The instrumental, 'Albatross', came out in November 1968 and climbed the charts relentlessly while Scaffold's 'Lily the Pink' and Marmalade's 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da' exchanged the no. The statistics were impressive but there was one further to add to the list. Two singles, Peter's own 'Black Magic Woman' and 'Need Your Love So Bad', emerged during these months and frequented the lower reaches of the Top Forty. By that time a second album, 'Mr Wonderful', had been released in August and reached a very respectable no. Nevertheless, such was its impact that it remained on the album chart for an astonishing nine months after topping out at no. The advent of the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers made blues commercially viable in Britain but the wave had peaked by the time Fleetwood Mac's self-titled debut album was released in February 1968. Even so, he was eager to share this gift with those that wanted to hear it and that number swelled as his talent took wings.įleetwood Mac was a phenomenon of the late Sixties.
Peter Green has always been a modest man.That's why his group was named after two of its members, although venues tended to advertise their early appearances as by'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac'.The magic that fell from his fingers in the songs collected here, he treated as a gift, a gift of which sometimes he felt unworthy to be custodian.
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