Christine Anne McVie (née Perfect; 12 July 1943 – 30 November 2022)
Fleetwood Mac vocalist and songwriter Christine McVie died in London after a brief illness, the band’s former lead guitarist Lindsey Buckingham penned a note remembering the band mate. She was born on 12 July 1943, in Bouth, UK. as Christine Anne McVie, née Perfect.
Yesterday on the day of her passing Buckingham comes back although McVie wrote a song about Lindsey Buckingham: ‘He Could Be Cold as Ice’.
“Christine McVie’s sudden passing is profoundly heartbreaking. Not only were she and I part of the magical family of Fleetwood Mac, to me Christine was a musical comrade, a friend, a soul mate, a sister. For over four decades, we helped each other create a beautiful body of work and a lasting legacy that continues to resonate today. I feel very lucky to have known her. Though she will be deeply missed, her spirit will live on through that body of work and that legacy,” Buckingham wrote.
After a 16-year break in which she lived a solitary life in rural England, Christine McVie rejoined Fleetwood Mac for a reunion tour in 2014 and had performed with the band in recent years.
Christine McVie was very close to her Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Lindsey Buckingham, and she even wrote a hit song about the guitarist ‘Over My Head’. Here’s which surprising track McVie wrote for her friend and what she said about it.
The song reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976, and it helped the Fleetwood Mac record sell 8 million copies.
The track tells the story of a mercurial man whose moods change like the weather. Although McVie was married to her Fleetwood Mac bandmate, John McVie, she gave no indication that “Over My Head” was about the bassist.
McVie described to the BBC why she wrote the song about the guitarist, and her words matched the lyrics. “He was that kind of guy, he could be cold as ice, and then he could be great,” she said (per Louder Sound). “So I took that feeling I was feeling, and I turned it into a song.”
After recommitting to the band, McVie worked extensively with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham on new music. The keyboardist told 'Elle' that when she got stuck on a lyric, Buckingham advised her to “just write about sex.”
When asked if her time in the country inspired any of those sexual songs, McVie joked, “You mean the nunnery?” before adding, “I was by no means a nun.”
She was then asked if there was a lot of action in the countryside. “Well, not much action,” McVie shared. “But some.”
Christine McVie wasn’t the first person to compare herself to a nun. Her Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Stevie Nicks, once called the only two female members of the group “rock and roll nuns.”
McVie and Nicks were describing being on the road together. “We shared rooms, did each other’s makeup and lived on Dunkin’ Donuts,” McVie told The Guardian.
“We really were quite tame people back then,” Nicks insisted. “The band had two couples in it, plus Mick was married with two little girls – so we had to behave. We’d play a gig, get on an airplane right after the show and leave to the next place. And we were watched like hawks. We had security outside each of our rooms so Chris and I were almost like traveling rock’n’roll nuns.”
Source: Main photo is from Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times
