Do yourself a favour and listen to one of his songs today. They soldiered on with Danny picking up the mantle as a songwriter and frontman, and kept things going during the band’s forgotten years. Reeling from the loss of their founder and leader, the band was very close to breaking up at that point.
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My favourite song written and sung by Danny Kirwan, Dragonfly, was the first song Fleetwood Mac recorded after the departure of Peter Green. His love for the Blues led him to being asked to join Fleetwood Mac in 1968, where he made his musical home for many years.ĭanny’s true legacy, in my mind, will forever live on in the music he wrote and played so beautifully as a part of the foundation of Fleetwood Mac, that has now endured for over fifty years. Danny was a huge force in our early years. Today was greeted by the sad news of the passing of Danny Kirwan in London, England. This morning, Mick Fleetwood posted the following tribute to Danny via his Facebook page: Unfortunately he had rough years after leaving the band with mental issues and a period of homelessness, but was looked after in his older years. After his final album and tour in 1979 he left the music business for good. He embarked on a solo career, releasing four albums in the 1970s. Kirwan left Fleetwood Mac in 1972 after clashes with new member Bob Welch.
Without Danny’s resolve, there would have been no band to join for people like Christine McVie, Lindsay Buckingham, or Stevie Nicks. It grew into a live favourite and was even used as Bill Clinton’s campaign song for the 1992 US presidential election.Crucially, he was a member of the early line-up of Fleetwood Mac (featuring Peter Green) in the 1960s, and when Green left in 1969 he was a key force in keeping the band going into the 1970s. From tough times came a sunny pop-blues singalong that brimmed with optimism. In typical Fleetwood Mac fashion, Christine wrote Don’t Stop to draw a line under the relationship and try to reassure her ex-husband that better times were on the horizon (“All I want is to see you smile/If it takes just a little while”). 20: Don’t Stop (from ‘Rumours’, 1977)īy the time Rumours was being recorded, Christine and John McVie’s relationship had deteriorated to the point where the newly-divorced couple were no longer on speaking terms. Here, then, are our 20 best Fleetwood Mac songs. And, as September 2020’s viral Dreams TikTok showed, their songs continue to win new over new generations of music fans while influencing musicians everywhere. They’ve sold over 120 million records worldwide, with their 1977 blockbuster, Rumours, shifting over 45 million copies on its own.
The best Fleetwood Mac songs from this era came to embody the excesses of 70s rock’n’roll, while the group produced a string of huge-selling albums packed with glossy, harmony-packed soft rock. Adding keyboardist and vocalist Christine Perfect, followed by vocalist Stevie Nicks and guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham, in the mid-70s, Fleetwood Mac’s fortunes changed dramatically.
After Green suffered a tragic breakdown, a succession of guitarists, including Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch, took the helm the group’s commercial fortunes waned but they produced some unsung gems of albums. Formed in 1967 by guitarist and principal creative force Peter Green, and adding Mick Fleetwood on drums, John McVie on bass and Jeremy Spencer on guitar, Fleetwood Mac started out as a British blues band but quickly branched out, dabbling in the psychedelia of the day.
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