She was a giant seventies. The singer-songwriter of British rock band Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie, who had also found success with a solo career, died Wednesday at the age of 79 following a short illness, her family announced.
She had written several famous band songs, including Little Lies, Everywhere and Songbird. She had joined the band on vocals and keyboard a few years after its creation in 1967. The group, which has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, is considered one of the most popular bands to have ever existed. In 2020, the cardboard of a viral video on TikTok had allowed a new generation to discover dreamsagain catapulted into the charts.
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In a statement posted on the singer’s Facebook page, the family said Christine McVie died “peacefully” in a hospital on Wednesday morning after “a short illness”. “She was accompanied by her family,” the statement said.
Fleetwood Mac, composed in particular of Mick Fleetwood, Christine and her former husband John McVie, but also Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, was one of the most famous groups of the 70s and 80s. Rumorsreleased in 1977, is considered one of the biggest sellers in musical history with more than 40 million copies sold worldwide.
The singer had left the group in 1998 before joining it 16 years later for an ephemeral formation. In 2017, she told the BBC that she withdrew from the world and developed agoraphobia after leaving the band. She had left California to settle in Kent, in the south-east of England. “There are no words to describe our sadness,” the group reacted on Twitter. “She was truly unique, special and exceptionally talented”