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On Saturday, on 74-m to year of life has died the guitarist, one of the founders of the band Fleetwood Mac Peter green. His relatives reported that he “died peacefully in his sleep”. His life is peaceful will not name.The first musical passion of the son of a postman Peter Greenbaum was skiffle. With drummer Mick Fleetwood, another founder of Fleetwood Mac, he was introduced to big-bit team called Peter B’s Looners. But before the light appeared Fleetwood Mac, Peter green still managed to play in the group John mayola been so diligent. His place in her musician lost to Eric Clapton, who joined in the Cream. The cooperation of the green and Mayella was short-lived, however, been so diligent green managed to record the album “A Hard Road”, which became a British Blues-rock classics along with the previous album “Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton” (1966). In the group that worked on this album, the bass guitar was played by John McVie, not only which later became a part of Fleetwood Mac, but also shared with her the first letters of his name “Mac”. The name Peter green some time also in the name of the new band Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. Later the name was shortened.The first three years of the career of Fleetwood Mac is firmly connected with the name Peter green, and went down in history of British rock music as one of the most remarkable pages. Among the songs created by Peter green in this period, “Black Magic Woman”, which later became a huge hit in the performance of Carlos Santana’s instrumental hit “Albatross”, who led the charts, as well as rock standards “Oh Well”, “Man of the World”. The first album Fleetwood Mac arrived in England to fourth place, stayed in the charts for 37 weeks and has sold over 1 million copies.The group rushed to the American market. Tours to the USA took place with success, the British Blues musicians from competing with local musicians on an equal footing, but soon Peter Greene has been a mental problem. It all started in 1968 with experiments with LSD in the company of the group the Grateful Dead. While Fleetwood Mac was enjoying the fame, the guitarist talked about the “guilt” that was bored with their jobs and more donated to charity.In 1970, during a tour Fleetwood Mac in Germany Peter green literally stole from a group of local hippies. Technology found the musician in their municipality of intoxication. By the time he too many hours improvising on the guitar. Later, under the impression that Greene wrote the song “The Green Manalishi”, which reached tenth place in the charts, and in 1979 again became popular performed by Judas Priest. In the same 1970, green was diagnosed with schizophrenia and prescribed electroshock therapy.In the first half of the 1970s at the helm of the group stood John McVie and his wife Christine, and later the main vocals took on an extravagant American girl Stevie nicks. She joined the group in 1974 with guitarist Lindsay Buckingham. In the ensuing pop-melodies and pre��arpansa full rebranding team entered in the Golden period of his career. The album “Rumours” (1977) became the most successful from Fleetwood Mac. In the subsequent forty-plus years of Fleetwood Mac has undergone constant change. They have so much akin to US that in the early 1990s, when left Fleetwood Mac Stevie nicks to reunite the musicians persuaded the President bill Clinton.Peter green in Fleetwood Mac never returned. During 1970-1990-ies of the leading musicians of the world sang his songs. Already in 1970 the song “Black Magic Woman” reached the fourth place in the American charts in a version of the band Santana.While Fleetwood Mac was reaping the fruits of fame, Peter green, lived on a kibbutz near tel Aviv. He later returned to England, where he worked as a nurse and a gardener, slept at friends or relatives. In 1977, during a quarrel with Fleetwood Mac Manager Clifford Davis, Peter green threatened him with a shotgun and eventually ended up in a psychiatric clinic. However, in the 1980s, he managed more or less to restore his music career. In the second half of the 1990s, Peter green began to release albums with his own groups. In 1998, he was inducted into the Hall of fame rock n ‘ roll as a member of Fleetwood Mac. At the ceremony, he played “Black Magic Woman” solo queue with Carlos Santana.In February 2020, Mick Fleetwood organized a big concert in honour of Peter green, which was attended by Pete Townsend (The Who), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), bill Wyman (ex Rolling stone) and 86-year-old John Mayall. According to him, “in the 1960s, Peter was not simple equal.” Noel Gallagher (Oasis) are simply called green the best British Blues guitarist of all time.Boris Barabanov