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Fleetwood Mac

FLEETWOOD MAC

YEAR

1998

INDUCTED BY

Sheryl Crow

CATEGORY

Performers

After forming as a British blues band in the late ’60s, Fleetwood Mac evolved into one of the most influential rock groups of the ’70s.

Not only did they write some of the decade’s most indelible songs—and release one of the best-selling albums of all time, 1977’s Rumours—but the troupe created a distinctive “California sound” that endures today as a sonic touchstone for countless bands.

Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks

Peter Green

Peter Green

Mick Fleetwood

Mick Fleetwood

Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham

John McVie

John McVie

Jeremy Spencer

Jeremy Spencer

Danny Kirwan

Danny Kirwan

Christine McVie

Christine McVie

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Jim Farber

Every musician knows it’s the rhythm section that holds a band together. But who knew we’d find as durable an application of that maxim as the one exemplified by the history of Fleetwood Mac? Over the last thirty years, Fleetwood Mac has comprised fifteen musicians shuffled through six major lineups, resulting in endless tinkerings with tone and genre.

Yet the two members to survive it all rarely write tunes and never front the recordings. They’re the beat-keepers – drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. The fact that a rhythm section could sustain a band through thirty years seems all the more amazing considering the traumatic histories of the band’s shifting array of stage-front stars. Together, their personal lives have given rock one of its most elaborate and juicy plotlines.

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