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Fleetwood Mac is such an interesting band:

All the early line-ups from the 1960s to '74.

Then the 1975-onward version, with Buckingham and Nicks --

Three men and two women

Three English people and two Americans

Three songwriters (Christine, Stevie, and Lindsey)

songs from

Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)

and Rumours

that were written by Christine McVie:

"Warm Ways"

"Over My Head"

"Say You Love Me"

"World Turning" (with Lindsey Buckingham)

"Sugar Daddy"

"Don't Stop"

"Songbird"

"The Chain" (along with the other four band members)

"You Make Loving Fun"

"Oh Daddy"

Two more from later on:

"Everywhere" (currently in a Chevrolet commercial)

and

"As Long as You Follow."

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        Reading Comments under the New York Times story about Christine McVie, I found that there were some from people who were very critical of the post-1974 Fleetwood Mac that included Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

        These commenters seem to be mostly people who were fans of the earlier Fleetwood Mac that had Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan, Peter Green, Bob Weston, Jeremy Spencer rotating in and out of the band.

        These fans / commenters liked these early iterations of "FM."  Then when Buckingham and Nicks joined, it was a somewhat different band.  

Both were songwriters, and Lindsey played the guitar, so there was bound to be change in both sound and in what kind of songs were going to be created, because now you've got total of three songwriters, two of them new.

        The band then focused on making records that would reach a large number of people, and hopefully sell, and it worked.  Fleetwood Mac reached a new level of success, with the famous Rumours album.

And that new version of FM is vastly irritating to some fans of the earlier "Mac."  They remark on the post-1975 FM being a "candy-pop band," etc.

-------------------------- It reminds me of the fans of Bob Dylan's earliest folk albums getting mad when he "went electric."

(concert promoter in 1965, trying to calm down a crowd:  "OK, OK!  Bob has gone to get his acoustic guitar!!")

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