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All the rarities of the era are on this BMG / Warners special 2020 reissue of Then Play On, including the CD-closing instrumental, the super-rare (at least back then because no one even heard it), 'World In Harmony', a Fleetwood Mac curio credited to Kirwan & Green and like so many tracks here, unheard on radio at the time.

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There wasnвЂ™t any вЂњBlack Magic WomanвЂќ, here replaced by the sardonic love connection of вЂњRattlesnake ShakeвЂќ, and no chart-topping rock instrumental like вЂњAlbatrossвЂќ, supplanted here by a series of equally memorable instrumentals composed by Green, Kirwan, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. That said, Fleetwood MacвЂ™s singles, cut from that same sometime in 1969 era, were tragically mis-promoted at the time and thus, the album wasnвЂ™t instantly viewed as Fleetwood MacвЂ™s Abbey Road, although it was the final album that Peter Green and that fabled, original lineup played and wrote on. The album was/is a brilliant showcase, less for Peter Green and more for Danny Kirwan, the late, great guitar genius, who, while recently dying in 2018, wrote many of the best tracks on Then Play On. release of Then Play On, the album classic that was reissued again, not on Reprise this time, but on BMG in 2020. Then, in the Fall of вЂ™69, Epic was history and Reprise Records stunned the music world with the L.P. on Epic Records, failed to raise interest from the teenyboppers of the day, yet it was to be that second Epic album, a compilation and a harbinger, English Rose from later in 1968, that seized the reigns of Fleetwood Mac in a way that established English Rose as, even till today, among the greatest of all Mac albums. Offering a Stateside perspective from an original fan, and now in 2020 hindsight, that first self-titled Fleetwood Mac album from early 1968, (the one with the garbage can cover) released in the U.S.

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