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First steps, Hayling Island 1948.

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Mike and Biddy on their wedding day.

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At five taking in the sights.

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My family, Hayling Island, 1949: Susan, Sally and Me on Mum’s lap.

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At thirteen in Gloucestershire wondering what’s coming next.

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The Bo Street Runners, Baby Never Goodbye Promo Shoot, back when I was called “Mike”.

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The lads of Fleetwood Mac: Jeremy, John, Me, Danny and Peter in 1968.

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An early Fleetwood Mac TV appearance, Denmark, 1968.

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Steering the course with John, Peter, Danny and Jeremy.

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Rave on! An ad for our headlining show at the Lyceum, midnight ‘till 7am.

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Rehearsal at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969.

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Fleetwood Mac with Cliff Richard, 1969.

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Spring is in swing: an ad for a 1970 gig in Reading with Chicken Shack.

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Ready for kickoff, 1960s.

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At Kiln House, 1970.

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Danny Kirwan, Bob Welch, Me, John and Christine McVie, on a rock at Kiln House.

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Danny and John sitting in the garden at Kiln House.

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Peter Green during his time with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.

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John Mayall in the studio.

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With my trusty portable tape recorder, on the road, 1970.

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My first marriage to Jenny, 1970.

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Ready for the beach, somewhere in America.

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Jenny and I on holiday in Corfu, Greece.

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Our first winter. Taken at Benifolds with the band and friends, 1970. Jenny heavily pregnant with Amelia is on the left with Bailey the dog.

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Jeremy and I - and my balls. Backstage at the Boston Tea Party, 1970.

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Walking with my balls sometime in 1971.

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Seedy Management: Me and John McVie during a promo shoot for Penguin. What good are gold records if you can’t pawn them anyway?

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Gone west: John, me, Bob Welch and Christine, Hollywood, 1974.

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With my daughter Lucy, Napili Bay, Hawaii, 1975.

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Who invited the rabbit? Mo Ostin, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Joe Smith, Me, Chris and John at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1975.

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My daughters Amelia and Lucy with me, my sister Sally and my parents in 1975.

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The Rumours crew, 1977.

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Here we are in 1977. Lindsey, me, Stevie, Chris and John.

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For the sake of the U.S. Government: Me, Mickey Shapiro and Jenny at our second wedding.

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At it again! Award show fun, 1977.

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Get Tusked: with our gold records for Tusk, 1979.

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Star treatment: having our star added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1979.

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Me, John and his wife Julie at their wedding in LA, 1978.

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Best man for “The Man”! John and I at his wedding.

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Lindsey and I giving a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand, 1980.

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Staying afloat.

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What the hey? In the lotus position during the shoot for the Rolling Stone article announcing my bankruptcy, the Blue Whale, Malibu, 1984.

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Fleetwood Mac, 1982.

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At the US Festival with Steve Wozniak and Bill Graham in 1982.

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John and I beside a crashed plane at the side of a runway we’d just landed on. From my Polaroid collection.

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Seeing John off after he’d completed his parts for the Tusk session. Behind us is his boat - ‘Challenge’ he sailed to Tahiti.

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Me with Duane Eddy. I learned to play drums to his records, following the moves of his drummer Sandy Nelson. I later played on Duane’s records.

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My sister Susan, my mother Biddy, me and my sister Sally in the 1980s.

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Lucy and Amelia, Van Nuys, 1983.

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In Ghana working on The Visitor.

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Africa by bus: Ghana, 1981.

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Taking it in, Ghana, 1981.

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Digging their spirit, London, 1981.

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With the totem that hangs above my drum kit on my farm in Maui, 1987.

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Backstage with Gary Busey and George Hawkins. We had a band called The Cholos together. Gary Busey would do Buddy Holly covers.

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Me and Paul McCartney, late 80s.

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Conducting Tusk, Dodger Stadium.

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Hypnotized: Bob Welch at the Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas, 1978.

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Great balls of fire: Keith Richards and I playing with Jerry Lee Lewis on television in 1986.

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Christine, Rick Vito and Stevie, 1987.

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Me and my sister Susan in 1988.

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Cuffed and stuffed filming The Running Man in 1987.

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I look a bit unwell: my guest spot on Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1987. I played an Antedean, a fish-like humanoid who was an assassin. I said I would shave my beard for the role only if my character were beamed onto the ship - he was, to Deck D where he got thrown in jail.

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The longest marriage I’ve ever had: John McVie and I.

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Me with a mandolin.

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Hold on a minute!

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Announcing our upcoming performance at Clinton’s inauguration, January, 1993.

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A changed band. Me, Dave Mason, Billy Burnette, Bekka Bramlett and John McVie.

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With Lynn in the 90s.

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My daughter Amelia with my grandson Wolf, 1996.

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Stevie and I at the premiere of Twister, 1996.

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Blues Brother: With Dan Ackroyd at the Rolling Stone covers party, 1998.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction at the Waldorf Astoria, New York City, 1998.

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At Bill Clinton’s farewell party at the White House, 2001.

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Amelia, me, Lynn and Lucy about to board the tour plane, 2003.

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With Bill Wyman at a sale of Beatles memorabilia in 2001 at Wyman’s Sticky Fingers restaurant, London.

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With Stevie on our plane during the Say You Will tour, 2003.

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My close friend and manager Carl Stubner and I at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona on the Say You Will tour, 2003.

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Stevie, Lindsey, me and John, Australia, 2004.

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A visit from Peter Green. At Wembley Arena, 2003.

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My car Lettuce Leaf beside a Spitfire at Goodwood Racetrack, Chichester, England.

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Madison Square Garden, 2009.

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Tessa and Ruby and Lynn getting up close and personal with a wombat during an off day on the Fleetwood Mac Unleashed tour in November, 2009.

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My girls Ruby and Tessa and I say goodnight to the audience in New Zealand, 2009.

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With Tessa and Ruby backstage in Chicago, 2009.

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Pattie Boyd and I standing before a picture of she and George at an art exhibit in Sydney, 2009.

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With Jenny Boyd at her book launch in London, 2013.

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With my daughter Lucy at a benefit for Haiti in Los Angeles in 2010.

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Playing the talking drum at a fundraiser for Japanese tsunami victims in 2011.

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Lynn and I playing with our daughters Ruby and Tessa in Lanai, May 2010.

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There’s nothing like sunset on Maui, the island I call home.

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My co-author Anthony and I donning a pair of my bowler hats during a stroll on my farm in Maui, 2013.

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With the girls of Fleetwood Mac at the premiere of Stevie’s documentary In Your Dreams, London, 2013. Chris hadn’t agreed to re-join us at this point.

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With my girlfriend Chelsea Hill in Sardinia, 2013.

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Fleetwood Mac, 2014.

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