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RIP - Christine McVie

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 1:37 pm
by Boris13c
Christine McVie, Hitmaker for Fleetwood Mac, Is Dead at 79

Christine McVie, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist who became the biggest hitmaker for Fleetwood Mac, one of music’s most popular bands, died on Wednesday. She was 79.

Her family announced her death on Facebook. The statement said she died at a hospital but did not specify its location or give the cause of death. In June, Ms. McVie told Rolling Stone that she was in “quite bad health” and that she had endured debilitating problems with her back.

Ms. McVie’s commercial potency, which hit a high point in the 1970s and ’80s, was on full display on Fleetwood Mac’s “Greatest Hits” anthology, released in 1988, which sold more than eight million copies: She either wrote or co-wrote half of its 16 tracks. Her tally doubled that of the next most prolific member of the band’s trio of singer-songwriters, Stevie Nicks. (The third, Lindsey Buckingham, scored three major Billboard chart-makers on that collection.)

been a Fleetwood Mac fan all my life and Christine McVie was such a key member of that group as a singer and songwriter ... she will be missed by all

Re: RIP - Christine McVie

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:32 pm
by Grizzled
Fleetwood Mac was originally a blues and blues/rock group with 3 members including Peter Green (an absolutely fabulous guitarist), Mick Fleetwood, and Jerry Spenser, another guitarist. John McVie joined as a bassist and they added another guitarist, Danny Kirwan after the debut album dropped. This album, btw, included Black Magic Woman, which Green wrote, not Santana. The band morphed into a California pop band as Green, Spenser, and Kirwan left and were replaced by Christine Perfect, keyboards and vocals, who married McVie, and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac had some monster hits with Fleetwood-McVie-McVie-Nicks. RIP.

Re: RIP - Christine McVie

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:52 pm
by Ditka’s dictaphone
My late sisters absolute favourite band although she loved Nicks more than Christie McVie.

RIP songbird, thanks for the tunes :clap:

Re: RIP - Christine McVie

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:58 am
by Otis Day
Big fan of McVie. Loved her voice. I was a bigger fan of the music of the original lineup.