Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, 29 October 1946, in Bethnal Green, London) is a British blues-rock guitarist and founder of the band Fleetwood Mac. A figurehead in the British blues movement, Green inspired B. B. King to say, «He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats.» Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have both lauded his guitar playing as well. Green's playing was marked with a distinctive vibrato and economy of style. Though he played other guitars, he is best known for deriving a unique tone from his 1959 Gibson Les Paul - a result of the magnet of his guitar's neck pickup being accidentally reversed to produce an 'out of phase' sound. The Les Paul would come to be referred to as Green's "magic guitar" but Green told Guitar Player in 2000 that «I never had a magic one. Mine wasn't magic...It just barely worked.» Green was ranked 38th in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (in Wikipedia)
This double CD set reunites the essential songs Peter Green recorded in his first comeback after being diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early seventies (he spent all the mid seventies in treatments and inside a psychiatric institution in London). After 6 albums ("In the Skies", 1979; "Little Dreamer, 1980; "Whatcha Gonna Do?, 1981; "Portrait", 1981; "White Sky", 1982 and "Kolors", 1983), he suffered a relapse and went down again, until 1990.
