Former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch has been found dead with a gunshot wound to the chest at his home in Nashville.
Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood today paid tribute to their former bandmate, the guitarist and singer Bob Welch, found dead in an apparent suicide.
The pair spoke after the 66-year-old’s wife discovered him with a gunshot wound yesterday at home in Nashville, Tennessee. A note was found at the scene.
In a statement, singer Nicks said: “I’m so very sorry for his family and for the family of Fleetwood Mac. He was an amazing guitar player: he was funny, sweet — and he was smart.” Drummer Fleetwood added: “He was a very, very profoundly intelligent human being and always in good humour. Mostly his legacy would be his songwriting abilities that he brought to Fleetwood Mac.”
Welch, who was part of the group’s early years, quit before its 1977 album Rumours to form his own band, called Paris. He sued his former Fleetwood Mac bandmates for unpaid royalties in the Nineties.
