Lindsey Buckingham: his playing is all heart, ears and instinct.
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If losing the talismanic Peter Green was, in the words of Mick Fleetwood, “the most devastating thing that could happen to us”, then filling his shoes in Fleetwood Mac was at the time the most daunting gig in rock’n’roll. By late ’74 Bob Weston and Bob Welch had tried them on and passed through the band, with some creative success. (Green-era guitarists Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan had also gone.)