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Bob Welch

Bob Welch, who has died aged 66, was an early member of the rock band
Fleetwood Mac, which became one of the most commercially successfully
groups of the Seventies and Eighties; he went on to have a fruitful
career as a solo artist.
Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch  Photo: Rex Features
1:20PM BST 08 Jun 2012
Fleetwood Mac started out in 1967, taking its name from drummer Mick
Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, both former members of John
Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. With Peter Green on lead guitar, they
had their first No 1 hit in 1969 with Albatross.
They were to become almost as famous for their dramatic personal lives
as for their music, and Welch â€" who joined as a guitarist and
vocalist in 1971 â€" was with them at a delicate, and not
particularly successful, period in their evolution.
Green had become enamoured of LSD and had left in 1970; the following
year another guitarist, Jeremy Spencer, went shopping one day in Los
Angeles and never came back, having joined the religious group The
Children of God; and in 1973 the guitarist Bob Weston would be sacked
for having an affair with Mick Fleetwood’s wife, Jenny Boyd.
Welch, who had been hired as a replacement for Spencer, himself became
embroiled in a personality clash with another member of the band, Danny
Kirwan: in 1972, during a concert, the two men had an argument about
tuning which ended with Kirwan smashing his guitar and storming
offstage, leaving the band to perform without him; he was later sacked.
There was more trouble when the band’s American tour came under
threat following the sacking of Bob Weston. The band’s manager,
Clifford Davis, attempted to recruit an entirely new set of musicians to
complete the tour under the name Fleetwood Mac, leading to a prolonged
legal wrangle.
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Welch’s last album with the group was Heroes Are Hard to Find,
released in 1974. In September that year he resigned. The band was later
joined by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and in 1977 released
Rumours, regarded by some as one of the best albums ever recorded.
Robert Lawrence Welch was born in Los Angeles on August 31 1945, the son
of the Hollywood producer Robert Welch and the actress Templeton Fox.
Bob showed musical talent from a young age, and in his teens began to
lean towards jazz and rhythm and blues.
After studying French at the Sorbonne in Paris (where, as he put it,
“I mostly smoked hash with bearded guys five years
older†) he returned to America and a similar course at the
University of California at Los Angeles, but dropped out before
completing his degree.
For a time Welch played guitar with various bands in America and in
Paris before being invited to join Fleetwood Mac. He featured on a
number of albums, including Future Games (1971), for which he wrote the
title song; Bare Trees (1972); and Mystery to Me (1973). Bare Trees
featured his song Sentimental Lady, with which Welch later had a hit as
a solo artist.
In 1975 Welch founded a hard rock group called Paris. They released two
albums before he decided to go it alone. His debut solo album, French
Kiss (1977), went platinum, and two of its tracks â€" Sentimental
Lady (with Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham providing backup
vocals) and Ebony Eyes â€" became hit singles. Welch followed up
with five more albums in the years up to 1983, although none achieved
similar success.
Welch moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1987, forming a band called Avenue
M. In the late Nineties he went to live in Nashville, where he worked as
a songwriter (his songs have been recorded by a number of artists,
including Kenny Rogers and The Pointer Sisters) and released several
albums, including Bob Welch Looks At Bop and His Fleetwood Mac Years and
Beyond.
In 1994 Welch sued Fleetwood Mac, claiming unpaid royalties, an act
which is said to have led to his exclusion from the group’s Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame induction four years later. The matter was settled
in 1996.
Welch died from a gunshot wound at his home in Nashville. He had
recently been in poor health, and is reported to have left a suicide
note. His death came six months after that of Bob Weston, who died in
January at the age of 64.
Bob Welch is survived by his wife, Wendy, whom he married in 1985.
Bob Welch, born August 31 1945, died June 7 2012
  
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