FLEETWOOD MAC Topped UK Singles Chart This Day 55 Years Ago With Instrumental Pearl ‘ALBATROSS’

Top singles from the past

29 January 2024

The original blues rock line-up of FLEETWOOD MAC featuring the late great guitarist/vocalist Peter Green scored several hits with crackers such as Oh Well,
Black Magic Woman, The Green Manalishi
and Need Your Love Tonight. With instrumental ALBATROSS they topped the UK Singles Chart 55 years ago today, on 29 January 1969.

Two songs reportedly inspired Peter Green to write Albatross. Chuck Berry‘s 1957
song Deep Feeling and Sleep Walk, also an instrumental, by Santo & Johnny (1959).

Fly high.

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