I played it in my bedroom and didn't have anything to tape it on. "I woke up in the middle of the night and the song was there in my brain, chords, lyrics, melody, everything. "For some peculiar reason, I wrote "Songbird" in half an hour I've never been able to figure out how I did that," she told People. When McVie was asked earlier this year what song she written she was most proud of, it was an easy answer: the Rumours track "Songbird." Imagine trying to sing those songs onstage with the people you're singing them about." "The only way we could get this stuff out was to say it, and it came out in a way that was difficult. "It was a therapeutic move," McVie later mused of her lyrical penchant for hiding brutal honesty in plain sight. In reality, it was about an affair with the band's lighting designer. John was also equally ignorant to the source inspiration of "You Make Loving Fun" McVie told him the joyful song ("Sweet wonderful you/ You make me happy with the things you do") was about her dog. He revealed in 2015: "I've been playing it for years and it wasn't until somebody told me, 'Chris wrote that about you.' Oh really?" John, meanwhile, was oblivious to the song's message during its production and early acclaim. I just think it's impossible to work in the band with your spouse," McVie later said. "I dare say, if I hadn't joined Fleetwood Mac, we might still be together. With lyrics that staunchly proclaim "Yesterday's gone!," the song was reportedly written as a plea from Christine to John to move on from their relationship. That includes "Don't Stop," an ironically peppy ode considering the turmoil McVie and her bandmates were grappling with at the time. Then, one day, I just sat down and wrote in the studio, and the four-and-a-half songs of mine on the album are a result of that." "I was practically panicking because every time I sat down at a piano, nothing came out. "I thought I was drying up," explained McVie. McVie is credited as sole songwriter on a handful of instant-classic Rumours tracks, all written during a perilous moment.
Meanwhile, Buckingham and Nicks were having a tumultuous relationship themselves. McVie's coyness may stem from the fact that prior to its production, Christine and John divorced after eight years of marriage. "We were having a blast and it felt incredible to us that we were writing those songs. "It's hard to say (what it was like) because we were looking at it from the inside," McVie said about the iconic album earlier this year.
The potent combination of the McVies, along with Mick Fleetwood, Buckingham and Nicks, catalyzed and detonated into the stratospheric Rumours. In 1971, McVie joined Fleetwood Mac alongside her then-husband John McVie. The masterpiece earned McVie her first GRAMMY (for Album of the Year no less) at the 20th Annual Ceremony in 1978, also earning a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Group.įleetwood Mac's 11th studio album, Rumours was actually McVie's 7th album with the band after making her name in the English blues scene, rising through the ranks as part of the band Chicken Shack, and even releasing a solo album. The tour de force that is Rumours is one of the most acclaimed and best-selling albums of all time and an inductee into GRAMMY Hall Of Fame. But McVie's contributions to the band led to some of their greatest contributions to popular song, with two GRAMMY wins among seven nominations. 30 at 79 after a brief illness, may have not been as flashy, or as dramatic, as fellow Fleetwood Mac members Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. In an announcement of her death, the remaining members of Fleetwood Mac mourned her passing by saying "She was truly one-of-a-kind, special, and talented beyond measure." "As a GRAMMY Award winner and 2018 Person of the Year honoree, the Recording Academy has been honored to celebrate Christine McVie and her work with Fleetwood Mac throughout her legendary career," Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. A beloved original member of the seminal rock group Fleetwood Mac, with whom she sang, wrote and played keyboard, she and her bandmates catapulted to fame in the early ' 70s, scoring GRAMMY gold and influencing generations of musicians. In an acclaimed career that spanned more than half a century, Christine McVie staked her claim as one of the most potent singer-songwriters of her generation.
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