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During different personal unrest for which members are Fleetwood Mac They are famous, one connection gave a band for decades: friendship between his two fronts, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks.
McVie joined the band in 1970. year during one of its early setting changes and was the only woman. When Nicks was added to the 1975 line. The two of them became fast friends.
Their was not a competitive relationship, but nursing – both women were gifted texts for making many most famous melodies. Although the two are parted in the 1980s in the middle of a nickel deterioration of the drugstamp and growing indoor band, they returned together when McVie returned to Fleetwood Mac 2014. Years.
At the concert in London, a little before McVie officially joined the band, NICKS dedicated The song “Land Clips” to her “mentors. The big sister. Best friend.” And at the end of the show, McVie was there, following his belts for “don’t stop.”
“I never want it to ever go out of my life again, and it has nothing to do with music and everything that has with her and I like friends” told Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2015 years.
Wednesday, McVie, Banda “song“He died after a short disease at the age of 79. Below, Revidit McVie and NICKS’s long-term relationship as ragging, best friends and” sisters. ”
McVie and Nicks hit him from the beginning
The story of joining Fleetwood is a legend now: The founder of the band and the Mick Fleetwood wanted to recruit the Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who only prescribed that they would also join their girlfriend and musicians. McVie threw decision-making, and the rest is history.
“It was critical that I continued her because I would never play with another girl,” McVie told Saver 2013 year. “But I immediately liked it. It was funny and nothing, but there was no competition. We were completely different on the stage of each other and we wrote otherwise.”
Through the band is a lot of personal complications – McVie married and divorced Fleetwood Mac Bassist John McVie and had an affair with a band lighting, while Nicks had romance with romances in Buckingham and Fleetwood – they were in the center of each other.
“Being in a band with another girl who was this amazing musician – (McVie) Somehow she immediately became my best friend”, Nicks told New Yorker earlier this year. “Christine was the whole of the other ball. She loved hanging out with the boys. She was just pleasant in men than ever was.”
The two were protected by each other, said Nicks, dominated the male in the industry, “In the very beginning, we made a pact that we would never treat us for contempt of all men’s musicians in the community.
“I’d tell her,” We are a serious force of nature and will give us the strength to maneuver the water that are ahead, “Nicks told New Yorker.
Band succeeds, but McVie and Nicks grow
To date, the “rumor” has been the greatest success of the band when it was published in 1977. years. But the band relationships are worse, savings for the one between McVie and NICKS. While the couple permanently broke with their significant others, Nicks and McVie spent their time together.
Guardian asked McVie if she was trying to make up the noise with a band with her songs on “rumors”, including the lighthouse “,” make love “fun” and optimistic “Don’t stop.” She said she was probably.
As more drug use with multiple members have intensified, the band dynamics became tense. McVie distanced from the group in 1984. years followed their dependencies from their bands, saying the guard that “just tormented.” Meanwhile, in the meantime it is dependent on cocaine.
McVie told Rolling Stone Spoke that she separated from Nickas, “she seems to have somehow developed a fantastic world, which I’m not a part.” We’re not hanging out a lot. ”
1986. years, Niki signed up in Betty Ford Center to treat their dependence, although she later became dependent on the clonopin, which she is said They claimed for years of their lives. She left the prescription drug in the 1990s.
After shooting some solo works, McVie returned to Fleetwood Mac for his album “Tango in the night” and two of his songs on that record – “Little Lies” and “everywhere” – became the main hits. But Nicks soon left the scope, and the most famous band line would not officially be re-until 1997. years for the “The Dance” tour and next live.
Entry was short-term: After the band was indicted In Sock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. years, McVie officially gave up Fleetwood Mac, indicate Fear of flying and exhaustion of life on the road.
McVie returns to Fleetwood Mac – and Nicks’
In 2010, after more than a decade of retirement, McVie played with returning to perform. She officially joined Fleetwood Mac after calling Fleetowud and measure what her return would mean for the group.
“Fortunately Stevie was dying to come back as well as the rest of the band “, she told Arts table.
In 2015 years after Fleetwood returned Mac, McVie hit the road with his banquets. The tour with the group was hard, but fun, the first time they came together in the years.
“I’m only here for Stevie,” she told New Yorker that year.
Niki agreed, “When we went on the way, I realized what an amazing friend was like I lost and I didn’t understand all that last,” said in Minneapolis Star-Tribune in 2015. Years.
During that tour, McVie wore a silver chain that Nicks gave her a “metaphor,” McVie New Yorkers said, “that the band chain will never break. Not again.” Not again. ”
McVie said the artist in 2016. That she and Nicks were now “better friends than 16 years ago.”
The tour with Buckingham and Fleetodom can quickly become stormed for Nicks, McVie said, due to his common history. “But with me there was a stevie chance to return my breath and not to keep it with Lindsey: her sister was back,” she said.
Their mutual praise continued: 2019. years McVie said Nicks was “only amazing” Onstage: “The more I see how he performed on stage, it’s better, I think she’s.” He has a fortress. ”
When it ended their 2018-2019, yet – without Buckingham, who was exhausted – The band “somehow broke up,” McVie told Rolling Stoner earlier this year. She added that she didn’t talk to Nick as often as she worked together.
As for re-gathering, McVie said Rolling Stone, until it was from the table, she didn’t feel “physically for.”
“It’s a little long in my teeth here,” she said. “I’m quite happy to be at home. I don’t know if I want to tour again. Damn hard work.”
The news of McVie’s death rattles Nicks, who wrote That she found out only that McVie was sick on the day before. McVie called the “best friend in the entire world from the first day of 1975”
On her Social media Accounts, Nicks Share Handripten Note containing songs of songs from Haimova “Hallelujah,” some of which discuss the sadness and loss of the best friend.
“See you on the other side, my love,” Nicks wrote. “Don’t forget me – always, Stevie.”
