Mick Fleetwood Loves Fleetwood Mac More Than His Wives

I met Mick Fleetwood once. We were sitting in a small trailer out at the Fairgrounds rodeo arena, waiting for Johnny Rivers to finish his set, drinking out of a bottle of expensive scotch. And he talked about what it was like to be in a rock band and be famous. "It's like a drug. Once you get a taste it's terribly hard to let it go," he said. Now after numerous wives and affairs the co-founding member of Fleetwood Mac has come to the realization that he loves his band more than he ever loved his wives. He talked about it in his new book. "I think it has been, yes. I didn't consciously think that, but when you put together a book like this [his new autobiography 'Play On'] there is a lot of pain. Jenny [Boyd, his first wife] helped me write the book and there's lots of stuff I don't think I even knew about Jenny. I wanted and needed to go there.'' In the book he talkes about the origional founding member of Fleetwood Mac Peter Green. Who suffers from severe mental illness. Speaking about Peter's illness - which has been blamed on the amount of LSD he took - Mick said: ''He haunts me. His illness could have come on without any drugs. He was incredible sensitive. You would never have known how much Peter was suffering. We never knew he was in a whole heap of trouble." The book Play On is in stores.