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There’s a reason why Christine McVie was considered the heart of Fleetwood Mac.
band keyboardist, Who died on Wednesday at the age of 79 after a brief illness. He was also the writer of some of the group’s best-loved songs.
Here are just five of those tunes:
It is related to some drama.
Fleetwood Mac is, in part, known for their tumultuous relationships, especially when it comes to romantic ones.
Band members Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham had a thing that ended badly, and McVie famously married and then divorced her other bandmate, John McVie.
He reportedly thought of the song, with its lyrics “Sweet wonderful you / You make me happy with the things you do / Oh, could it be / This feeling follows me wherever I go ,” was about their dog because the McVies were married at the time.
But it turns out that Christine McVie wrote the love song in honor of the band’s lighting director, with whom she had an affair.
Another tune from their famous “Rumors” album.
“don’t stop” An optimistic anthem for the future, it was so meaningful to former President Bill Clinton that he used it as his 1992 campaign anthem.
On Wednesday, he tweeted a tribute to McVie.
“I am saddened by the passing of Christine McVie. “Don’t Stop” was my ’92 campaign theme song – it perfectly captured the mood of a nation yearning for better days,” he tweeted. “I am grateful to Christine and Fleetwood Mac for entrusting us with such a meaningful song. I will miss her.”
It was actually a solo song for McVie.
first single Coming off her self-titled solo album, this sounds like it could be a Fleetwood Mac song, with its pounding rhythm and infectious chorus, “Oh, I found a love / I found someone / This love got a hold of me.” Made it.”
Plus Buckingham plays guitar on it, giving it even more of a Fleetwood Mac vibe.
“say you love Me” is a fun tune that has become a mainstay of rock and easy listening radio stations.
In a 1990 interview, she, Nicks and Buckingham reflected on the sweet harmony.
“The first time I started playing ‘Say You Love Me’ and I got to the chorus, he started singing along with me and fell right into it,” Performance Songwriter magazine reported her saying. “I heard this incredible sound, three of our voices … and my skin turned to goosebumps.”
It seems fitting that so many people on social media used this song to pay tribute to McVie after he passed away.
the ballad he wrote Indicated as the correct recollection of a lost person.
Playing it now after her death feels haunting as she pours her heart out in the opening lyrics, “For you, there won’t be any crying / For you, the sun must be shining / And I feel that when I’m with you / It’s alright Yes, I know it is correct.