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  Peter Green: troubled Fleetwood Mac founder leaves legacy of brilliance that shines still

  A virtuoso guitarist and songwriter, Green's career was blighted by drug-amplified mental health problems.

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  Peter Green obituary

  Peter Green obituary. Founder of Fleetwood Mac and one of the guitar-playing greats of 1960s blues-rock

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  Peter Green: guitar pioneer who made the blues his own

  Peter Green: guitar pioneer who made the blues his own. The Fleetwood Mac co-founder spiralled into drug abuse and schizophrenia but never lost his electrifying technical ability

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  Peter Green: One of the greatest guitarists of a generation

  A founding members of Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green changed the music industry for ever in the space of just three years.

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  Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac founder and guitar hero of the British blues scene

  Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac founder and guitar hero of the British blues sceneAhead of his time and massively influential, the singer, songwriter and guitarist was interested in expressing emotion in the songs, rather than showing off how fast he could play

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  Mick Fleetwood review – rousing all-star celebration of Peter Green

  Mick Fleetwood review – rousing all-star celebration of Peter GreenPalladium, London A surprise appearance by original Fleetwood Mac member Jeremy Spencer was just one highlight of a concert where Noel Gallagher and Steven Tyler painted Green’s blues

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  Jon Hiseman: Master drummer and Colosseum founder who pioneered progressive rock

  The drum solo, a staple of live shows for rock bands down the decades, often provides an opportunity for members of the audience to slip out to the bar or loo. Not when Jon Hiseman was on the sticks. Hiseman, who has died aged 73 after suffering from brain cancer, was the drummer’s drummer.

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  Newly released recording from 1967 offers deep dive into British Blues

  By Jeremy Gaunt LONDON (Reuters) - A blues fan's 1967 reel-to-reel tape recording of four then-relatively unknown British musicians is to be released on CD in April, capturing live what today would be dubbed a supergroup. John Mayall, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie were together for just three months that year as part of Mayall's Bluesbreakers band. At various times and in various incarnations, his band has featured Cream's Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce, The Rolling Stones' Mick Tay

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  At 80, blues legend John Mayall sings about a world gone crazy

  By Jeremy Gaunt LONDON (Reuters) - Blues songs are traditionally about women who have done you wrong, working on a chain gang, or being brought low by booze - but what about Christians and Muslims killing each other? John Mayall, often dubbed the "godfather" of British electric blues, touches on just this in "World Gone Crazy", a track on a retrospective album of newly recorded songs he is putting out this month to celebrate turning 80 last year.

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