The designation comes from a list published by BBC Music, which examined artists whose brilliance was often shadowed by personal turmoil, mental illness, addiction, or isolation. At the top of that list was Green, the founder and original leader of Fleetwood Mac, whose short but incandescent creative peak in the late 1960s permanently altered the sound of blues and rock guitar.
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Rich Robinson of the Black Crowesalso said of Green, "His playing is just so moving. Listen to what he achieves on “Oh Well” and “Rattlesnake Shake,” and it is stunning. What he does is so interesting because he doesn’t overplay. Green understands that simplicity could hold the key to the blues."
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His Fleetwood Mac bio reads, "Green has been institutionalised in the past with psychological problems, and he underwent electroconvulsive therapy in the mid-1970s. ... In 1977, he was arrested for threatening his accountant, Clifford Davis, with a rifle ... After this incident, he was sent to a psychiatric institution in London. This was prior to his re-emergence as a recording artist with PVK Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He suffered a relapse in 1984 and effectively lived the life of a tramp-like recluse for six years until he was rescued by his brother Len and his wife, going to live with them in Great Yarmouth and regaining some of his former health and strength."
While he would later return to performing with the Peter Green Splinter Group in the 1990s and other projects, he never again sustained the creative momentum of his early career.
Green died in 2020 at age 73, but his influence remains everywhere, in the phrasing of modern blues players, the songwriting of classic rock, and the quiet power of musicians who value feeling over flash. As BBC Music’s ranking underscores, his story is not just one of tragedy, but of extraordinary artistry whose emotional depth continues to resonate long after the spotlight faded.
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