Green, to some listeners, was the best of the British blues guitarists of the 1960s
. B.B. King once said Green “has the sweetest tone I ever heard. He was the only one who gave me the cold sweats.”Green also made a mark as a composer with “Albatross,” and as a songwriter with “Oh Well” and “Black Magic Woman.”
Indeed, Green was so fundamental to the band that in its early days it was called Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. In the Bluesbreakers he was reunited with Mick Fleetwood, a former colleague in Peter B’s Looners. Mayall added bass player McVie soon after.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 unravelling. In an interview with Johnny Black for Mojo magazine, Green said: “I was dreaming I was dead and I couldn’t move, so I fought my way back into my body. I woke up and looked around. It was very dark and I found myself writing a song. It was about money; ‘The Green Manalishi’ is money.”
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