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Mark Blake

"People used to say to me, 'Oh, you're better than Eric Clapton.' I didn’t know where to put myself." The triumph and tragedy of Peter Green, the man who founded Fleetwood Mac

Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac posing for a photograph in a field in 1969.

Hailed as a genius by everyone from Eric Clapton to Noel Gallagher, late Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green was one of the greatest British blues guitarists of his generation. In 2012, eight years before his death at the age of 73, Classic Rock was granted a rare audience with a reclusive man who changed music without ever truly conquering his demons.

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