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"Sara" is a song written by singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, which was released as a single from the 1979 Tusk double LP. The song peaked at No. 7 in the US for three weeks, No. 37 in the UK for two weeks, No. 11 in Australia, and No. 12 in Canada.
The pair wanted McVie on bass guitar and named the band "Fleetwood Mac" to entice him, but McVie opted to keep his steady income with Mayall rather than take a risk with a new band. In the meantime, Green and Fleetwood teamed up with slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning .
Kiln House is the fourth studio album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 18 September 1970 by Reprise Records.This is the first album after the departure of founder Peter Green, and their last album to feature guitarist Jeremy Spencer.
Peter Allen Greenbaum (29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020), [1] [2] known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. [3] Green founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967 after a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and quickly established the new band as a popular live act in addition to a successful recording act, before departing in 1970.
[42] [43] The label's aggressive marketing of 1975's Fleetwood Mac, in which links with dozens of FM and AM radio stations were formed across America, aided the promotion of Rumours. [44] At the time, the album's advance order of 800,000 copies was the largest in Warner Bros.' history. [45]
McVie, initially hesitant to commit, was later prompted to leave the Bluesbreakers and join Fleetwood Mac full-time when the former adopted a horns section with which he disagreed. [16] He replaced the initial bassist, Bob Brunning. McVie, Fleetwood, Green and guitarist Jeremy Spencer thus formed the first fixed line-up of Fleetwood Mac. [17]
Fleetwood Mac was subsequently booked for an interview with Simon Dee, granting the band further exposure. [14] The song was a success in several countries and remains Fleetwood Mac's only number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart, spending one week at the top in January 1969. [17] At its commercial peak, the song was selling 60,000 copies per ...
all Fleetwood Mac releases from Fleetwood Mac (1975) to Mirage Tour (1983) Tango in the Night (1987) The Dance (1997) all Fleetwood Mac releases from Say You Will (2003) onwards; as a session musician on Behind the Mask (1990), 25 Years – The Chain (1992) and Time (1995).