On Monday, Billboard revealed its ranking of the highest-paid musicians of the past year. Fleetwood Mac made the Top 10, ranking at #10 with gross earnings topping $19 million in 2013.
Fleetwood Mac’s numbers were fueled by a highly lucrative 2013 North American and European tour and the release of Extended Play and Deluxe and Expanded reissues of their 1977 classic album Rumours.
10. Fleetwood Mac
2013 Earnings: $19,123,101.98
As befits this classic rock mainstay, the bulk of Fleetwood Mac’s earnings came from its 2013 world tour, which covered 34 cities and take-home pay of $17.4 million. The trek’s high point included three nights at London’s O2 Arena. There, Christine McVie, 70, joined the band for the final two shows to perform “Don’t Stop” — a prelude to her coming back full-time for 2014’s Reunion Tour (that trek was potentially sidetracked due to the recent cancer diagnosis of John McVie, 68). The band also released its first new studio material in a decade, Extended Play. It reached No. 48 on the Billboard 200.
Music’s Top 40 Money Makers 2014: The Rich List
Taylor Swift
Kenny Chesney
Justin Timberlake
Bon Jovi
Rolling stones
Beyoncé
Maroon 5
Luke Bryan
P!nk
Fleetwood Mac
Justin Bieber
Bruno Mars
One Direction
Jason Aldean
George Strait
Jay Z
Michael Bublé
Mumford & Sons
Dave Matthews band
Rihanna
Paul McCartney
The Eagles
Celion Dion
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Phish
Kayne West
Blake Shelton
John Mayer
New Kids on the Block
Zac Brown Band
Imagine Dragons
Jimmy Buffett
Elton John
Rascal Flatts
Rush
Miranda Lambert
Lil Wayne
Tim McGraw
Eminem
Carrie Underwood
METHODOLOGY: The data used to compile Money Makers was supplied by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen BDS and Billboard Boxscore. Artists are ranked by U.S. earnings, calculated from touring, recorded- music sales, publishing royalties and revenue from digital music and video streaming. Due to a lack of data, revenue from sponsor- ship, merchandising and synchronization isn’t included. For album and track sales, Billboard assumed a royalty rate of 20 percent of retail, minus producers’ fees. Billboard treated all streaming revenue as derived from licensing deals and split that to calculate the artist’s take. Billboard applied statutory mechanical rates for album and track sales and Copyright Royalty Board-determined rates or -approved formulas for streaming. For labels’ direct deals with interactive services, Billboard used a blended rate of $0.00525 for audio and $0.005 for video streams. Billboard subtracted a manager’s fee of 10 percent. For box office, each artist was credited with 34 percent of the gross, typically what’s left after the promoter and manager’s cuts and other costs are subtracted.
Fleetwood Mac returned to the big stage on Monday night, performing a year-end concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Fans were pleasantly surprised to see the return of bassist John McVie, who had undergone cancer treatment earlier in the month. Looking well, McVie seemed to be in good spirits, playing his trademark riff during “The Chain” just as confidently as ever.
Fleetwood Mac reprised their summer set list, kicking off the show with their tried and true Rumours trifecta of “Second Hand News,” “Dreams,” and “The Chain.” The band played 7 of the original 11 songs from Rumours, plus the “Go Your Own Way” b-side “Silver Springs in all, skipping all but one of Christine McVie’s songs. They also performed “Sad Angel” and “Without You” from their Extended Play EP, which was released in April, as well as a selection of songs from 1975’s Fleetwood Mac, 1979’s Tusk, and 1982’s Mirage.
As expected, the concert attracted glamour, excitement, and celebrities to the vibrant Las Vegas New Year’s Eve scene. Extra! correspondent Mario Lopez was at the concert with his wife, Broadway dancer Courtney Mazza, and tweeted the following just before the show:
A fan meets Stevie, Katy Perry, and John Mayer backstage (Photo: KatyCats Spain®)
Also ringing in the New Year in Las Vegas were singer-songwriters Katy Perry and John Mayer, who were enjoying the show backstage. Earlier this year, Stevie mentioned that Katy’s song “Roar” (currently nominated for Grammy’s Record of the Year) was one of her favorites. Stevie’s connection with John Mayer dates back to the beginning of his career when the once relatively unknown musician, then 24 years old, opened for Stevie at the 2001 Concert for Kids benefit in San Francisco. Stevie dedicated “Landslide” to both of them, which prompted John to tweet the following on behalf of Katy:
John here. Katy can't write because she's getting over Stevie Nicks dedicating Landslide to us at the Fleetwood Mac concert. Unforgettable.
Stevie had her own touching moment at the end of the show when Lindsey dedicated Fleetwood Mac’s 2003 “Say Goodbye” to her.
“Sometimes you need to cast away illusions in order to grow, Lindsey said. “And so as we move into the new year, a new, perhaps what I’m thinking, is a new set of possibilities. So I’m going to dedicate this song to this beautiful lady, who I’ve known since I was about 16 years old. She’s mad at me because I’m making it difficult for her to do the song. It’s OK, just do the best that you can. So this is for Stevie, this is called ‘Say Goodbye.’”
Stevie struggled to get through the last song, stopping at times and wiping away tears as she sang. After the song, she composed herself just enough to address the audience for one last sentiment, to tell them that they were “dream catchers” who, like the artists, emotionally and reciprocally invest in the life of their music. Stevie graciously thanked the audience for their continued support over the years.
Mick Fleetwood introduced his daughters Tessa and Ruby to the Las Vegas crowd and addressed them once more for a final goodbye.
Fleetwood Mac will close out the year at the MGM Grand Garden Arena with a private, invite-only show on New Year’s Eve. They will return to Las Vegas next month to headline the Monster’s CES Retailer Awards Party on January 8.
Videos
Second Hand News (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbNmsnjGwk
The Chain (courtesy of Stevie Mac)
Rhiannon (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf95who0NgQ
Rhiannon (courtesy of oldschooljim1)
Sisters of the Moon (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaLj8BcpNPo
Sisters of the Moon (courtesy of Stevie Mac)
Sara (courtesy of Stevie Mac)
Big Love (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWHBJlo1JE
Landslide (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBTsJN1Ra8
Landslide (courtesy of oldschooljerry1)
Never Going Back Again (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqbP3iHxJg
Without You (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3P2KNzv4Ko
Gypsy (courtesy of sdintn)
Gypsy (courtesy of Stevie Mac)
Eyes of the World (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btpI_4pdPyQ
Gold Dust Woman (courtesy of Stevie Mac) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SALekLju-ck
I’m So Afraid – solo only (Hannah West)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdn9I9ED0CA
World Turning – partial (courtesy of sdintn)
Band Intros (courtesy of BlogBrian)
Silver Springs (courtesy of Stevie Mac)
Say Goodbye – dedication (courtesy of Xxsilversprings11xX) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZhrfASAioc
Say Goodbye (courtesy of Filmmaker Gal) http://youtu.be/Bnh4qRCLwLc
It’s maybe the sweetest song that Stevie Nicks ever wrote about her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, and like their love itself, it was eventually lost.
Penned more than four decades ago, “Without You” is a blown kiss to Nicks’ former beau, written with a constellation of stars in her eyes.
“If I’d not heard your laughter / Maybe I wouldn’t love you,” she wrote, her i’s practically dotted with little hearts. “If I’d not sung your music / I’d not come rolling after you.”
The song was demoed in the early ’70s, and Nicks recalls performing it live on numerous occasions.
“We did it onstage 62 times,” she remembers. “The audience seemed to really love it. We told the whole story of where we lived and how we moved down here. It was like they really got to walk with us through that song. It should have been on a Fleetwood Mac record. But, you know, sometimes things get lost.”
And sometimes they get found.
Some friends of Nicks discovered the song on YouTube a few years back and asked her about it.
“I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this is the song,’ ” she says. “I showed it to Lindsey and he said, ‘Well, we should record it.’ ”
That they did, finally officially releasing the song after all these years on a four-song EP, “Extended Play,” that the group released in April, their first new music in a decade.
Fleetwood Mac has performed the song on tour all year, playing 62 shows total on a trek that officially concludes Monday in Las Vegas.
The group was supposed to do more shows but had to cancel some New Zealand and Australia dates after bassist John McVie was diagnosed with cancer in October.
According to Nicks, McVie is making a full recovery.
“He’s doing great,” Nicks says. “He’s almost done with his treatment, then he’s going to do these shows. It’s always good when you’re going through a little something that’s difficult to be able to say, ‘Well, I’ve got to be onstage on the 30th at the MGM Grand in front of thousands of people.’ It’s going to pull him out a lot faster than we as humans would naturally pull out of situations.”
Besides finishing up her roadwork with Fleetwood Mac for the year, Nicks is also marking the release of her new “In Your Dreams” DVD, which chronicles the making of her 2011 solo album of the same name and was produced by Dave Stewart, best known for his work with the Eurythmics.
“I didn’t really want to film it at first and Dave just looked at me and said, ‘You know what? You’re going to be sorry if you don’t,’ ” Nicks says. “If you’ve ever wanted to make an album with somebody and you’re not a rock ’n’ roll recording artist, this is your movie, because you are going to be sitting right here in the big red chairs and the big red couch in front of the fireplace with Dave Stewart walking around with a guitar and a phone in his ear and a phone in his other hand.
“When it was over, I was devastated,” she adds of how much she ended up enjoying the recording process. “I just sat down on the stairs with my little dog and I just started to cry. I was just horrified that it could ever end.”
Nicks still records and tours steadily on her own, but Fleetwood Mac offers her a different kind of outlet, and the two complement each other.
“There’s something really great about being part of a team, a tribe,” Nicks says. “When you’re a solo artist, you’re out front, and it’s hard for you to even really look back on anything. For me, as a Gemini, when I first started (putting out solo records in-between Fleetwood Mac albums) in 1981 with ‘Bella Donna,’ it has worked beautifully for me all these years because I get bored.”
Nicks definitely doesn’t sound bored on this day, but fully engaged and effusive.
She’s excited about the new year, even though, by her own admission, she doesn’t really know what she’s excited about.
“This has been a long Fleetwood Mac tour, it will end in Vegas, and I have no idea what I’m going to do next,” Nicks says. “That’s kind of the cool thing about being where I’m at in my career. I’m just kind of breathing in and being able to rest in that knowledge right now.”
Contact reporter Jason Bracelin at jb*******@***********al.com or 702-383-0476. Follow on Twitter @JasonBracelin.
Robbie Williams, Sir Cliff Richard and Fleetwood Mac feature in what Radio 2 is billing a “Christmas With The Stars”.
The BBC station’s packed festive schedule will include Williams taking over for one week only Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday 3 to 6pm show on December 21, promising to play “three hours of my favourite records and invite some very special people into the studio”.
“Anyone who has heard Radio Rudebox will know I am a natural born DJ, and I have just been biding my time for a radio comeback,” said Williams.
Sir Cliff will front an 8 to 10pm show on Christmas Eve and featuring music that has inspired him across his long career, while Fleetwood Mac will be the subject of a Johnnie Walker Meets…. special on New Year’s Day from 5 to 7pm. The show will feature Walker interviewing Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie.
Other Christmas highlights at the station will include Jeremy Vine looking at the Christmas music of every year from 1951 to 2000 in Sounds Of The 20th Century Christmas (December 23 from 8 to 10pm), French and Saunders with Christmas Eve and Boxing Day afternoon specials, a look at the Christmas chart battle of 1973 between Noddy Holder and Slade and Wizzard in When Noddy Stole Chruistmas (10 to 11pm Christmas Eve), Bryan Ferry hosting his own show on Christmas Day from 8 to 10pm and specials fronted by Dame Edna Everage, Barbara Windsor, Cilla Black, actor Michael Sheen, Queen drummer Roger Taylor, Spinal Tap and Simpsons star Harry Shearer and Glee’s Matthew Morrison.
Radio 2 head of programmes Lewis Carnie said: “BBC Radio 2 this Christmas features a dazzling array of some of the biggest stars you’ll find anywhere this festive season. It’s a feast of fantastic programmes presented by a star-studded line-up including Robbie Williams, Glee’s Matthew Morrison, Australian super-star Dame Edna Everage, comedy legends French & Saunders, Hollywood actor Michael Sheen and a whole host of others. They will be the perfect accompaniment to the nation’s celebrations.”
Paul Williams / Music Week (UK) / Thursday, November 21, 2013
The annual awards ceremony/concert put on by Monster at International CES in Las Vegas traditionally features a top musical act, and this year, Monster has booked one of the highest-selling acts in music history. Jeff O’Heir of our sister site Dealerscope reported Tuesday that Fleetwood Mac will headline this year’s Monster Retail Awards presentation and party.
The event is set for Wednesday, Jan. 8 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, and will mark Monster’s 35th anniversary. Monster will also introduce new products at the show.
“We have a long history of presenting really rich musical diversity and talent at the CES concerts. And the one thing that’s always been very important to us is to celebrate the power of real music,” said Greg Pedersen, Monster’s brand marketing and strategic alliance manager. “We chose a band that embodies that, meaning real guitars, real bass, real drums. Fleetwood Mac has a lot in common with Monster in that they think a lot out of the box.”
With John McVie undergoing treatment for cancer, the lineup in Las Vegas will include Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood for certain; Monster hopes McVie can return in time for the show.
Alicia Keys played last year’s Monster concert, with Chicago, John Legend, Earth, Wind and Fire and Diana Ross also headlining in recent years. Special guests have also frequently joined the performances at Monster’s concerts.
Stephen Silver / Technology Tell / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Rock legends help Monster celebrate its 35th anniversary
Rock legends Fleetwood Mac will headline Monster’s Retail Awards presentation and party at the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas, Dealerscope has learned.
Considered one of the hottest parties at the consumer electronics show, this year’s event, scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 8, in the main ballroom of the Paris Hotel, also marks Monster’s 35th anniversary. As usual, attendees can expect a few special guests and surprises during the ceremony.
“We have a long history of presenting really rich musical diversity and talent at the CES concerts. And the one thing that’s always been very important to us is to celebrate the power of real music,” said Greg Pedersen , Monster’s brand marketing and strategic alliance manager. “We chose a band that embodies that, meaning real guitars, real bass, real drums. Fleetwood Mac has a lot in common with Monster in that they think a lot out of the box.”
Monster’s theme at this year’s show will be “Drive It 35.” The company will be rolling out a newly designed booth that will feature fashion, entertainment and technology themes and bold graphics, as well as additional private rooms and an expanded product show floor. Retailers can expect plenty of new headphone and audio lines. Monster will be announcing a handful of new brand ambassadors in the coming weeks.
As of yet, Fleetwood Mac has not signed on to any new Monster products, but they are considered Monster ambassadors, Pedersen said. The band will include long-time members Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and drummer Mick Fleetwood. Founding member, bassist John McVie, is currently undergoing treatment for cancer. McVie’s illness forced the band to cancel its Australian and New Zealand tour in October. Monster is hoping McVie will recuperate in time for CES. “We’re pulling for him,” Pedersen said. “He’s in our prayers.”
One of the band’s biggest hits, “Don’t Stop,” fits well with Monster’s 35th anniversary and ongoing themes, Pedersen said.
“Going into 2014, Monster won’t stop innovating, supporting its retailers and thinking out of the box,” he said. “We’re definitely not going to celebrate Monster’s 35th anniversary quietly. We’re going to be loud.”
Head Monster Noel Lee is expected to make the concert announcement this afternoon at CES Unveiled in New York City.
Nicks reveals the bond between the pair has been “fake” during performances on previous tours but they are now as close as they were when we first met.
Stevie, 65, told Mojo Magazine: “My cousin John has known Lindsey and I since 1968.
“He told me, “When I saw you and Lindsey play with Fleetwood Mac in 2009, there was nothing between you.
“It was as if you were thinking, ‘What shall I get from room service? Grilled cheese? Tomato soup?’
“Hammy wasn’t the word for Lindsey and I in 2009 – it was totally fake.
“But what you see on stage now is not fake. It is loving, and it is as close to those two people who met as teenagers as you could hope for.”
Stevie was 16 when she was first introduced to Lindsey, then 17, at a party in San Francisco and started making music together two years later.
The pair posed naked on the cover of their Buckingham Nicks album, made before Fleetwood Mac was formed, and Stevie was “terrified”.
Stevie revealed: “I could not have been more terrified if you’d asked me to jump off a speeding train.
“Lindsey was like, ‘Oh, come on – this is art. Don’t be a child!’ I thought, ‘Who are you? Don’t you know me?’.”
She hid the picture from her parents and admits they were less than impressed when they saw it.
Stevie said: “When the record came out and I saw my father it was, ‘Why didn’t you just say no, Stevie?’ I said, ‘Daddy, I don’t know. I didn’t feel like I had a choice – I’m so sorry’. I learned a big lesson that day.”
Matt Shine / Female First (UK) / Saturday, November 2, 2013
Stevie Nicks talks about Fleetwood Mac, the dark days of drugs, and getting her confidence back to record a new album.
It’s a miracle Fleetwood Mac are still together and touring. A musical soap opera of tangled love lives and drug and drink-fuelled breakups has lasted since the seventies, when the best-known lineup of the group formed.
But it’s always been about the music. Surviving the breakup of two couples – Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, and John and Christine McVie gave the band their multi-million selling 1977 album Rumours.
But their love of their band and their belief in its music has helped them to endure and today they’re as popular as ever, currently in the middle of a mammoth world tour.
Rip It Up meet Nicks in LA, where the band are in rehearsals. And the legendary singer says: “This band is the longest relationship any of us have had. It’s more than our individual issues.
“When Lindsey and I split and Christine and John were about to break up, we were all in a room, saying, ‘Well, I’m not going to quit so you quit’.
“Mick was in the middle saying ‘Well, is anybody quitting? If not, can we just carry on?’ “And that’s exactly what happened. No one was willing to give up Fleetwood Mac – it just wasn’t an option.”
The band have endured what would have killed most other bands.
The breakdown of Nicks and Buckingham’s five-year relationship and the McVies’ divorce during the making of landmark album Rumours became part of the Fleetwood Mac story. And even today, forty years after their split, it’s when Nicks and Buckingham get close on stage,that the crowd really erupt and cheer.
“I guess fans are still fascinated by us,“ she admits in her famous husky drawl. “It’s part of the story and whatever happened between me and Lindsey or the others, the power of the band and the music meant more.”
After her split with Buckingham, Nicks embarked on a two-year affair with band drummer and Fleetwood Mac founder Mick Fleetwood who was in the middle of a divorce with wife Jenny Boyd.
And it wasn’t just the band’s love lives which were full of drama. The band’s intake of drugs in the Seventies and Eighties is also part of their story.
Nicks says she first tried cocaine when she moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco with Buckingham.
“Everyone did it then,” she confesses. “And if Lindsey and I had stayed in San Francisco there would never have been any drugs. We probably would never even have had a drink.”
Nicks moved to LA with Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac in 1974 – establishing a new line-up that remains the line-up of today – apart from Christine McVie who quit in 1988 but recently rejoined the band on stage at London’s O2.
“Chris was a tough girl but she never really told us just how afraid she was of flying,” says Nicks.
“She’d started having panic attacks about it. We did the Grammys and then she turned to me and said, ‘I can’t do this any more, I’m quitting.’ I said, ‘You’re leaving me? Abandoning me?’ “She goes, ‘I’m sorry, honey, I just can’t do it.’ So she went home, sold her beautiful house in Los Angeles, her piano, her truck, and she was gone in three weeks.
“We never saw her again until we played Earls Court in London in 2004. You just have to respect her wishes but we’ll always be close. We’ll always be friends though it’s been very hard to try Christine’s songs in rehearsals. Lindsey and I have tried singing some in harmony but we were just disappointed with it.
“Christine just can’t be replaced.”
After Rumours came their experimental album Tusk which Nicks says saw her use of cocaine “go into overdrive”.
By the time it came to making 1987’s Tango In The Night, Nicks was an addict and also “a mess”.
“I had a hole on my nose,” she says honestly.
“I checked into Betty Ford for two months and a plastic surgeon looked at my nose and told me it would collapse if I carried on. My vanity made me stop the coke.
“I went to see a doctor who said the only way to stay off the drugs was to take a tranquilizer. If I didn’t then my nose was going to collapse. He prescribed Klonopin and I thought it was going to be the end of this chapter.”
However, what Nicks wasn’t told was that Klonopin was also highly addictive and left her a wreck.
She says: “I couldn’t move. I certainly couldn’t work and I was useless in the studio.
“For Tango In The Night I couldn’t do anything. I just lay on the couch, called the deli and drank wine – and that went on for eight years. I lost eight years of my life – my forties – because of that man.
“I went to Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Marina Del Rey, LA, to wean myself off it.
“It was hell. I thought I was going to die, I was in so much pain. I was really sick. To this day I will haunt the psychiatrist who gave me Klonopin. One day somebody is going to find out who the bastard is and I will be there.”
As well as Fleetwood Mac’s world tour, Nicks is hoping to get time to work on another solo album after 2011’s In Your Dreams album that she made with former Eurythmics starDave Stewart.
“I’m writing all the time,” she confesses. “I write down everything. Poems, notes, drawings all feature in my books which hold my life story. All my songs starts in here.”
Working with Stewart, who she also co-wrote with for the first time in her career, gave her the confidence she’d been lacking. In Your Dreams arrived ten years since 2001’s Trouble In Shangri-La after Nicks believed no one was interested in her as a solo singer any more.
“When we came off the road from Fleetwood Mac’s Say You Will tour in 2005, I was going to make a record but I was told not to bother by the powers that be,” she reveals.
“ Everybody was depressed by the downturn in the music industry and I was not the fighter I usually am. I just believed what they said, that no-one would want to hear a Stevie Nicks album and went with it. But after the Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits tour, I got my confidence back and decided I was going to hit the ground running the second I got home, and start an album and that’s what I did. I needed to do it for my soul as I’ve always made a record every couple of years.”
As soon as she was home Nicks called Stewart and asked him over to hear what she’d been working on.
“Before we knew it we were making a record. We didn’t even talk about it, we just started making it. He just said: “I’ll be back Wednesday.” It only took six months to record but making that record was the best year of my life – the most fun, satisfying and the most magical. Dave believed in me and saw something in my poetry. I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.
“It gave me a creative burst, the kick that I needed. And long may it continue.”
Jaime Wynn / Rip It Up (NZ) / Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Fleetwood Mac, who has just completed the European leg of their phenomenally successful worldwide tour, has announced the cancellation of their upcoming 14 date tour of Australia and New Zealand.
John McVie, one of the co founding and original members of Fleetwood Mac, is now scheduled to be in treatment for cancer during that period of time.
The band have released the following statement:
“We are sorry to not be able to play these Australian and New Zealand dates. We hope our Australian and New Zealand fans as well as Fleetwood Mac fans everywhere will join us in wishing John and his family all the best.”
Live Nation Australia wish John Mcvie a full and speedy recovery, and regret the disappointment that this announcement will cause for the band’s multitude of Australian fans.
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European tour ends with technical problems, but Fleetwood Mac plays on after 90-minute delay.
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Fleetwood Mac wrapped up its European tour on Saturday night in Amsterdam, with an encore performance at Ziggo Dome. But fans attending the show had to endure an unexpected technical problem involving a malfunctioning sound mixer, which delayed the start time of the show. Throughout the delay, fans tweeted pictures of the packed arena of restless concert attendees. Despite the technical hitch, Fleetwood Mac finally came out onstage nearly 90 minutes later to perform the show (with a shorter set list) that people had paid to see.
Stevie took a few extra moments to make a special dedication for “Landslide,” which she sang for Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac, and the Amsterdam audience.
“Tonight I’m gonna dedicate Landslide to our band. So I’m really dedicating it to Fleetwood Mac, and I’m also really dedicating it to you, Lindsey. For all the wonderful things that you have done for me, and teaching me the little guitar pick that is in ‘Landslide’ that I would never have known had it not been for you, and all the really wonderful music that you have brought into my life. And just for being a wonderful friend all these years. And I just want you to know that. Even though we argue, the love is always still there.
“Now I’m gonna to take a couple of really deep yoga breaths while he does an extra long introduction and try to sing it. So this is for Fleetwood Mac, for Lindsey, and most especially for all of you that waited for us so graciously. This is Landslide.”
By the end of the tour, Fleetwood Mac had traveled to 15 cities in 10 different countries. There were many highlights for European fans, but the biggest ones occurred at two of the London shows, where Christine McVie reunited with her former bandmates on the stage. The London audience cheered loudly when McVie appeared during Fleetwood Mac’s encore to perform “Don’t Stop,” her ubiquitous smash hit from Rumours.
Fans who went to the second Amsterdam show have posted clips from nearly the entire concert. A selection of them are posted below.
Videos
Second Hand News (courtesy Bram Orsel)
The Chain (courtesy of Crikey64)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xNFMaB1zGM
Dreams (courtesy of Bram Osler)
Sad Angel (courtesy of jeffreyvanderaa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvkgLj7mYE
Rhiannon (courtesy of BennoConcert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6FsoB-zvNo
Rhiannon (courtesy of remmepem)
Rhiannon (courtesy of jeffreyvanderaa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SizRyq80IjY
Not That Funny (courtesy of BennoConcert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNHzFlokskw
Tusk (courtesy of veen0478)
Tusk (courtesy of BennoConcert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1C30koviI
Sara (courtesy of BennoConcert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1IBMN-c1I
Sara (courtesy of Bram Orsel)
Big Love (courtesy of BennoConcert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gCLsuKoNTQ
Landslide (courtesy of toy beachboy)
Landslide (courtesy of Crikey64)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLww4QqTlyQ
Never Going Back Again (courtesy of veen478)
Gold Dust Woman (courtesy of Crikey64)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxT45F_ZcSk
I’m So Afraid (courtesy of Crikey64)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR38rqDJZV8
Stand Back (courtesy of Crikey64)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxT45F_ZcSk
Go Your Own Way (courtesy of TheLastPharm)
World Turning – drum solo (courtesy of Ton Kooremans)
Don’t Stop (courtesy of jeffreyvanderaa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffPRhdTraiI
