The band soon released two singles "Black Magic Woman" (later a big hit for Santana) and "Need Your Love So Bad". The album was hugely successful in the UK, hitting no.4, though it did not have any singles on it. In fact there were no other players on the album (except for the song "Long Grey Mare", which was recorded when Bob Brunning was in the band). Within weeks of this show, John McVie agreed to become the bassist for the band.įleetwood Mac's first album, Fleetwood Mac, was a no-frills blues album and was released on the Blue Horizon label in February 1968. The Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, Brunning version of the band made its debut on 13 August 1967 at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. In the meantime Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood teamed up with talented slide player Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning, who was in the band on the understanding that he would leave if and when McVie agreed to join. However McVie opted for the steady paycheque of the Mayall gig rather than the unknown of a new band. The pair desperately wanted McVie on bass and even named the band 'Fleetwood Mac' as a way to entice McVie. Green contacted Fleetwood to form a new band.
The fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, "Fleetwood Mac". Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie and Green recorded five songs. The Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band. Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood - "Peter B's Looners" and the subsequent "Shotgun Express" (which featured a young vocalist named Rod Stewart). After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. Fleetwood Mac were formed in 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.
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