Episode #87 | 9.14.21

Fleetwood Mac (Part 1): Guns, God, Cocaine and Rumours

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Few bands can boast a rock ’n’ roll lore at the level of Fleetwood Mac. The band lost not one but two guitarists to cult-like religious freaks. Two band members were arrested on gun charges. They encountered doom brought on by drugs, money, and Jesus Christ. Most famously, the band involved themselves with each other romantically in ways that brought on jealousy, distrust, anger, divorce and resulted in one of the most successful albums of all time. From their earliest days as an English blues band to the pop superstars they would become in the mid to late ’70s, one thing about Fleetwood Mac never faltered: They always had talent — and drama — to spare.

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Sources

Paste: The 10 Best Books About Fleetwood Mac

Play On, by Mick Fleetwood & Anthony Bozza

Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks, by Stephen Davis

Man of the World: The Peter Green Story, directed by Dteve Graham

Wikipedia: Fleetwood Mac

Wealthy Persons: Mick Fleetwood Net Worth 2021

LAD Bible: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ Hits Number 1 on the Charts Thanks to Viral TikTok

Rolling Stone: Fleetwod Mac’s ‘Rumours’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

New York Times: Bassists in Fleetwood Mac Group Arrested on Drug Charge on Maui

Ultimate Classic Rock: When Peter Green Was Arrested for Pulling a Gun on His Accountant

Rolling Stone: Fleetwood Mac’s John McVie Busted

Ranker: All of the Affairs and Backstabbing Behind Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’

Uncut: Fleetwood Mac: ‘Everybody was pretty weirded out’: The Story of ‘Rumours’

Daily Mail: The Rock Star who snorted a line of cocaine 7 MILES LONG!

BBC: Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop

Grunge: The Tragic Real Life Story of Fleetwood Mac

The Guardian: Tommy Nutter, 60s ‘rebel’ tailor of Savile Row, celebrated in exhibition

A Nervy Girl’s Guide: Luggala: A Defining Moment in the Sixties

Getty: The Seedy, Funky, and Fabulous Hollywood Boulevard of the 1970s

Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

 

Music

Score by Jake Brennan. 

Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.

Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.

*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak