he has shared the stage with bb king, carlos santana, and eric clapton. e returns with his first album in four years. it is called "the search for everything." i am pleased to have a john mayer at this table for the first time. welcome. john: thank you very much. charlie: you had to release this in stages? john: i believe in the songs so much i deserved they should be seen without distraction from either the barrier of entry with so many songs all at once, or other music coming in and sort of -- or there being so many songs -- songs that are not that great, of -- a couple that are. the boldest thing i could do is say, i think i did it. take a look at these four at a time. and the response has not only been positive for the work but positive for the format of releasing music that way, so i was not alone. i am one half consumer and one half artist. positive for the format of i remember seeing some really great records from great artists come up on my spotify or apple, and i go, 12? this is a deep dive. maybe i will just go for the singles right now. i wanted

king and eric clapton. clapton calls him a master guitar player.. it is called "the search for everything." i am pleased to have john mayer for the first time. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: it was so good that you had to release it in stages. >> i believed in the songs that i thought they deserved to be seen without distraction, either the barrier to the entries of so many songs all at once, or other music coming in, and sort of-- or their being so many songs-- songs that aren't that great. a couple of extra songs that are, and i felt like the boldest thing i could do was say, other i think i did it, and take a look at these four at a time. the response to it has not only been positive for the work but positive for the format of releasing music that way. i was not alone. i'm one-half consumer, one-half artist. and i remember seeing some really great records from great artists come up on, you know, my spotify or apple or whatever and i'd go, "12?" "this is deep dive. maybe i'll go for the singles right now." i wanted to put music out the way i mys

had punks flirting with the symbols of the far right the swastika and so on you had eyes you say eric clapton making these outrageous racist comments on stage at the birmingham odeon you have bowie sort of saying that again probably drunk or high but nonetheless saying some really dangerous provocative things i think he said that he conceded that to be the world's first rock star. and there was a real tangible sense the popular culture could have become quite racist quite right wing quite nasty but because of that conscious political intervention by left wing activists rock against racism in actual fact the opposite happened anti racism became common sense really for a generation or so so it's incredibly important example and firmly one by moaning leave then rise of ninety's electronic dance music you say it's actually a perfect. call real context to understand the new liberal revolution or the increasingly liberalism when it comes to alienation yeah yeah. it takes me a while to arrive at that conclusion in the book but you're absolutely right i i trace the fact that the roots of dance music

. ♪ got a black magic woman >> reporter: green, a guitar god who'd replace eric clapton in the bluesk magic woman." >> he had no interest in being a solo creature. >> he didn't even want to be a front man, did he? >> no. >> solo number. >> well, he called the band fleetwood mac for a reason. >> reporter: which is interesting because he didn't put his name in it. >> he says, well, i pretty much felt that one day i would leave and i wanted mick and john to have a band. ♪ >> reporter: in 1970 green did leave. >> when we survived peter leaving, in my mind i would always go back. i'd say, well, that was the most devastating thing that ever happened to me. >> if you can survive that, you can survive anything. >> for better or for worse. and the outcome has been this weird survival story. later on all the love affairs and all the -- are you kidding me? ♪ loving you isn't the right thing to do ♪ >> reporter: their biggest album, 1977's "rumors," which sold 40 million copies, was the soundtrack of their break-up. ♪ go your own way splitting with stevie nicks. bassist john mcvie divorcing his

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. >> reporter: green a guitar god who replaced eric clapton in the blues breaker, would write the band'snterest in being a solo creature. >> he didn't even want to be a frontman, did he? >> no. >> solo number. >> he called fleetwood mac for a reason. >> which was interesting because he wouldn't put his name on it. in 1970, green did leave. >> when we survived peter leaving, in my mind, i would always go back and say, well, that was the most devastating thing that ever happened to me. >> if you could survive that you could survive anything. >> for better or worse. this weird survival story, all the love affairs -- you're kidding me how would they ever -- ♪ loving you >> reporter: theig 1977's rumors, which sold 40 million copies was the soundtrack of their breakup. ♪ go your own way >> reporter: guitarist splitting with stevie nicks. yet the band endured, reaching for what fleetwood's call the elusive it. why are you still together? >> got a megadose of "it." which is challenging to be able to obtain that with this ♪ don't stop >> reporter: when they're together, fleetwood mac has always