Memories of growing up with anti-Semitic persecution in London's impoverished East End combined with an experience of taking spiked LSD in Munich, Germany were leading to a breakdown. But Green's songs hinted at a man disintegrating mentally. One track, Rattlesnake Shake, an ode to male masturbation, became a live anthem and was featured on the 1971 Greatest Hits compilation. There were no cover versions, five songs by Green, seven by Kirwan and two instrumentals credited to Fleetwood and McVie respectively. Warners' would release every subsequent Fleetwood Mac album. Man of the World was released on Immediate, the label owned by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham while Oh Well and the third album Then Play On marked the beginning of a relationship with Warner Brothers which continues to this day. By now the band had left Blue Horizon, their original record company. Man of the World revealed something of Green's tortured psychological state while Oh Well became a live favourite performed by several later line-ups of the band. The next two singles - Man of the World and Oh Well, again composed by Green - both reached No 2. This was their last release as a pure blues band - they had already managed to alienate a few blues purists with the mellow, atmospheric sound of Albatross.
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Around this time, the band also recorded Blues Jam at Chess at Chess recording studios in Chicago with professional blues musicians.
This release reached No 1 on the UK chart. These songs were released as a single with Albatross on the A-side. The new line-up recorded three Kirwan originals for the US only compilation English Rose (two of which would later feature on the third studio album Then Play On and two instrumentals in Green's Albatross and Kirwan's Jigsaw Puzzle Blues. Spencer tended to shy from playing on Green's songs, and did not feature on the A-side of any charting single although he remained a key part of the live shows with his imitations of blues singer Elmore James and eventually artists like Elvis Presley as well. Later that year a third guitarist/vocalist was recruited in 18-year old Danny Kirwan. Two singles, Green's Black Magic Woman and a cover of Little Willie John's Need Your Love So Bad both reached the UK Top 40 and the band's first two albums Fleetwood Mac and Mr. In 1968, Fleetwood Mac became the leading band on the British blues-rock scene. McVie is generally regarded as an original member of the band in spite of his early absence, owing to the band partly taking its name from him (the Mac bit). He contacted the band and Bob Brunning stepped aside. It was around this time that John McVie decided to leave the Bluesbreakers as he was unhappy with the more jazz-oriented direction Mayall was heading in.
In September the band recorded their first single, a cover of the blues standard I Believe My Time Ain't Long sung by Spencer, backed with Rambling Pony, a Peter Green original. This line-up played its first gig at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival on 13th August 1967. Green did not want to be the sole frontman so recruited slide guitarist/pianist Jeremy Spencer to share the load. A stand-in bassist, Bob Brunning, was recruited and played with the band at their first few gigs. Fleetwood was available, having been fired for excessive drinking but McVie did not want to leave the security of the Bluesbreakers. He intended to recruit Fleetwood and McVie and name the band Fleetwood Mac. It was in 1967 that Mayall gave Green some studio time and along with Bluesbreakers' drummer Mick Fleetwood and bass guitarist John McVie, he recorded an instrumental he had named Fleetwood Mac after the pair.Įventually Green decided to leave Mayall to form his own band. The band were formed in 1967 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Peter Green, at the time a member of leading British blues-rock band John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
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