| Mr. Wonderful | ||||
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| Released | 23 August 1968 | |||
| Recorded | April 1968 | |||
| Studio | CBS, London | |||
| Genre | Blues rock[1] | |||
| Length | 41:30 | |||
| Label | Blue Horizon | |||
| Producer | Mike Vernon | |||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
Mr. Wonderful is the second studio album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 23 August 1968. This all-blues album was broadly similar to their debut album, albeit with some changes to personnel and recording method. The album was recorded live in the studio with miked amplifiers and PA system, rather than plugged into the board.[3] A horn section was introduced and Christine Perfect (later Christine McVie) of Chicken Shack was featured on keyboards. The album took a total of four days to record.[4] In the US, the album was not released, though around half of the tracks appeared on English Rose.
The band originally wanted the album to be titled A Good Length, which would have featured an "obvious phallic symbol" on the album's front cover according to Fleetwood, although this idea was rejected. Udder Sucker was the next proposed title, and Fleetwood travelled to his godmother's farm to take a photo underneath a cow for the cover art, but the record label also turned this idea down. Fleetwood instead posed naked on the cover of Mr. Wonderful.[4]
An expanded version of Mr. Wonderful was included in the box set The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions.
- ^ "The Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums Of All Time". Classic Rock. Future plc. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ Mr. Wonderful at AllMusic
- ^ Mick Fleetwood (30 October 2014). Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac. Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-1-4447-5326-4.
- ^ a b Fleetwood, Mick; Davis, Stephen (1990). Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures with Fleetwood Mac. New York: William Morrow and Company. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-688-06647-X.