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Danny Kirwan dead at 68


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RIP.

I only recently learned he was alive... I thought it had been reported that he'd died a few years ago.

 

Me too. He had a rough life after Mac. Mental illness, substance abuse, homelessness. It's somewhat miraculous he even lived to 68.

His lyricism made for my favorite period in the evolution of Fleetwood Mac. The combination of three guitars, deadly in most cases, made what is in my opinion, their best ever album, "Then Play On".

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RIP Danny, I was an admirer of Fleetwood Mac from the Peter Green days up until Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham joined, after those two joined I became a big time admirer. Always a great band but with those two added, it went from being great to super-stardom.
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Yes, I just read of this today myself.

I must say that I found him to be the most soulful member of that the Mac (sorry, Xtine McVie fans :facepalm:).

 

Young Danny Boy Comes Yer Way

[video:youtube]

 

Raving it up w/ Petey Green

Kirwan solos 1:22~1:45 & 2:08~2:35

[video:youtube]

 

Going in a new direction / "live" on TV color film

DK solo = 1:25~2:22

[video:youtube]

 

Doin' that proto-Little Feat thang

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wONRlMK8C6A

 

2 trax that are welded together...& some special film

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUbloyGsgw

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVZ61oTZts

 

Lest we get too seriously sad here's our ever-young hero singing maybe the most surprising country-rock-reggae track you'll ever hear/ gtr solo = 1:40~202

[video:youtube]

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  • 4 years later...

We played Kiln House until the record died, then we got another copy. That was Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer, Peter Green was long gone. 

Great album and great guitar work.

 

Rest in Peace Danny!

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It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is.
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If he was 68, he would have been 15 or so when he joined Fleetwood Mac in 1969. The link in the OP no longer goes to the obituary. 

 

The Guardian has an obituary as well and states that he was 18 when he joined Fleetwood Mac in 1968.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/14/danny-kirwan-obituary

 

The math is off somewhere probably. He would have been 72 if the Guardian is correct. I don't know what Rolling Stone said about his age when joining FM but it would have made him 71 if he was 18 and their story was accurate. I don't know, he was a great guitarist. 

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It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is.
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10 hours ago, KuruPrionz said:

If he was 68, he would have been 15 or so when he joined Fleetwood Mac in 1969. The link in the OP no longer goes to the obituary. 

 

The Guardian has an obituary as well and states that he was 18 when he joined Fleetwood Mac in 1968.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/14/danny-kirwan-obituary

 

The math is off somewhere probably. He would have been 72 if the Guardian is correct. I don't know what Rolling Stone said about his age when joining FM but it would have made him 71 if he was 18 and their story was accurate. I don't know, he was a great guitarist. 

Danny Kirwan died in 2018 at age 68. Hope this clears things up!

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Considering the four year discrepancy in age during the original coverage, is it any wonder that he should pop up dead yet again four years later?

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