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The late singer joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970, performing with them for decades. She went on to release three solo albums and win two Grammy awards. We take a look back at her finest moments
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Christine McVie in January 1969.
‘In those days, there were very few women, especially playing the blues, but I never felt singled out.’
Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
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Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack, 1969. Left to right, Andy Sylvester, Christine Perfect (later Christine McVie), Dave Bidwell and Stan Webb.
‘It just all came very naturally to me when I was with Chicken Shack and things started happening for them.’
Photograph: Bob Baker/Redferns
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John and Christine McVie about 1970.
‘Not too many women have said, “Thanks for groundbreaking”, to be honest. I’m sure I was appreciated, but it wasn’t hero worship or anything like that.’
Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy
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Mick Fleetwood, Bob Welch, Christine McVie, and John McVie pose for a portrait in August 1974 in Los Angeles, California.
‘My drug of choice was cocaine and champagne. I didn’t use any other drugs at all. It’s easy for me to say, but I think it made me perform better.’
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, in New Haven, 1975.
‘We had our fights here and there, but there was nothing like the music or the intensity onstage.’
Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns
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Christine McVie at The Oakland Coliseum in 1977 in Oakland, California.
‘The boys used to get provided with cocaine in Heineken bottle tops onstage, but Stevie and I only did the tiny little spoons. I suppose sometimes we got a bit out-there, but we were quite restrained, really.’
Photograph: Richard McCaffrey/Getty Images
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Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and John McVie pose for a portrait in circa 1977.
‘Stevie was the Welsh witch. I was mother nature. Mick was the raving lunatic. Everyone was very different, but we all got on, for the most part. In those days it was just all good clean fun. Well, fairly clean fun!’
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Christine McVie And Linsey Buckingham in 1977.
‘I’m not one of these people that’s an extrovert. That said, I try to really be kind to people when they talk to me, if they ask for autographs. One shouldn’t mind, because after all, they’re paying you a terrific compliment.’
Photograph: Daily Mail/REX/Shutterstock
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Christine McVie in 1980.
‘I don’t really write songs to relax. When I feel a bit of pressure coming on, I’ll get to the piano and see what I can come up with.’
Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
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Christine McVie performing with Fleetwood Mac at one of six shows at Wembley Arena, London, 1980.
‘I think I followed my map pretty well in the course of my life … To be honest with you, I don’t think I gave myself any advice. I think I just kind of got on with what I was doing and thoroughly enjoyed it.’
Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images
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Christine McVie in 1983.
‘I’d been touring for so long, even before Stevie and Lindsey joined – and even before that, I’d been in another band, etcetera, etcetera – so I just felt my whole life I’d been living out of a suitcase. I developed a fear of flying.’
Photograph: Eugene Adebari/REX/Shutterstock
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Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in 1987.
‘At the time, I struggled with her superstardom for a bit because I felt like someone kicked me off the stage. I got used to that and kind of dug it in the end, because I could hide behind the keyboard where I feel perfectly at home.’
Photograph: Aaron Rapoport/Getty Images
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Christine McVie circa 1987 in Los Angeles, California.
‘I’ve always felt very fortunate. Always. Obviously, some of the work was hard and it was tough going.’
Photograph: Aaron Rapoport/Getty Images
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Christine McVie performs on stage at Wembley Arena in 1988.
‘I always think that, no matter what’s gone on prior to the, you know, treading the boards at night, I think we all kind of leave that behind when we’re on stage and you tend to even put more feeling into the songs I think.’
Photograph: Pete Still/Redferns
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Christine McVie performs at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1990.
‘The pressure is on you when you’re doing a solo record, when you come together with, you know, four tried and trusted other musicians you feel like you’ve got a very strong shoulder to lean on that’s not about to collapse under you.’
Photograph: Jim Steinfeldt/Getty Images
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Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie launch their new album in 2017.
‘Lindsey and I have a particular synergy, in the fact that we were the only actual people that were playing more than single notes in the band.’
Photograph: PR Company Handout
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Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood appear at the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute honoring Fleetwood Mac in New York.
‘I think there’s always a certain amount of romance on our records, I mean, you know, that’s cause I’m writing some of the songs, I always write about romance.’
Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
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Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac
. ‘I haven’t thought about making another record. The Songbird album might be my swansong. I’m going to be 80 next year, so I gotta slow down a bit, you know?’
Photograph: Randee St Nicholas
