Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood says cocaine use left him with two-year memory gap

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Fleetwood Mac‘s Mick Fleetwood has revealed that he can’t remember two years of his life, after previously battling a heavy cocaine habit.The drummer explained that there was a period “way after” making the iconic 1977 album ‘Rumours’ when he didn’t work for two years and has no recollection of his life during the period.He told Classic Rock magazine: “There’s no doubt we were well equipped with the marching powder.

That’s a well-worn fairytale 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?“That went on.