Peter Green

Guitar hero Peter Green founded Fleetwood Mac as a blues band in London in 1967. He is far from the lean, furry-faced rock star who fronted the original incarnation of Fleetwood Mac and wrote such insanely great blues-infused classics as “Black Magic Woman” and “Oh Well.” It was Green who replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, he was the founder and leader of Fleetwood Mac, one of the best blues-rock band of all time. Greenie never made his solos, he played them straight from the heart. When Clapton joined Mayall, the inscription “Clapton is God” appeared on the wall of the London Underground. After a few months, similar inscriptions proclaimed “God is Green”. Peter Green in 1968 was the author of the song “Black Magic Woman”, which was released on the single by Fleetwood Mac and on the compilation album of the group “The Pious Bird of Good Omen” in 1969.