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| Live at the BBC | |
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| Live album by | |
| Released | 1995 |
| Recorded | 1967–71 |
| Genre | Blues rock |
| Length | 108:30 |
| Label | Castle Communications |
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| Source | Rating |
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| The Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues | |
Live at the BBC is a double compact disc compilation album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, recorded at various BBC radio sessions between 1967 and 1971. It contains many tracks by Fleetwood Mac which are otherwise unavailable.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | First broadcast date | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rattlesnake Shake" | Peter Green | 9 Apr 1970 | 7:38 |
| 2. | "Sandy Mary" | Green | 23 May 1970 | 5:00 |
| 3. | "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" | Robert Johnson, arr. Jeremy Spencer | 12 Nov 1967 | 3:00 |
| 4. | "Although the Sun Is Shining" | Danny Kirwan | 12 Oct 1969 | 2:31 |
| 5. | "Only You" | Kirwan | 23 May 1970 | 2:51 |
| 6. | "You Never Know What You're Missing" | Spencer | 16 Mar 1969 | 2:52 |
| 7. | "Oh Well, Part 1" | Green | 12 Oct 1969 | 2:26 |
| 8. | "Can't Believe You Wanna Leave" | Lloyd Price | 16 Mar 1969 | 3:25 |
| 9. | "Jenny Lee" | Spencer | 22 Aug 1970 | 2:19 |
| 10. | "Heavenly" | Conway Twitty | 16 Mar 1969 | 2:37 |
| 11. | "When Will I Be Loved" | Phil Everly | 22 Aug 1970 | 2:13 |
| 12. | "When I See My Baby" | Kirwan | 22 Aug 1970 | 2:11 |
| 13. | "Buddy's Song" | Buddy Holly | 22 Aug 1970 | 2:09 |
| 14. | "Honey Hush" | Big Joe Turner | 22 Aug 1970 | 3:08 |
| 15. | "Preachin'" | Son House | 23 Jan 1971 | 3:05 |
| 16. | "Jumping at Shadows" | Duster Bennett | 15 Jun 1969 | 3:35 |
| 17. | "Preachin' Blues" | Johnson | 11 Sep 1968 | 1:59 |
| 18. | "Need Your Love So Bad" | Little Willie John, Mertis John Jr. | 11 Sep 1968 | 3:48 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | First broadcast date | Length |
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| 1. | "Long Grey Mare" | Green | 12 Nov 1967 | 2:53 |
| 2. | "Sweet Home Chicago" | Johnson | 26 Nov 1968 | 3:10 |
| 3. | "Baby Please Set a Date" | Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn) [lower-alpha 1] | 12 Nov 1967 | 2:59 |
| 4. | "Blues with a Feeling" | Marion Walter Jacobs | 16 Mar 1969 | 2:56 |
| 5. | "Stop Messin' Round" | Green | 1 Sep 1968 | 2:17 |
| 6. | "Tallahassee Lassie" | Frank Slay, Frederick Picariello, Bob Crewe | 11 May 1969 | 3:24 |
| 7. | "Hang on to a Dream" | Tim Hardin | 5 Nov 1968 | 2:56 |
| 8. | "Linda" | Spencer | 15 Jun 1969 | 2:03 |
| 9. | "Mean Mistreatin' Mama" | Leroy Carr | 2 Jun 1968 | 4:03 |
| 10. | "World Keeps Turning" | Green | 21 Jan 1968 | 2:39 |
| 11. | "I Can't Hold Out" | James | 21 Jan 1968 | 2:27 |
| 12. | "Early Morning Come" | Kirwan | 11 May 1969 | 2:29 |
| 13. | "Albatross" | Green | 5 Nov 1968 | 2:48 |
| 14. | "Looking for Somebody" | Green | 12 Nov 1967 | 2:40 |
| 15. | "A Fool No More" | Green | 12 Nov 1967 | 3:40 |
| 16. | "Got to Move" | James, Sehorn | 12 Nov 1967 | 2:57 |
| 17. | "Like Crying Like Dying" | Kirwan | 9 Oct 1968 | 2:33 |
| 18. | "Man of the World" | Green | 15 Jun 1969 | 2:49 |
Fleetwood Mac
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Future Games is the fifth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 3 September 1971. It was recorded in the summer of 1971 at Advision Studios in London and was the first album to feature Christine McVie as a full member. This album was also the first of five albums to feature American guitarist Bob Welch. “He was totally different background – R&B, sort of jazzy. He brought his personality,” Mick Fleetwood said of Welch in a 1995 BBC interview. “He was a member of Fleetwood Mac before we'd even played a note.”
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Live in Boston is a live album by British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac that was first released in 1985.
The Vaudeville Years of Fleetwood Mac 1968 to 1970 is an album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1998. It was a compilation of outtakes and unreleased tracks from the band's early line up, none of which had previously been officially released. Available on double vinyl LP and double CD, it came with a booklet of extensive notes and anecdotes, and was the companion volume to Show-Biz Blues: Fleetwood Mac 1968–70, which was released a few years later.
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Shrine '69 is a live album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, recorded on 25 January 1969, and finally released in 1999. Recorded at a concert in Los Angeles, this album includes versions of the band's recent hits, "Albatross" and "Need Your Love So Bad", as well as more unusual songs like "Before the Beginning" and "Lemon Squeezer".
Jeremy Cedric Spencer is a British musician, best known as a guitarist in the original line-up of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. A member since Fleetwood Mac's inception in July 1967, he remained with the band until his abrupt departure in February 1971, when he joined a religious cult, the "Children of God", now known as "The Family International", with which he is still affiliated. After a pair of solo albums in the 1970s, he continued to tour as a musician, but did not release another album until 2006. He released further solo albums in 2012, 2014 and 2016, and has also recorded as part of the folk trio Steetley. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Madison Blues – Live & Studio Recordings is a compilation album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 2003. It is a compilation of BBC session tracks and live concert material from the band's first post-Peter Green line up, none of which had previously been officially released. It is unusual within Fleetwood Mac's catalogue as it focuses on the period between the successful Peter Green period and the start of the Bob Welch period which eventually led to another successful period for the band in the mid to late 1970s. Packaged as a double CD with a DVD interview with guitarist Jeremy Spencer, it came in a cardboard box with a foldout inner sheet.
Something Big is the fifth album by Mick Fleetwood, released 28 September 2004. The album features a number of guest musicians, including Fleetwood Mac's John McVie, Jeremy Spencer a member of the original Fleetwood Mac, and singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
"Rattlesnake Shake" is a song by British rock group Fleetwood Mac, written by guitarist Peter Green, which first appeared on the band's 1969 album Then Play On. The track was considered the high point of its parent album, and was one of the band's crowd-favorites in the late 1960s.
The Behind the Mask Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the British-American pop rock band Fleetwood Mac. The tour began on March 23, 1990, in Brisbane, Australia, and ended on December 7, 1990, in Inglewood, California.
