Fleetwood Mac: What Happened Before All That Happened Later On…
Dave Thompson, Goldmine, February 2005
THEY ARE Fleetwood Mac's forgotten years. Mick Fleetwood's Fleetwood autobiography dedicates just thirty pages to them, Peter Lewry's The Complete Recording Sessions turns over just seven. The band's career-spanning The Chain box set surrenders less than half a disc to them.
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