GUITARIST Peter Green - the man who wrote hit songs like Albatross and Black Magic Woman for his group Fleetwood Mac - is to make a rare appearance at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
Green left the group in 1970 and for a while led an outcast life which saw him working as a gravedigger and being committed to a mental hospital.
But by the end of the 1990s he was back working as a musician and gained legendary status. In 1996 he staged another comeback show in Buxton with his own band.
The Peter Green Splinter Band with Nigel Watson (guitar, vocals), Roger Cotton (keyboards), Pete Stroud (bass) and Larry Tolfree (drums) have since established themselves as one of the best of the
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