YOU WEREN'T IN LOVE - MICK FLEETWOOD - (1981)

Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac.

Aside from his work as a drummer, he also helped form the different incarnations of his band Fleetwood Mac, and is the sole member to stay with the band through its ever-changing lineup. In 1974, he met and invited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks contributed to much of Fleetwood Mac's later commercial success, while Fleetwood's determination to keep the band together was essential to the group's longevity.

Career

Keyboard player Peter Bardens gave Fleetwood his first gig in Bardens' band The Cheynes, thus seeding the young drummer's musical career. It would take him from The Cheynes to stints in the Bo Street Runners, Peter Bs, Shotgun Express (with Rod Stewart), and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. After being dismissed from the Bluesbreakers for repeated insobriety during gigs Mick Fleetwood was asked a few months later by singer and guitarist Peter Green to join him along with bassist John McVie in his new band Fleetwood Mac. Since then more than fifty albums have been released under the name Fleetwood Mac - by far the most popular being the two mega-platinum sets the group put out in the late seventies: Fleetwood Mac and Rumours.

Mick also led a number of side projects. 1981's The Visitor featured heavy African stylistics and a rerecording of "Rattlesnake Shake" with Peter Green. In 1983 he formed Mick Fleetwood's Zoo and recorded I'm Not Me. The album featured a minor hit with "I Want You Back" and a cover version of the Beach Boys' "Angel Come Home". A later version of the group featured Bekka Bramlett on vocals and recorded 1991's Shaking the Cage. Fleetwood released Something Big in 2004 with The Mick Fleetwood Band, and his most recent album is Blue Again,[3] appearing in October 2008 with the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band touring to support it, interspersed with the Unleashed tour of Fleetwood Mac.[4] This music explores the blues roots of the Peter Green era of Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood has a secondary career as a TV and film actor, usually in minor parts. His roles in this field have included a resistance leader in The Running Man and as a guest alien in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Manhunt". Fleetwood co-hosted the 1989 BRIT Awards, which contained numerous gaffes and flubbed lines. In the wake of this public mishap, the BRIT Awards were pre-recorded for the next 18 years until 2007; the awards are now again broadcast live to the British public.

Also in 2007 Mick Fleetwood was featured singing the song "God" along with Jack's Mannequin in the Pop album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, a collection of covers of John Lennon songs.

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• YOU
• WEREN'T
• IN
• LOVE
• MICK
• FLEETWOOD
• Blues
• Rock
• Blues-Rock

[tall32guy]

I wonder if there's any songs out there with *Mick* actually singing on them....

[MrLarson40]

@tall32guy I also do not know, thanks for your comments, cheers.

[lastrada52]

Wish Mick Fleetwood had let George Hawkins sing more lead on their songs. This is stunning. A beautiful song, sung very well. George has a perfect lead vocal for any band.

[MrLarson40]

@lastrada52 I agree with you, cheers.

[memtjosecarlossoares]

ja esta em minha favoritas ,mt linda**

[wolfvasa]

Search for the original version by Billy Field.

[MrLarson40]

@utveg522 Thank you for your comments, hugs.

[MrLarson40]

@BIM0576 Muito obrigado pelos seus comentários, abraços.

[MrLarson40]

@chatosoriano0808 Muchas gracias, abrazos.

[chatosoriano0808]

buen video y buena cancion.... sin duda una de mis favoritas :)

[MrLarson40]

@jimbo00767 Thank you, hugs.

[jimbo00767]

alway a gr8 band .. n aways will b