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Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac

Q&A: Christine McVie Can’t Wait for Fleetwood Mac World Tour | Rolling Stone

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March 27, 2014 9:30 AM ET
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“I had some deluded idea that I wanted to hang out with my dogs and bake cookies. I don’t know what I was thinking”

The return of Christine McVie to Fleetwood Mac has been a poorly kept secret over the past few months, but it’s still shocking to hear her voice on the phone for an interview about the group’s upcoming reunion tour entitled On With the Show. She’s the songwriter and vocalist on some of Fleetwood Mac’s most enduring hits – including “Don’t Stop,” “Little Lies,” “Everywhere” and “You Make Loving Fun” – but she quit the group in 1998 and disappeared completely from the scene. The remaining members said over and over again that she’d never return. 20140326-christine-x600-1395867086

Rolling Stone spoke with her about leaving the band, what she’s been up to during the past two decades and what the future holds for Fleetwood Mac.

Let’s go back to 1998. Why did you quit the band?
Well, I initially developed a great fear of flying. It was a real phobia. I also bought a house in England and decided, to a degree, I was really tired of the road. I wasn’t just burned out, but I was tired of traveling and living out of a suitcase. I’m quite a domestic person by nature and the nomad thing had got a bit stale on me, really.

Continue reading Q&A: Christine McVie Can’t Wait for Fleetwood Mac World Tour | Rolling Stone →

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Tour Info

Fleetwood Mac Announce Reunion Tour Dates With Christine McVie | Rolling Stone

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March 27, 2014 9:30 AM ET
Rolling Stone Online

“Being back is really a time warp,” McVie tells Rolling Stone. “I feel like a pig in poo”

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A little over a year ago, Stevie Nicks told Rolling Stone there was “more of a chance of an asteroid hitting the Earth” than Christine McVie returning to Fleetwood Mac. Well, it might be time to prepare for armageddon because the Mac’s keyboardist and singer – who quit the band in 1998 after a three-decade stint in the group – is returning for a world tour beginning this September and a possible new album.

Q&A: Christine McVie Can’t Wait for Fleetwood Mac World Tour

The tour, entitled On With the Show, will kick off on Tuesday, Sept. 30 in Minneapolis, Minn. at the Target Center, with the band performing 34 shows in 33 cities across North America. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Monday, March 31 at 10 a.m. through Sunday, April 6 at 10 p.m. Tickets go on sale beginning Monday, April 7 through the Live Nation mobile app and Live Nation’s at website.

McVie says that her decision to leave the band was very simple. “I had some deluded idea that I wanted to live the ‘country lady’ life,” she tells Rolling Stone. “But I went through a divorce and I felt isolated in the country. I grew quite ill and depressed.” McVie realized the best way to fix her life was to rejoin Fleewood Mac, though Lindsey Buckingham admits he had some reservations when he first heard she wanted back in. “I wanted to make sure she grasped the weight of would it would entail,” he says. “She also had to understand that if she was coming back that, basically, she has to stay. She wants to do it.” Continue reading Fleetwood Mac Announce Reunion Tour Dates With Christine McVie | Rolling Stone →

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Christine McVie rejoins Fleetwood Mac | USA Today

Edna Gundersen
USA TODAY
Mar 27th, 2014

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — “It’s like she never left,” Lindsey Buckingham says about Christine McVie’s return to Fleetwood Mac, the band that sold 45 million copies of 1977’s Rumours and spawned almost that many rumors during its tumultuous 47-year run.

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Christine McVie is rejoining Fleetwood Mac, after leaving the band in 1998.(Photo: Matt Mindlin)

Here are the facts: After leaving the band in 1998, singer/keyboardist McVie has rejoined, completing Mac’s most popular, successful and creative incarnation.

A world tour is in the works, with U.S. dates starting Sept. 29 in Minneapolis, 17 years after this lineup last hit the road. Tickets go on sale April 4. McVie and Buckingham have been crafting songs for a new album. The last studio release to feature full participation from all five Macsters was 1987’s Tango in the Night.

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“We’ve only been in the studio a week, and it’s been really beautiful,” says Buckingham, 64. “I have very high hopes for all of this. It took getting into the studio before we started to see things unfold in an effective and comfortable way. Christine was not sure how her voice was going to be. It will be a little bit of a slow process with her piano chops. But all the stuff inside her is still intact, and she’s getting in touch with a process that’s been lying dormant for a while.” Continue reading Christine McVie rejoins Fleetwood Mac | USA Today →

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McVie missed Fleetwood Mac’s ‘tight chemistry’ | USA Today

Edna Gundersen,
USA TODAY
Mar 27th, 2014

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Looking back on her 1998 exit from Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie recalls how considerate and obliging her bandmates were, particularly Stevie Nicks.

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An undated early photo of Fleetwood Mac (from left): Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham.(Photo: Herbert Worthington, Warner Bros.)

A few years later, “Stevie offered me $5 million to come back,” McVie says. “She was begging me, ‘Don’t leave me in this wilderness.’ ”

As it turned out, McVie’s 15-year exile left her feeling a bit lost in the wilderness, leading to this year’s surprise reunion of the classic lineup that lit up the charts with Rhiannon, Say You Love Me, Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Think About Me, You Make Loving Fun, Don’t Stop, Tusk and Hold Me.

A tour is booked, new songs are being recorded, and “we all have great affection for each other,” McVie says.

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Bad blood played no role in McVie’s departure. She was road weary after 28 years of “being one of the guys, raised in taverns and pubs with smoking, beer-drinking men.” Continue reading McVie missed Fleetwood Mac’s ‘tight chemistry’ | USA Today →

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, UK Articles

With Christine McVie back, Fleetwood Mac will return to their magical best

The Guardian
Mon 13th Jan 2014

Don't stop … Christine McVie's songs often bristled with optimism, at least on the surface. Photograph: REX

Don’t stop … Christine McVie’s songs often bristled with optimism, at least on the surface. Photograph: REX

Fleetwood Mac’s original songbird is to rejoin the band, and will bring optimism, beauty and bittersweet melancholia

When Mick Fleetwood announced to a Hawaii audience that Christine McVie would be rejoining Fleetwood Mac on a permanent basis, you couldn’t really argue with his assertion that it was the “the worst kept secret there is”. During an interview in December 2013, McVie surprised me by saying she would be “very delighted” to reclaim her place in the group she left in 1998. Not long after, Steve Nicks responded by telling Billboard that McVie “didn’t need to ask”. You hardly needed Hercule Poirot’s mobile number to work out what “woman wanting to rejoin a band” plus “band happy to let woman rejoin band” might equal.

Still, the fact that McVie, who turned 70 last year, wants to renounce a hermetic life in a mansion in Kent, which seemed to consist largely of cooking, gardening and looking after dogs, in favour of stepping back on the road with one of the best and most dysfunctional bands of all time is cause for celebration. Continue reading With Christine McVie back, Fleetwood Mac will return to their magical best →

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Fleetwood Mac are back… and still settling old scores | Daily Mail (UK)

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Daily Mail
By Adrian Deevoy
17:00 EST, 28 December

Despite the acrimony and excesses, and after 45 years as soft rock’s favourite soap opera, the legendary band have reunited

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Fleetwood Mac: Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham at the time of Rumours

Fleetwood Mac are fighting again. Rock-star fur is flying. But this is no ordinary argument. For one thing, the contretemps is being conducted in three different countries.

Stevie Nicks fights her corner from an elegant apartment in Paris, Lindsey Buckingham boxes clever in his Californian study and Christine McVie counterpunches from her riverside penthouse in London.

Founder band members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are keeping out of it. Fleetwood is licking his wounds after his fourth divorce and McVie is in hospital engaged in a more serious battle, with cancer.

The disagreement, believe it or not, concerns one of Fleetwood Mac’s few physical altercations. After 45 years of soft rock’s favourite soap opera, it’s astonishing that the players haven’t come to blows more often.

‘I was dancing on stage,’ begins Nicks, now 65, in the salon of her rented Parisian pied-à-terre. ‘It was the Tusk tour, 1980, Auckland, New Zealand. I was doing my thing with my shawl and Lindsey pulled his jacket up over his head and started mimicking me, behind my back. ‘I thought, “Well, that’s not working for me.” But I didn’t do anything. This must have infuriated him, because he came over and kicked me.  ‘And I’d never had anyone be physical with me in my life. Then he picked up a black Les Paul guitar and he just frisbee’d it at me. He missed, I ducked – but he could have killed me.’

article-2529544-1A4C319600000578-753_634x330Is it true that during their private-jet-and-pink-hotel-suite years, Fleetwood Mac would take cocaine while they were performing on stage? ‘Absolutely,’ said Stevie Nicks (the band on tour in the 1970s). ‘I’m not sure that happened,’ Buckingham, 64, states flatly at his gated LA estate.

‘Oh, it happened, all right,’ asserts Christine McVie, 70, drinking in a glorious view of the Thames. ‘I threw a glass of wine in his face.’ Continue reading Fleetwood Mac are back… and still settling old scores | Daily Mail (UK) →

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Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie and Christine: ‘We were like rock’n’roll nuns’

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The Guradian
Thursday 12 December 2013 19.26 GMT

Through all Fleetwood Mac’s years of druggy excess and bitter breakups, the friendship between Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks never faltered. They talk about addiction, sexism – and how they can’t wait to play together again

Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie in 1975 Photograph: Fin Costello
Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie in 1975 Photograph: Fin Costello

September 2013, and Stevie Nicks is about to perform Landslide at the O2 in London, where Fleetwood Mac are playing three nights. Before she does, though, she has a dedication to make. “This is for my mentor. Big sister. Best friend,” she says, and there are precious few people in the venue who don’t know she’s talking about Christine McVie, her fellow female bandmate and the Mac’s keyboard player, as well as one of its singers and songwriters from 1970 until she quit in 1998. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie and Christine: ‘We were like rock’n’roll nuns’ →

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Christine McVie: I want to rejoin Fleetwood Mac

, The Guardian,
Singer and songwriter says she would like to return to band she left 15 years ago – if they want her back

When Christine McVie joined her old band, Fleetwood Mac, onstage during their recent shows at the O2 in London, it was billed as little more than a special treat for fans.

Yet the group’s singer, keyboardist and songwriter seems to have caught the bug and has said she would like to rejoin permanently. “I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them,” she said. “I miss them all. If they were to ask me I would probably be very delighted … but it hasn’t happened so we’ll have to wait and see.” Continue reading Christine McVie: I want to rejoin Fleetwood Mac →

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Rumour: Christine McVie to play with Fleetwood Mac in Birmingham | Birmingham Mail

By Andy Richards
29 Sep 2013 12:07

Rumours abound that star will reunite with Fleetwood Mac at home city Birmingham LG Arena gig

Will she, won’t she? It is the big question on the lips of thousands of rock fans.

Will Christine McVie guest with former Fleetwood Mac bandmates when the group plays a sell-out gig tonight at the LG Arena (Sunday 29)?

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Birmingham is, after all, the city where she grew up and cut her musical teeth.

Singer Stevie Nicks once famously said there was “no more chance of an asteroid hitting the earth” than Christine being reunited with the band.

But out of the blue, McVie – a cornerstone of Fleetwood Mac for nearly 30 years – guested with the band at a London 02 Arena gig last week.

It was the first time in 14 years that they had been on stage together for a show.

And today speculation was mounting that she may make an appearance tonight, too. Continue reading Rumour: Christine McVie to play with Fleetwood Mac in Birmingham | Birmingham Mail →

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Tour Info

Fleetwood Mac & Christine McVie: Don’t Stop (London 25th Sept 2013)

There is nothing to say, but sit back and enjoy………

(oh, maybe turn the volume up!)