In 1967, Peter Green was the Jesus of blues guitar. Ten years later, he was arrested for pulling a shotgun on his manager

Peter Green helped establish Fleetwood Mac’s early blues-rock sound, but a severe reaction to LSD during a 1969 tour was followed by worsening mental illness and his departure from the band. In 1977, as the later version of Fleetwood Mac found chart success, Green was arrested after confronting his accountant over royalty payments, reflecting his belief that money was harmful.

Green had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was receiving electroconvulsive therapy. He took a shotgun into accountant David Simmons’s office and demanded that no more money be sent to him and that it be given away; Simmons called the police. Green was committed to a mental institution and spent much of the 1970s and 1980s in institutions before living with family, where his condition improved. He died in 2020, aged 73.