It feels live, as if someone pressed record during a rehearsal the mood is ominous, and it’s punctuated with frequent pregnant pauses. Santana’s slinky, conga-heavy cover version is more famous, but Fleetwood Mac’s first Top 40 hit is darker, more raw and exciting. But if you want evidence that the contemporary Mac aren’t a spent creative force, try Sad Angel – from 2013’s overlooked four-track Extended Play – a taut, catchy Buckingham rock song about his perennial subject: Nicks. Sad Angel (2013)įleetwood Mac remain a stadium-packing live act despite lineup changes, intra-band strife and not having released a great album since 1987. Tellingly still in their live set long after Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, McVie’s beautiful Spare Me a Little of Your Love has a relaxed mood at odds with that album’s rockier inclinations.

If you want to trace the roots of Fleetwood Mac the multimillion-selling pop-rock phenomenon, start with the LP Bare Trees. The series looks like an interesting drama, and it looks like there are also some good original songs in the soundtrack.ĭaisy Jones & The Six premieres on Amazon Prime Video on March 3.29. Even the costumes chosen in the series were said to look similar to the ones the band had worn back in the 70s.

It was also said that it was this performance from Fleetwood Mac back in 1997 that inspired the story:Įven the comments on the video keep pointing out the stare down between Nicks and Buckingham it’s crazy how it was able to spawn an entire series twenty years later. Though the band is fictional, it was said that Reid had drawn inspiration from real-life band Fleetwood Mac whose members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were said to have had a very intense relationship.

The series is based on a book of the same name from Taylor Jenkins Reid which was published back in 2019. Here’s the official trailer for Daisy Jones & The Six:įollowing the rise of rock band Daisy Jones and The Six through the ’70s LA music scene on their quest for worldwide icon status. Now Amazon Prime Video is set to bring us another musical ‘biopic’, but rather of a fictional band. We’ve gotten a lot of great musical biopics over the past few years with movies like Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody, and last year’s Elvis.

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