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Title: RIP
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 30, 2022, 12:27:50 PM
Christine Perfect McVie passed away today at age 79 "after a brief illness.


Peter
Title: Re: RIP
Post by: lbpesq on November 30, 2022, 12:30:51 PM
Always my favorite of the modern Fleetwood Mac.  Great songwriter and did it on her talent without flaunting sex.  My condolences to Gregory.

May the Four Winds Blow You Safely Home
 
Bill, tgo
Title: Re: RIP
Post by: edwardofhuncote on November 30, 2022, 01:28:15 PM
I've been working on a filter machine at work all day, and just heard.


Well... I'll have to process this one for a while. We can't expect our heroes to live forever, but I surely would have wished Chris here for a bit longer. She was such a brilliant writer. I think so much of her charming personality came through that. She never wanted to be out front.


Goodbye Songbird.
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Post by: David Houck on November 30, 2022, 01:33:35 PM
Saw the headline on my phone while I was out walking.  As mentioned in past threads, she was an integral part of my favorite Fleetwood period, the "middle" period, pre-Buckingham, especially Future Games and Bare Trees.
Title: Re: RIP
Post by: StephenR on November 30, 2022, 02:03:05 PM
It has always been difficult to be a successful woman in an industry dominated by men, Christine navigated those waters with grace. She leaves us with a wealth of quality songs and memories of her positive vibe on, and off, stage. R.I.P. Christine...
Title: Re: RIP
Post by: pauldo on November 30, 2022, 04:42:58 PM
It has always been difficult to be a successful woman in an industry dominated by men, Christine navigated those waters with grace. She leaves us with a wealth of quality songs and memories of her positive vibe on, and off, stage. R.I.P. Christine...

Well said.
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on November 30, 2022, 10:42:48 PM
I took this picture at a 2015 Fleetwood Mac concert in Greensboro, N.C. shortly after Christine had rejoined the band. The picture was taken during Stevie's infamously loooooong intro to a particular song, Chris & John, well... they just kinda' took a little break here on the riser usually occupied by support musicians Neale Heywood and Brett Tuggle. At one point, she leaned over to tell him something, and whatever it was, you could hear John laughing from my seat in Section O, seat 4. It was a touching moment, and you have to think there must have been millions of them. That was quite a show that night.
Title: Re: RIP
Post by: paulman on December 01, 2022, 04:14:04 AM
Very sad.  Fleetwood Mac was all my one neighbor friend sisters would play one summer when I was 8 or 9, Rumors album.  My house was a bluegrass house so this was a change in the music I was exposed to.

Those songs are burned in my brain and I'll miss her until I die, rest well Christine!  Thanks for posting Coz!
Title: Re: RIP
Post by: gearhed289 on December 01, 2022, 07:42:35 AM
She was a wonderful singer/songwriter/keyboardist. RIP
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Post by: bigredbass on December 01, 2022, 10:36:37 AM
I was always a 'Christine guy'. Stevie was all glamor and flash and a challenge, but Christine was the one a man realized that was solid, the one that could thrill you but was a firm, sturdy, full-growed broad of a woman.

I loved her songwriting, her solid keyboard playing, and that welcoming yet thoughtful voice. The rock in the middle of their often tossed seas.

I shall miss her. Mick often spoke of how he and John would ease on to the edge of the stage many nights on the road to listen her take her solo moment with 'Songbird'. I would have as well.
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Post by: hankster on December 02, 2022, 08:50:31 PM
Well said Joey.