Peter Green

@Musicians, Family and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Peter Green is a British musician and the founder of the famous English band ‘Fleetwood Mac’ Schizophrenia British Musicians Guitarists Scorpio Celebrities 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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Birthday: October 29, 1946 Nationality: British Famous: Musicians, Songwriters, Musicians, Guitarists Spouses: Jane Samuels Siblings: Len, Michael Known as: Peter Allen Greenbaum Childrens: Rosebud Samuels-Greenbaum Information Detail Birthday October 29, 1946 Nationality British Famous Musicians, Songwriters, Musicians, Guitarists 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

Bethnal Green, London

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

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. Unsplash Personal 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. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

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. Unsplash Career

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’. Unsplash Career

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. Unsplash Career

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’. Unsplash Career

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. Unsplash Career

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. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	October 29, 1946
Nationality	British
Famous	Musicians, Songwriters, Musicians, Guitarists
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

Peter Green

British

Oct 29, 1946

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Bethnal Green, London