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<h1>Then Play On</h1>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Then_Play_On.jpg" alt="Then Play On.jpg"><h2>Track Listings</h2>1 Coming Your Way2 Closing My Eyes3 Show-Biz Blues4 My Dream5 Underway6 Oh Well (Pt. 1)7 Although the Sun Is Shining8 Rattlesnake Shake9 Searching for Madge10 Fighting for Madge11 When You Say12 Like Crying13 Before the Beginning Then Play On is the third studio album by the British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blues rock</a> band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Mac" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fleetwood Mac</a>, released on 19 September 1969. It was the first of their original albums to feature <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kirwan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Danny Kirwan</a> (although he is also listed on two tracks on the earlier compilation <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pious_Bird_of_Good_Omen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Pious Bird of Good Omen</a>) and the last with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Green_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter Green</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Spencer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeremy Spencer</a> did not feature on the album apart from "a couple of piano things" (according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Fleetwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mick Fleetwood</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Q magazine</a> in 1990).[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">citation needed</a>] The album offered a broader stylistic range than the straightforward <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_blues" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">electric blues</a> of the group's first two albums, displaying elements of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">folk rock</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hard rock</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">art rock</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">psychedelia</a>. The album reached No. 6 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK Albums Chart</a>, becoming the band's fourth Top 20 LP in a row, as well as their third album to reach the Top 10. The album's title, Then Play On, is taken from the opening line of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Shakespeare</a>'s play <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twelfth Night</a>—"If music be the food of love, play on".Then Play On is Fleetwood Mac's first release with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reprise Records</a> after being lured away from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Horizon_(record_label)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blue Horizon</a> and a one-off with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Immediate Records</a>. The label would be the band's home until their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Mac_(1975_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">self-titled 1975 album</a>. The initial US release of the album omitted two tracks that were previously issued on the American compilation <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Rose_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">English Rose</a>, while the second US pressing further abridged the tracklist with the addition of the hit single "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Well_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oh Well</a>". The original CD compiled all the songs from the two US LP versions, both of which omitted the "English Rose" tracks that are on the original UK version. In August 2013, a remastered edition of the album was reissued on vinyl and CD, restoring its original 1969 UK track listing and adding four bonus tracks from the same era.<h2>Background</h2>Fleetwood Mac's previous albums had been recorded live in the studio<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-Fleetwood1990-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[8]</a> and adhered strictly to the blues formula.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[9]</a> For the recording of Then Play On, editing and overdubbing techniques were used extensively for the first time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-PlayOn135-10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[10]</a> Green had recently introduced improvisation and jamming to the band's live performances and three of the tracks on the album including "Underway", "Searching for Madge", and "Fighting for Madge", which were compiled by Green from several hours of studio jam sessions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-Fleetwood1990-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[8]</a>Green, the de facto band leader at the time, delegated half of the songwriting to bandmate Danny Kirwan so he could sing more lead vocals. Music journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bozza" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anthony Bozza</a> remarked that Green “was a very generous band leader in every single way. And Peter gave Danny all of that freedom. You just don’t hear about things like that.” Jeremy Spencer, the band's other guitarist, did not play on any of the album's original tracks.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-11" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[11]</a> Green and Spencer had planned to record a concept album — “an orchestral-choral LP” — about the life of Jesus Christ, although the album never came to fruition.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-12" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[12]</a> Instead, Spencer released <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Spencer_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a solo album</a> in 1970 with the members of Fleetwood Mac as his backing band.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-13" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[13]</a>Although "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Well_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oh Well</a>" was a hit in the UK, it was not the group's first single released in America. Instead, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Davis_(music_manager)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clifford Davis</a>, who was Fleetwood Mac's manager at the time, selected "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnake_Shake" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rattlesnake Shake</a>" to be released in the US. While Davis thought "Rattlesnake Shake" would become a big hit, it failed to chart anywhere.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Play_On#cite_note-14" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[14]</a> After the failure of "Rattlesnake Shake", "Oh Well" was chosen as the second single for the US market. The second single fared much better, becoming the band's first song to chart on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billboard Hot 100</a>.<h2>Artwork</h2>The painting used for the album cover artwork is a mural by the English artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Armfield" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Maxwell </a>