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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.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers also recorded it for their eponymous 1977 debut album. Original Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green , recorded a version for his 1999 release Destiny Road . Both Fleetwood Mac and Thorogood have recorded live versions of the song.
Kirwan was fired by Fleetwood in August 1972, after he got into a drunken argument with Welch backstage, injured himself, broke his guitar and refused to perform. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] He was replaced by Bob Weston the following month, when vocalist Dave Walker also joined the band. [ 9 ]
Kirwan's first recorded work with Fleetwood Mac, in October 1968, [22] was his contribution of the second guitar part to Green's blues instrumental "Albatross". [23] Green had been working on the piece for some time, and Kirwan completed it by adding the counterpoint harmony in the middle section. [ 25 ]
Edward R. Murrow "Murrow Turning Over in His Grave" is the second track on Fleetwood Mac's 2003 album Say You Will.It was written and sung by Lindsey Buckingham. [1] The lyrics to the song are politically charged, with Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine labeling the song as "an anti-media tirade". [2]
Medley and Armstrong first performed live in March 2005 at The Mint nightclub in Los Angeles, under the name Epiphany. [2] Later that year they changed their band's name to Dead Sara as a reference to the Fleetwood Mac song "Sara" and its lyric "...said Sara", sometimes heard as "dead Sara". [1]
Having briefly gone by the name Epiphany, in mid-2005 they changed their name to Dead Sara as a reference to the Fleetwood Mac song "Sara" and its lyric "...said Sara", which the band misheard as "dead Sara". [5] Both Armstrong and Medley have publicly cited Stevie Nicks, the singer and writer of the song "Sara", as a primary influence. [7]
[10] After the basic tracks were completed in Ghana, Fleetwood returned to London and invited George Harrison, Fleetwood's ex brother-in-law, into the studio to play slide guitar. [11] [12] George Hawkins, who sang lead vocals on the song and provided much of the instrumentation, said that Harrison "thought it was all together except maybe some ...