Fleetwood Mac - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: 1969-1970

Here's another album of Fleetwood Mac performing for the BBC. 1969 and 1970 are two of my favorite years of the band's music, because they still were heavily into the blues, but they also showed more variety with rock and pop.

This time around, ten of the 13 songs are officially unreleased. The sound quality is consistently high for both the officially released and unreleased tracks. Everything here is from the BBC except for the first three tracks, which are from a Finnish radio show, and "I'm Worried," which comes from a Norwegian TV show.

Guitarist Peter Green left the band in May 1970. All but the last four songs are from April 1970 or earlier, so they still feature him. The remaining Fleetwood Mac songs are from a brief time when the band was mainly led by Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer, before Christine McVie joined.

The song "No Road Is the Right Road" is by McVie when she was a solo artist right before joining the band. The song was clearly incomplete, fading out after about a minute and a half, right in the middle of the second chorus. To give it a better finish, I completed the second chorus by patching in the missing part from the first chorus. So at least the song comes to a good conclusion now, even though it's still short and incomplete. That's why it has "[Edit]" in the title. By the way, no studio version of the song ever appears to have been released, either by Chicken Shack, Christine McVie solo, or Fleetwood Mac.

On a different note, many of the BBC performances have also appeared on my various stray tracks albums for the band. I hope you don't mind the duplication, but I figure it makes sense to have all the BBC performances together, as well as separately highlighting the songs that were ONLY performed (or at least properly recorded) at the BBC on the stray tracks albums.

 

This album is 51 minutes long.

 

UPDATE: On September 26, 2025, I redid the mp3 download file. I'm not sure why, but I had a couple of songs out of chronological order between this album and Volume 4. So I moved some songs from here to there, and from there to here. 

 

01 Shake Your Moneymaker (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Like It This Way [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 All Over Again [I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living] (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Although the Sun Is Shining (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
06 No Road Is the Right Road [Edit] (Christine McVie)
07 I'm Worried (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Tell Me You Need Me (Christine McVie)
09 Sandy Mary (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Only You (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Tiger (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Leaving Town Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
13 World in Harmony [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)

 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MedpiyMM 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1yz1olcNKG5pT7A/file

The cover art photo is of the band playing on the set of some TV show. But I don't know the show or the date. But the fact that Peter Green was dressed in a white robe like a prophet is a sign it was probably near the end of his time in the band.