£650.00

London: Marquee Club.. January - June 1968.

Signed by the original members of Fleetwood Mac. Six flyers with programmes from January to June 1968. Five are single sheets (229x145mm) printed on both sides and one (for April - a 10th anniversary special) is 229x292mm folded in half. Each flyer has a short notices and news items on the front and then a programme for the month in question. In addition, there is a membership card (74x94mm) printed on pink card and valid until June 30th 1968. It is number 219, is signed by Paul Ingram and has a purple line drawn across it to indicate that it has expired. All the flyers are creased and slightly soiled but are in very good condition otherwise consider their fragility and ephemeral nature. Some of the dates and bands have circles drawn around them presumably done by Paul Ingram. He seems to have been particularly keen on The Nice, Ten Years After, Aynsley Dunbar, John Mayall's Bluebreakers and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. But the big draw seems to have been the Blues Night on March 29th when Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac were supported by Jethro Tull because the March flyer is signed by the four members of Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Jeremy Spencer (who, perhaps unsurprisingly for a man whose onstage sexual suggestiveness led to the band being banned by the Marquee Club, has embellished his autograph with a phallic drawing). Devotees of Fleetwood Mac will have their own favourite iteration of the band but this quartet which recorded the band's first two albums are regarded by many as the original and best. It is rare to find all four signatures together - by August 1968, a fifth member (Danny Kirwan) had joined the band and then, of course, Peter Green himself departed in 1970 a victim of impure LSD. This signed flyer is a wonderful reminder of happier, more brilliant times.