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<\/a><\/p>\nThere’s a loose, good-time feeling to this album. The tunes, most of them written by McVie and sometime Hall and Oates guitarist Todd Sharp, are snappy and full of rhythmic rock and roll hooks. The production by Russ Titelman is slick. For all that, there’s not much excitement in McVie’s first solo album since 1970 (shortly after she’d left the British group Chicken Shack to join then-husband John McVie in Fleetwood Mac). The subtle harmonic skills that make McVie a peerless ensemble singer and musician with Mac don’t necessarily translate into a solo act.<\/p>\n
Her singing seems colorless at times and her keyboard work is overshadowed by her sidemen. Mac mates Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood sat in, as did Eric Clapton, Elton John, drummer Ray Cooper and rock ‘veteran Steve Winwood. McVie, in fact, calls Winwood “my idol,” and their vocal duet on One in a Million is the LP’s most striking track, though the no-frills rock tune Got a Hold on Me has become its hit single.<\/p>\n
Maybe McVie’s heart wasn’t totally in this project–“It had reached a point where this record was expected of me,” she has said–but if nothing else, she has it out of her system.<\/p>\n
Review Grade: B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
People Weekly, March 19, 1984 Christine McVie. (sound recording reviews) CHRISTINE McVIE by Christine McVie There’s a loose, good-time feeling to this album. The tunes, most of them written by McVie and sometime Hall and Oates guitarist Todd Sharp, are snappy and full of rhythmic rock and roll hooks. The production by Russ Titelman is … Continue reading Christine McVie Album Review | People Weekly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Christine McVie Album Review | People Weekly","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,3,5,13,14,15],"tags":[78,94],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-news","category-article-archive-pages","category-christine-mcvie","category-release-info","category-reviews","category-solo-activity","tag-christine-mcvie","tag-christine-mcvie-solo-album"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31Ax0-QL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4082,"url":"https:\/\/fleetwoodmac-uk.com\/wp\/lindsey-buckingham-christine-mcvie-review-mojo-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":3271,"position":0},"title":"Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie Review | MOJO Magazine","author":"fmfanuk","date":"May 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie **** Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie EAST WEST. 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