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McVie had always been a prominent songwriter, but this was the album where she really came into her own as she responded to the challenge of the twin tyros with “Warm Ways”, and “Over My Head”, prime examples of her gorgeous lilting love songs.

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The self-titled first album with the new line up (otherwise known as Mac’s White Album) featured four superb Christine McVie compositions plus a co-write with Buckingham, as many as Buckingham and Nicks combined.

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How Fleetwood Mac keep rising from the ashes of their self-destructionīuckingham and Nicks’s assimilation into the band and the sheer quality of the material they brought with them proved to be the artistic fillip that the other members needed.

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Ample proof along with many other fine songs such as 1972’s mellow and much loved “Sentimental Lady” (which Welch later re-recorded as a solo artist with great success) that even as the band foundered commercially, artistically the Bob Welch era wasn’t always the barren netherworld of popular myth. Welch’s finest Mac moment was the jazzy, noiresque “Hypnotized” from the Mystery to Me album, featuring Christine McVie’s ghostly harmonies over Welch’s dreamy vocal. It was Welch who eventually replaced the departed Peter Green in 1971 and who, along with Christine McVie laid the soft rock foundations that would blossom fully when his departure in 1974 paved the way for Buckingham and Nicks to join.

She stood at the crossroads of her life and poured all her doubts and fears into one cathartic song shortly afterwards came the wholly unexpected invitation to join Fleetwood Mac.īob Welch is a significant figure in Fleetwood Mac’s history, seen in many quarters as the saviour of the band. Nicks was considering giving music up altogether. When Nicks wrote this emotional and reflective ballad the previous year, the duo’s sole album had bombed and their relationship was failing.

On joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975 Buckingham and Nicks brought several songs with them, including “Landslide”, one of Nicks’s most personal songs, and an enduring live showcase for her talents.