Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac’s history is long and complicated. Over nearly six decades, they endured multiple lineup changes, stylistic left turns, copious consumption of various substances, and romantic entanglements that rival a season of Bridgerton. The songs, however, transcend all of that. Their breezy, blues-based pop and rock band was wildly successful commercially and artistically and still attracts new fans. Blake (Magnifico! The A to Z of Queen) skillfully brings this enormous story together and levels some of the band’s worst moments by breaking the story into short, quick-to-read chapters that, in sum, are more like vignettes of the life of the band. The book is a mosaic of band member stories, observations from those who worked with the band, and the debunking of legendary road tales. Blake draws on his own exclusive interviews with Fleetwood Mac band members Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and the late Christine McVie and Peter Green, conducted between 1997 and 2020. Blake adds a human feel overall to these larger-than-life rockers whose deeply personal experiences resulted in some of the biggest hits of the rock era.