{"id":4995,"date":"2022-02-05T20:53:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:28:45","slug":"media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4995","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Songbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_4855.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4996\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_4855.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_4855-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Welch era: Welch, McVie, Fleetwood and the titular Songbird.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/stars_08_four.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/stars_08_four.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/stars_08_four-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow! Happened on this doc\u2019 on BBC2 totally accidentally. This was quite a revelation to me, in parts. I didn\u2019t realise, for example, that Fleetwood Mac had lived out the hippie dream, taking up residence in a communal country house, getting stoned and making music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, while it\u2019s available &#8211; I don\u2019t know how long this link will work for &#8211; here it is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0008k8q\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0008k8q<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what a band Fleetwood Mac have been: the Peter Green blues explosion era, the Bob Welch period, and then the \u2018classic\u2019 quintet with the arrival of Buckingham\/Nicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A while back I got a whole bunch of their albums, concentrating on the earlier years up to and including <em>Rumours<\/em>. Seeing this makes me realise I need to go back and listen to them a lot more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with so many music history tales, I found the most interesting stuff was the early to mid years. The whole thing got less exciting and interesting as the years piled up. This is a bit sad for me, as I\u2019m now 50! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As The Floyd had it: I missed the starting gun, I didn\u2019t know when to run! Hey ho\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole core thread, around Christine, was interesting, and she comes across as a very nice person. And talented. But strangely it\u2019s the story of the group as a whole I find most compelling, even when, as here, related through the prism of one particular member. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Happened on this doc\u2019 on BBC2 totally accidentally. This was quite a revelation to me, in parts. I didn\u2019t realise, for example, that Fleetwood Mac had lived out the hippie dream, taking up residence in a communal country house, getting stoned and making music. So, while it\u2019s available &#8211; I don\u2019t know how long &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4995\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Songbird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saGwUa-media","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11496,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}