peter Green has always been a modest man.That's why his group was named after two of its members, although venues tended to advertise their early appearances as by'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac'.The magic that fell from his fingers in the songs collected here, he treated as a gift, a gift of which sometimes he felt unworthy to be custodian.
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