Between April – May 1970, the teenage girls magazine Jackie carried a serialised comic strip of the life of Peter Green. It’s a telling attempt to navigate the shift in popular music from second to third generation rock, for both teen mags and their subjects.

Romance, boy meets girl, is marginalised in Green’s story, suppressed by the tale of a sensitive young man’s desire to find his own way through life.

The basic storyline had been earlier outlined in a November 1969 for a profile by Samantha, which highlighted his love of dogs and the suburban home he’d bought for his parents.

Green and Fleetwood Mac are unlikely subjects for a comic strip, way too ugly, unkempt and far too serious about their music. Nevertheless, since the band’s formation, Jackie had featured them on a number of occasions – their hit singles demanded inclusion.

You can see the shift from second to third generation in how the magazine moved from asking ‘what sort of girls do you fancy?’ to seemingly less frivolous concerns. When the comic strip ends, Green is buying a cello, classical LPs and is planning to write a symphony . . . The world of pop would never be the same again.

Oh well, and who in 1970 knew that Peter Green played bass in the the Tridents? Samantha did . . .