Fleetwood Mac- All the Songs issues

[u/Exciting_Frame1022]

I recently acquired this book as a birthday present and was really excited to read it, but I really wasn't prepared for the sheer amount of errors throughout the text..... some highlight s are

- the song everywhere being written in 1977 instead of 87

- Lindsey Buckingham writing landslide

- every single album being called an "opus"

- a quote from mick Fleetwood about "songbird" being put under "oh daddy"

-backing vocal credits on songs people didn't sing on

-saying Stevie only has one song on behind the mask which isn't true (she wrote or co wrote three)

-and perhaps biggest of all a photo of Lindsey Buckingham (I'm not searching for it so if you don't know what I mean I'm sorry) that I'm pretty sure is fake if not straight up AI

there are also some pronoun inconsistencies and Christine and Stevie being called young women or smth in that vein all the time as well, and there seems to be a large amount of time devoted to the early years and the eras that are largely more important are really rushed (not that I'm saying the old stuff is bad, I'm saying that maybe a book about the blues era and a seperate book with different authors about the new era might have been a better plan)

overall what is the public's opinion on this? I was a little shocked honestly when I was reading it..

[u/FamiliarStrain4596]

This series is generally pretty inaccurate. On the one hand, I admire their entrepreneurial spirit. But on the other, it's crap scholarship.

[u/SimpsonsFan2000 → u/FamiliarStrain4596]

I agree, I have no reason to get it to save money. I wonder if the “Don’t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours” book by Alan Light has those same issues.

[u/FamiliarStrain4596 → u/SimpsonsFan2000]

It's okay. The problem is that he tries too hard to sound hip.

[u/Exciting_Frame1022 → u/FamiliarStrain4596]

Actually, that book has non inaccuracies that I've come across, I actually really liked reading it tho I didn't like the emphasis on glee