Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham Mourns ‘Soul Mate’ Christine McVie After Her ‘Heartbreaking’ Death

Christine McVie, the keyboardist, singer, and songwriter down 1 of Fleetwood Mac’s well-known hits, passed away connected Nov. 30 astatine property 79. Her bandmates mourned the nonaccomplishment of their beloved friend, including Fleetwood Mac pb guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. One time aft the quality of Christine’s death, Lindsey, 73, reflected connected the nonaccomplishment by taking to Instagram and saying, “Christine McVie’s abrupt passing is profoundly heartbreaking. Not lone were she and I portion of the magical household of Fleetwood Mac, to maine Christine was a philharmonic comrade, a friend, a psyche mate, a sister. For implicit 4 decades, we helped each different make a beauteous assemblage of enactment and a lasting bequest that continues to resonate today. I consciousness precise fortunate to person known her. Though she volition beryllium profoundly missed, her tone volition unrecorded connected done that assemblage of enactment and that legacy.”

News of Christine’s decease was archetypal shared by her authoritative Instagram page. “On behalf of Christine McVie’s family, it is with a dense bosom we are informing you of Christine’s death. She passed distant peacefully astatine infirmary this morning, Wednesday, November 30th, 2022, pursuing a abbreviated illness,” the connection read. “She was successful the institution of her family. We kindly inquire that you respect the family’s privateness astatine this highly achy time, and we would similar everyone to support Christine successful their hearts and retrieve the beingness of an unthinkable quality being and revered instrumentalist who was loved universally. RIP Christine McVie.”

Fleetwood Mac, on with erstwhile president Bill Clinton (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

“There are nary words to picture our sadness astatine the passing of Christine McVie,” the set said in a statement issued by Mick Fleetwood’s social media account. “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.” The connection was shared connected Stevie Nicks’ official IG account. “Individually and together, we cherished Christine profoundly and are thankful for the astonishing memories we have. She volition beryllium truthful precise missed.”

Lindsey and Christine (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Christine joined Fleetwood Mac successful 1970 aft marrying the band’s bassist, John McVie. She was captious to the group’s success, helping crook them from a British blues-rock imitation enactment into a pop-rock trailblazer. The band’s self-titled debut featured 7 songs written by McVie and/or Buckingham. “I deliberation it was from Day 1,” McVie told the Tampa Bay Times in 2017. “When we got into the studio, it was like, I get what he’s playing, and helium gets what I’m playing.”

The band’s bequest is joined to its drama. The band’s astir iconic album, Rumours, came connected the heels of Stevie Nicks splitting from Lindsey Buckingham. Christine was successful the mediate of divorcing her husband. One of the songs that Christine wrote for the album, “You Make Loving Fun,” was inspired by her narration with lighting technician Curry Grant aft splitting from John.

Christine and Lindsey successful 1980 (Andre Csillag/Shutterstock)

“The excitement, the buzz of realizing you’ve written 1 of the champion albums ever written, we were conscionable flying precocious disconnected that knowledge,” said McVie, per American Songwriter. “And each week, it was fig 1 successful the charts for astir a year. We flip-flopped with The Eagles and Hotel California. But it was conscionable a phenomenal time. Too galore drugs, excessively overmuch alcohol, but that was a crazy, brainsick year. That epoch was unbelievable. ”

Christine near the set successful 1998 owed to a crippling fearfulness of flying and a tendency to enactment person to her household successful England. She rejoined the radical successful 2014.

“It’s a unusual one, really, due to the fact that we’re not truly the champion of chums,” McVie said of her set erstwhile speaking to the Tampa Bay Times. “We don’t truly bent retired precise overmuch together. But we person a truly beardown philharmonic enslaved with each other. Once we’re successful the studio, we enactment arsenic a squad truly well. We animate ideas with each other. It is rather amazing, really, that I tin perceive to thing he’s playing and tooling astir on, and past we nexus up disconnected each different precise well. It’s been similar that implicit the years — we travel up with antithetic ideas and cooperate successful a precise earthy way.”