{"id":798436,"date":"2019-08-12T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=870389"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:26:27","slug":"watch-fleetwood-mac-play-man-of-the-world-for-first-time-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-fleetwood-mac-play-man-of-the-world-for-first-time-in-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Fleetwood Mac Play \u2018Man of the World\u2019 for First Time in 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fleetwood Mac<\/a> brought their world tour down to Australia for a month-long run of shows late last week, and during the second concert at the RAC Arena in Perth Sunday they expanded the setlist by playing the Peter Green-era classic \u201cMan of the World\u201d for the first time since 1969. Check out fan-shot video of the song right here. \u201cWe\u2019re going to debut this song now which was one of [Green\u2019s] great songs,\u201d Neil Finn<\/a> told the crowd before they did it. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor and a privilege for me to play it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show also featured the Split Enz song \u201cI Got You,\u201d which was in the setlist when the tour began in October but vanished after just eleven shows. Neil Finn is native to New Zealand and the 1979 song hit Number One there in addition to Australia, so bringing it back into the set was a no-brainer. More surprising was the return of \u201cBlue Letter\u201d from the 1975 Fleetwood Mac<\/em> LP, which the band hadn\u2019t played since the Behind The Mask<\/em> tour in 1990.<\/p>\n

Before the tour began, Stevie Nicks told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that she wanted to play songs they hadn\u2019t touched in a long time, including ones from the Peter Green period of the late 1960s and early 1970s. \u201cThere are 10 hits we have to do,\u201d she said. \u201cThat leaves another 13 songs if you want to do a three-hour show. Then you crochet them all together and you make a great sequence and you have something that nobody has seen before except all the things they want to see are there. At rehearsal, we\u2019re going to put up a board of 60 songs. Then we start with number one and we go through and we play everything. Slowly you start taking songs off and you start to see your set come together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Australia\/New Zealand leg ends September 21st with a show at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin. They then return to North America<\/a> in late October to make up for seven shows they postponed earlier this year when Stevie Nicks came down with the flu.<\/p>\n