Handwritten Fleetwood Mac lyrics are expected to sell for up to £15,000.
Handwritten Fleetwood Mac lyrics are being auctioned
A composition sheet, which also included instrumentation notes, for the group’s 1969 single Man of the World will be auctioned by Ewbank’s next week, with an estimated value of £12-15000.
The document was written in blue ballpoint pen and corrected in black ink and showed Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green – who left the band in 1970 and died in 2020 – had changed three lines of the lyrics and ticked off each finalised line in the song.
Ewbank’s specialist John Silke said: “Few musicians can claim to have been as talented and as important to the development of rock music from the blues and folk movements as Peter Green.
“The founding father of Fleetwood Mac, who have sold more than 120 million records over the years, it is an incredible privilege to be able to sell his own handwritten lyrics and instrumentation for one his most important songs.”
Man of the World was Fleetwood Mac’s only single for Immediate Records and appeared on an early greatest hits album in 1971. The track was never played live after Peter left the band until almost 50 years later, when they played it in Australia on their 2019 tour.
Band member Mick Fleetwood previously said the song was “very prophetic” and gave an insight into Peter’s mental state at the time.
He told Rolling Stone in 2020: “It’s a very prophetic song. When he made those songs, we had no idea that he was suffering internally as much as he was. But if you listen to the words, it’s crucifyingly obvious what was going on. But a beautiful song. A poignant song.”
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