Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac performs during The Classic West at Dodger Stadium on Jin Los Angeles. The 73-year-old music legend had been scheduled to play events including California’s BottleRock Festival, Austin City Limits in Texas and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, however she issued a statement on Twitter last night (10th August) confirming. Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks has cancelled her five US shows planned for 2021 due to the rising number of Covid cases Stateside.Anyone else, no matter how famous or beloved, has come and gone … some returning, and then going again.FLEETWOOD MAC On With The Show Tour Includes A Returning Christine McVie After 16 Year Absence. This is a band who, aside from the rock-solid rhythm section footing of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, has weathered more life and loss than most. While the Rumours-era line-up holds the romance (mostly broken) for the majority of its fandom, it is the 11th line-up in a total of 19. F leetwood Mac are a lore unto themselves.
Fleetwood Concert Tour For 2017 Mac Performs During![]() ![]() “A song like that comes along once on a million years,” she says at the end. The Crowded House staple is delivered with expected tender gusto from Finn, but as Nicks takes the lead on the final verse it steps into a previously unexpected dimension. Photograph: Duncan BarnesNicks’ eternal romance is showcased in Gypsy and Landslide, though those two songs are split by Campbell fronting a mean and dirty run through Peter’s Green’s Oh Well: all riffage and world-weary with angry-young-man attitude.From rock to jewel, Fleetwood gives a heartfelt introduction to Finn’s Don’t Dream It’s Over. McVie is described as “the songbird”, Nicks the “eternal romantic” and lastly, bassist John McVie as being “always on my right-hand-side, no doubt the backbone of Fleetwood Mac”.Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) and Neil Finn (Crowded House) are the latest additions of Fleetwood Mac’s touring band. One wonders what he makes of it all, playing this irresistibly giddy love song every night on tour.From Rumours’ happiest moment to perhaps its most ominous, Gold Dust Woman find Nicks in a golden shawl, delivering a trademark dark Hollywood Hills evocation. It’s followed by Christine McVie’s Rumours-era track You Make Loving Fun, about the man she left John McVie for in 1977. Tonight it returns, a compelling soft-rocker that allows each member to shine. If an icon must be replaced, best do it with those who have excelled in their own 40-plus year careers. Buckingham’s gone too, and while his name is not uttered from the stage, his mark is still there. The whole thing is just poignance personified, and there’s eyes out there just bursting to water.“Yesterday’s gone,” as the final song for the night, Don’t Stop, accurately reminds us. With a slideshow of the late Tom Petty through the decades showing on the screens, the man’s sterling single Free Falling features Nicks on lead vocals. Photograph: Duncan BarnesCampbell, meanwhile, continues to bring a raw swagger to the lead breaks. Adobe illustrator for mac reeHowever as the Peter Green-penned instrumental Albatross echoes across the arena upon exit, it’s another reminder that what truly remains is the music: from all of those Fleetwood Mac members, and for all of us. We love you so much”.The saga that continues to be Fleetwood Mac suggests that kindness may have taken a backseat on occasion, as it does for us all.
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