Dreams

The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac

Mark Blake

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781639367337
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac—the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story.

Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning over fifty years and includes some of the best-selling albums and greatest hits of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But the band’s unique story is one of enormous triumph and also deep tragedy. There has never been a band in the history of music riven with as much romantic drama, sexual tension, and incredible highs and lows as Fleetwood Mac.

Dreams is a must-read for casual Fleetwood Mac fans and die-hard devotees alike. Presenting mini-biographies, observations, and essays, Mark Blake explores all eras of the Fleetwood Mac story to explore what it is that has made them one of the most successful bands in history.

Blake draws on his own exclusive interviews with Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and the late Peter Green and Christine McVie, and addresses the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story, including the complicated relationships between the band's main members, but he also dives deep into the towering discography that the band has built over the past half-century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Foreword
• A Cast of Characters
• Part One: ‘I Wanted to Be Free’
• Part Two: ‘Doesn’t That Guy Know He’s Lost His Leg?’
• Part Three: ‘Look, We’re Starving to Death Here’
• Part Four: ‘I Socked Him on the Jaw as Hard as I Could’
• Part Five: ‘I Knew I Was Going to Die and I Didn’t Want to Die’
• Part Six: ‘This Is Not About Art’
• Part Seven: ‘They Chose to Keep Her’
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Bibliography
• Copyright