A very Happy 80th Birthday to a living legend of a legendary band, John McVie! Getting his break playing bass with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers in 1963, John was saved from a life working in the tax office (what is it with bass players and working in tax - John Entwistle was also a tax clerk before going full time with the Who). It was here that John met Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood, and the trio - separate from John Mayall’s group - recorded the very first songs that would demonstrate to

A clip of Earth, Wind & Fire performing “Got To Get You Into My Life” live (1979) Maurice: … (Robert) Stigwood seemed to have a golden touch. When he approached me about having the band appear as a guest in a movie musical based on the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, I said OK. But with the tight scheduling that I put upon myself, I had completely forgotten about it. “Hey, did you cut that Beatles song yet for Stigwood?” Bob reminded me. “Oh, man, I spaced - totally forgot a