And she’s retired from showbiz, in this context. And we are really excited about making new music together.” It’s all about what we want to do, and what we feel creatively is exciting. Lindsey produced the album, and engineered a lot of it too, so it’s been very much a home ‘in-house’ no-outside-interference album. It’s everything that we like about playing our music, and we’ve done it together. “Yes, it’s an album we’d been working on for over a year,” he resumes. This is the real deal – Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham – but alas, no Christine ‘Perfect’ McVie. Forget the line-up changes and solo ventures that filled the intervening years. A new album and a revitalised tour-schedule to boot. I have no real ultimate complaints.”Īnd this year, there’s been new product to promote. Luckily, I was able to do that, and I’m still doing that. My first love is my music, and to be around music. And all the trappings, pitfalls, distractions, and the ups and downs that came with it, they didn’t destroy any part of that original dream. He started out with such a desire, just to be around music and to be in music. “I think, generally, he’d be pretty pleased.” so, going back and doing it was actually therapeutic in many ways.”īut it’s also an opportunity to take stock and ask, what would that young Mick Fleetwood think of the international megastar he was to become? Because it’s setting down stuff you don’t normally get a chance to do, in terms of reflecting ‘how did I get to what I’m doing?’ It’s an attempt to capture an over-view of my journey from childhood, through my dreams and aspirations of becoming a musician, with all the ups and downs, the faults, the good things and the bad. And it was very therapeutic once we started. “We spent the better part of two years doing it. Putting that film (The Mick Fleetwood Story) together was great to do,” he admits to me now. Then it was a ‘wet and dreary’ 1963, his parents last goodbye, ‘the umbilical broken’ as the train pulls away, and he sets off for a new life in London. In his eyes there’s ‘a boy with a dream to conquer the world with two sticks and a drum’.
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On my TV screen he’s at Gloucester Station, long coat drifting as he paces the length of Platform 4, long scarf pulled in against the wind, his once-long shaggy hair now scratched back into a pony-tail. And have the opportunity of asking that question – ‘how did I get here, from there’? Mick Fleetwood did. Back to those moments that changed your life forever.
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