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LITTLE ROCK — After three years working on their own projects, Fleetwood Mac - Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie - will reunite for a 34-city American tour, starting April 4 in Columbus, Ohio. The group will perform at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena on May 3. The tour coincides with the 35th anniversary of the band’s album Rumours and the 40th anniversary of the album from pre-Mac duo Buckingham Nicks.

However, Nicks said Monday that it isn’t yet clear what role those anniversaries will play in the tour. “We just want to put together the best set possible,” Nicks said from her 1 Santa Monica, Calif., home. “We want to create the best 2/2-hour experience for the people.” Nicks said the band has already recorded two new songs - “Sad Angel” and “Miss Fantasy” - that they plan to play on the tour. “They’re a lot of fun,” said Nicks. “I think they sound like really great Fleetwood Mac songs.” She didn’t know if the band would release a full album. “Whether or not we’re gonna do any more [songs], we don’t know because we’re so completely bummed out with the state of the music industry and the fact that nobody even wants a full record,” she said. “Everybody wants two songs, so we’re going to give them two songs.” The band will begin rehearsals in mid-February, though the four have already started discussions about the staging and the set list. “If we had to do a show the day after tomorrow, we could,” Nicks said. “The boys are that good. ... The great thing with Fleetwood Mac is that we are a finely tuned machine.” Fleetwood Mac, which was formed in 1967, last released an album in 2003, though they hit the road in 2009. Buckingham played a solo concert last month at Juanita’s in Little Rock.

Anderson Cooper said a reporting assignment turned into a temporary blindness scare. On his talk show Tuesday, Cooper said he was in Portugal last week working on a story for 60 Minutes and spent two hours on the water. The newsman said that later he developed a burning sensation in his eyes and lost sight for 36 hours. Showing a photo he took of himself with an eye patch, Cooper joked it would be his new online dating picture.On a more serious note, Cooper said he wanted to warn viewers about the risk of retina burn from sunlight.