On the death of Christine McVie: What you can’t say, you have to sing – culture

Anyone remember Bill Clinton? The story with Monica Lewinsky, of course, but the man also had an understanding of art. Sometimes he would put on sunglasses and play a bluesy saxophone. After 12 years of increasingly crippling Republican rule, he was elected president in 1992. As any political scientist will confirm, he owed his victory almost entirely to Christine McVie. She recalled the utopian thinking that had been lost after the end of the sixties, she whistled at the past and announced a great future. “Don’t Stop (thinking about tomorrow)” by Fleetwood Mac became the anthem that Bill Clinton carried into the White House thirty years ago.