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{{Short description|1970 single by Fleetwood Mac}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)
| cover = The Green Manalishi (Fleetwood Mac single - cover art).jpg
| alt =
| caption = UK single sleeve, featuring (L–R): Kirwan, Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, McVie
| type = single
| artist = [[Fleetwood Mac]]
| album =
| B-side = World in Harmony
| released = 15 May 1970
| recorded = [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], January 1970; [[De Lane Lea Studios]], 14 April 1970
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
*[[Blues rock]]
*[[psychedelic rock]]
| length = 4:36
| label = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]] (RS27007)
| writer = [[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]]
| producer =
| chronology = Fleetwood Mac British
| prev_title = [[Oh Well (song)|Oh Well]]
| prev_year = 1969
| next_title = [[Dragonfly (Fleetwood Mac song)|Dragonfly]]
| next_year = 1971
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Fleetwood Mac American
| type = single
| prev_title = [[Rattlesnake Shake]]
| prev_year = 1969
| title = The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)
| year = 1970
| next_title = [[Jewel Eyed Judy]]
| next_year = 1971
}}
}}
"'''The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)'''" is a song written by [[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]] and recorded by [[Fleetwood Mac]]. It was released as a single in the UK in May 1970 and reached No. 10 on the British charts, a position it occupied for four consecutive weeks, and was the band's last UK top 10 hit until "[[Tusk (song)|Tusk]]" reached No. 6 in 1979. "The Green Manalishi" was the last song Green made with Fleetwood Mac before leaving the band.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mick-fleetwood-peter-green-tribute-show-lindsey-buckingham-938279/|title=Mick Fleetwood on His Peter Green Tribute Show, Future Plans, and Lindsey Buckingham|last=Greene|first=Andy|date=2020-01-28|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-02}}</ref>
==Composition==
The song was written during Green's final months with the band, at a time when he was using [[LSD]] heavily. While there are several theories about the meaning of the title "Green Manalishi", Green always maintained that the song is about money, as represented by the [[devil]].<ref name="Founder">{{Cite book |last=Celmins |first=Martin |url=https://archive.org/details/petergreenbiogra0000celm/page/114/mode/2up |title=Peter Green: The Biography |publisher=Castle Communications |year=1995 |isbn=1-898141-134 |edition=1st |___location=Chessington, Surrey |pages=115–116|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Green was reportedly angered by the other band members' refusal to share their financial gains.<ref>Martin and Lisa Adelson, [http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/peter.htm Peter Green] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405092312/http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/peter.htm |date=5 April 2010 }}, ''The Penguin: Everything that is Fleetwood Mac.''</ref>
Green has explained that he wrote the song after experiencing a drug-induced dream in which he was visited by a green dog which barked at him from the [[afterlife]]. He understood that the dog represented money. "It scared me because I knew the dog had been dead a long time. It was a stray and I was looking after it. But I was dead and had to fight to get back into my body, which I eventually did. When I woke up, the room was really black and I found myself writing the song." Green wrote the lyrics the following day in [[Richmond Park]].<ref name="Founder" />
==Recording==
Fleetwood Mac played "Green Manalishi" live on a few occasions before they began work on the song in the recording studio.<ref name="Blake">{{Cite book |last=Blake |first=Mark |title=The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac |publisher=Pegasus Books |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-63936-732-0 |___location=New York |pages=290–292}}</ref> They recorded parts of the song in Warner/Reprise Studios, which was situated in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], [[California]] during a break in touring.<ref name="Founder" /> The band returned to the song on 14 April 1970 at [[De Lane Lea Studios]] in [[London]]. One of the band's guitarists, [[Jeremy Spencer]], elected not to attend either recording session.<ref name="Hjort">{{Cite book |last=Hjort |first=Christopher |url=https://archive.org/details/strangebrewericc00hjor/page/292/mode/2up |url-access=registration |title=Strange Brew: Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom |publisher=Jawbone Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-906002-00-8|pages=293–294 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Spencer had also been absent for most of the recording sessions for the band's ''[[Then Play On]]'' album that was released the previous year.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ruggiero|first=Bob|date=21 August 2020|title=Peter Green's Swan Song in Fleetwood Mac Plays On|url=https://www.houstonpress.com/music/things-to-do-listne-to-fleetwood-macs-then-play-on-celebration-edition-11489512|access-date=21 August 2020|website=Houston Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Then Play On (Remastered) |others=[[Fleetwood Mac]] |year=2013 |first=David |last=Fricke |type=Liner Notes |publisher=Warner Bros. Records Inc. |id=RS 535890 |___location=USA}}</ref>
[[Martin Birch]], who served as the producer for these recording sessions, recalled that Green was initially frustrated because he could not get the sound he wanted, but [[Danny Kirwan]] reassured him that they would stay in the studio all night until the band achieved a satisfactory take.<ref name="vaudeville">{{cite AV media notes|others= Fleetwood Mac |title= The Vaudeville Years |title-link= The Vaudeville Years |type= CD booklet notes |year= 1998 |publisher= Receiver Records }}</ref> Green had played the band a demo of "Green Manalishi" and expected the rest of the band to replicate the parts that he had recorded.<ref name="Blake"/> The band recorded several instruments for "Green Manalishi", including a [[Extended-range bass|six-string]] bass and "lots of drums".<ref name="Founder" /> They recorded 27 different takes of the song, of which seven were false starts. Three different [[spooling|spools of tape]] were used to record the song, with take seven on the third spool being designated as the master.<ref name="Hjort"/> Once the master was established, the band commenced with overdubs.<ref name="vaudeville"/>
To achieve the guitar tone found on the intro, Birch placed large monitor speakers in an underground concrete [[car park]] and captured the guitar sounds emanating from the speakers with microphones at the end of the car park.<ref name="vaudeville"/> This technique allowed Birch to attain natural [[reverb effect|reverb]] from the acoustics in the car park. Green later said that the session left him exhausted and singled out the recording session for "Green Manalishi" as one of his favourite musical memories. He was also fond of the "shrieking guitars" that he played with Kirwan and had expected the song to reach number one.<ref name="Founder" />
==Live versions==
Fleetwood Mac began performing the song at the end of 1969, with Green introducing it as "a song about the devil."<ref name="All the Songs">{{Cite book |last1=Roubin |first1=Olivier |title=Fleetwood Mac: All The Songs |last2=Ollivier |first2=Romuald |date=1 April 2025 |publisher=Black Dog Leventhal Publishers |isbn=978-0-7624-8630-4 |___location=New York |pages=152–154}}</ref> A 16-minute live version of "The Green Manalishi" was recorded in February 1970, prior to the single's recording in April, but it initially remained unreleased until 1985, when it was issued on the ''[[Live in Boston (Fleetwood Mac album)|Live in Boston: Remastered]]'' album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/boston-mw0002582414|title=Boston - Fleetwood Mac | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|access-date=15 March 2025|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
Following Green's departure, Fleetwood Mac continued to play the song on a few occasions, including their ''Live at the Record Plant'' performance on 15 December 1974, which was recorded for a live-broadcast on [[KSAN (FM)|KSAN-FM]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Giacona |first=Katiana |title=Record Plant, Sausalito Studios |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-4671-0946-8 |___location=Charleston, South Carolina |page=69}}</ref> The band also performed the song soon after [[Lindsey Buckingham]] and [[Stevie Nicks]] joined. During certain performances of the song, Nicks would join Fleetwood behind his drum set to play [[conga]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grissim|first=John|title=Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |date=November 1976 |isbn=978-161373-234-2 |editor-last=Egan |editor-first=Sean |chapter=Big Mac: Crawdaddy |publication-date=2016|page=24|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fleetwoodmaconfl0000unse_f7y2/page/24/mode/2up|chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref> On 25 February 2020, Fleetwood performed the song at a tribute concert for Peter Green. ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons handled vocals on the song and [[Kirk Hammett]] handled the song's lead guitar and also played the song on the 1959 [[Gibson Les Paul|Les Paul]] guitar nicknamed [[Greeny_(guitar)|Greeny]] that once belonged to Green.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Irwin |first=Corey|date=4 December 2020 |title=Watch All-Star Group Perform Fleetwood Mac's 'Green Manalishi' |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/mick-fleetwood-kirk-hammett-billy-gibbons-green-manalishi/ |access-date=15 March 2025|website=Ultimate Classic Rock |language=en}}</ref>
==World in Harmony==
The B-side of the single was an instrumental written by Green and [[Danny Kirwan]], titled "World In Harmony".<ref name="Founder" /> Fleetwood Mac had played the song live on a few occasions starting in January 1970 and briefly attempted to record it during a break in the United States.<ref name="All the Songs"/> The band recorded the final version at De Lane Studios, with sessions beginning on 16 April 1970. At the time of the song's recording, "World in Harmony" carried the working title "Danny's One".<ref name="Hjort"/> The only track bearing a Kirwan/Green writing credit, the two had plans to collaborate further on a guitar-driven album, but the project never materialised.<ref name="Founder" /> Kirwan was responsible for the majority of the composition with the exception of the middle section, which was created by Green. Kirwan gave him a co-writing credit for this contribution.<ref name="vaudeville"/>
Similar to the recording sessions for "Green Manalishi", Spencer did not participate in any capacity on "World in Harmony".<ref name="Hjort"/> During the sessions, which took place over two days, Green, McVie, and Kirwan engaged in a disagreement over the intro. Parts of this verbal altercation were captured on an alternate take of "World in Harmony" that later appeared on ''[[The Vaudeville Years]]'' compilation album in 1998.<ref name="Hjort"/><ref name="vaudeville"/> Of the twelve takes recorded on 16 April, the band completed four of them, with the remaining eight comprising false starts and incomplete takes. Work resumed on "World in Harmony" the following day, which resulted in five additional takes. The band selected take six from the previous day as the [[master recordings|master]].<ref name="Hjort"/> Green's guitar was assigned to the left channel and Kirwan's was placed on the right; additional guitars were also overdubbed and treated with [[reverb effect|reverb]].<ref name="All the Songs"/>
==Personnel==
*[[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]] – [[guitar]], [[Singing|vocals]], six string bass
*[[Danny Kirwan]] – [[guitar]]
*[[John McVie]] – [[bass guitar]]
*[[Mick Fleetwood]] – [[Drum kit|drums]], [[gong]], [[maracas]]
==Chart positions==
{| class="wikitable"
! Chart (1969)
! Peak<br>position
|-
{{single chart|Flanders|16|artist=Fleetwood Mac|song=The Green Manalishi}}
|-
{{single chart|Wallonia|44|artist=Fleetwood Mac|song=The Green Manalishi}}
|-
{{single chart|Ireland2|14|song=The Green Manalishi}}
|-
{{single chart|Dutch100|6|artist=Fleetwood Mac|song=The Green Manalishi}}
|-
{{single chart|UK|10|date=19700614|access-date=4 February 2024}}
|-
{{single chart|West Germany|16|artist=Fleetwood Mac|song=The Green Manalishi|songid=122838|year=1970|access-date=3 March 2020}}
|}
==Judas Priest version==
{{Infobox song
| name = The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)
| cover =
| alt =
| type =
| artist = [[Judas Priest]]
| album = [[Killing Machine|Hell Bent for Leather]]
| released = May 1979 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Judas+Priest&titel=The+Green+Manalishi+(With+The+Two-Pronged+Crown)&cat=s|title=Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)|website=Hitparade.ch}}</ref>
| recorded = 1978
| studio = {{hlist|Utopia (London)|[[Basing Street Studios|Basing Street]] (London)|[[CBS]] (London)}}
| venue =
| genre = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]
| length = 3:23
| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| writer = [[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]]
| producer = [[James Guthrie (record producer)|James Guthrie]], [[Judas Priest]]
}}
[[heavy metal (music)|Heavy metal]] band [[Judas Priest]] covered the song on their 1979 album ''[[Killing Machine|Hell Bent for Leather]]'' (the American version of ''Killing Machine''). The first worldwide release was on the band's live album, ''[[Unleashed in the East]]'', released later that year. The band performed it on [[Live Aid]] at [[JFK Stadium]], [[Pennsylvania]] in [[1985 in music|1985]].<ref name="Blake"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://liveaid.free.fr/rewind/official/pages/sept23.html|title=LIVE AID : THE OFFICIAL EDITION on 4 DVD|website=liveaid.free.fr|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref> This version features dueling guitar solos played by [[Glenn Tipton]] and [[K. K. Downing]].
Adrien Begrand of ''[[PopMatters]]'' said the cover "succeeded in such a way that the Priest version is now far more famous than the original. They make it their own, accelerating the pace just enough to achieve a better balance of force and menace, and the groove created by drummer Les Binks cinches it. Priest’s towering version is nevertheless an all-time heavy metal classic."<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= [[PopMatters]] | title=THE 15 BEST JUDAS PRIEST SONGS|author=Adrien Begrand| url=https://www.popmatters.com/15-best-judas-priest-songs}}</ref>
A re-recording of the song, subtitled the '98 version, was included as one of the B-sides to the single "[[Bullet Train (song)|Bullet Train]],"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Judas+Priest&titel=Bullet+Train&cat=s|title=swedishcharts.com - Judas Priest - Bullet Train|website=swedishcharts.com|access-date=July 24, 2024}}</ref> and later as a bonus track on the German and Australian versions of the band’s 2001 album ''[[Demolition (Judas Priest album)|Demolition]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/judas-priest-cover-fleetwood-mac/|title=Watch Judas Priest cover Fleetwood Mac's 'The Green Manalishi'|date=24 July 2022|access-date=24 July 2024|last=Leatham|first=Tom|publisher=[[Far Out (website)|Far Out]]}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:1970 singles]]
[[Category:Songs about drugs]]
[[Category:Fleetwood Mac songs]]
[[Category:Judas Priest songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Peter Green (musician)]]
[[Category:1970 songs]]
[[Category:Reprise Records singles]]
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