His name remains primarily associated with the dynamic Don’t Stopalbum hit Rumours (1977), one of the ten best sellers in the recording industry. Christine McVie, British singer and keyboardist (piano, organ and synthesizers) of the group Fleetwood Mac died, Wednesday, November 30 in hospital, of a “brief illness”, announced his family without specifying the place of his death. Aged 79, Christine McVie returned to live in England in the early 1990s after finding fame in Los Angeles. His memory was immediately saluted by a press release from Fleetwood Mac emphasizing his qualities as “musician” and D’« amie »the second proving invaluable in this tumultuous formation of existence where private and professional affairs were inextricably linked.
Time had apparently not pacified relations within the Anglo-American entity. Fleetwood Mac’s last tour, in which Christine McVie took part in 2018-2019, was marked by the abrupt departure of Californian singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, so indispensable that it took two musicians to replace him. Officially for repertoire and calendar disputes. Buckingham, who will sue his former acolytes, will claim to have been fired at the request of the bewitching gypsy from Fleetwood Mac: his former wife, singer Stevie Nicks.
Back on stage in 2013
After stepping back in 1998, Christine McVie joined her partners in September 2013 on the London stage at the O2 Arena to sing the unmissable Don’t Stop. This made possible the following year a new meeting of the historic quintet of Rumours for a world journey that had ignored France, a country that will never have succumbed to its charm. In addition to Buckingham and Nicks, Christine McVie found her ex there, bassist John McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood – whose surnames association had baptized Fleetwood Mac in 1967.
She and Buckingham had started working together again at the Village Recorder studio in Los Angeles – where Fleetwood Mac had recorded the double album Tusk (1979), new wave and unloved successor to Rumours. The rhythm section had joined them, but not Stevie Nicks, obviously reluctant to participate in a new collective creation. Ten songs will nevertheless end up on the album Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie (2017), the last of the late.
Born on July 12, 1943 in Bouth, a village in Lancashire, Christine Perfect (her maiden name) grew up in a musical environment since her grandfather had played the organ at Westminster Abbey and her father was a violinist. . Trained in the classical piano, a student at an art school in Birmingham, she took part in the British rhythm’n’blues (R&B) scene by joining the group Chicken Shack in 1967. Before gradually leaving it for its competitor, Fleetwood Mac, whose bassist she married in 1968. The formation was then emblematic of the “British blues boom”, dominated by the personality of guitarist Peter Green.
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