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The Sad Story of Bob Welch: Fleetwood Mac’s Most Undervalued Member

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Simon Sweetman
Mar 30, 2017
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Bob Welch killed himself in 2012. It’s hard to eulogise a suicide; beyond sad, utterly devastating.

Welch was a singer/guitarist/songwriter. He had a solo career and was in a band called Paris. But he had also been a member of a band called Fleetwood Mac – and though history seems to have conveniently forgotten about the in-between years when Fleetwood M…

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