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McVie, a British singer-songwriter, has died aged 79. McVie was behind hits including Little Lies, Everywhere, Don’t Stop, Say You Love Me, and Songbird. The family’s statement said “we would like everyone to keep Christine in their hearts and remember the life of an incredible human being, and revered musician who was loved universally”.
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Christine Perfect, McVie married Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie and joined the group in 1971. Fleetwood Mac was one of the world’s best known rock bands in the 1970s and ’80s. Eight members of the band were inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, one of them being McVie. In the same year after the success of their live album The Dance, she retired to Kent, saying a fear of flying meant she was leaving the band. However, she rediscovered her love of performing at a one-off appearance with the band at London’s O2 in 2013 and returned to them a year later. In 2017 she told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs programme that she had developed agoraphobia after leaving the band.
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was a key figure in the group’s successful reunion in the late 1980s, when they were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She continued to tour and record with Fleetwood Mac until her retirement in 1998, although she later said she regretted leaving the band. Her songs appear simple in their composition and sentiments, but they were never so straightforward that they were cliched. “I don’t know how to write any other way,” she said in a BBC documentary earlier this year. “It just happens that way.” “That’s the trick about writing a love song,” she said. “You can’t just go: ‘I love you, you love me, where are you, I miss you.’ There always has to be a bit of a twist.” Few people could have written and sung lyrics so disarmingly direct and always sincere and meant them so deeply.
