Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac

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Released30 April 2021 (2021-04-30)
Recorded25 February 2020
Venue London Palladium
Genre Blues, rock
Label BMG
Producer Austin Shaw, Glyn Johns
Mick Fleetwood & Friends chronology
Blue Again!
(2008)
Celebrate the Music of Peter Green
(2021)
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Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac is a live album by Mick Fleetwood and his seventh solo album overall. It was recorded during a February 2020 concert at the London Palladium to honour the music of founding Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green, who died less than six months after the performance. [2] The album charted in several countries upon its release, including the UK, Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands.

Contents

Rick Vito recalled that Fleetwood's core ensemble rehearsed the setlist over the course of two weeks in Maui. The band then reconvened in London with additional musicians. Vito commented that the band was eager to "pay homage to the early Fleetwood Mac and to Peter. They checked their egos at the door." [3]

The concert featured various special guests, including Jeremy Spencer, one of the four original members of Fleetwood Mac. [2] Billy Gibbons also joined the band onstage to play various songs including "Doctor Brown" [3] and "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)", the latter of which also featured Kirk Hammett, who played Green's 1959 Gibson Les Paul. [4] [5] A video of the concert was broadcast on 24 April 2020 and the album followed six days later. [6] Green did not perform or attend the tribute concert, although Fleetwood said that Green was aware of the event. [6]

Track listing

Albums details are taken primarily from the AllMusic album review and may differ from other sources. [1]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rollin' Man" Peter Green, Clifford Adams 4:13
2."Homework" Otis Rush, Dave Clark, Al Perkins4:04
3."Doctor Brown" Buster Brown, J.T. Brown, Waymon Glasco4:33
4."All Your Love"Rush4:35
5."Rattlesnake Shake"Green4:49
6."Stop Messin' Round"Green, Adams5:06
7."Looking for Somebody"Green4:37
8."Sandy Mary"Green5:37
9."Love That Burns"Green, Adams5:54
10."The World Keeps On Turning"Green3:16
11."Like Crying" Danny Kirwan 2:38
12."No Place to Go" Chester Burnett 4:00
13."Station Man"Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer, John McVie 6:29
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Man of the World"Green3:34
2."Oh Well, Pt. 1"Green4:21
3."Oh Well, Pt. 2"Green6:02
4."Need Your Love So Bad" Little Willie John, Mertis John Jr.5:59
5."Black Magic Woman"Green7:14
6."The Sky Is Crying" Elmore James 6:37
7."I Can't Hold Out" Willie Dixon, James5:03
8."The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)"Green5:58
9."Albatross"Green3:36
10."Shake Your Moneymaker"James7:08

Personnel

House band

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2021)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 35
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [8] 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 21
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 58
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [11] 23
French Albums (SNEP) [12] 135
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] 12
Italian Albums (FIMI) [14] 80
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [15] 48
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [16] 41
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [17] 13
UK Albums (OCC) [18] 3

References

  1. 1 2 AllMusic review
  2. 1 2 Denslow, Robin (26 February 2020). "Mick Fleetwood review – rousing all-star celebration of Peter Green". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. 1 2 Jordan, Oscar (November 2021). "Rick Vito - Disciples of Greeny". Vintage Guitar . Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  4. Branniganlast, Paul (4 December 2020). "Watch Metallica's Kirk Hammett and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons perform Fleetwood Mac's The Green Manalishi". Louder. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  5. Greene, Andy (4 December 2020). "Watch Mick Fleetwood, Billy Gibbons, and Kirk Hammett Jam on Fleetwood Mac Classic". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  6. 1 2 Graff, Gary (20 April 2021). "Mick Fleetwood's all-star tribute to Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green gets movie, album release". Cleveland. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
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  18. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.