1. Jeremy Cedric Spencer was born on 4 July 1948 and is a British musician, best known for playing slide guitar and piano in the original line-up of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
22 Facts About Jeremy Spencer
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Jeremy Spencer released further solo albums from 2012 onwards and has recorded as part of the folk trio Steetley.
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Jeremy Spencer was then playing with blues trio the Levi Set, and was already an accomplished slide guitarist and pianist.
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Jeremy Spencer fitted in well, and soon after his arrival, the band's intended bassist John McVie joined.
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Green became frustrated because Jeremy Spencer did not seem willing to contribute to Green's songs, whereas Green always played on Jeremy Spencer's recordings where necessary.
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On Fleetwood Mac, the 1968 debut album, Jeremy Spencer gives a solo performance on vocal and piano of Robert Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail".
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Jeremy Spencer found himself slightly isolated within the band, and chose to contribute very little to the band's third album Then Play On.
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On stage however, Jeremy Spencer was an integral part of the band, with a raucous routine of old blues songs which were extremely popular with audiences.
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Jeremy Spencer was often given to occasional suggestive behaviour onstage, particularly at early concerts, which sometimes landed the band in trouble with promoters and venue owners, and got them banned from London's Marquee Club.
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Away from the stage, Jeremy Spencer was often quiet and withdrawn, and other band members recall him often reading the Bible in his hotel room, strongly at odds with his on-stage persona.
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Jeremy Spencer unsuccessfully pleaded with Fleetwood to cancel this leg of the tour.
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Shortly after arriving in LA on 15 February 1971, the day of a gig the group was scheduled to perform at the Whisky a Go Go, Jeremy Spencer left the hotel room he shared with Fleetwood to visit a bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Jeremy Spencer did not return, forcing the cancellation of that evening's concert while the band and members of their entourage went searching for him.
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Jeremy Spencer had been approached by a young man named Apollos, who engaged Spencer in conversation about God, and invited him to a nearby mission where other members were staying.
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Jeremy Spencer soon formed a new band within the organisation and played free concerts around the country.
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Jeremy Spencer moved to Brazil in 1975 and then to Italy in 1977.
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Jeremy Spencer later lived in Ireland and then Germany and still works for the Children of God, mainly as a book illustrator and story writer.
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Jeremy Spencer has continued to play music, often for his own amusement or in small settings, but has appeared more often at various blues and gospel conventions.
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Jeremy Spencer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his past work as a member of Fleetwood Mac.
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In 2007 Jeremy Spencer was in contact with his former Fleetwood Mac bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, and according to McVie, the three had informal jam sessions with Rick Vito at Fleetwood's home.
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Jeremy Spencer took part in the TV documentary Peter Green: Man of the World, in which he was interviewed together with John McVie and Mick Fleetwood.
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In 2012 Jeremy Spencer released a new album, Bend in the Road, which was recorded at Tempermill Studios in Ferndale, Michigan, US.