Peter Green: Founder of Fleetwood Mac

Green is considered one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time. Born into a Jewish family living in London in 1946, Green founded the rock band Fleetwood Mac in 1967. This was pre-Buckingham/Nicks/Christine McVie. The band performed classic blues, and Green wrote hits including “Albatross” and “Black Magic Woman.” Still, he quit the band in 1970, supposedly after an “infamous Munich Incident” where Green was given bad acid and later exhibited erratic behavior, wanting to give all of his money away. Celmins, a close associate of Green’s, questions that explanation. Green had already been taking LSD, had become religious, and wanted to eschew the trappings of fame. Green was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia but later managed to revive his career, though it never reached the same heights. He died in 2020. This is the fifth edition of this book since first published in 1995, the fourth was in 2022.