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English
Etymology
flēonHomonyms
Verb
Translations
to run away; to escape
- Danish: flygte
- Finnish: paeta, karata
- German: fliehen, meiden, flüchten
- Icelandic: flýja
- Japanese: (, nigeru)
- Kurdish: ,
- Latin: fugere, terga vertere
- Swedish: fly
- Welsh: ffoi
to escape from
- ttbc Dutch: vluchten, wegvluchten
- ttbc French: fuir
- ttbc Indonesian: minggat, melarikan diri
- ttbc Kurdish: revîn, bazdan
- ttbc Polish: uciekać
- ttbc Portuguese: fugir
- ttbc Romanian: scăpa
- ttbc Spanish: huir, fugarse
Scots
Noun
fleeExtensive Definition
Flee is an album by British
blues
rock musician Jeremy
Spencer, who was a member of Fleetwood
Mac from 1967-71, and "The Jeremy Spencer Band" (comprised of
members of the Children of
God new
religious movement), with particularly strong input from
Michael Fogarty. Released in 1979 (see 1979 in
music), this is Spencer's third album apart from Fleetwood Mac,
and his second recorded while a member of the Children of
God.
This was Spencer's first recorded work in seven
years, and was musically far removed from his previous work. It
showed his continuing preference for parodying other bands; in this
case the whole of Side 2 bears an astonishing resemblance to the
contemporary sound of Fleetwood Mac, i.e. a breezy Californian rock
style with female vocalists, and a solid thumping drum sound
reminiscent of Mick
Fleetwood. A coincidence seems unlikely given Spencer's past
membership of that band, and the fact that his female vocalists are
credited as "The Songbirds" - "Songbird" was a very popular
Fleetwood Mac song from the Rumours album just
a couple of years earlier.
The album features a heavy disco treatment given to the songs
on Side 1, which Spencer was very unhappy with.
"Sunshine" was a reworking of "When I Looked To
See The Sunshine" from the
Jeremy Spencer and the Children album of 1972. "Cool Breeze"
and "Travellin'" were issued as singles in various territories but
without great success, and the album was a commercial
failure.
Track listing
Side One:- "Deeper" (Rugely)
- "Sunshine" (Spencer)
- "Love Our Way Outta Here" (Fogarty)
Side Two:
- "Flee" (Spencer/Fogarty)
- "Cool Breeze (Fogarty/Spencer)
- "You've Got The Right" (Fogarty/Spencer)
- "Travellin'" (Fogarty/Spencer)
Personnel
- Jeremy Spencer - Vocals, Guitar
- Michael Fogarty - Keyboards, Vocals
- Jeff Schoen - Keyboards
- Neal Jason - Bass Guitar
- Al Izzo - Drums
- Buz Buchanan - Drums
- Victor Salazar - Percussion
- "The Songbirds" - Vocals
Production
- Produced by Jeremy Spencer & Michael Fogarty
- Executive Producer - Ahmet Ertegün
- Tracks 1-3 produced in association with Silvio Tancredi & Israel Sanchez, mixed with the use of the Aphex Aural Exciter
- Tracks 1-3 arranged by Armando Noriega with vocal concepts by Phil Anastasi
- Tracks 4-7 arranged by Jeremy Spencer & Michael Fogarty
References
Other reference material
- Classic Rock magazine interview (by Martin Celmins), March 2006 (hosted by xFamily.org)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abscond, absquatulate, avoid, bail out, be annihilated,
be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, beat
a retreat, beat it, blow,
bolt, break, break away, break jail,
break loose, bunk, cease, cease to be, cease to
exist, clear out, cut and run, cut loose, cut out, decamp, dematerialize, depart, desert, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out,
dwindle, elope, elude, erode, escape, escape prison, eschew, evade, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fly, fly the coop, fugitate, get away, get clear
of, get free, get out, get out of, go, go AWOL, go away, hide, hightail, jump, jump bail, leave no trace,
leave the scene, levant,
make a getaway, make an exit, make off, make tracks, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, peter out, quit, retire from sight, run, run along, run away, run away
from, run away with, run for it, run off, scamper, scape, scoot, scram, screw, show the heels, shun, sink, sink away, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable,
slip the collar, split,
suffer an eclipse, take French leave, take flight, take off, take
to flight, take wing, turn tail, vamoose, vanish, vanish from sight,
waste, waste away, wear
away