{"id":241039,"date":"2026-02-11T07:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=241039"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:58:20","slug":"a-fleetwood-mac-tribute-50-years-after-recording-of-uconn-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/02\/a-fleetwood-mac-tribute-50-years-after-recording-of-uconn-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fleetwood Mac Tribute, 50 Years After Recording of UConn Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cSeven Wonders,\u201d one of four Top 20 hits from Fleetwood Mac\u2019s triple platinum album \u201cTango in the Night,\u201d which also produced hits such as\u201d Everywhere,\u201d \u201cLittle Lies\u201d and \u201cBig Love.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Tickets are available at the Jorgensen website.<\/a><\/p>\n

Their inspiration, Fleetwood Mac, is one of the top bands in Billboard chart history. \u201cRumours,\u201d 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 \u201cDreams\u201d and three other Top 10 hits \u2013 \u201cDon\u2019t Stop,\u201d \u201cGo Your Own Way\u201d and \u201cYou Make Loving Fun.\u201d\u00a0 Worldwide, 40 million copies of \u201cRumours\u201d have been certified sold.<\/p>\n

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A recording of a 1975 concert at UConn by Fleetwood Mac was released in November 2025 on vinyl (contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFleetwood Mac: University of Connecticut, 25th<\/sup> October 1975, King Biscuit Flower Hour Broadcast\u201d was released on vinyl on November 28, 2025, as part of the Record Store Day Black Friday<\/a> 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\u2019s 1975 Homecoming Weekend, which included the English progressive rock band Renaissance, and was performed in the UConn Recreation Center in Storrs.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cBands of Fleetwood Mac\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019t think hard enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what does he think today?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve reflected on that review a few times over the years \u2013 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,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PETER-LUBIN-2.3.26-EDIT_compressed.ogg<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE SEVEN WONDERS: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac comes to Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, February 14, at 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":241042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1711,1914,2235,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1918],"class_list":["post-241039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts-culture","category-sfa","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 00:43:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241045,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241039\/revisions\/241045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/241042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241039"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=241039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=241039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}