Christine McVie died at age 79 on November 30, 2022
Almost a year after the death of Christine McVieiconic member of the Fleetwood Macaged 79, Stevie Nicks commented how “there is no reason” for the legendary rock band to continue recording music and live shows.
It is worth remembering how Mick Fleetwood had already said, in February 2023, how he had no intention of continuing with the group after the loss of McVie. Now, in an interview with Vulture, Nicks made a statement in the same tone and quite moving.
“When Christine died, I felt you couldn’t replace her. You just can’t,” he stated. “Without it, what is it? Do you know what I mean? She was like my soulmate, my musical soulmate, and my best friend who I spent more time with than any of my other best friends outside of Fleetwood Mac.”
“Christine was my best friend. When I think about the song’You’re on Your Own, Kid,’ in Taylor Swiftand in the phrase ‘you have always been,’ it was like, we were Christine and me. We always have been,” he continued. Stevie Nicks in the conversation. “We protected each other.”
Who am I going to look to the right and make sure they’re not behind that organ Hammond? When she died, I realized how we really couldn’t go any further with this. There is no reason for that.
Right away, Nicks praised the qualities of Christine McVie as an artist: “And her songs, you take all those songs. Christine was the pop star. She wrote all these really super pop hits. None of us could write these songs.
What would happen is we would have to take the songs down, like we did when she retired for 18 years. We couldn’t recreate these songs. So we became a much more hard rock band.
Source: Rollingstone
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