Word: fleetwoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baseball statistic?) are once again in vogue, not least among grungy rock musicians and movie stars. The election of Bill "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" Clinton heralded not only the ascension of a Vietnam War protester to the White House but the reunion tour of 1970s heart-throbs Fleetwood Mac. And those who wear platform shoes are most likely supporters of the Democratic platform--if not of something further to the left...
...years later, we have Altered Beast, a 14-song album that features many of the same stellar sidemen who served on Girlfriend (most notably Robert Quine on guitar), as well as Mick Fleetwood and keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. Like its predecessor, the album alternates winsome ballads with bare-knuckled rockers that resurrect and update rock's blustery past with born-again conviction...
...could stop singing Don't Stop? (David Letterman's advice to Fleetwood Mac: "Stop!") That catchy jingle was the only tune on America's mental jukebox last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The whole wide world of American tinsel and twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics...
...performing (gratis, of course, as is everyone) and that Michael Jackson needs a call. Thomason is still twisting the arms of CBS, Time Warner and Disney to find out what they will pay to telecast the events, including gala performances by Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, a reunited Fleetwood Mac, a vast parade with two Elvis impersonators and a lawn-chair precision drill team. How did Thomason end up here? "Obviously, I was out of the room when Bill decided," he jokes wearily, pressing his bandaged hand to his bandaged forehead...
Other acts scheduled to perform at theinaugural balls will include U2, the GratefulDead, Los Lobos and Fleetwood...