SYNOPSIS

Under license from Scanbox International

“The guitar used to speak for me, but I can’t let it do that for me anymore, I can’t let it break my heart again”. Peter was quoted in Mojo ten years ago but the quote stands firm today in summing up this incredible man and his story. After replacing the legendary Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s blues breakers, Peter went on to form Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac.

Peter’s genius on the guitar was matched by the songs he wrote including Black Magic Woman, later a huge debut hit for Santana, and the supernatural and sublime instrumental Albatross, as well as the classic ‘Oh Well’. The film traces that early success, explores Peter’s drug use and his eternal spiral into schizophrenia and his return to the recording studio and live music scene in the mid 1990’s.

The film contains extensive and rare archive footage of live and studio performances, stills and original in depth interviews, with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Mike Vernon, (legendary producer of the original Fleetwood Mac Blue Horizons albums), Noel Gallagher, John Mayall, Dennis Keane (road manager), Carlos Santana, Jeremy Spencer, (the original Fleetwood Mac guitarist), and of course Peter himself.