[attach id=378301 size="medium"]Mick Fleetwood. Photo: Ian West/PA Wire[/attach]

Fleetwood Mac co-founder Mick Fleetwood has “lost count” of how many times he was made bankrupt, he says in an interview.

The drummer told The Sunday Telegraph’s Seven magazine: “I’m like Donald Trump. I think he’s been bankrupt about seven times.

“You pay off what debts you can. You do what you are told by your accountant.

“I really didn’t have much to do with it. I carried on like nothing had happened.”

He says that has has been blessed with “cartloads of money” in his time.

Fleetwood added: “The past is a huge chunk of my life. I get (told) all the time, ‘You don’t have to be doing what you’re doing’.

“Proportionately if you went down the pecking order of the band, I’d be last on the list, (but) people ask, ‘Would you fancy putting another 20 million in your bank?’ And you go, ‘Oh yes, that’s pretty good.”

The 67-year-old has written a new autobiography, Play On, in which he tells of his out-of-control spending, chaotic love life – he has had three failed marriages – and wild behaviour.

He says the band consists of ex-partners and people who have shared houses together, so their work is “incredibly emotively driven”.

He concludes: “It’s real. We don’t always get it right, but we work at it.”

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