Peter Green

Description: (Musician & Songwriter)

Peter Allen Greenbaum, famously known as Peter Green, was a British blues rock guitarist and composer. He is popularly known as the founder of the famous English band Fleetwood Mac. He was ranked 38th in Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and Mojo magazine voted him as the third-best guitarist of all time. Green started his escapades with music at a very young age, learnt guitar all by himself on a cheap Spanish guitar that his brother bought him when he was 11. After that he began to make music professionally with different bands, until he made a blues band of his own -Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac - featuring Jeremy Spencer and later renamed it as Fleetwood Mac. The band came out with many successful albums, and most of the compositions were Green’s original. But, due to high dependency on drugs, gradually he lost control on his mind and suffered from drug induced schizophrenia, which led to his professional as well as personal decline. Green spent many years in psychiatric care and took electroconvulsive therapy but eventually emerged from it and rebuilt his career by working sporadically with Fleetwood Mac and formed his own band again, Peter Green and Friends.

Overview

Birthday October 29, 1946 (Scorpio)
Born In England
Alternative names Peter Allen Greenbaum
City London, England
Died on July 25, 2020
Spouse/Ex- Jane Samuels
Parents Joe
Ann Greenbaum
Children Rosebud Samuels-Greenbaum
Relatives Len, Michael

Did you know

When did Peter Green leave Fleetwood Mac? Peter Green left Fleetwood Mac in May 1970, due to struggles with his mental health.
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