Best of Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974 is a compilation album by the British rock bandFleetwood Mac released in July 2024 and collecting highlights of the band's output prior to the hiring of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, but missing the very early years from 1967 to 1969. In addition to tracks released as singles, all of the group's studio albums from Then Play On in 1969 through Heroes Are Hard to Find in 1974 are represented, excepting Fleetwood Mac in Chicago.
This is the only single-disc compilation that includes contribution from every member of the group during this time period, with the exception of Dave Walker, who appeared on but two tracks from the Penguin album. The original tracks were produced by Fleetwood Mac, with the assistance of Martin Birch on Penguin and Mystery to Me, and Bob Hughes on Heroes Are Hard to Find.
Three of its tracks are the single version: "Oh Well Part 1"; "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)"; and "Sands of Time." The album track of "Sands of Time" on Future Games runs more than double the length of the single edit included here. Some of the other tracks were released as singles as well, but the album versions appear here. The disc focuses on the band's transition from its original incarnation as a blues-oriented band led by Peter Green into the soft rock commercial titans of the 1970s and 1980s once Buckingham and Nicks came on board. Excepting for "Oh Well" and "The Green Manalishi" by Green, the band placed no single on the charts in either the United States or the United Kingdom during this time.
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