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Also known as Peter Greenbaum, Peter Blue

British blues rock guitarist (1946–2020)

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Born
22 December 1924
Died
16 September 2024
Works
31

Top works

  • Betting and Gambling
  • Forty short prayers for war-time
  • Alexander the Great
  • The Greco-Persian wars
  • Alexander to Actium

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Acting · Peckham, London, England, UK

Peter Allen Greenbaum (29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020), known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who was the founder and original leader of the band Fleetwood Mac. Green formed the group in 1967 after a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and quickly established the new band as a popular live act in addition to a successful recording act,…

Known for

  • The Story of Fleetwood Mac2013
  • Peter Green: Splinter Group - In Concert — Himself2012
  • Peter Green: Man of the World2009
  • Blues at the BBC — Self2009
  • Red, White and Blues — Self2003
  • The Original Fleetwood Mac - The Early Years — Self - Fleetwood Mac (archive footage)1995

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1946
Active to
2020

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242,951
Total plays
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Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum in London, England on 29 October 1946; died 25 July 2020) was an influential blues guitarist and founder of Fleetwood Mac (with whom he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998) and Peter Green Splinter Group. In the late 1960s, Green fronted Fleetwood Mac when the band played a hard blues-rock sound, prior to the more pop/rock sound for which it became known by the 1970s. Rolling Stone ranked Green at number 58 in its list of the "100 Grea

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  • Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece.
  • ... for the first time he [Philip] began to understand how Macedonia's outdated institutions of feudalism and aristocratic monarchy, so despised by the rest of Greece, might prove a source of strength when dealing with such opponents.
  • In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world.
  • Aristotle found support for his thesis in facts drawn from geopolitics or ‘natural law’. Greek superiority had to be proved demonstrably innate, a gift of nature. In one celebrated fragment he counsels Alexander to be ‘a hegemon [leader] of Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants’.
  • Not once did I ever see such a striking resemblance,in either a man or a woman—it truly astounds me!This boy could be the son of great-hearted Odysseus,Tēlemachos, left as a newborn child in the houseby him, when because of me, the bitch, you Achaianswent out against Troy, hearts set on ruthless warfare.
  • Him she found on the seashore, sitting; nor were his eyesever wiped dry of tears; sweet life was draining from himas he yearned to be home, since the nymph no longer pleased him.

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Key facts

Born
Peter Allen Greenbaum , ( 1946-10-29 ) 29 October 1946, Bethnal Green , London, England
Died
25 July 2020 (2020-07-25) (aged 73), Canvey Island , Essex, England
Genres
Blues rock blues rock jazz fusion psychedelia
Occupations
Singer-songwriter musician
Instruments
Guitar vocals harmonica
Years active
1961–2020
Labels
Epic Reprise PVK Creole
Formerly of
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Fleetwood Mac Peter Green Splinter Group
Spouse
Jane Samuels ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1979 ) ​

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Peter Green
date of birth
1946-10-29
start of work period
1966-00-00
date of death
2020-07-25
birth name
Peter Allen Greenbaum
name in native language
Peter Green
end of work period
2020-00-00
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Peter Allen Greenbaum (29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020), known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who was the founder and original leader of the band Fleetwood Mac. Green formed the group in 1967 after a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and quickly established the new band as a popular live act in addition to a successful recording act, before departing in 1970. Green's songs, such as "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" and "Man of the World", appeared on singles charts and several have been adapted by a variety of musicians.

Green was a major figure in the "second great epoch" of the British blues movement. Eric Clapton praised his guitar playing and B. B. King commented, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." His trademark sound included string bending, vibrato, emotionally expressive tone and economy of style.

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