Christine Mcvie everytime Came like an adult in the room. fleetwood macBut McVie is the emotional glue of a band that has broken up countless times over the past 50 years, the most stable of rock’s most volatile, pointless, and cosmic circuses. He was a sensible and down-to-earth member. He is a world-famous piano woman who writes masterpieces one after another and is admired by everyone. Christine kept singing like a songbird who knew sheet music.
That is why the world is shocked and saddened. News of McVie’s death on Wednesday, suddenly appears.as her Said ‘rolling stone’Andy Green Earlier this year, she said, “I’m probably like Mother Teresa, hanging out with everyone or just trying. [keep] Everything is nice, cool and relaxing. ’ But she admitted. It is said that she often fought, but in reality she spent most of her time laughing. ”
the spirit appeared in her song — peaceful and stormy at the same time. She has written many of Mac’s classics, with a focus on husky, intimate voice and piano. “Say You Love Me,” “Over My Head,” “Oh Daddy,” “Little Lies,” “Why”—she sang in the romantic voice of a world-weary adult. She can’t fall and fall and fall and speak for herself. These were songs that were always shocking to hear on the radio, but have grown over the years.
Her solo demo from 1979 fang The piano ballad “Never Make Me Cry” is one of her most heartbreaking songs and the first song this fan played upon hearing the tragic news of her death. “Go on, do what you want,” she says to her wayward lover. Her refusal to cry the first time she sang that line sounds defiant and triumphant. But in the end, she makes it feel like the saddest part of the story.
McVie is part of the Mac drama, especially rumor era.she abandoned her husband John McVie, happened to be the bassist. She moved in with a lighting director and changed her wedding ring to another finger. , made him play bass for the next 45 years. (And to his credit, he played it brilliantly—another boss move.) In the funniest line, she sings.Fufufu, you make it fun to love / And I don’t need to tell you, but only you! Of course Christine, loyalty, true love, that goes without saying. As John wearyly remarked years later, “Me and Lindsey are the only people in the band who aren’t cheating.”
Some of Fleetwood Mac’s best moments on the final tour came when all five of the classic line-ups reunited. Stevie Nicks/lindsey buckingham solo showcase. Each night, Christine would sit next to John on the piano bench, whispering and giggling just the two of them, out of sight of most of the audience. They were always close together like two old friends of his, sharing a secret laugh.It was such a moving sight — so sweet and civilized in the middle of everything emotional Sturm and Doran. She brought that warmth to people.flat these are Man.
Christine and Stevie had a unique chemistry — two singer-songwriters, two frontwomen, in the very masculine world of ’70s LA rock. Stevie always credited McBee for making it possible. as she told me in 2019“Christine and I made a deal the day I joined Fleetwood Mac. She and I said, ‘We will never be treated like second-class citizens.’ We will never be allowed to hang out in a room full of nroll stars, we will do everything we can for women, we will fight for everything we want and we will get it. We promised each other that our songs and music would be as good as all the men who surrounded us.
They’ve always had a sister-sister relationship, with Christine as the world-weary elder smiling spoiledly from her more impulsive and wayward sidekick, Jane Russell, to Stevie’s Marilyn Monroe. That sisterhood sets Mac apart from other hotels in his California peers. “If I was the only girl at Fleetwood Mac, it would be very different.” Nicks said“So it was really nice to be in a band that happened to have another woman. I want Another girl in the band?and I said, “I hope she does. I hope she likes me when she sees me.she Did it Really like me – we ate Mexican food, smiled and looked at each other and said, “This is going to be great.”
It was probably the last time anyone said that word in the history of Fleetwood Mac. The band was a constant hurricane of heartbreak, betrayal, and over-the-top rock. “There was blood in the alcohol” McVie later remembered“The snack studio contract rider was like a phone book. Exotic food delivered to the studio, crates of champagne. And it had to be the best, without thinking about how much it would cost.” It was stupid, really stupid.Somebody once said that the money you spent on champagne one night could have made an entire album.And it’s probably true.”
She began her career in the 60s as Christine Perfect, a rare female instrumentalist in the macho English blues scene. She found herself playing piano in her 1968 debut, “When the Train Comes Back,” with her band Chicken Shack. She married McVie in her 1970s and Fleetwood took over her Mack’s reigning songwriting throne, producing lesser-known classics like hers. Mystery to Me Ballad “Why?”
she became a full-fledged superstar Mick Fleetwood They hired a new guitarist named Lindsey Buckingham, who insisted he hire his girlfriend as well. “I heard this incredible sound—our three voices of her—and said to myself, ‘Is this me singing?'” she recalled McVie. increase. “I couldn’t believe how great these three-part harmonies were. My skin became goose meat.”
in the fang Era, she got engaged to Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, bringing a whole new level of chaos to her world. He moved into her mansion within days of meeting her, spent her money and drank her vodka. He soon married (and abandoned) a 19-year-old girl who happened to be Mike Love’s daughter. Mirage, The year before he got drunk and drowned and was buried at sea. as she said rolling stone this year“Dennis was a bit of a lunatic.”
Still, she turned the sexual and drug wreckage into a classic song. “Think About Me” is her hardest hit from the late 70’s. She sneers at the chorus, sounding soulful but cynically racking her brains about Me Decade’s romance. But she sounded romantic.She made her understated solo record in 1984 — you can hear the highlights from last year Songbird (solo collection). But she really shined in Mac’s final gasp in 1987. night tango. “Everywhere” was a modest hit at the time, but was revived in later years as the album became a fan favorite with millennials. In her hit “Little Lies,” at her most artful, she usually gives up on being cheated, lied to, or treated like garbage. But there’s a soaring chorus, top-notch fan service that showcases each of the band’s lead singers, and her solicitous vocals collide with Lindsay’s bitter “Tell me, tell me liiiies!”
She got burned out by the rock star life.As Nicks said rolling stone, “we dance In 1997, which lasted only a year, Christine flipped out and said, “I can’t take this anymore. I’m having a panic attack.” She sold her house, car and piano and returned to England, where she was never heard from again. McVie had a fear of flying — understandable given how much time Mick Fleetwood had spent on chartered planes. “The nomad thing is getting a little old for me, really.” she said rolling stone in 2014“I had this delusion of wanting to live a ‘country lady’ kind of life. Basically, I was hanging out with my Range Rover and my dog and baking cookies or something. What do you think?” I don’t know if I was, really.I just wanted to have a normal family life with my roots.”
However, she was victorious on the Tour in 2015. In 2017, she and Lindsay released a very strange collaboration album buckingham mcvie, Featuring 4 out of 5 Macs. It was supposed to be a studio reunion blockbuster, but Nicks bailed. So we ended with “On With the Show,” the theme song for the band’s On With the Show reunion tour, two years later. The band kicked Buckingham out in a spectacular mess, but McVie was as great as ever on her final Summer 2019 Stadium tour.
Characteristically, McVie was reserved and private about her final illness. talk rolling stone this year, She casually revealed that the band members were no longer in touch and had essentially split up again. “I’m not physically fit for it,” she says. “I’m in pretty bad shape. I have a debilitating chronic back problem,” she replied when asked about her goals. Well, I will be 80 next year. So let’s wait for a few more years and see what happens.” There were no extra years for Christine McVie. But she’s got so many great songs sprinkled across so many albums — some classic hits, others obscure cult favorites — that she’s made her greatness over the years. These are the songs people always sing to themselves during those lonely late-night bluesy moments that Christine McVie always knew how to capture.