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| Born | Christine Anne Perfect 12 July 1943 Greenodd, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 30 November 2022 (aged 79) London, England |
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| Origin | Birmingham, England |
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Christine Anne McVie (/məkˈviː/ mək-VEE;[1] née Perfect; 12 July 1943 – 30 November 2022) was an English musician and singer. She was the keyboardist and one of the vocalists and songwriters of Fleetwood Mac.
McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British blues scene. She initially began working with Fleetwood Mac as a session player in 1968, before officially joining the band two years later. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits"[2] and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album.[3] She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. McVie also released three solo studio albums and recorded a duet album with Lindsey Buckingham.
As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.[4][5] In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O2 Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.[6]
McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006.[7] She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021.[8][9] She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.[10]
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- ^ Leggett, Steve. "Christine McVie: Biography". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
- ^ "Fleetwood Mac: Greatest Hits". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "Fleetwood Mac | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame". www.rockhall.com. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ "History: 1998 Brit Awards". BRIT Awards. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ Pareles, Jon (7 October 2014). "A Band Member Returns to the Fold". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ^ "BASCA". 11 October 2006. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ Pakinkis, Mike (22 May 2014). "Ivor Novello Awards 2014: All the winners". Music Week. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "The Americana Music Association UK – UK Americana Awards 2021". theamauk.org. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- ^ "Christine McVie". GRAMMYs. The Recording Academy. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.