“I told Jimmy Page: ‘Come on! People want to see Zeppelin back together!’ I won’t say I was responsible, but after that they did play that reunion gig”: Mick Fleetwood’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger and more

Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac posing for a photograph in the 1970s.

No wonder Mick Fleetwood has the best stories – he has the best view. For more than 40 years, the towering drummer has looked down on rock’n’roll landscape from his lofty perch on the Fleetwood Mac drum stool, observing the great, the good, the drunk and the doomed – and frequently hopped off to partake in the festivities. Like many of his vintage, Fleetwood has weathered the personal storms of bankruptcy, divorce and cocaine addiction, but he emerged with his memory and sense of humour intact. In 2008, Classic Rock took the then-61-year-old drummer on journey through the decades to share stories about some of the more memorable people along the way.