Get the latest gossip
Mick Fleetwood Remembers ‘Musical Father’ John Mayall
Mick Fleetwood, once a member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, paid tribute to the British blues legend who died Tuesday at the age of 90.
To have spent time as part of his band the ‘Blues Breakers’ led the three of us, Peter Green, John McVie, and myself to form Fleetwood Mac back in 1967!! While Stevie Van Zandt never spent time as a Bluesbreakers member, the E Street Band guitarist recognized the legacy of “the extraordinarily important Godfather of British Blues” in a statement to Rolling Stone. “[Alexis] Korner, (1928-1984), the Brahman of British Blues, who gave us the Rolling Stones, Cream, Manfred Mann, Free, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, and a dozen more variations of the British Invasion, encouraged and mentored the young Mayall early on, convincing him to continue the good fight and stick with the Blues because that tribe was tiny and an endangered species from the start.
Or read this on RollingStone
