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Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Songbird: Christine McVie
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Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in 1987
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As always with BBC Four\u2019s rock-doc tributes, the eulogies flow freely over introductory footage, in this case of Fleetwood Mac taking the stage at Wembley this summer. Anyone who was there will have been reminded how Christine McVie is the band\u2019s not-so-secret weapon. Not only did she write their most beguiling hits (Songbird, You Make Loving Fun, Don\u2019t Stop, Everywhere<\/i>), her voice is a thing to cherish \u2014 a warm, bluesy thing, a world away from today\u2019s bombastic divas. She is the longest-serving female member of any of the rock \u2019n\u2019 roll acts that emerged from the 1960s, but this profile reminds us that she was famous before the Mac, as Christine Perfect, in the band Chicken Shack, singing their 1968 hit<\/span> I Would Rather Go Blind<\/i>. Then she saw Fleetwood Mac, met their bassist John McVie and the rest is rock history \u2014 mega-selling albums, cocaine, divorce, make-ups, seclusion in Kent, comeback glory. All covered in this rock-doc. Mrs McVie talks about how she was initially jealous of Stevie Nicks who took the spotlight while Christine was stuck behind the piano. Yet they also bonded as two women in rock\u2019s boys\u2019 club. \u201cI told her, we will be a force to be reckoned with for all these men that surround us,\u201d recalls Nicks. Christine talks of the infamous decadence during the <\/span>Rumours<\/i> era \u2014 she wrote <\/span>You Make Loving Fun <\/i>about the lighting guy with whom she was having an affair \u2014 one that was kept from John despite Christine singing the song on stage every night. At least the music was great. She also recalls her relationship with Beach Boy wild man Dennis Wilson, \u201creally sweet man\u201d but also a \u201cnut\u201d. Quite a life for an unassuming girl from Smethwick.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Songbird: Christine McVie BBC Four, 9pm As always with BBC Four\u2019s rock-doc tributes, the eulogies flow freely over introductory footage, in this case of Fleetwood Mac taking the stage at Wembley this summer. Anyone who was there will have been reminded how Christine McVie is the band\u2019s not-so-secret weapon. 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