looks like a "half a Mac" album in the works. excerpt from Yahoo article:
Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie are about to release an album as a duo. It seems like it started as a Fleetwood Mac album, but you chose not to participate. I've been on the road [solo] since last September, so I don't understand their premise. Christine was gone [from Fleetwood Mac] for 16 years and came back, did a massive tour, and then it's like, "Now I'm just gonna go back to London and sit in my castle for two years"? She wanted to keep working. I will be back with them at the end of the year for, I think, another tour. I just needed my two years off. Until then, I wish them the best in whatever they do.
Do you want to make a new record with them? I don't think we'll do another record. If the music business were different, I might feel different. I don't think there's any reason to spend a year and an amazing amount of money on a record that, even if it has great things, isn't going to sell. What we do is go on the road, do a ton of shows and make lots of money. We have a lot of fun. Making a record isn't all that much fun.
Fleetwood Mac Is Reuniting For A Farewell World Tour In 2018 The "Rumours" are true!
Fleetwood Mac fans just got the news they’ve been waiting for. The iconic ’70s band plans to reunite for a farewell tour next year!
Keyboardist Christine McVie confirmed the news on the BBC TV show “The One Show” on Tuesday.
“We’re going to start rehearsing in March, next year,” she told host Alex Jones. “The tour is around June. It will be global.”
Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks mentioned a possible tour in a Rolling Stone interview back in March. Now, McVie’s comments seem to confirm the “rumours” once and for all.
Fleetwood Mac last headlined a show back in November 2015. So fans of the band probably feel like this reunion is long overdue!
The band already has plans to reunite and play at this summer’s “The Classic,” a new music festival that hits both coasts of the U.S. The festival lineup also includes The Eagles, Steely Dan, Journey, Earth, Wind and Fire and The Doobie Brothers. You know, the classics.
The West Coast Festival happens July 15-16 at Los Angeles’ Dodgers Stadium. Then, the concert moves east to New York’s Citi Field on July 29-30.
Nicks continues her solo career and tours across the U.S. this summer.
Meanwhile, McVie and fellow Fleetwood Mac musician Lindsey Buckingham recently released a self-titled duet album. The pair decided to work together after the last reunion tour, which welcomed back McVie after an extended hiatus from the group. She planned to retire from music, but it called her back.
Now, McVie and Buckingham plan to go on the road to promote their new album. The funny thing about this album? It also features fellow bandmates John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. But, the album is definitely NOT a Fleetwood Mac work.
“John and Mick were in town and we thought, ‘Well, this will be like old-home week,'” Buckingham told Variety. “We didn’t necessarily concern ourselves with what it was. We just wanted to pursue the process again and tap into that side of ourselves.”
Both Buckingham and McVie look forward to the arena concerts for Fleetwood Mac this summer and what’s in store for the band’s future.
“I’m dying for that reunion,” McVie said of “The Classic” shows. “I think that’s going to be great.”
“Yeah, it will. And then of course the Mac will go back out sometime probably summer of 2018,” Buckingham added.
Can’t get enough of Fleetwood Mac? Watch McVie and Buckingham perform the classic Fleetwood tune “Don’t Stop” with classroom instruments (and a bunch of students!) on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
And while we’re patiently awaiting the Fleetwood Mac farewell tour, Stevie Nicks has released a new song to hold us over. The song is called “Your Hand I will Never Let it Go,” recorded for the film “The Book of Henry,” which hits theaters today, June 16.
In true Nicks fashion, the song is especially beautiful. Listen to the song below and be prepared for some serious goosebumps.
I'm waiting for just one band to do a "Farewell To Farewell Tours" and then keep touring for another 10 years or more.
The Who did their "Farewell tour" 35 years ago.
Longest farewell I've ever seen.
And KISS has been on their "farewell tour" since 2000.
To be fair, The Who's 1982 WAS billed as a farewell tour. All the tours between that one and the 2014 tour were NOT billed as farewell tours/ The 2014 tour was billed as such. And since 1996, the band has toured as consistently as just about anyone.
Fleetwood Mac has fired Lindsey Buckingham after a disagreement over the band's upcoming tour, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The band announced Monday that Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House will replace him.
News of Buckingham's departure initially broke when former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Billy Burnette shared an April 4th tweet that has since been deleted, saying: "Breaking news: Lindsey Buckingham is out but I'm not in." Rolling Stone has confirmed Buckingham's departure, though no specific tour dates have been announced.
Fleetwood Mac issued a collective statement about the news, saying: "We are thrilled to welcome the musical talents of the caliber of Mike Campbell and Neil Finn into the Mac family. With Mike and Neil, we’ll be performing all the hits that the fans love, plus we’ll be surprising our audiences with some tracks from our historic catalogue of songs. Fleetwood Mac has always been a creative evolution. We look forward to honoring that spirit on this upcoming tour."
Mick Fleetwood added, "Fleetwood Mac has always been about an amazing collection of songs that are performed with a unique blend of talents ... We jammed with Mike and Neil and the chemistry really worked and let the band realize that this is the right combination to go forward with in Fleetwood Mac style. We know we have something new, yet it’s got the unmistakable Mac sound."
Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974 along with Stevie Nicks. He wrote and sang many of their most memorable songs, including "Go Your Own Way," "Tusk" and "Second Hand News." He left in 1987 shortly before the Tango On The Night tour (where he was replaced by Billy Burnette) and rejoined in 1996 for The Dance reunion tour. He remained active on the road with them for the next two decades. They last played full sets at Classic East and Classics West in July of last year, through they did play a brief set in January at the pre-Grammy MusiCares concert in their honor. The set ended, fittingly enough, with "Go Your Own Way."
In August of last year, Mick Fleetwood spoke to Rolling Stone about the band's next tour. "I was in Italy recently and met Stevie out there," he said. "She said to me, 'Let's sit down and really listen to some stuff that sort of almost got forgotten.' So I know she's already thinking she wants to do some things we haven't done in years. I always think that Stevie and Lindsey should do a Buckingham Nicks song in the set. And have Christine do a blues song. I hope it certainly won't be the same show as we did before. We always played nearly three hours, and we cut it back a little bit for the wear and tear, but we do over two hours. And when you got three singers, which is, like, three bands, really, to get that perfect set, it's a trip."
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