Fleetwood Mac greatest hits tour announced

Fleetwood Mac are set to embark on their first concert tour in five years, and this time it's a greatest hits outing.

The band will kick off the 'Unleashed' tour in Pittsburgh, PA on March 1, and will be performing their biggest hits from a career which has now spanned 41 years.

Tickets for the tour go on sale to the public on December 15 at livenation.com and ticketmaster.com.

American Express card members will have early access to tickets from December 8 at 10am local time through to December 14 at 10am at ticketmaster.com, excluding Uncasville, Ottawa and Montreal. American Express presale tickets for the Albany, NY show are available at tickets.com.

Meanwhile, the band’s classic album 'Rumours', which has sold over 10 million copies, will be re-released as part of a special CD/DVD boxed set early in 2009. It will include previously unreleased tracks recorded during the making of 'Rumours', as well as a DVD with never-before seen footage of the band.

The dates are:

Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena (March 1)
St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center (3)
Chicago, IL Allstate Arena (5)
Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills (8)
Washington, DC Verizon Center (10)
Boston, MA TD Banknorth Arena (11)
Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum (13)
Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena (14)
Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena (16)
Albany, NY Times Union Center (17)
New York, NY Madison Square Garden (19)
East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center (21)
Ottawa, ONScotiabank Place (24)
Montreal, QC Bell Centre (25)
Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre (26)

--By our New York staff.
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