Posted on 08/30/2024 1:43:50 PM PDT by Morgana
Heartbreaking footage captured the moment a famous Fleetwood Mac cover singer performed her favorite song for the last time in her hospital bed before dying from breast cancer.
Marirose Powell, 62, died in April after a brave battle with the disease. She was the lead in a well-known Fleetwood Mac cover band, Marirose & The Gypsies, for decades.
Her daughter-in-law shared the emotional video on TikTok after her death.
Filmed shortly before Powell passed away, the video shows Powell in her hospice bed. Her friends had gathered with a guitar and asked: 'What do you want to play?'
'And she said, 'I want to sing "Landslide.' And so she sang "Landslide" one last time,' Xenos told People.
Xenos described her husband's mother as 'the most loving and generous person in the whole wide world', and said she fronted a Fleetwood Mac cover band for over 20 years.
In the video, Powell was seen tightly gripping the side of her hospital bed as she sweetly sung the hit from 1975.
Xenos captioned her video of the moment: 'My mother-in-law performed as Stevie Nicks for decades - this was her final performance before she passed the following week.'
'There isn't a day that goes by that I wish we’d had more time with her. She was truly the only person I’ve ever known to leave people better than she found them.
'Until we can be together again mama.'
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It must be something to sing a song and know it is the last time. 62 years old. Round about my age. We start out having forever…and then we don’t anymore…RIP.
OMG
She never left her bed after that day.
What’s wrong with Stevie Nicks? She’s still alive.
I never liked covers of songs I grew up with. I know I’m a boomer saying so, but it does irk me to hear them not the same as my vaunted youth!
The other day we’re riding in the truck, and my son hears the original Tommy James and the Shondells doing “Mony Mony”, and he says, “Who is this? Ugh!!! It doesn’t sound like Billy Idol.”
Johnny Cash’s last time with his hands on his baby grand, gently closing it, is captured as part of the video for “Dirt”.
Billy Idol is my favorite
Too soon....
What a beautiful ending. That song is beautiful in its own right but I refuse to listen to it; too sad.
Songbird is another one.
Not gonna lie, he is great. Dancin with Myself and Eyes without a face were great songs. And the original video for White Wedding when they girls in the leather pants shake it to the beat was awesome.
I love the music of 60-70-80s. 90s okay but rap and 2000+ are trash. I realize that’s just my opinion.
I hate rap but that’s not racist because I love Motown and Soul. Gimme the Chilites, Temptations, Spinners, Supremes, Tower of Power, Al Green anyday!
I just thought my son’s comment was hilarious!
Once you hit about 55, it really sinks in that you have far more days behind you than ahead. The years sneak up on you.
Never really got the whole cover band thing and getting excited for not the real band.
She had three albums of her own.
Love that song.
RIP.
Oh, yes!
This guy just misremembered.
“My empire of dirt” is part of the lyrics!
kinda like when a dying Elvis impersonator sings Danny Boy for the last time?
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