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Peter Green was born at 1946-10-29

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Peter Green was born in Bethnal Green, London

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Peter Green's nationalities is British

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Peter Green's spouses is Jane Samuels

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Peter Green's siblings is Len, Michael

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Peter Green's childrens is Rosebud Samuels-Greenbaum

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Peter Green's mother is Ann Greenbaum

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Peter Green is famouse as Musician & Songwriter

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Peter Green's Personal Details

Peter Green is a British musician and the founder of the famous English band ‘Fleetwood Mac’

Information	Detail
Birthday	October 29, 1946
Nationality	British
Famous	Musicians, Guitarists, Musicians, Songwriters
Spouses	Jane Samuels
Siblings	Len, Michael
Known as	Peter Allen Greenbaum
Childrens	Rosebud Samuels-Greenbaum
Birth Place	Bethnal Green, London
Gender	Male
Father	Joe
Mother	Ann Greenbaum
Net Worth	$15 Million as of May 22,2017
Sun Sign	Scorpio
Born in	Bethnal Green, London
Famous as	Musician & Songwriter

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Who is Peter Green?

Peter Allen Greenbaum, famously known as Peter Green, is 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 has 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 as ‘Fleetwood Mac’. The band came out with many successful albums, and most of the compositions were Green’s original. But, due 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’.

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Childhood & Early Life

Green was born in Bethnal Green, London, in a working-class household. He was interested in music since a very early age and started experimenting with guitar at the age of 11.

Career

At 15, Green started playing music professionally. He initially played in the band called, ‘Bobby Denim and the Dominoes’ and performed pop chart covers and rock ‘n’ roll standards with the band.

Green later joined a rhythm and blues outfit the muskrats and thereafter a band called ‘The Tridents’. He played bass for the band but in 1966, he was hired as lead guitarist in Peter Bardens’ band, ‘Peter B’s Looners’.

Green started to gain popularity in the music circuit and he was invited to fill in for Clapton in ‘John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers’ for three of their concerts. When Clapton left the band, he became the full-time member.

In 1967, his recording debut released with ‘John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers’, titled ‘A Hard Road’. It featured his own compositions like, ‘The Same Way’ and ‘The Supernatural’. Around this time, he gained the nickname ‘The Green God’.

He decided to form his own blues band and assembled a bunch of musicians. The band was named ‘Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer’ and included ex-Bluesbreaker Mick Fleetwood on drums and Jeremy Spencer on guitar.

Within a month of their formation the band played at the Windsor National Jazz and Blues Festival in 1967, which led to their signing to Mike Vernon’s Blue Horizon label. Soon ex- Bluesbreakers' bassist John McVie joined the band.

From 1968, Green increasingly started contributing more and more as a writer for the band and made many original compositions. Their studio album, ‘Mr. Wonderful’ was released and Green’s ‘Black Magic Woman’ topped the charts.

More of his singles started to hit the chart in 1969, like, ‘Albatross’, ‘Oh Well’, ‘Man of the World’ and ‘The Green Manalishi’. Band’s next album, ‘Blues Jam in Chicago’ was recorded at the Chess Records Ter-Mar Studio, Chicago.

In the same year, they signed a deal with Warner Bros. Records and released ‘Then Play On’. The album featured band’s new guitarist Danny Kirwan; it was because Spencer declined playing on any of Green’s original compositions.

By 1970, Green’s state of mind started to change and his band mates recognized it. He started writing very sad lyrics like, ‘Man of the World’ and took large doses of LSD. He left ‘Fleetwood Mac’ later that year.

After leaving his original band, he performed at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music with John Mayall, Rod Mayall and Larry Taylor. He also recorded a jam session, ‘The End of the Game’, during the same time.

In 1971, he reunited with Fleetwood Mac for a brief time for their USA tour under the different name, ‘Peter Blue’. He also recorded two tracks for the album, ‘Juju’ but his mental health was increasingly deteriorating by this time.

Soon Green was diagnosed with schizophrenia and through the rest of the 1970s he underwent psychotherapies and electroconvulsive therapies. In 1977, he was arrested for threatening his accountant with a shotgun.

By 1979, with the help of his brother Michael, Green started to resurface on the professional scene and signed with Peter Vernon-Kell’s PVK label. He also made an appearance on Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’.

He made contribution to Mick Fleetwood’s album, ‘The Visitor’, specifically to the songs ‘Rattlesnake Shake’ and ‘Super Brains’, in 1981. He also recorded sessions with various other artists like, Katmandu, Ray Dorset, Vincent Crane, Len Surtees, etc.

In the late 1990s, he formed, with Nigel Watson and Cozy Powell, ‘Peter Green Splinter Group’ and the group released albums like, ‘Soho Session (1998)’, ‘Hot Foot Powder (2000)’, ‘Blues Don’t Change (2001)’, ‘Reaching the Cold 100 (2003)’, etc.

In 2004, Green left the group and moved to Sweden, and later joined ‘The British Blues All Stars’ to perform in one of their tours. But the tour got cancelled and he started to go through tough time due to his medication.

A BBC Four documentary, ‘Peter Green: Man of the World’, produced by Henry Hadaway, was released in 2009. He formed the band ‘Peter Green and Friends’ this time and toured with them to Ireland, Germany, England and Australia.

Major Works

Although Green has been a part of many band over the years but his formation of ‘Fleetwood Mac’ is considered to be his most prominent work until his mental health started to fail and he had to leave the band.

Personal Life & Legacy

Green was married to Jane Samuels from 1978-79. The couple had a daughter together: Rosebud Samuels-Greenbaum.

He underwent long periods of mental illness (schizophrenia), drug addiction and poverty in 1970s to 1980s, which is why he moved in with his eldest brother Len and his wife Gloria who live in Great Yarmouth.