Mick Fleetwood

Marital discord and divorce. Substance abuse problems and mental illness. Religious sects and hedonistic excess. Fleetwood Mac has been known throughout its 27-year run as much for its "Geraldo"-fodder history and ever-changing personnel as it has for being among the most popular, top-grossing groups in rock.

Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band's multi-platinum success later in the decade, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 66. According to a spokesman for the Nashville Police Department, Welch was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. The spokesman said Welch's wife, Wendy, told police he had been suffering from health issues. Welch joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971 as a 24-year-old living in Paris, just as the group was making the transition away from being a British blues rock band and into the 1970s commercial powerhouse that it became.

Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band's multi-platinum success later in the decade, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 66. According to a spokesman for the Nashville Police Department, Welch was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. The spokesman said Welch's wife, Wendy, told police he had been suffering from health issues. Welch joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971 as a 24-year-old living in Paris, just as the group was making the transition away from being a British blues rock band and into the 1970s commercial powerhouse that it became.

Mick Fleetwood's name is forever married to Fleetwood Mac, the band he helped create almost four decades ago. Whenever Fleetwood is not touring the globe with his staple group or his new project, the Mick Fleetwood Band, the 57-year-old Woodland Hills resident hits Sunset Boulevard -- or the links. Street life If I were to walk an entire street in L.A.

Fleetwood Mac patriarch Mick Fleetwood married longtime girlfriend Sara Recor on Sunday in a Malibu oceanfront ceremony. Among the 200 guests: the rest of the band, plus former member Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Mason, Dick Clark and Ali MacGraw. Fleetwood, 40, and his new bride, 32, will honeymoon in Santa Barbara. The couple will then fly to England, joining the rest of the band in rehearsals for a six-week tour of Great Britain and Europe, which kicks off May 9 in Dublin.

Mick Fleetwood's name is forever married to Fleetwood Mac, the band he helped create almost four decades ago. Whenever Fleetwood is not touring the globe with his staple group or his new project, the Mick Fleetwood Band, the 57-year-old Woodland Hills resident hits Sunset Boulevard -- or the links. Street life If I were to walk an entire street in L.A.

Along with a bride of 8 months, Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac has been sharing his Malibu digs with Pete Bardens, one-time leader of a band called Camel, and that's just for openers: Fleetwood also is sharing his manager with Bardens, lent his drumming to tracks on the keyboard player's "Speed of Light" album, and now is sandwiching 11 far-flung Bardens concert appearances (including one at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano tonight) between new Fleetwood Mac recording sessions.

These days, Mick Fleetwood is playing drums on the next Fleetwood Mac album . . . and making his acting debut in a film based on a Stephen King story . . . and writing his autobiography. But that still leaves a few odd moments of free time and the lanky, 44-year-old rock veteran doesn't like sitting around.

Stevie Nicks had hoped to make it to Friday night at the Forum before the tears started falling. That's when she and Christine McVie apparently will be making their last appearance as full-time members of Fleetwood Mac. Though the two are slated to contribute to the next Mac album, the Inglewood Forum concert will mark the end of an era for a group that ruled the pop charts in the late '70s, with the two women as the public focal points.

If the sellout crowds and critical thumbs-ups are any indication, Fleetwood Mac has been a part of a great night out for a lot of people lately. Twenty years after the release of the veteran band's monstrously successful "Rumours" album, its reunited classic lineup--Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks--is on the road, garnering enough popular support and positive reviews to quiet any skeptics who doubted the group's ability to reinvigorate itself.

Some broadcast and cable programs contain material included in the public school curriculum and standardized examinations. Here are home-viewing tips: Today: The Republican Convention (KABC, KCBS, KNBC, 7-8 p.m.). The networks summarize events of the GOP convention, which ends today. KMEX will air Spanish-language coverage from 10 to 11 p.m. Also, "Mr. Music" (ODSY, 9-11 p.m.). In this movie about the inner workings of the recording industry, a 15-year-old music fanatic becomes vice president of a company.

If the sellout crowds and critical thumbs-ups are any indication, Fleetwood Mac has been a part of a great night out for a lot of people lately. Twenty years after the release of the veteran band's monstrously successful "Rumours" album, its reunited classic lineup--Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks--is on the road, garnering enough popular support and positive reviews to quiet any skeptics who doubted the group's ability to reinvigorate itself.

Marital discord and divorce. Substance abuse problems and mental illness. Religious sects and hedonistic excess. Fleetwood Mac has been known throughout its 27-year run as much for its "Geraldo"-fodder history and ever-changing personnel as it has for being among the most popular, top-grossing groups in rock.

OK all you MacRumour Mongers, here's the whole story: the sex, the drugs, the partner-swapping, the comings-and-goings, the schizophrenia, the bankruptcies and, oh yes, the great music that is, was and apparently forever shall be the big Mac. Fleetwood tells the story as if he was sitting in your living room, which is good for the intimacy of the tale, but bad for the rambling, sometimes redundant telling.

Stevie Nicks had hoped to make it to Friday night at the Forum before the tears started falling. That's when she and Christine McVie apparently will be making their last appearance as full-time members of Fleetwood Mac. Though the two are slated to contribute to the next Mac album, the Inglewood Forum concert will mark the end of an era for a group that ruled the pop charts in the late '70s, with the two women as the public focal points.

Along with a bride of 8 months, Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac has been sharing his Malibu digs with Pete Bardens, one-time leader of a band called Camel, and that's just for openers: Fleetwood also is sharing his manager with Bardens, lent his drumming to tracks on the keyboard player's "Speed of Light" album, and now is sandwiching 11 far-flung Bardens concert appearances (including one at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano tonight) between new Fleetwood Mac recording sessions.

Some broadcast and cable programs contain material included in the public school curriculum and standardized examinations. Here are home-viewing tips: Today: The Republican Convention (KABC, KCBS, KNBC, 7-8 p.m.). The networks summarize events of the GOP convention, which ends today. KMEX will air Spanish-language coverage from 10 to 11 p.m. Also, "Mr. Music" (ODSY, 9-11 p.m.). In this movie about the inner workings of the recording industry, a 15-year-old music fanatic becomes vice president of a company.

OK all you MacRumour Mongers, here's the whole story: the sex, the drugs, the partner-swapping, the comings-and-goings, the schizophrenia, the bankruptcies and, oh yes, the great music that is, was and apparently forever shall be the big Mac. Fleetwood tells the story as if he was sitting in your living room, which is good for the intimacy of the tale, but bad for the rambling, sometimes redundant telling.

Fleetwood Mac patriarch Mick Fleetwood married longtime girlfriend Sara Recor on Sunday in a Malibu oceanfront ceremony. Among the 200 guests: the rest of the band, plus former member Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Mason, Dick Clark and Ali MacGraw. Fleetwood, 40, and his new bride, 32, will honeymoon in Santa Barbara. The couple will then fly to England, joining the rest of the band in rehearsals for a six-week tour of Great Britain and Europe, which kicks off May 9 in Dublin.

These days, Mick Fleetwood is playing drums on the next Fleetwood Mac album . . . and making his acting debut in a film based on a Stephen King story . . . and writing his autobiography. But that still leaves a few odd moments of free time and the lanky, 44-year-old rock veteran doesn't like sitting around.