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■ Mick Fleetwood was 16 when he left school, told his parents that he wanted to pursue a career in rock ’n’ roll, and went to London in search of gigs. The tale has a happy ending. Fleetwood fell in with some talented blues enthusiasts and soared to stardom with the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac — and then into the rock ’n’ roll stratosphere with the second, more pop-oriented version of the band. “School was not a good thing for me,” said Fleetwood, dressed in classic British style, complete with a pocket watch on a chain. “I had a learning disability, no doubt, and no one understood what those things were. I was sort of drowning at school academically. My parents were like, ‘Go and do it.’ They were picking up on the fact that I had found something. They saw the one thing that I loved with a passion was teaching myself how to play drums at home,” he said. “So they sent me off with a little drum kit to London and the whole thing unfolded.” Fleetwood didn’t really have to rebel, though rebellion was in the air, and he had the good fortune to make friends early with Peter Green, the guitarist whose blues sound shaped the band’s early years. Green receives the lion’s share of the credit, and the dedication, in Fleetwood’s memoir of the band’s formative period Love That Burns: A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac, Volume One: 1967-1974. The book has been published in a limited signed edition by Genesis Publications. At 70, Fleetwood is eager to acknowledge his debt to Green, who left the band in 1970. Fleetwood and bassist John McVie were later joined by Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham for a new lineup that hit the jackpot with Rumours, one of the best-selling albums of all time.

■ Cindy Crawford says she’s more concerned about her 16-year-old daughter sitting behind the wheel of a car than walking a runway. The supermodel’s daughter, Kaia Gerber, made her New York Fashion Week debut last month. Her 18-year-old son, Presley Gerber, also is a model. “My daughter just got her driver’s license. I’m a lot more concerned about her driving by herself than her entering the world of modeling,” Crawford said in an interview at a charity event this week near Detroit. “The great thing for my kids is that I know a lot about that world. I feel like: Who better to help guide them than me?” Crawford says she understands it’s inevitable that Kaia Gerber would enter the modeling world. Gerber bears a striking resemblance to her 51-year-old mother. “In some ways, I wish I could have pushed it off a year or two. But she’s 16. That’s how old I was when I started, which is young, but in fashion that’s kind of the normal age when people start,” Crawford said.

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