Christine McVie, singing with the angels.
Posted on 11/30/2022 12:50:37 PM PST by Morgana
Christine McVie, the co-lead vocalist, songwriter and keyboardist of Fleetwood Mac, has died aged 79 following a 'short illness', her family have revealed.
In a statement, McVie's family said she was 'a revered musician who was loved universally' and was surrounded by loved ones when she died.
'She passed away peacefully at hospital this morning, Wednesday, November 30th following a short illness. She was in the company of her family.
'We kindly ask that you respect the family's privacy at this extremely painful time and we would like everyone to keep Christine in their hearts and remember the life of an incredible human being.'
Her former bandmates said tonight they're devastated by the loss, describing her as 'the best friend anyone could have in their life'.
'She was truly one-of-a-kind, special and talented beyond measure... She was the best musician anyone could have in their band. We were so lucky to have a life with her.
'Individually and together, we cherished Christine deeply and are thankful for the amazing memories we have. She will be so very missed.'
Stevie Nicks shared the statement to her own Twitter account this evening.
The British-American rock band was one of the most successful groups of all time, selling 100 million records globally.
McVie joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971 as a permanent member, and the band achieved even greater popularity with the addition of Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in the mid-1970s.
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“ We can but that wasn’t your original claim. You claimed a musical group kicked off the societal decay.”
False. I wrote:
“Bands like that led to our nation’s demise.”
RIP, SongBird Lady.
so sad now
S A D :(
That is the McVie composition that I think of first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c_ZYise-yA
Bands like that led to our nation’s demise.
You’re not serious???
America was lost with the debauchery and hedonism of the 1920’s and The Charleston flapper girls. How soon people forget!!!
No, I have not. Thank you for the heads up.
That wasn't my response at all. There was an article posted here a little while back about how Stevie Nicks said she wouldn't have written her songs if she hadn't had an abortion, so I can kind of understand it, but a healthy country should be able to survive pop songs. If we couldn't, there must be other things wrong.
Quite welcome. I listen to it about once a week.
23 Skidoo and toot toot tootsie.
Oh way more…
McVie had Far far more overall talent, not even close.. but as you noted Nicks got more attention.
Glad I got to see them with the original lineup from their heyday.
Yes, that song is haunting...tied around my heart.
Christine McVie, singing with the angels.
“Over My Head’’ is a beautiful tune also.
There’s a hairsbreadth of difference in that I suppose. Do you still want to claim our nations demise was caused by music? If you do, I’m not interested in that sort of nonsense.
“ Do you still want to claim our nations demise was caused by music?”
I didn’t claim that at all.
Counter culture values caused the demise.
Promiscuity, abortion, drugs, idol worship, leftist philosophy.
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I always thought Christine McVie was a better songwriter than Stevie Nicks, although Nicks would occasionally pop out a real gem. “Crystal” (best on the Buckinham-Nicks album) was wonderful all around, and her collaboration with Tom Petty on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”, and “Blue Lamp” from the Heavy Metal album were terrific (the music better than her vocals). But, half the time (or more in her later career when the drugs really affected her, I think) Stevie Nicks uncorked some pretty awful stuff*, whereas Christine McVie was consistently good to excellent, IMO.
*One reviewer went so far as to say of “Belladonna”, a quote from Anton Lavey (of all people!), which went something like this (paraph: “Belladonna - In Italian, a beautiful woman. In English, a deadly poison, thereby proving the similarity of the two languages.”
Christine McVie, OTOH, was I think best known for her warm, more “mature” (in a good way), songs, that seemed a perfect match for her warm contralto voice: Less range, spectacle, and drama, than Nicks, and no “put on persona” (Welsh witch), but listening to McVie is like putting on a super-comfortable winter coat.
Of note is that while Lindsey Buckingham was (and likely still is) madly in love with Stevie Nicks, in 2016-2017 it was McVie who he got together with to release an album and do some touring. Arguably Buckingham fell in love with the wrong woman: both Buckingham and McVie raised kids, etc., while Nicks was the “wild thing”.
RIP, Ms. McVie. You will be missed, but your music will live on forever.
“paraphrase” (!)
You wrote,
“ The crowd dancing and celebrating Clinton’s to Fleetwood Mac exemplifies the fall of our nation and there’s a direct line to today woke totalitarianism.”
A direct line does not include an excursion into metaphor. I read your claim to be that dancing and music led directly to totalitarianism.
Have it your way but those are your words.
The British-American rock band was one of the most successful groups of all time...
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British-American bands are pretty rare now that I think about it (although of course it’s no surprise), but the ones that’ve existed have been some heavy hitters. There was the Jimi Hendrix Experience which was Hendrix plus a couple of Brits on bass and drums. Then you had Derek and the Dominos which was sort of the mirror image of that — Eric Clapton along with a bunch of Americans. There must have been others although I can’t think of any offhand.
I guess the odds of a British-American band being exceptionally good are better than average since it’s a fair amount of trouble to form one in the first place. You probably don’t even attempt it unless you’ve really got some exceptional musicians lined up.
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