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Popmuseum(Die ausführlichen Details sind vor allem in Mick Fleetwoods Autobiografien, in Celmins Greenie-Biographie und Dinky Dawsons Autobiographie zu lesen).
„In February 1970, Fleetwood Mac embarked on a European tour, playing to sellout crowds at every venue. When we arrived in Munich in early March, we lost Peter Green for good. Munich was the beginning of the end for the original band.
Somehow Peter had gotten surrounded by a bunch of rich German hippie brats, a group we called the Munich jet set. They had a commune in a big old house with a lot of LSD floating around. During our stay in Munich, Pete was whisked out there and spent all his time getting stoned. We never even saw him, except for the gig, and to this day, John and I always say that was it. Peter Green was never the same after that.
After Pete had been there for a few days, our road manager, Dennis Kean, and I went out to this commune to try to get him back. Pete was tripping but lucid. He told us he wanted to stay and live in this commune with these Germans. We could see these brats were taking advantage of Pete and were succeeding in pulling him away from us. Appealing to his sense of duty, we persuaded him to come with us and finish the tour. But that night, back at the hotel, he told us he was finished. He said he was in a panic, that he couldn’t handle the money, that he was just a working-class person, that he was going to leave Fleetwood Mac as soon as possible. When Clifford Davies told him that the band was committed through May, Pete agreed to stay with us till then. After that, he insisted, he was through. He was very responsible about it. He’d play out his days with us, and that was it.
We returned to England later in March, and tried to carry on as best we could. The German kids had followed Pete home to London and continued to work their dangerous trips on him, which only fed into his terrible guilt about what he called „unclean money.“
Mick Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac. S.80f.
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