
It was just straight ahead, Lindsey and I, doing our musical thing. This way there was no melodrama involved. , we sometimes like to lead separate worlds. And it just became, ‘Oh, it’s a family event.’ It was fabulous. We asked them to come and play bass and drums on it.
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I ended up playing in his little blues band in Maui and I got the bug.īoth Mick and your ex-husband-Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie ultimately ended up playing on your new record with Lindsey but not Stevie Nicks, who sings and writes in Fleetwood Mac too.

Where else would I be?’ And he says, ‘Wait for me and then we can both fly back together.’ So that’s what happened. But I didn’t even have to do that ‘cause Mick phoned me – this is where the serendipity comes in - and said, ‘I’m coming to England Chris, are you going to be there?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I am. I went to a great psychiatrist who got rid of my fear of flying and made me buy a ticket to Maui and go and visit Mick Fleetwood. I became very isolated.ĭid any one thing or person make you come back? It didn’t have any meaning at all in the end, which slowly lead to a bit of a dark place for me. And that kind of world ended up being inconsequential in the end, and just nothing. Gardening and I think in my mind I was playing the role of the retired rich lady in the country, baking cookies, raising my two dogs and driving my Range Rover. We caught up with McVie down the line from Atlanta recently. So that absence we’d had all those years sort of sparked something.” “I came over early before the Mac rehearsals started and he said, ‘Well, why don’t we go into a proper studio on that level and see, first of all, if there’s any magic there?’ It was obvious within the first week that the chemistry was even better. “When I first rejoined the band I sent Lindsey my demos of songs,” explained McVie, who lives across the pond in England.
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The end result was their first-ever duo collaboration in an over four decade professional relationship, Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie, which brings them to Toronto’s Budweiser Stage on Wednesday, July 5, for the only Canadian show of their North American jaunt. When the 73-year-old British singer-songwriter-keyboardist came back for the band’s 2014 On with the Show trek, she also started writing songs with band mate and American singer-songwriter-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham.

The duo in a statement said that the two started working on new material when McVie joined rehearsals for the tour and "their natural creative chemistry was reignited."


The duo will release a first single, "In My World," on Friday. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham said the album would be the first by a duo of him and keyboardist Christine McVie, who rejoined Fleetwood Mac for a 2014-15 global tour after staying out of the spotlight for years.Įntitled simply "Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie," the 10-track album will come out on June 9 followed by a US tour. New York : Members of blues-rock powerhouse Fleetwood Mac on Tuesday announced a new album that will bring together all of the band's classic lineup - except Stevie Nicks.
