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Bassist John McVie feared the song was too harsh a detour from the blues rock he and drummer Mick Fleetwood had perfected with guitarist Peter Green nearly a decade prior. Initially meant for a second Buckingham-Nicks album, “Monday Morning” wound up becoming the very first entry in the iteration of the band that would become global superstars.

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The opening track from the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in the band, “Monday Morning” is a bright, bold first offering from Buckingham. So, without further ado, from “Little Lies” to “Rhiannon” to “Go Your Own Way” to “Gypsy,” here are the 30 greatest Fleetwood Mac songs of all time, ranked. Paste originally made this list in 2014, but it felt like it was high-time for a cultural reassessment of the band’s catalog. Five of the greatest musicians in the world couldn’t find ways to love each other beyond the music, but what they gave us will endure long after all of us are gone. Much of what Fleetwood Mac accomplished in the 12 years they were at their apex feels mythical in retrospect. Much of the band’s greatest work germinated when all five of them-amid intermingled affairs, divorces, breakups and general viciousness-hated each other so much that they couldn’t stand to record their parts together in one room.

Their 1977 album Rumours is largely considered one of the greatest albums made since popular music took off 70 years ago. But Nicks continues to tour and play her greatest hits from her time with the band, while John and Fleetwood are still active members.īeginning in 1975 with their self-titled album and ending with Tango in the Night in 1987, the band released five incredible rock records packed with some of the best songs ever written. We’ll never see that lineup again, because Buckingham left the band for the last time in 2018 and McVie passed away in 2022. Much of that is because of the core Fleetwood Mac lineup, which comprised English musicians Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie and American singer/songwriters Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, beginning in 1975. 56 years later, and the band has transformed into one of the single greatest rock ‘n’ roll acts in music history. In 1967, Fleetwood Mac was formed in London by Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Mick Fleetwood as a blues group.

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