![]() ![]() “I saw that if I want to start to play again, there’s only one band I want to play with, and that’s Fleetwood Mac.Seldom can any song invoke the pure emotion that Songbird can. ![]() “I did a couple of songs there, it felt good onstage, and then I thought, ‘I’m really missing out on something - something that’s mine, that I’ve just given up, and I’m not paying respect to my own gift,’” McVie said. In a 2014 interview with The Times, McVie recounted how she got over her fear of flying, which she said involved gradually desensitizing herself to the idea the breakthrough arrived when Fleetwood accompanied her on a flight to Maui, where she sat in with the drummer and her ex-husband at a performance by their blues band. Information on McVie’s survivors wasn’t immediately available. This year, the wistful funk of “Everywhere” has gained new life as the soundtrack to a widely seen car commercial, driving the song to more than 580 million streams on Spotify alone. In 2018, Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac and replaced by Neil Finn of Crowded House and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers the group’s most recent public concert was in 2019. the same room where Fleetwood Mac laid down 1979’s “Tusk” - before hitting the road again for another round of full-band gigs. “Being busy walking my dogs - actually not doing anything very constructive.” (In 2004, she released “In the Meantime,” which she called a “little solo album” she’d made in her garage.) After the tour with Fleetwood Mac, she recorded a duo album with Buckingham at the Village Studios in West L.A. “I’d been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady,” she told The Times in 2017. She surprised fans by returning to Fleetwood Mac in 2014 for a lengthy reunion tour. She married Eddy Quintela, a Portuguese musician, in 1986 the couple co-wrote “Little Lies” for the next year’s “Tango in the Night” album and divorced in 2003. (The flirty “You Make Loving Fun,” as the story goes, grew out of her affair with the band’s lighting director.) McVie continued playing with Fleetwood Mac throughout the late ’70s and ’80s - “Hold Me,” from 1982’s “Mirage,” was inspired by her relationship with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys - and she released a second solo album in 1984. “Rumours,” with its careful balance of high-stakes emotion and rich-hippie iconography, documented the fraying of numerous relationships within the band, including that of the McVies, who divorced in 1976. Having learned to play piano as a pre-teen - her father was a music professor, her mother a psychic - she joined the band Chicken Shack in 1967 and scored a modest hit with a cover of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind.” She married John McVie in 1968 and joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970, not long after releasing a debut solo album called “Christine Perfect” after a series of personnel changes involving the group’s frontmen, Buckingham and Nicks arrived in time for Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled 1975 LP. McVie was born Christine Perfect on July 12, 1943, in the village of Bouth in northwestern England. ![]() (Arthur Mola / Invision via Associated Press) Individually and together, we cherished Christine deeply and are thankful for the amazing memories we have. She was the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life. “She was truly one-of-a-kind, special and talented beyond measure. “There are no words to describe our sadness at the passing of Christine McVie,” Fleetwood Mac said on social media. McVie, who lived in London, told Rolling Stone in June that she was in “quite bad health,” describing a chronic back problem that made it difficult for her to stand. Her death was announced by her family in a statement that said she’d “passed away peacefully” at a hospital following “a short illness.” The statement didn’t specify the hospital’s location. Christine McVie, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist whose dreamily optimistic tunes for Fleetwood Mac - including such FM-radio staples as “Don’t Stop,” “ Little Lies,” “ Songbird,” “ Everywhere” and “ You Make Loving Fun” - helped make the band one of the most successful acts in music history, died Wednesday. ![]()
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