Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood has said that he can't recall two years of his life due to his heavy cocaine use.
Speaking to Classic Rock magazine, he said that there was a period "way after" making the band’s huge selling 1977 album Rumours when he didn’t work for two years and has no recollection of his life during the period.
"There’s no doubt we were well equipped with the marching powder," he said. "That’s a well-worn fairy-tale that gets more like a war story, that gets more and more aggrandised.
"I’m not minimalising the fact that we were definitely partaking in that lifestyle.
"But these weren’t a bunch of people crawling across the floor with green froth coming out of their mouths, we were working, you know?
He added, "That went on for a long, long time, Stevie Nicks has addressed it, so I’m not divulging anything that she hasn’t spoken about.
"It got out of hand way after the making of Rumours. I remember not working for two years. I can’t even remember what I did."
Fleetwood admitted that he was the "party animal" in the band, adding that his bandmate and vocalist Nicks was "a close second."
Nicks has previously said that she regrets partaking in drugs during her career, saying she spent "millions" on cocaine and the band would often indulge in binges before they went onstage.
"Yes, it (doing drugs) was a lot of fun between 1975 and 1990 - until it wasn't," she recalled. "I walk onstage every night now and do a three-hour show with Fleetwood Mac, and I have a great time up there.
"I wish I had known that I actually had the energy to do this entire set totally sober and get just as excited. On one hand, that makes me feel great and on the other it makes me sad that I ever did my first line of coke."
Over fifty years since their formation, Fleetwood Mac continue to enjoy huge success, both as a touring band and in terms of albums sales. Their Don’t Stop greatest hits album was the 10th biggest-selling album in the UK last year and Rumours topped 2020’s annual vinyl album chart.
