Stevie Nicks
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Christine McVie was a member of the band Fleetwood Mac until her death in 2022 and was considered the band’s main songwriter. In an interview with ““Vulture” Stevie Nicks now commented on the loss of her former band colleague and friend.
She looks back at the time when McVie left the band for 18 years and remembers how Fleetwood Mac changed without her: “She wrote all these really great pop hits. None of the rest of us could write these songs. […] We couldn’t recreate these songs. So we became kind of a hard rock band.”
Aside from her songs and her musical talent, Stevie Nicks remembers her personality and the bond between the two: “She was like my soulmate, my musical soulmate and my best friend, who I spent more time with than any of my best friends Friends outside of Fleetwood Mac. “Christine was my best friend.”
Nicks describes their friendship with the Taylor Swift song “You’re on Your Own, Kid”, especially with the line “you always have been”. “We always were. We protected each other,” says the singer.
After Christine McVie’s death, she wondered if there was a way to continue with Fleetwood Mac: “Who am I supposed to look over to the right if she’s not behind the Hammond organ? When she died, I thought we couldn’t go on with this. There is no reason for that.” What can be interpreted is that without McVie there will no longer be a Fleetwood Mac – and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham had to leave the band in 2018.