Stretch why did you do it

The musicians that would become Stretch were asked to fill in as Fleetwood Mac in to fulfill touring obligations in the US. Clifford Davis , Fleetwood Mac's manager at the time, and Mick Fleetwood himself formed the band and Fleetwood would join them once the tour started, even though he didn't join them for rehearsals. Fleetwood did not join them and denied even knowing the guys that were playing as his band in the US.

Needless to say, the tour fell apart. Crowds were keyed in to the ruse by the fact that Christine McVie , the only female member of the band at the time, was not on keyboards. As a further jab, the song was published under Fleetwood Music Ltd. Kirby promptly wrote Why Did You It? Lyrically, it comes close, I think, in its reproachful fury to Dylan's scabrous masterpiece, Positively 4th Street. Still more surprisingly, it was that rarest of birds: a work of lasting genius from a mids white funk band.

Except they weren't a funk band. An unstable admixture, thrown together by circumstance, Stretch couldn't make up their minds what they were — dabbling in country, rock and folk. At the height of their success, they were even supporting Rainbow.