Fleetwood Mac featured on Biography channel

Fleetwood Mac's five-decade career will be chronicled tonight on the Biography channel. The show will focus on the band's music and personnel changes over the years, and will feature rare and newly conducted interviews with co-founder Mick Fleetwood and former members Bob Welch, Rick Vito and Bekka Bramlett, among others.

The special tracks the group's career from its early days as a blues-driven rock ensemble led by troubled leader Peter Green, through their 1970s heyday with the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, the multiplatinum success of their 1977 album Rumors, and beyond.

Early Fleetwood Mac manager Clifford Adams appears in the special and explains how big the late '60s version of Fleetwood Mac actually was: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "In one day, we sold 64,000 units. 64,000 units. In 1969, my band Fleetwood Mac sold more records world wide than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones put together."

Fleetwood Mac: Biography airs tonight on the Biography channel at 9 pm. Check your local listings for stations and repeat broadcasts.
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