Fleetwood Mac: Unbroken Chain

If you are a fan perhaps this is worth watching, although it is unlikely to reveal a single thing that you didn't already know. Also, the ignorant American narration will likely grate.

Right off the bat the narrator says;

"The Beetles changed the face of rock and roll, and ushered in a dominance of the music charts by British acts that were little more than pale imitations of the Fab Four." (some truth in that perhaps, but there were many other great British performers).

He then slags off The Dave Clark Five and Gerry And The Pacemakers. Before proclaiming it "led many to wonder whether rock was to hit another stagnant role".

Then, this;

"But once again, American music would prove to be both an inspiration and a saviour to the British music scene." Wow. The people who wrote this are dinosaurs. Having met many Americans over the years, I thought they and their thinking were long extinct.

So apparently The Who, The Hollies, Cliff Richard, Tom Jones and countless others.... Oh yeah, The Rolling Stones, can thank American artists for their great music. Thanks for saving us America. Thankfully I'm aware that only 0.001% of Americans believe this sort of crap.

And BTW, in my opinion, not a fact, The Beetles early music was the most formulaic, pleasing to the ear music I have ever heard. And that's fine. There is a place for pop music, as it's popular. That being said, The Beetles later work, whether together or solo are the songs I still play.

This video sure has something against rock & roll, and makes some rather bizarre claims, such as that Chickenshack were one of the main blues bands (or something like that, I forget their exact wording and do not care to watch the video again just to remind myself). I guess it's nice though that occasional videos like this get made at all. It was fine to put on and eat lunch while watching. As I was never any big fan of Fleetwood Mac, this was fine to give me an hour's worth of history about the band(s), and now I have gone back to my life. As a bonus, I did not have to get this back to the library within three days, as they have it filed under nonfiction DVD instead of with all the fiction films.

All this documentary has is some fake, canned music while some narrator tells the story of the band. He makes a lot of claims about their personal lives but doesn't seem to have any evidence. The people interviewed are not part of the band, the record label. They had titles like "BBC executive" or "Fan Club manager UK" and they say things like "I think that...." Which is code for "I have no idea because I wasn't there...." I hate these documentaries that grab up a bunch of photographs and then zoom in/out on them, or spin, or blur them, etc because they didn't do their own photography or filming. They just made up a show based on other people's work.