Episode 19: Fleetwood Mac’s Jeremy Spencer: The Guitarist Who Vanished Into a Cult

In this episode of Are They Still With Us?, Hannah and Chris keep their word (for once!) and dive into one of rock’s strangest disappearances. Jeremy Spencer, Fleetwood Mac’s original slide-guitar virtuoso, walked out in 1971 to “buy a magazine” — and never came back. Days later, the band found him fully immersed in the Children of God cult.From his blues-driven beginnings with Mac to the surreal intervention attempt by his bandmates, we trace Spencer’s shocking exit, the royalties that funded a notorious religious group, and the allegations that have shadowed him ever since. Hannah and Chris also share their recent concert adventures seeing The Ocean Blue and Black Star Orchestra, before breaking down how one man’s choice shaped the future of Fleetwood Mac forever.Is Jeremy Spencer still with us? Yes — alive, making music, but forever tied to one of rock’s darkest twists.