ARGUABLY the greatest white blues guitarist ever, the legendary Peter Green is set to play an informal, intimate date at the Brewery Arts Centre tonight (February7).
Considered the greatest white blues guitarist ever, Mojo readers have put him in their Top Three greatest guitarists of all time.
Green played in various bands in the mid 1960s, but got his first real break standing in for Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, aged only 19. In 1967 Green left the Bluesbreakers and, together with John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, formed the Fleetwood Mac.
In what many regard as Green's peak' period, the band released the albums Mr Wonderful, English Rose, Then Play On and the live Boston Tea Party.
The band had their first number one with the instrumental Albatross and Green's Black Magic Woman was a huge hit later for Carlos Santana.
By 1969, Fleetwood Mac were outselling both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in Britain.
Green's chaotic odyssey of almost a decade included rumours that he was a gravedigger, a bartender in Cornwall, a hospital orderly and a member of a commune.
After a full life less ordinary, Green is back on the road, playing guitar, singing and writing songs again.
February 6, 2003 11:30
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