When he called Finn, he told him, “It’s not really an audition” – but it sort of was. “But then to be really truthful, I had my secret weapon … I said, ‘I would like to suggest that Neil Finn flies to Hawaii’, where we all were doing this.” “We went through some suggestions – some of them were great, but they just weren’t right,” said Fleetwood, who admitted it nearly ended with the band saying “we can’t find anyone”. The decision to hire Mike Campbell came easy – “both Mike and Tom were very close to Stevie ” – but finding a vocalist was harder.
And then this happened,” he said, referring to the departure of Buckingham. “We became a very, very close family and helped out with their family album, which was totally cool. Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morningįleetwood told Finn that if he ever needed a drummer, “just let me know” – so when Finn and his son Liam began planning their collaborative 2018 album Lightsleeper, Finn cashed in the offer: “He said, ‘Are you serious?’ and I said, ‘Absolutely’.”įleetwood and his partner Chelsea rented a house in Auckland for six weeks. We went to dinner, and ever since then have remained and are incredibly close friends.” “Going down the corridor I see him, and he said, ‘Do you remember me?’, and I said, ‘Of course I do! I’m your superfan!’. And it never went anywhere.”įinn and Fleetwood didn’t meet again until “I don’t know, 15 years later”, at the New Zealand Music awards in Auckland. “We had a great night, and broke a couple of glasses – so to speak – and then wandered off.
“And I wasn’t doing anything, so I said, ‘Would you like to form a band?’ Drummers say that when there’s nothing happening,” he laughed. “I didn’t know him from Adam, but later on that night just happened to be sitting with him,” Fleetwood said. Finn was playing with the Pretenders Fleetwood Mac was on hiatus.
“I’ve always, right from the beginning, loved his songwriting – especially one song that drove me over the wall – Don’t Dream It’s Over – years and years ago.”įleetwood had been a Crowded House fan “right from the beginning”, he said, but the pair didn’t meet until 1999 at Concert for Linda: a benefit tribute to Linda McCartney held at Royal Albert Hall. “It’s a long story – it’s over 20 years long.
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