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Peter Green has died!      R.I.P. Peter Green from the original Fleetwood Mac!     Fleetwood Mac are one of the great recording and touring groups of all time!    They have had a many different types of line ups!    The rights of the groups name belongs to the drummer Mick Fleetwood and it is his group though he for the most part did not do much if any (with a little exception I think) singing, producing or writing.    The most successful lineup was from 1975-1987 over five studio long plays and one live release plus a reunion of that line up with a live release in 1997 that was played like crazy on MTV and VH1 for a number of years there.   The origins of the group started with Peter Green joining a group called John Mayell's Bluesbreakers where they had a bass player John McVie who had been playing in for a couple or few years already for that group.    Peter Green joined a couple of years down the line from there.   At some point in the late 1960's they got a drummer named Mick Fleetwood.    Peter Green would have some studio time to  record his own thing so he recorded at least one song (maybe two) and one of those songs was an instrumental he named after Mick Fleetwood and John McVie and called it...wait for it...Fleetwood Mac.    So when they went out and started their own group in 1967 it initially was Peter Green's as it was called Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.   It was also stated as such on their first studio long play but at some point Peter's name was removed from it which I do not like and think re-issues ought to have it reinstated.    Anywho, they did three studio long plays, two compilations (one of rarities and the other of unreleased songs if I recall correctly), and probably equivalent to four studio long plays as a session group for blues artists in Chicago if I have my facts right until 1970.    They recorded great, classic, pioneering music during this period and also did the original version of, "Black Magic Women" which would be made more famous by the recording group, Santana.   Recently there was a tribute concert filmed earlier this year for Peter with all sorts of famous people and Kirk Hammett from Metallica recorded a little bit of music with him for some sort of museum exhibition.     R.I.P. Peter Green!

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