Fleetwood Mac: Shake your moneymaker (Part Three -1975 —>)  For
a band for whom instability was almost a watchword for so much
of their career up until 1975, the history of Fleetwood Mac
since then has been relatively stable.  Sure, there have been
personnel changes, mostly temporary in nature, although
Christine McVie did retire permanently from the band in 1998 and
seems to have no inclination to return to the fold.  However,
 in 2010, with every remaining member of the ‘Rumours‘-era band
into their sixties, Fleetwood Mac have abandoned the headstrong
passions of youth and the follies of middle age to become an
institution, much like The Rolling Stones.  Like the Stones,
little attention is paid by the wider public to their newer
songs, but large audiences will turn out every few years and
fill anonymous arenas to hear them crank out ‘The Chain’ and
‘Rhiannon’ and all those mid-seventies radio favourites. 
Hardcore fans will doubtless disagree, but they have in effect
become their own tribute band.  The com