Mick Fleetwood Releases Video for ‘These Strange Times’

 Mick Fleetwood Releases Video for ‘These Strange Times’

 Nineties Fleetwood Mac track gets new recording featuring sample of “Albatross”

Rolling Stone have reported that Mick Fleetwood has released a new recording and video for “These Strange Times,” as part of his Da*da*ism project.

Originally released on Fleetwood Mac’s 16th studio album Time in 1995, “These Strange Times” was rerecorded by Fleetwood with the addition of a sample of “Albatross,” the classic Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac track, to the last 30 seconds of the song. The rerecorded “These Strange Times” comes with an eight-minute video that traverses the globe, channeling the Earth and human life’s beauties while acknowledging the current struggles (Covid-19, racial injustice, poverty) faced by people around the world.

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R.I.P. Peter Green

Fleetwood Mac co-founder and influential blues rock guitarist Peter Green has died aged 73.

Solicitors acting on behalf of his family said in a statement: 

"It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep.

"A further statement will be provided in the coming days."

Green, from Bethnal Green in east London, formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1967.

They came together after Green's stint filling in for Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Green and Fleetwood then convinced John McVie to join the band as bass guitarist, in part by naming the band Fleetwood Mac.

He wrote the instantly recognisable instrumental track Albatross, which remains the band's only number one hit, plus two other early hits, Black Magic Woman and Oh Well. And it was under Green's direction that they produced their first three albums.

he band's debut album was released in 1968. Simply called Fleetwood Mac, but also known as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, it gained widespread acclaim and reached number four in the charts.