(In some accounts of this incident, Green is said to have demanded the accountant stop sending him money.) He was sent to prison after a 1976 incident in which he threatened to shoot his accountant.
He moved to Israel and lived on a kibbutz, then returned to England, where he worked as a hospital orderly and a cemetery gardener. His treatments included electroconvulsive therapy, during which doctors use electric currents to spark a brain seizure, and also narcotizing drugs. He quit and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time in mental institutions.
He started wearing a white robe onstage (it made him look like Rasputin), gave away much of his money and tried to persuade the band to do the same. In 1970, Green, who like many musicians had been taking LSD, came to believe that playing for money was immoral.
1 hit “ Albatross,” “ Man of the World,” “ Need Your Love So Bad” and “Oh Well.” A second guitarist, Jeremy Spencer, also wrote and sang, and Danny Kirwan soon joined and did the same, but the group’s success was chiefly due to Green’s songs, which varied between melancholy and menacing: “ Black Magic Woman,” the U.K. Fleetwood Mac debuted in August 1967 and within two years became the biggest band in Europe, outselling the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Green’s career and life are mysteries no one has solved. But Green isn’t as well known as his contemporaries, an injustice Fleetwood has often tried to correct, most recently with an all-star tribute concert. There are musicians who rate Green ahead of Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck as the greatest British blues guitarist of the ’60s, due to his singular combination of tone, touch and taste. Say something with one note, or with a perfect vibrato.” “That’s Peter’s adage that I inherited from him as a musician and as a friend: Less is more. “It’s a perfect description of Peter,” says drummer Mick Fleetwood, 73, a former Bluesbreaker who has been, for 53 years, the only constant original member of Fleetwood Mac. Other guitarists wanted to prove how fast they could play Green was proud to show how slowly he could. In the Bluesbreakers, where he earned the nickname “The Green God,” Green wrote “ The Supernatural,” an instrumental showcase in which, midway, he halts his stately pace and resolutely holds a single note for 4½ bars. Before he founded Fleetwood Mac, guitarist Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, a band that was a way station for many of the best white British blues musicians of the 1960s.
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