"Peacekeeper" would later make it onto all editions of 50 Years – Don't Stop in 2018. A different live recording of "Peacekeeper" was included on the limited deluxe edition of Say You Will, which included a total of four bonus tracks. The song was also included on their live album Live in Boston. "Peacekeeper" appeared on both setlists for the Say You Will Tour. Fleetwood Mac also performed the song on both Late Night with David Letterman and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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To promote their new album Say You Will, "Peacekeeper" was played on the NBC TV show Third Watch. ".It's about how we are becoming increasingly desensitized to things around the world that are brutal and not standing up for human value." Other appearances He changed his tune in a later interview though, where he spoke of people becoming unaffected and unmoved by the turmoil and disasters around the world. When asked about the lyrics, he explained that the song had little to do with global issues or war, but rather aimed to close in on US propaganda, and also explored the idea of working towards peace on a continual basis. The radio edit replaces the line "only kill" with "break their will." The latter lyrics are used during live performances. The radio edit differs slightly from the album version. On the other hand, it failed to chart in the UK. In New Zealand, the single proved to be far more successful, eventually reaching #31 on the New Zealand Singles Chart. By the time "Peacekeeper" exited the charts, it had tallied eleven consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Seven weeks later, the song reached its peak position of #80. "Peacekeeper" entered the US charts at #93 on 29 March. Warner Bros selected the song as the album's first single. Warner Bros felt the song had the potential to become a hit, describing the song as "walking a line between something quite modern and something quite familiar". However, Warner Bros told Buckingham to use all of his material for the upcoming Fleetwood Mac album instead. Like many of Buckingham's contributions on Say You Will, "Peacekeeper" was originally going to appear on Buckingham's solo album, Gift of Screws. That era was unbelievable."Peacekeeper" was written in 2000 three years before the release of Say You Will in a house Buckingham was renting with his wife. Too many drugs, too much alcohol, but that was a crazy, crazy year. We flip-flopped with The Eagles and Hotel California. “And every week it was number one in the charts, for about a year. “The excitement, the buzz of realizing you’ve written one of the best albums ever written, we were just flying high off that knowledge,” said McVie. Though Rumours was nearly the end of Fleetwood Mac, that year was one of the more memorable for McVie within the band. It would be different and you know it willĪnd I don’t have to tell you but you’re the only one A longtime staple on the Fleetwood Mac set list, McVie played the song live from 1976 through 1997, before she temporarily retired from touring and again when the band returned to touring in 20. Working on the song earlier on at the Record Plant studios in Sausalito, California, McVie tracked the song without Buckingham, which allowed her to build it her own way around her vocals. Though John McVie may have presumed the song was about the couple’s dogs, the song stood on its own, giving the band its fourth Top 10 hit off Rumours, and final single off the album, reaching No. 1 album, McVie, who co-wrote the Rumours hit “The Chain,” and wrote “Don’t Stop,” along with “Songbird” and “Oh Daddy,” had one other song about Grant “You Make Loving Fun.” As the couple parted ways, Christine moved into a relationship with the band’s lighting technician Curry Grant. Filled with its line of legendary inter-band breakups, around the recording of Fleetwood Mac’s 11th album Rumours, the marriage of keyboardist, singer, and songwriter Christine McVie and bassist John McVie was reaching its end.
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