Christine McVie’s Husband: Everything To Know About The Fleetwood Mac Star’s 2 Marriages

Fleetwood Mac‘s keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie died astatine the property of 79, the set announced connected Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. “There are nary words to explicit our sadness astatine the passing of Christine McVie,” the band’s social media connection began. “She was genuinely one-of-a-kind, peculiar and talented beyond measure. She was the champion instrumentalist anyone could person successful their set and the champion person anyone could person successful their life. We were truthful fortunate to person a beingness with her. Individually and together, we cherished Christine profoundly and are thankful for the astonishing memories we have. She volition beryllium truthful precise missed.”

In a abstracted connection (via Deadline), Christine’s household said she “passed distant peacefully astatine [the] hospital” Wednesday greeting “following a abbreviated illness.” Christine was surrounded by household astatine the clip of her death, though who precisely supported her arsenic she took her past enactment is unknown. Christine, similar her bandmate Stevie Nicks, had nary children, contempt being joined twice.

Christine McVie and John McVie were joined for 8 years (Photo: Shutterstock)

Christine was joined to 2 musicians during her beingness who some happened to beryllium associated with Fleetwood Mac. Her archetypal hubby was Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie, portion her 2nd hubby was Eddy Quintela, who helped constitute a fig of the beloved band’s songs. Learn much astir their marriages below.

John McVie and Christine McVie

John McVie, 77, and Christine’s emotion communicative began earlier they were bandmates successful 1 of the astir palmy stone groups of each time. They were dating erstwhile John was scouted for the set — which consisted of guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer and drummer Mick Fleetwood — successful 1967. In 1968, John and Christine tied the knot, and 2 years later, the talented keyboardist would articulation the band.

Although they collaborated for decades to come, John and Christine’s matrimony lasted little than 10 years, arsenic they split successful 1976. “I situation say, if I hadn’t joined Fleetwood Mac, we mightiness inactive beryllium together,” Christine frankly theorized to Rolling Stone successful Oct. 1997. “I conscionable deliberation it’s intolerable to enactment successful the set with your spouse. Imagine the hostility of surviving with idiosyncratic 24 hours a day, connected the road, successful an already stressful situation, with the added negativity of excessively overmuch alcohol.”

John McVie of Fleetwood Mac performs connected signifier (Photo: Shutterstock)

A fewer years later, aft John joined his 2nd and existent wife, Julie Ann Rubens, the “Little Lies” songwriter opened up a spot much astir wherefore their matrimony didn’t enactment out. “We conscionable reached a constituent wherever we couldn’t beryllium successful the aforesaid country together,” she recalled to Rolling Stone successful July 1984. “We’d astir apt spent much clip with 1 different than astir couples who person lived unneurotic for twenty-five years. We had nary individuality, nary separation.” She besides said she was “really, truly happy” for John erstwhile helium walked down the aisle again.

Eddy Quintela and Christine McVie

Eddy Quintela and Christine walked down the aisle successful 1986 and went their separate ways successful 2003. While precise small is known astir their relationship, it is known that they penned immoderate songs for Fleetwood Mac, specified arsenic the band’s 1990 azygous “Save Me” and 1987’s “Little Lies”.