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MICK FLEETWOOD AND FRIENDS CELEBRATE THE MUSIC OF PETER GREEN AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FLEETWOOD MAC
BMG/MAN OF THE WORLD PICTURES
7/10
Mick Fleetwood rounds up a distinctly varied set of guests for a well-timed tribute to his Mac co-founder. By Nigel Williamson
THERE’S a slyly self-deprecating moment when Mick Fleetwood walks on stage at the start of this film of the tribute concert he organised for Peter Green at the London Palladium, just a month before the world went into lockdown last year.
“I’m going to be reading some stuff off the teleprompter here and I’ll do my dyslexic best, so bear with me through the evening,” he says – and everyone gets the reference as minds flash back to the Brit Awards in 1989 when Fleetwood and Samantha Fox presided over one of the most excruciatingly embarrassing screw-ups in the history of popular music.
Fortunately, Fleetwood has learnt a thing or two about emceeing in the three decades that have passed since that infamous night. On this occasion his timing was impeccable. Although Green himself wasn’t well enough to
