The most popular songs Ms. McVie crafted favored bouncing beats and lively melodies, including “Say You Love Me” (which grazed Billboard’s Top 10), “You Make Lovin’ Fun” (which just broke it), “Hold Me” (No. 4) and “Don’t Stop” (her top smash, which crested at No. 3). But she could also connect with elegant ballads, like “Over My Head” (No. 20) and “Little Lies” (which cracked the publication’s Top Five in 1987)....
Her soulful contralto could sound, by turns, maternally wise and sexually alive. Her tawny tone had the heady effect of a bourbon with a rich bouquet and a smooth finish. It found a graceful place in harmony with the voices of Ms. Nicks and Mr. Buckingham, together forming a Fleetwood Mac trademark. “It was that chemistry,” she told Mojo. “The two of them just chirped into the perfect three-way harmony. I just remember thinking, ‘This is it!’”...
Christine Anne Perfect was born on July 12, 1943, in the Lake District of England to Cyril Perfect, a classical violinist and college music professor and Bernice Reece, a psychic.
My son John wrote this tribute at his music blog.
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Wasn't it just a few years ago when that guy on the skateboard filmed himself add-libbing to "Dreams" while drinking (I think) Gatorade, and then ended up with a new truck courtesy of the company?
Loved her. Sad news.
Damn, those were my favorite songs. Amazing how many boomer idols were actually war babies or older.
Still, 79 is too young IMO.
God bless
not a super-fan but Fleetwood Mac is one of the musical acts that still gets a lot of radio play, and as I've aged I like them more and more
Say You Love Me
Don't Stop
Hold Me
amazing harmonies
her art brought a lot of joy to a lot of people
Bernice Reese, a psychic. So Stevie Nicks probably seemed kind of normal to McVie.
May she RIP. Talented individuals who transcended themselves when Mac played together. I stared for hours at the album cover of Rumours.
The use of Don’t Stop as the Clinton campaign theme killed that song for me.
McVie was a fine singer and songwriter. Sweet, Wonderful
The article excerpt emphasizes her years with Nicks/Buckingham, but Christie McVie was married to Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie, and joined the original F-M lineup early in their careers. I'm probably one of only a small fraction of F-M fans that much prefers the original (pre-Nicks/Buckingham) group to the latter, more famous line-up. I was never that much enamored with McVie's voice, but her songwriting did get much better as her career grew, in my opinion.
RIP Christie Perfect McVie
This makes me sad. I loved her voice. RIP.
This makes me sad. I loved her voice. RIP.
Everywhere …goodbye
I was not aware of her writing credits. I did enjoy her voice.
I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow; crafting a Christine McVie/Fleetwood Mac playlist.
Would never have thought she was that age.
Fleetwood Mac were an ubiquitous part of the '70s...
My niece just saw Stevie Nicks. I told her about Christine McVie. When I think of Fleetwood Mac, her songs are what I hear in my head. An under-rated Legend RIP
First ever I heard of Fleetwood it was early fans grousing that the band wasn't any good after Green left, with insinuation that the new girls ruined it all.
Lol.
There, now I've gone back and applied the new "Fleetwood Mac" tag to old posts. There were a lot of them.
We get one music station in the barn- late 70s/early 80s.
Fleetwood Mac is a staple. I never cared much for Nicks- I did for McVie.
… &may perpetual light shine upon her.
Now I feel old.
I first listened to them in the early 70s. I think it was 'Woman of a 1000 years' that first grabbed me.
RIP, Christine.
Sad news indeed. Like most of us older folks, my life had a sound track-different bands appearing all the time. And fleetwood Mac was one of main ones, at least for me. Christine had a wonderful voice, and wrote some great lyrics.
oh no... so sad. too young.
Everybody in Fleetwood Mac is very good at what they do, but I don't have their music pop up too often. With the exception of the so called duet album that she did a with Lindsey Buckingham in 2017. To me that's like Fleetwood Mac only better.
RIP Christine
RIP, Christine McVie. Thank you and Fleetwood for all the memories.
My high school years were suffused with McVie's music. One friend in particular comes to mind - we would drive around listening to Fleetwood Mac on repeat, singing at the top of our lungs with the windows down. We were too young to do that (it was the late 80s and we were supposed to be listening to Hair Bands) but it was fun and I still know every word. May her memory be eternal!
Saw Fleetwood Mac along with Little Feat open for Dave Mason at the Fabulous Forum in L.A. in December of 1975, not long after Buckingham & Nicks joined the band. McVie was in great voice, just right for that band. I always had more appreciation for her talents than the bleating of Nicks. She will be missed.
Her best, IMHO: Songbird
So many great songs on the Rumours album. My personal favorite was Christine's "Songbird".
Many wonderful memories of these beautiful songs and all the drama too, so 70’s. RIP songbird
"short illness"
She was wonderful. So much warmth in her voice. So much joy in her songwriting.
She will be very missed.
We lost Irene Cara a few days prior. She didn't have nearly as many hits, and never had the songwriting support that the other folks in Fleetwood Mac gave Christine McVie.
But after I heard she died I went back and gave a listen to "Out Here On My Own," from the Fame soundtrack. Via YouTube, so I got the cheesy movie montage that came with it.
She was magnificent. The song and singing was much better than I remembered it.
RIP Irene and Christine.
I built a model airplane with Dave Mason when I was 12. He was staying in a vacation house next to us in Kailua, HI. Before the Obama's discovered it. Great guy.
I didn't know until much later he played the acoustic guitar on Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower."
It's been so weird; radio stations play Fleetwood Mac bumps while noting her passing seem to invariably pick one with Stevie Nicks singing. Really? You can't hear the difference in those two?
Jason--I hope you still have that model airplane. Pretty cool.
It was a Fokker DIII. No, I don't have any of the many models I built, sadly.
Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow was the song playing when Hillary Clinton and both Gores watched me get roughed up by Nation of Islam thugs in downtown Atlanta at a campaign gig and did nothing to stop it.
Nor did the Secret Service.
So I never stop thinking about tomorrow. But Christie McVie was a great musician.
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