The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts will rock to the songs of Fleetwood Mac on Saturday, Feb. 14, just over five decades on from when the legendary band recorded a performance right here in Storrs.
Comprised of seven world-class musicians from Rochester, New York, THE SEVEN WONDERS: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac are known for their collective experience and high energy performances of Fleetwood Mac’s timeless hits. The band’s name is derived from “Seven Wonders,” one of four Top 20 hits from Fleetwood Mac’s triple platinum album “Tango in the Night,” which also produced hits such as” Everywhere,” “Little Lies” and “Big Love.” The Valentine’s Day concert at UConn is one stop in a lengthy tour of the eastern US that will run through the end of August.
Tickets are available at the Jorgensen website.
Their inspiration, Fleetwood Mac, is one of the top bands in Billboard chart history. “Rumours,” the second recording released after Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the band, was the top-selling album of the 1970s, spending 31 weeks at No. 1, 52 weeks in the Top 10, and 222 weeks on the charts overall. The album included No.1 “Dreams” and three other Top 10 hits – “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way” and “You Make Loving Fun.” Worldwide, 40 million copies of “Rumours” have been certified sold.
“Fleetwood Mac: University of Connecticut, 25th October 1975, King Biscuit Flower Hour Broadcast” was released on vinyl on November 28, 2025, as part of the Record Store Day Black Friday promotion. The recording was part of the King Biscuit Flower Hour series of nationally syndicated broadcasts of concert performances that aired from 1973 to the early 2000s. The concert was part of UConn’s 1975 Homecoming Weekend, which included the English progressive rock band Renaissance, and was performed in the UConn Recreation Center in Storrs.
Peter Lubin ’78 (BUS), a writer for The Daily Campus who would later start The New Haven Rock Press and contribute to music publications such as Crawdaddy and Stereo Review, reviewed the Homecoming performance and was not impressed at the time, concluding that “Bands of Fleetwood Mac’s stature can, in all probability, continue touring and recording indefinitely with no significant contribution to the body of rock and roll music. But it is every band’s obligation to progress to the state of the art, and to believe in the magic and the meaning of rock and roll music. Unfortunately, Fleetwood Mac and Renaissance are not as significant bands as they could be. They just don’t think hard enough.”
And what does he think today?
“I’ve reflected on that review a few times over the years – but only to the extent that I recalled panning the show and guessed that I would probably have a more ‘mature’ attitude towards it today,” Lubin said in an email accepting an invitation from WHUS to talk about his review of the concert and his subsequent career in the music industry.
After completing his UConn degree, Lubin was a music columnist for The New Haven Register and other publications. He went on to work for major record labels (Columbia, Mercury, Elektra, and PolyGram) as an Artist & Repertoire executive signing new bands and guiding them in the recording studio. Among the notable musicians he worked were The Moody Blues, Peter Gabriel, Robert Cray, Michelle Shocked, They Might Be Giants, and The Pixies. He also worked with the legendary Everly Brothers at Mercury Records, when they reunited in 1984.
Lubin spoke with WHUS earlier this week on the Good Music show (Wednesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.) hosted by Ken Best.:
