Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green has died at age 73
A law firm representing his family, Swan Turton, announced the death in a statement Saturday. It said he died "peacefully in his sleep? this weekend. A further statement will be issued in the coming days.
He crashed out of the band in 1971. Even so, Mick Fleetwood said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2017 that Green deserves the lion's share of the credit for the band's success. Peter Allen Greenbaum was born on Oct. 29, 1946, in London. The gift of a cheap guitar put the 10-year-old Green on a musical path.
The three departed the next year, forming the core of the band initially billed as "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer." But as the band flourished, Green became increasingly erratic, even paranoid. Drugs played a part in his unraveling. In some of his last appearances with the band, he wore a monk's robe and a crucifix. Fearing that he had too much money, he tried to persuade other band members to give their earnings to charities.In his absence, the band's new line-up, including Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, gained enormous success with a more pop-tinged sound.
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