December 3 - Oh Well

The answer to yesterday's question was the Iron Maiden producer Martin Birch who engineered Fleetwood Mac's 1968 album Then Play On, which on the 1969 US edition featured the song Oh Well. This album was one of my uncle Erik's favorite album, and the song is one of my absolutely favorite songs of theirs. With Peter Green as the main songwriter and guitarist they were a completely different band than they became, and this is just one of many great examples of that.

For tomorrow, we are going back to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Another band with the twin lead guitars was led by someone who at least was the first openly gay heavy metal singer I knew of. It took him a long time to come out - the heavy metal community wasn't always the most open and embracing community to homosexuality - but he has since become embraced and is absolutely considered one of the elder statesmen of metal. They did a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song. Who is the singer, what is the band, what song am I talking about, and when and on what album was it released?