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Mick Fleetwood<\/a> is one of the top people you can talk to about what keeps a rock and roll band together. It might seem insane to entertain that idea since Fleetwood Mac have broken apart so many times, but throughout every iteration, Mick has always been the steady foundation of the group, and alongside John McVie, he\u2019s created one of the most enduring rhythm sections that rock and roll has ever seen. But there were always going to be opportunities where he had to sweet-talk some people into embracing rock and roll once again.<\/p>\n But as we\u2019ve seen from the walking rock and roll soap opera, sweet-talking doesn\u2019t always work. Lindsey Buckingham was determined to leave the band before Tango in the Night<\/a> was brought to the stage, and even if they were trying to accommodate whatever he wanted, that didn\u2019t stop the guitarist and Stevie Nicks from getting into a physical brawl halfway through the band meeting.<\/p>\n Fleetwood couldn\u2019t always get everyone on the same page, but he was one of the few artists that everyone in the band listened to. He had been there since the early days with Peter Green in the late 1960s, and even if someone had strong opinions about where the music should be going, Fleetwood was treated like the wise sage who knew everything there was to know about the music business.<\/p>\n And that didn\u2019t only apply to the members of \u2018The Mac\u2019, either. Fleetwood knew that many artists hadn\u2019t said their final goodbyes properly, and while The Dance may have given the original lineup a new lease on life in the 1990s, the drummer couldn\u2019t help but feel sad looking at Jimmy Page and Robert Plant getting together to play Led Zeppelin tunes without John Paul Jones.<\/p>\n For him, they were still among the finest rock bands to walk the Earth, and when he got ahold of Page, he knew he needed to plead his case for Zeppelin to give it one more shot, saying<\/a> in 2007, \u201cWhen we played in London last year, he came to see us. And I was talking to him from a fan point of view, telling him: \u2018So many people want to see Led Zeppelin back together!\u2019 And he was telling me: \u2018No, man, the rest of the guys don\u2019t want to do it right now\u2019 and \u2018I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be able to pull it off\u2019. But I told him: \u2018You gotta do it! If we can do it, you can!\u2019 So I wouldn\u2019t say I was responsible for Zeppelin getting back together, but after that, they did play that great tribute gig.\u201d<\/p>\n