Christine McVie is Dead to Me!

No blue check mark?

From the band:

Wikipedia just updated her to a "was"

You can thank that stupid egotistical cunt Stevie Nicks for ruining the chance to record one last album with her.

We know.

And we're shocked.

Was the cause of death was a kick to the cuntbone, by any chance?

RIP, Christine.

That's two - one more to go this week.

RIP. Love her music and her chill energy.

Oooh noooooo this is awful!!

This one stings.

R5, you just linked to this thread.

This is a very sad one. I always admired her songwriting and performances. So talented and a really wonderful presence on stage.

RIP...

[quote]That's two - one more to go this week.

HELLO!!

She can go her own way.

I didn't know she was 5 years older than Stevie. R.I.P.

Tell me it’s lies. Sweet little lies.

Wonderful voice. RIP.

Cue the dramatic social media posts from Stevie in 3, 2, 1...

This makes me sad, she's my favorite vocalist from Fleetwood Mac.

Truly one of the very best. Songbird indeed.

R20, how do you get those lyrics wrong?

Oh no!

Aww that sucks. She’s got a new album and tour

This hurts!

Always loved her FM songs over you-know-who.

A classic.

[R27] Let's hope the tour is canceled ! It will be weird seeing a corpse on stage singing.

She made lovin' fun.

Has Stevie Nick’s Coke Spoon commented?

[quote]Let's hope the tour is canceled ! It will be weird seeing a corpse on stage singing.

You ain’t seen nothin’

Twitter. Not Facebook. Not Instagram. Twitter. No blue check.

He is such a worthless POS who has bedraggled the platform into an entity as equally worthless as he is

Nope

“Everywhere” is everything

R10 chill no energy

There on stage for mostly no reason

The fact that Stevie outlived Christine SHOCKS me to my very core.

Was it titty or butt cancer?

Opioid overdose

Isn't it midnight?

On the other side of the world

Do you remember?

The face of a pretty girl

Love.

She was useless to the band

She was just there

Everywhere being used in that ridiculous Chevrolet commercial is mutable

Is she tweeting from the beyond?

[quote]She was useless to the band

She wrote some of their biggest hits.

She was a great piano/keyboard player, had a lovely voice, and wrote some of their biggest hits.

I eat piles and piles and piles and piles and piles and piles and piles and piles AND PILES! of shit.

I don't know how to honor her memory.

If it was Stevie, we could all kick someone in the vagina bone in Stevie's memory.

Nobody gave a fuck about r47. Go join that old ugly bitch.

R49 Lick me where I shit, you nasty cunt.

Anyone ever heard her pre-FM solo album, Christine Perfect? It’s quite highly regarded.

Oh God no, Fleetwood Mac, another part of my teen years. RIP, Christine. You wrote some beautiful music. 🙏❤

I really hate to hear that. I honestly do.

TOO YOUNG TOO SOON!

[QUOTE] She was useless to the band

Actually she was the one who blew coke up Stevie's butt with a straw. So she had a function.

She had Lindsay Buckingham. She made loving fun.

^ Did those two ever actually hook up? I recall both of them denying it.

R57, why not? They had such chemistry together in the studio, since they were the two best musicians. And I loved their duets, my favorite being "Hold Me". In fact, "Hold Me" is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song, especially because of Christine's beautiful piano solo. (Lindsey's guitar solo is beautiful, too.

Miss Christine was SEVENTY-NINE years old! How can that be?? It's hard to accept these musical icons are now elderly people.

Guess we should expect all the 60s and 70s rockers to start dropping like flies over the next few years.

Loved the “Hold Me” video, too.

R60 Great video

The know nothing ignoramuses can spread their dirty assholes over this thread all they want.

BUT

It was Christine's arrival, and her piano based songwriting, that led them on a more commercial, mainstream path, away from the more blues-based band they had been.

Her compositions were always an important part of the band, and everything gelled when Buckingham/Nicks joined the band.

Wow, wasn't expecting that one. They said a "brief illness". Wonder how the surviving bandmates feel now, since they couldn't get that final reunion together.

I though Buckingham would go first, from that group, given his recent serious health issues.

She and Buckingham were actually close, she was his closest friend and supporter in the band.

Yay!

Christine had a soulful and sometimes haunting voice. Just lovely. Poor Stevie always sounds like she's having a seizure.

That's too bad. Her songs were lighthearted and fun.

[quote] Aww that sucks. She’s got a new album and tour

What new album?

She sucked

R68 contributed the following to this thread:

“R10 chill no energy

There on stage for mostly no reason”

“Opioid overdose”

“She was useless to the band

She was just there”

“Everywhere being used in that ridiculous Chevrolet commercial is mutable”

“Nobody gave a fuck about r47. Go join that old ugly bitch.”

“Yay!”

“She sucked”

I never got into Fleetwood Mac, and while I think she's one of the coolest, most genuine celebrities out there, I never got into the cult of Stevie Nicks, either. But there is one Fleetwood Mac song I love, and Christine McVie is responsible for it. You can find that song at R17.

She was going to die anyway. Get over it bitch r69

R68 is a cancer on humanity. FF her and ignore her.

Fuck you flaming sack of shit

I am not suggesting that she and Lindsay were not great together musically, I am saying there has been absolutely no evidence that I am aware of that the two ever had a sexual relationship and in fact, I think both have denied it in the past.

I'm not R68 but I can't stand posters like R69 (dude!) who cyberstalk other posters.

R69 I blocked that moron long ago - it's better without it.

R75 I'm not R68 or R69 but I can't stand moronic posters like R69 who just post - and post - and post - out of some odd, childlike need for attention.

R69 hardly cyberstalked anyone. It's easy to see what someone posted if you block them.

A person making 10 fucked up comments like that should be called out on their shit.

[quote] She was useless to the band

You're a moron. She wrote and sang may of their hits and she was an infinitely better musician than Stevie Nicks ever was.

I couldn’t stand her. Horrible voice. Ugly face. Hermit.

[quote] I couldn’t stand her. Horrible voice. Ugly face. Hermit.

Boy, you sound like a person most people try to avoid.

She did this interview last June. She wasn’t speaking to Stevie.

Her songs were my favorite, I discovered them in that 10-15 years. I had only know Stevie vocal songs.

How is Stevie going to make this all about herself?

I have never heard a whisper that she and Lindsey did the rumpy pumpy and I went through a period of obsessive FM stanning in my youth. Further, Christine was very close to Stevie for decades; just doesn't seem like her style. That's not to say that CMV didn't have her messy period with that erstwhile Beach Boy, but after his death she pretty much straightened up and flew right.

My favorite Christine song.

[quote] How is Stevie going to make this all about herself?

She'll make a big deal about how much she loved Christine and how much she'll miss her and that they were lifelong friends, blah, blah, blah. But that's all bullshit. They had to spend a lot of time together because they were in the same band, but I never heard anywhere that they were good friends, or even friends at all.

R87, you don't know what you're talking about. They shared a dressing room for many, many tours. It wasn't a question of budget, as FM went supernova directly after the release of the White Album and they had plenty of money for separate dressing rooms. That's a level of intimacy that only people who enjoy each other's company would accept. They fell out more recently but there's no question they were very close for a long time. I'm sad for Stevie that she didn't get the chance to make up with her before she passed. It's clear this was a bit of a surprise, as much as these things can be at 79, anyhow.

So sad. A true loss. She truly was the Dancing Queen.

Did they actually fall out? I figured they just had a dynamic where when they're working/on tour, they were close and the connection they had immediately came back but on their downtime they went back to their separate lives.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE SHIT IN MY MOUTH!!!??????!!!

R91 I’ll shit on you if you pay me $1,000

R84- Stevie made a HORRIBLE song about Martin Luther King and world politics of the last decade BEING ABOUT HER.

Of course this will be all about her.~~~~~~

Stevie is one of the most sheltered egomaniacs left on the planet today. (At least she can be endearing - sometimes)~~~~~

I am calling it now- She will write a journal entry type thing on her Instagram with ALOT of these marks ~~~~~

~~~~~

Stevie's tribute

^TL:DR

Her handwriting screams out for hearts over the small "i"s.

Has anybody asked Stevie how she's doing?

Yes, the handwriting of a 14-year-old girl.

I'm sure the band members are feeling morose. They toured for years and spent a lot of time in the studio. I imagine you become sort of a weird family.

I think Stevie's tribute is lovely.

You are the dancing queen only 79.

Stevie admitting to not speaking to Christine, not even knowing she was ill, on Instagram, is telling. She’s a self-centered cunt.

R98 maybe 14 in ‘63. Today’s 14 yo’s write like Nell.

I’m glad someone else noticed the juvenile handwriting. My god, she’s in her 70s and still fighting with Lindsey like a scorned teenage girl. She demanded Lindsey be thrown out of the group because she caught him laughing with Christine behind her back while making a speech. Does she not remember that she wouldn’t even have a career if it weren’t for Lindsey? He was the one who said he wouldn’t join the band if they didn’t also take him girlfriend, Stevie.

Was she double boosted and then infected with covid? I'm collecting data on here.

Laughing at all the Stevie hate on this thread, that band was NOTHING without her and Lyndsey.

Christine’s ex-husband and one-time songwriting partner, Eduardo Quintela, died in 2020.

R104, source? I'm a stan and never heard that.

R106, she threw Lindsey out of the group.

Stevie is the Nell of the Sonoran Desert.

It’s uncanny that there was a post about Lindsey Buckingham started here only a tiny march of days ago.

She resembled Renee Geyer. Maybe Renee can sub in future tours.

r106 Many people prefer the band before she and "Lyndsey" came along.

R113= Peter Greene from beyond.

Stevie and Lindsey/Christine fell out because Stevie postponed an FM tour to do solo shows. They were fighting about money. All the dissension and bullshit in that group has been about money since around 1990; they were too old for it to be about sex and drugs by that point. The "Lindsey laughing at Stevie with Christine" thing is new to me...

Was the duo album with Lindsay a true collaboration or did they trade off solo songs?

Christine had a warm singing voice and I appreciated it.

She had no kids. I hope she left her oodles of money for the maintenance of a pet cemetery.

Somebody mentioned upthread that this was the 2nd death this week...who was the first?

She was my favorite member of my favorite band. An era is over.

This was my favorite of her songs:

R119 Irene Cara maybe?

Irene Cara, r119.

[quote] They shared a dressing room for many, many tours. It wasn't a question of budget, as FM went supernova directly after the release of the White Album and they had plenty of money for separate dressing rooms. That's a level of intimacy that only people who enjoy each other's company would accept. They fell out more recently but there's no question they were very close for a long time.

I never heard Christine McVie EVER say that she and Nicls were "close." Nicks would try to make seem like they were really, really good friends but Stevie Nicks is full of bullshit. They had to spend a lot of time together and make an effort to get along because they were in a money making band. But they didn't really like each other. As Christine McVie once said about her and Nicks: "We don't socialize muc."

I nominate Harry Styles to take Christine's place in the band.

Ah right, Irene Cara.

I don't have a "special place in my heart" for I. Cara the way I do for McVie.

We'll check your heart before making any further Dead threads.

Her biological twin Chrissie Evert has gone into mourning

R7, yes -- one swift one, with a point witch boot.

I wonder if her serious back pain was undiagnosed cancer?

So many of the singers and stars of my youth are dying off. I loved Fleetwood Mac in the 70s and still enjoy their music. Is she the first one to pass in the group? Anyway...I'm old. RIP Christime McVie...great music.

No. Peter Green died already.

And Syd Barrett.

Internet says it was scoliosis. I did not know that could kill you though.

I thought she died on the Herald of Free Enterprise.

I also had no idea that scoliosis could kill you. That's a new one for me.

*Christine...

Scoliosis, Papa!

[quote]Internet says it was scoliosis. I did not know that could kill you though.

It was probably bone cancer, or metastasis to the spine.

I wonder if it was cancer, she was a smoker for many years.

Brief illness can be a lot of things.

RIP sweet songbird.

I read it was a short illness. If cancer, it was a fast death, that hopefully, didn't have her suffer too long.

My favorite of her songs.

Loved Christine. Fleetwood Mac is my favorite band. The "Rumours" line-up of five is gone. I am sad that so many touchstones of my youth are passing.

79 isn't super old but it's far from young.

These days, I'll read someone has died and I'll wonder oh what happened?

A lot of time, it's just old age now :(

I never cared for her voice; to me she sounded like the female version of Michael McDonald. I did think she was an excellent songwriter.

RIP.

I'm sure Stevie is devastated - these two were bandmates and yes, close professional friends for 45 years. But she has a strange habit of making her friends' deaths all about her. Remember how she acted after Tom Petty died, parading around like she was the Widow Petty while his actual wife languished in the wings. I hope not to see a repeat of that.

Easy on the guyliner, Buckingham.

Bonnie Raitt must have been desperate to allow Christine to do backgound on one of her demos.

I enjoyed her work with Paul Bartel.

[quote] How is Stevie going to make this all about herself?

Ta-daa!

79 isn't such a bad age to go. 80's is when it starts to sound scary.

R133 "Internet says"

Oh well if "the internet" said it, it must be true

R135 You're not very bright

^It says right there in your link that scoliosis CANT kill you, dickbreath. I never made a study of the subject, and don't really give a damn one way or the other. It was a simple statement of fact.

I'm sorry I never got to work with her.

Neil Finn, who was in FM post Buckingham, had a kind and classy statement.

Well r150 that only took five minutes!

R154 Read your post at R135. You "had no idea that scoliosis could kill you"

Because it can't, you moron

Irene Cara R119. Have you been under a rock.

She had a stick put in her back. Unfortunately over time chemicals leached out from it and that's what did her in.

Mick Fleetwood had a lovely tribute to Christine:

[quote] “This is a day where my dear sweet Friend Christine McVie has taken to flight… and left us earthbound folks to listen with bated breath to the sounds of that ‘song bird,’ reminding one and all that love is all around us to reach for and touch in this precious life that is gifted to us… Part of my heart has flown away today.”

It was chems what did her in!?

Christine kicked a girl in the cunt bone once.

She was 79, ffs. She outlived the average American by two years so a long life. Good for her.

Was it a fractured cunt bone?

She couldn't last forever.

I presume she damaged her spine when she fell from her broomstick.

I used to listen to “Say You Love Me” and all the rest of the FM catalogue on vinyl with this guy…we had more drama than Fleetwood Mac, with none of the talent. The music and Christine’s voice, which you hear more in the (fabulous) back catalogue songs, brings me right back to those nights.

I was so, so happy to see them all tour together in the 2010s. Even if it all fell apart again when they remembered why they couldn’t stick together in the first place. Where’s my prestige drama about the Mac????

UPON HEARING THE SAD NEWS OF CHRISTINE McVIE'S DEATH, DIONNE WARWICK HAS BROKEN HER SILENCE :

“I got your number, hussy,” Warwick tweeted to Stevie Nicks.

[quote] I never cared for her voice; to me she sounded like the female version of Michael McDonald. I did think she was an excellent songwriter.

That's an apt comparison but I love Michael McDonald and Christine. Christine was a young British girl very influenced by Black American blues music. Her vocal style was her attempt at being Etta James or Irma Thomas.

R170 "Her vocal style was her attempt at being Etta James"

What??

She covered "I'd Rather Be Blind" but she sounded nothing like Etta James.

Her version of "I'd Rather Go Blind" with her first band, Chicken Shack, was the first time her voice was heard by a wide audience.

It was a sizable (top 15) hit in the UK in '69.

For sure she's no Etta James, but she brings a certain classy, restrained, unmistakably British soulfulness to the song.

Gorgeous deep cut from Tusk

I don't care much for that rock and roll music, but at least she knew how to keep her weight under control, unlike that other girl in the group, who became a huge porker.

R174 I love this one so, so much

[quote] that band was NOTHING without her and Lyndsey.

Oh Daddy, I mean, oh dear!

This one hurts. She had the MOST top ten hits in the band but got over shadowed by the ego MANIAC Stevie. But Christine preferred to do her thing and be a musician in the backround and sing her share of the songs. Stevie has already made this about herself. MY BEST FRIEND. They didn't even talk much when they weren't working. STFU. Also Stevie ruined the last chance the band had to tour together. BTW everyone thought John Mcvie would be the first. Well now i have a feeling it's going to be Stevie and Mick as the last standing even though they did the most drugs.

Yeah, yeah, the Stevie and Lindsey drama is fine, but my girl Christine held it DOWN. Love her harmonies. She was really such an integral part of their amazing sound.

Christine seemed...patient with Stevie, too.

Over My Head was the first American hit from the white Fleetwood Mac album. Her vocals, as always, were beautiful. I think it's been my favorite song since I first heard it. Her death makes me very sad.

I'm sorry, who?

She was my second favourite writer in the band, after Lindsey. I also love the way their voices blend on Don't Stop. Lindsey wrote the weirder tracks on Tusk and Christine wrote straight pop / rock.

Stevie Nicks only has one song; she has just been re-writing Rhiannon for nearly 50 years.

I would have let Lindsey impregnate me.

Just hours before Christine died, Dionne Warwcik left this tender message on her voice mail:

“I got your number, hussy."

Wio is this Dionne Warwick “I got your number, hussy” troll I am seeing in every thread?

It's probably the AWF Troll. He's a White Canadian who pretends to be black.

[quote] I also love the way their voices blend on Don't Stop.

Lindsey and Christine had a great vocal blend, especially on "Hold Me." Christine added the warmth to the Fleetwood Mac vocal mix.

She was always the most low energy member of that band.

R189 she was a masterful singer, songwriter, performer and was the heart of Fleetwood Mac. If you don’t know this, you know nothing about the band. There’s nothing wrong with low key (different from low energy), and she wasn’t about to have a contest with Stevie to see who can twirl shawls the fastest. That wasn’t Christine’s style.

I do know the band very well. She was a great musician, songwriter/arranger and her voice was a wonderful foil to Lindsey and Stevie’s.. Great backup vocals.

But she always sounded weak to me, as a lead singer.

"Brown Eyes" is a great track. Another Christine deep cut I love is "Mystified" off Tango in the Night.

Lindsey's tribute. He can do a handwritten note as well!

She had herself sterilized, preferring to not have any children. I wonder who she's left her estate to.

Lindsey's all like "fuck you Stevie, MY handwritten note is BETTER!"

Stevie’s and Lindsey’s tributes can’t even escape their issues. Christine is rolling her eyes somewhere.

R193, both Lindsey and Stevie both have middle schooler penmanship. And not award winning

[quote]She had herself sterilized, preferring to not have any children.

As if she could've had children with all the drugs and booze running through her system.

Lindsey's Nov 29 post suggests that he knew what was coming, even though he used a photo of himself.

The Rolling Stone article linked at R82 was interesting. Earlier this year, she considered the band "broken up". But of course, never say never.

The band was informed this past weekend that Christine was ill and in hospital. They were told not to come by her family. I'm sure they were hoping for the best, but it wasn't a shock that she died since they knew she was very ill.

And yes that was Lindsey's way of hinting about it, since they were not going to make her condition public.

Stevie’s handwritten note was more personal and heartfelt.

Stevie's handwritten note was a lie.

Christine was the classy one.

If they only heard this weekend, then it was likely a shock.

Christine was a low-key personality in comparison to Lindsey and Stevie but she was absolutely essential to Fleetwood Mac's sound and success. The group had 18 top 40 hits in the US; more than half of those were Christine's songs.

[quote] Stevie's handwritten note was a lie.

I don't agree. Recording and touring and making music together are intimate acts. I think Stevie and Christine had a unique bond that was probably unlike any other bond either had in their life. During the 70s when Fleetwood Mac was the biggest band in the world and actively touring, the group management and record label -- the bosses -- required that after shows Stevie and Christine be sequestered in their rooms and protected (guarded) by armed security. Meanwhile the men in the group were allowed to carouse and bang all the groupies. That time spent seething and braiding each other's hair gave rise to a lifelong bond that Stevie considered a "friendship." I have work friends that I've travelled with for work-related events but I don't socialize with them away from work -- we have shared experiences not shared interests. Still, they are friends and longtime friends at that.

Everything Stevie says is a lie. Including "and" & "the."

was ill and in de hospital*

I thought Lindsey's note was very sweet and not all about himself.

When will cause of death be shared?

I guess Stevie will be dedicating “Landscape” to Christine in her live concerts for the next couple of years…

R211 As she should

R211, OH DEAR!

It’s “Landslide.”

[quote] I guess Stevie will be dedicating “Landscape” to Christine in her live concerts forever more until that frog voiced bitch croaks herself

Fixed it for you.

I'm sure Stevie will have just the right 45 minute story to lead into the 1 minute and 52 seconds where she sings Landscape, er, Landslide.

I need to see Christine McVie’s handwriting!

Lindsey’s handwritten note looks shaky, like an ill old person’s. Not middle school like Stevie’s.

[quote] When will cause of death be shared?

Landslide

RIP

{r201} Stevie ALWAYS makes it about her self. BEST FRIEND? Christine said they RARELY spoke when they weren't working LOL

Maybe Christine was her best friend. But maybe Stevie's wasn't Christine's best friend.

I would assume that John McVie knew Christine best of the people still living. Her second husband died almost 20 years ago, and she never had any kids, right?

R221 Her second husband died almost 20 years ago, and she never had any kids, right?

Google it

Strange how her face looked the same, aged and sagging, her entire life, from youth to old age.

Shades of Lily Savage.

Her second husband only died a few years ago. She credited him on some 80's songs of hers but has since basically said SHE wrote the whole song. this is Christine to me in this pic

O guess this means no more Fleetwood Mac reunions. I assume it was consdidered acceptable to replace Lindsay Buckingham, but to have another female singer replace Christine McVie, well, that would be unthinkable. And Stevie Nicks would never allow another woman in the band. I think she actually would have welcomed the idea of doing a tour where SHE was the only female in the band. She'd probably sing McVie's songs and bask in the undivided spotlight. But without McVie FM is OVER, finally. A good thing, too. They're all too ancident to be performing.

actually Narci Nicks wanted Sheryl Crow at one point.

[quote] actually Narci Nicks wanted Sheryl Crow at one point.

Sheryl Crow? SInging Christine McVie's songs? UGH! What a ghastly idea.

R228- Luckily Lindsay said FUCK THAT SHIT! I think this was 2002-2005?

I saw Fleetwood Mac a few years back after Christine had rejoined the band. I think it was 2014. It was Halloween night in Washington DC. My tickets were on the floor, in front of Christine's keyboards (not real close though). The energy was amazing, and Lindsey stole the show.

It's weird entering a year where Christine McVie and Olivia Newton-John are either embalmed or dust. So many of the vital voices of my youth silenced by death. It was a better world with them here. Probably.

Christine was a cool chick. Loved it when she wore that cub scout uniform.