On the occasion of the announcement of ‘Peter Green – The Albatross Man’, a book celebrating Fleetwood Mac pillar’s life, Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour played on the 1969 hit ‘Need Your Love So Bad’. This is the first of the two tracks re-recorded and released for this occasion: the second sees Metallica’s guitarist Kirk Hammett performing on 1971 ‘Man of The World’, which also features Mick Fleetwood on drums.

‘Need Your Love So Bad’ represents the early Fleetwood Mac works, stapled with very present blues roots. The peculiarity of this new release is that, although Gilmour’s part has been recorded recently, Green’s vocal has been unearthed and seems to belong to the mid-1960s, taped in his mother’s attic. The song is featured in Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 LP, ‘The Pious Bird of Good Omen.’ Gilmour asked permission to add these guitar tracks, which was granted by Green just before his passing.

The Pink Floyd member was a good friend of Green, who died in July 2020 at the age of 73. For last year’s Peter Green tribute concert, he performed Green’s masterpiece ‘Albatross’. The book ‘Peter Green – The Albatross Man’ is set to come out in October.

The publishers presented the over 450-page book stating the following: ‘For the past 3 years, until his death in 2020, Peter was working directly with Rufus Publications to produce a huge, illustrated book of his life and career. Mark Smith at Rufus has been travelling down to Canvey Island on a regular basis to talk to Peter about his life, look through his personal archive and discuss his love for fishing, drawing and listening to a wide range of music on a daily basis. During this time a book of rare images, memorabilia, lyrics and notes from his time in Fleetwood Mac has been assembled with Peter having full control over the book’s direction and details. Peter also played guitar for Mark on occasion, delicately going back through a lifetime of influential music. The resulting publication will be a unique record of Peter Green’s life.’