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Fact #98970

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Short story:

Albatross by Fleetwood Mac is the new No1 single in the UK.

Full article:

Mike Vernon (producer) : It was a one-off. I guess it was a creation that Peter, John, Mick and, to a lesser extent Danny, had been working on. Jeremy wasn't involved in it at all.


Peter Green (guitarist, Fleetwood Mac) : I got the idea for the name Albatross from a poem I read at school called The Ancient Mariner and from that young girl's voice in the middle of traffic's song Hole In My Shoe