This Day in Rock History – August 12th

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1967: A new British blues band, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac makes its concert debut at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor, England, sharing the bill with Cream, Donovan, the Small Faces and Chicken Shack.

That last band is fronted by a female singer named Christine Perfect, who before long, would become Christine McVie and a member of Fleetwood Mac.

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