Fleetwood Mac

The British-American band that began as a London blues outfit and became one of the best-selling pop-rock acts in history. Founded in 1967 by drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, and guitarist Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac spent its early years as a hard-edged blues band before a series of lineup upheavals and the 1975 arrival of Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks — joining Fleetwood, John McVie, and keyboardist Christine McVie — transformed them into a different kind of group entirely. The result, Fleetwood Mac (1975) and especially Rumours (1977), turned the band's interpersonal wreckage into some of the most enduring songs in popular music.

Rumours — recorded as all three couples in the band were splitting apart — spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, won the 1978 Grammy for Album of the Year, and has sold more than 40 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. It produced the band's only US No. 1 single, Nicks's "Dreams," alongside "Go Your Own Way," "Don't Stop," and "The Chain." Later records including Tusk (1979) and Tango in the Night (1987) kept them on the charts through changing lineups. Christine McVie died in 2022. Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, and their catalog has found each new generation since — never more visibly than in 2020, when "Dreams" went viral all over again.