Greatest Hits (1971 Fleetwood Mac album)
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac released on CBS Records in the United Kingdom in 1971. The band's first compilation package, it assembles the band's hit singles in the UK covering the period from the band's beginning in 1968 to 1971, mostly in its original incarnation led by guitarist Peter Green. It peaked at No. 36 on the UK Albums Chart. Background and content. Part of the second British blues boom of the late 1960s, during that time Fleetwood Mac enjoyed six British  hit singles, collated here along with one non-charting single, two B-sides, and three album tracks. The band's UK single "Black Magic Woman" received greater exposure in the US when it was covered by the American group Santana, who placed their version in the Billboard Top 40. A very similar release with the same title and same cover was released by Sony BMG in 1989, but consisted of the tracks from "The Pious Bird of Good Omen" plus "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "Love That Burns". Another identically-titled but entirely different 1988 "Greatest Hits" album concentrates exclusively on  post-1975 material and has no tracks in common with either this release or the 1989 one. The album gatefold shows a full-size photo of the post-Green line up of the band with Christine McVie (née Perfect), even though she just plays piano on a couple of tracks and was not a full member until after "Kiln House" was released. Long out of print, it was replaced on compact disc by the 2002 compilation "The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" on the Sony International label, which now owns the Columbia/CBS catalogue. It was reissued on vinyl  in 2010, however. "The Green Manalishi", "Oh Well", "Rattlesnake Shake", and "Dragonfly" were licensed from Warner Bros. Records.