Fleetwood Mac: Carrying the Albatross
Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1978
FLEETWOOD MAC have returned to Britain, a decade after their song 'Albatross' set a new mood and mellow tone for the rock guitar. But that original psychedelic Fleetwood Mac are to the present group like cousins many times removed.
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