![]() But, the group held firm and refused to perform “Albatross.” Cued from television that Fleetwood Mac were still extant, fans unfamiliar with their current material turned up at concerts and shouted for “Albatross.” The CBS Greatest Hits album featuring Peter Green entered the charts, outselling Reprise’s current Penguin. The current Fleetwood Mac demanded and received an apology the next week, and pop papers headlined that Peter Green was coming out of retirement to do six albums. When the single entered the charts, Top of the Pops showed a four-year-old film of the group, and MC Kenny Everett announced the band no longer existed. “We didn’t give the records any promotion,” a CBS spokesman recalled, “but ‘Albatross’ started selling along with, and we can’t explain it, Doris Day’s ‘Move Over, Darling.'”ġ00 Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Peter Green The trouble started when CBS, Fleetwood Mac’s former record company, issued a series of 25 oldies in browser boxes. ![]() The problem was that only two members of the 1969 edition of Fleetwood Mac are still in the group, and the current edition has resisted audience chants to play the hit. They returned to England from America in 1973 and, again, “Albatross” was high up there – in the Top Three. LONDON - Fleetwood Mac returned to England from America in 1969 to find their instrumental “Albatross” high on the BBC chart.
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