A lovely well spoken man who had around him a band that thrived on imploding and friction. Maybe that was their secret to success. Christine McVie was such an important cog in the clockwork of the band. Her input into Fleetwood Mac was a highlight.
@@albertmojicajr.-so6uc I think she was more important than mick Fleetwood tbh, he wrote a number of the songs but in the 70s women didn't get a look in with bands but christine changed that for women, she helped a band member who got thrown out for drugs i think and he ended up living in a skip homeless but christine done everything to help him, read her book and you will see things that were so wild and crazy but she had a heart of gold, bless her 🙏❤😥🙏
Christine herself took a 14 year hiatus from the band. I agree. Let the band be an incredible, wonderful memory for all of us now. We have much to treasure.
@@marcj4788I never read the book.Christine’s last name was Perfect. Before McVie.As Mick eloquently said it all! I could’ve said more. But I forever felt she was the real crystal , in that band…..still shining on…RIP CHRISTINE SONGBIRD ENGLISH ROCKN ROLL we all cherished our memories of you❤ Fly high 🕊️🕊️💔🌹🌹🌹🌹☮️
Absolutely spot on having others” to try “ & fill her shoes ? Even Mick, knew wouldn’t work out even short term. Not only does the man still dress BRITISH CLASSY **** But, he made the most sensible decision for the band!
Unbelieavable that Christine wrote "Songbird" in a matter of minutes. I've always felt it was one of the most beautiful songs written in the 20th Century.
I wish I could say the same and I don't want to disrespect the recently dead, but I never liked her songs much unless Lindsay Buckingham's contributions saved them.
@@johnkrieger185 It's to be expected. It may just be a coincidence, but men of a certain age accused all female rock musicians of that era of needing saving. Of FM, it was usually Stevie. When she dies, the world will hear again how Buckingham really wrote her songs and regailed anew of her drugs and sex life.
I am sort of relieved that Mick said that Fleetwood Mac is done. John McVie has been has had health issues recently. Stevie and Lindsey as usual have not been getting along. It is best that they put and end to it out of respect for Christine.
@@fredstriker2042 I envision Mick being a hired hand when a drummer is needed here and there. The Foo Fighters haven’t hired a drummer yet. My question is if Mick can physically do it. Stevie Nicks is touring this year and it would be cool to have Mick in her band.
@Jim Miller I have followed the Mac since they were the best Rhythm & blues band in Europe. Mick and John have had to reinvent themselves many times as "Fleetwood Mac". The lineup has changed many times with he and John as the anchor. I would assume he is speaking with emotion at this time. But when the dust settles hes going to need to make a living and just being a session guy, though you and I might like it, doesn't pay near as much as playing as Fleetwood Mac with anyone in front of him
@@fredstriker2042 Only time will tell. Another thing is that Stevie Nicks and her band are really hot right now. She and Billy Joel are doing a few stadiums this year. Stevie has booked for herself shows in between the stadium shows. We are going to the Knoxville show and we can’t afford floor seats anymore. It’s almost like Fleetwood Mac is a step down for her going forward. I don’t want Mick to book something like he did in support of the Time album. That tour had lower attendance even though the footage I’ve seen is not all that bad. Out of the respect of the McVies he should stop using the Fleetwood Mac name.
No one could ever replace Christine Mick Fleetwood knows it. Once a band member passes, such as Tom petty, there's no do overs. I'm sure each of the band members were devasted by her passing. RIP Christine🌹, you were one of a kind ♥️
@@yuvgotubekidding Absolutely 💯 correct there are no do overs. Fleetwood Mac as we know it is done. No one can ever replace Christine McVie. Everyone in this once in a lifetime band was extraordinary, but Christine brought the secret sauce. She brought the magic.
??? they went on without her before. and without Lindsey more recently. I think you just need Mick and one other former member (stevie, john or lindsey) and you can fill a tour. Get some studio musicians and you can make an album. She was a great singer , but you have a world of great singers. Lindsey was a one of a kind guitarist, and yet they soldiered on after they fired him. this was not the first lineup of the band, so it may well not be the last. I get that she might be your favorite member, but she was NOT the band. 100% replaceable if Mick ever wants to before he gets too old or injured like Phil C did.
@@theoverunderthinker yes, they went on without her before. However, shes passed on that alone changes the whole dynamic. I pretty much think the band is heartbroken over losing her. Things will never be the same for them. They're hearts just not in it. I understand exactly where Mick is coming from. RIP Christine🌹
@@patricialavallee8286 she just passed, so of course they are feeling some kind of way now, but that doesn't mean they will feel the same a year or more from now. you know, stages of grief and all that....
To Mick, John, Lindsey and Stevie: Fleetwood Mac has been the soundtrack of my life for close for 50 years. Just want you to know that all of you have been my favorites both as a group and individually. There has been a serious void since Chris passed. This is indeed the end of the innocence. THANK YOU!!!
I think it's the wise decision. John is in ill health, Stevie won't consider performing with Lindsey. They are pushing 80. It's enough. Leave the legacy intact.
@@MichaelB769 I really can’t blame her tho. After they booted him a few years ago, he made some really unfavorable comments about her to the media, suggesting her life is unfulfilled/less than bc she’s a woman who doesn’t have children or a family. If he was willing to say such bitter and nasty things publicly, I speculate what kind of mean spirited things he said behind the scenes. After so many years, I’d be done too.
@@AprilMHeil-cc1me Hadn’t heard about that, but there’s no telling what she might’ve done or said to him to make him want to say things like that, either; they’ve been going back and forth at each other for decades.
@@MichaelB769 That's only because Stevie comes across as being a bit full of herself. It was Lyndsey who said he wouldn't join the band unless she was included.
I feel his deep sadness. Losing Christine McVie as a huge fan for 40 years has been absolutely heartbreaking. So I can only imagine what this loss is like for him. 😢💔
I've always loved Christine McVie so much. Her writing, singing, voice, persona, etc - very charismatic, and one of a kind. Content to not have to be the big star all the time, content to do her job quietly in the background and do it well. I was so sad to hear she's gone, and still am
So sad that I will never seen them perform live again, but so happy that I did several times, and that in death Christine's beautiful music is introduced to a whole new generation of fans. Peace be with you, Christine🕊😪
@@fredstriker2042 nah, that's not what I meant. I meant I will never again see the magic that those 5 people together on stage can create. Glad I got to see it twice 🕊
@@TheOneandOnlyD-R-E I got to see them in the rock Super Bowl in Orlando. It must’ve been somewhere around 1983 I can’t remember for sure if that was a fun day I couldn’t believe I was watching them play live on stage. Best wishes, DT
I'm truly heartbroken as well. Christine McVie was my musical idol since I was 12 years old and I'm now almost 53 years old. She and Fleetwood Mac raised me.😢💔
60 year old grown man here tearing up watching this. She was such a great songwriter. Always in my top 5 songwriter list of all time. Still to this day, I can recall exact moments in my life when I hear her songs. Truly here with me everywhere.
It's the right time. Am a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac but the lack of Lindsay Buckingham for these past few years has been a critical error for all concerned, they shouldn't have sacked him and now it too late for reconciliation. Christine Mcvie did beautiful work with Buck . Will miss her and her talent but the Mac is no longer and hasn't been for years.
@@robertgarrett4046 everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I saw Mac many times. Disregarding previous line ups for a moment....all of which were great for different reasons the rumours line up was a shadow of it's former self without Buckingham. Egos unfortunately overwhelmed the music . Stevie Nicks voice is not what it was , time to end it with dignity. Shame they could not have sorted it out while they were all still well
The chain was broken when Christine died, she was the link that held them together. They're in their '70's and they had a great run and their music goes on. Good music lasts, and Fleetwood Mac's music was never something that just lasted a few months and forgotten. Most music from their era has lasted the test of time and is more popular than ever.
@@bls8959 She was part of the band since Peter Green left way before either Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks arrived. So in essence, she was always part of the band and put in more years than either one of those two.
I watched the tribute and balled my eyes 👀 out. Being born in 1972 this band has been a fabric of my life, and got me through a lot of tough times. Hearing Mick say Fleetwood Mac is done, makes my heart sad. But I still have my records. RIP Songbird 💕 🙏
@@sickoftheleftwingscum Mick and Lindsey work well together minus Stevie. I'd not surprised to see some collaborations in the future. Man sad news about John
@@fredstriker2042 you have to have Stevie Nicks otherwise the harmony wouldn't work with Lyndsey Buckingham and the tentions between the two of them but I don't think Lyndsey has been well either from what I read ! 👍🇬🇧
What a great interview! Mick is as genuine as they come. I completely understand him saying FM is done. Although I sure would love to see them one more time. One of the best bands ever created. And Christine was a big a part of that greatness as any other member of the band. Past or present. RIP Christine! A songbird of our lives.
Christine's voice has been a constant in my life - and I presume it will forever play in stores and restaurants when I'm not expecting it. At lunch the other day - Sentimental Journey came on in the background - just as my sister and I were talking about her death. It was such a serendipitous and sweet moment. I'll forever love her.
MF is such an eloquent speaker. I’m such a huge fan of the band I would be speechless if I met any of them! They did a wonderful job on Christine’s tribute.
It's interesting that they had no problem with performing as Fleetwood Mac without Christine for about 15 years ('98-'13)....but I do agree this IS different. Especially given all their current ages. It may be the right time to call it a day. Maybe put out some live material, or unheard rarities. But a full scale tour seems like it would be a bad idea.
I could see them performing together at a given show or event but a concert tour is unrealistic at this point in their lives. Hopefully they are proud of what they've achieved and should enjoy "retirement".
They may not have had Christine for 15 years, but she was alive, and made a choice to walk away. Their choice was to continue. And Lindsey was still in the band then. They are older now, and the dynamic has really changed with only 3 left.
@@robertgarrett4046 Well, to put it bluntly Robert, I think perhaps Christine herself would disagree with you on that as she very clearly expressed herself during interview in England on the BBC's Radio 2 Johnnie Walker Show, broadcast 9th February 2021. She said she doesn’t think Fleetwood Mac will tour with Stevie Nicks again and she also expressed doubt about going back out on the road again. John McVie also hasn’t got the heart for touring. I hate to burst your bubble, but the facts are the facts, regardless of your personal fantasy.
Christine has been a hero of mine since I was 18, I'm now 50 . I am so sad that she has passed. I think about her often and listen to her often . Thats some legacy she left behind that total strangers miss her 😢
I could not agree more. She's been my musical hero since I was 12 when I first saw Hold Me the music and saw her and was absolutely mesmerized by her voice and presence and I have been at Christie McVie and Fleetwood Mac devotee for over 40 years so this has truly been heartbreaking to lose her. 😢💔
Mick Fleetwood is an English gentleman, utter class! So well said, just lovely words. At least we all have his and Christine and the other band members beautiful music to forever!
I would hope this is not the end for FleetwoodMac but if it is, I thank all of them for the wonderful songs/music they gave us. FleetwoodMac the world's best band. ❤️
@@fredstriker2042 I don't know you and I know everyone has a right to speak their mind to a certain extent on RUclips, but every comment that you have put in this video has been negative. What is your deal? Tthis woman was a musical icon. She was a huge musical influence and presence in Fleetwood Mac. So let Mick blabber, talk, cry and reflect He's earn it that and so has she. Christine McVie is a legend, iconic and a musical genius. Oh by the way I know who Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Karwin are. Peter Green was the original founder of Fleetwood Mac. He invited Christine McVie in 1968 to join Fleetwood Mac as session musician and singer.
@Tikneshia Beauford Sorry If I have offended you. Sometimes hearing an alternate perspective or negative opinion isn't easy to handle, but like you, i wont judge you. But willpoint out some facts.. 1. I have not said one negative word about Christine in any way or fashion. 2. I have never said anything negative about Mick. Simply said he was "blabbing on". And he is, call it by another name if that eases the point, how about Mick is depressed from the loss of a friend and is acting "emotional"? That better? The fact is. He is telling Is the average normie fan they are done when History, Logic, Finance, and Reality dictate otherwise. He is Mick Fleetwood, a drummer, and will slowly go broke otherwise. It's OK to have a completely different opinion. Sometimes you can learn something by hearing one out. Doesn't mean I'm a negative person. Try debate rather or discussion rather than emotional assumption
@drinkingup broke by his Standards. The man lives a life of luxury. Your point would be valid if he was willing to move to the suburbs and become a nobody
I am so heartbroken, as Fleetwood Mac raised me. Each of their albums was a soundtrack to a different chapter of my life or years in life. I know they are heartbroken and devastated but I hope that when things are healing a little more they might consider what she would’ve wanted for them as well. I love you guys so much, and My Stevie. 🕊 It is a heartbreaking time
@@fredstriker2042 right. .and Bob welch,and Danny kirwan,and Dave walker, and the other Bob hahaha!!Becca Bramlett? Shit idk how she pulled that off during the 'time' tour,filling in Stevies shoes!!! Fleetwood is like dr who,i love all the incarnations regardless!! Def getting a penguin tattoo sometime soon!!🍻✌️🍻✌️🍻✌️
@@fredstriker2042 oh yeah, he did during those early to mid 70s lol..and had some killer solo albums after!!(church is 1of my fave songs of his)...im 44,so a kid in the 80s all I knew was the 'commercial ' line up!!same with yes and genesis. ..then as a fan I went backwards and started from the beginning!!I'm just tired of this BS where u say bands name and Rumors/Stevie/Lindsay are the only fucking things coming out their mouths!!I get in debates with ppl that say Sabbath ain't Sabbath without Ozzy etc...im like 1st of all,OZZY GOT HIMSELF FIRED, IF HE CARED SO MUCH,HISTORY WOULD BE DIFFERENT!! Also,Dio came in and showed there was still awesome music and power when he was there!!and the born again album (Ian gillen sang) is fucking Awesome-tacular!!!...I like the bands as a whole!!so yeah I learned all the other albums of Macs and loved more of that then the cash grab era lol!!sorry so long ✌️🍻✌️🍻
Noooo. I can't bear that they are "done" NOOOOOOOO! Heart broken please nooooo. I met Mick Fleetwood on stage once and he is the sweetest, most gentle gentleman you could ever wish to meet. Such a positive good energy and soul.
I agree with Mick,..... " Without Christine, there is no Fleetwood Mac". Thank You So Much for over 50 years of " Good/ Great Music ! No One can take Christine Mcvie's place !
When I heard that she had passed, I knew this was a hole in Fleetwood Mac that could never be filled. I still have my Christine Perfect lp's and still play them.
Stevie Nicks makes everything about herself (I was disappointed in her claim that “Go Your Own Way” was Lindsey’s “Dreams” and that her song was optimistic and ladylike-how is “players only love you when they’re playing” optimistic and ladylike when “shacking up” was horrible and disrespectful?) so it’s no surprise that she wouldn’t want to attend an event that honored her “best friend”. 🙄
Mick is very classy and I can full appreciate his response that Fleetwood Mac is done. Seems like a very fitting and respectful response given the absence of the Songbird.
Heartbreaking to hear the band is put to bed. Understandably, but heart wrenchingly understandable. For Bless Nick for recognizing her importance to the band. 💔
So lucky to have seen Fleetwood Mac live with Christine twice before (2015 and 2019) and both times the band was beyond magical to see them perform and bring the music to life :) I know he said it's unthinkable for now that they'll never come back together and tour again because of Christine but as Mick also said, stranger things have happened and FW is a strange yet very cool band, I think they will do a final tour someday as a final tribute to Christine and the fans all across the world.
o2 London for me with Peter Green in the "room" (thanks Stevie). It could never be bettered, and I wouldn't want to try. Mick still has a lot to say, so looking forward to some retrospection.
goodbye fleetwoodmac ,i know they are going there own waybut ,it will be sad end of a beautiful era of the best music ever !!!but iunderstand christine needs to be there to make the magic
@@fredstriker2042 You are very disrespectful even if you're just being cynical. He's clearly mourning and celebrating his dear dear friend and band mate. I've never seen anybody troll a video like this and just say negative and snarky things to almost every response throughout the whole video. It's like you're not taking any of this seriously. We all love the different incarnations of Fleetwood Mac which is what makes them so phenominal whether you love the early blues stuff, the transitional blues to California soft rock period stuff or the white album stuff going forward it's all wonderful and it's all relevant. So appreciate the moment knock it off please.
@Tikneshia Beauford If you think my comments are trolling then you havent ventured very deep into the cesspool that is RUclips Commnet threads. Mick told his fans Fleetwood Mac is done during an emotional period. I said he and the Mac will be back on the road. I stand by my statement. Seems you are the one with issues chasing me around comment threads lady. Kind of weird don't you think?
@@fredstriker2042 well they didi in there own ways when the guitar player lindsey left finally to get his life together,but it wasnt the same ,i listened to all the other replacements ,good people i ther eown right but not lindsey ,not christine ,mick understands ,it was his special little group ,his fam,would nice to see a tribute with john mick lindsey and stevie for christine ,that would be a nice goodbye song way
@@fredstriker2042 no they wont stevie and lindsey have been solo for awhile now and mick was doing his own thing and john well hes haning at home ,no it wont be the same without christine ever and they have tried to subsitute and it never hit like these same people ,sorry i dont agree with you ,but i know they will be out there soloo somewhere .it would be nice to see lindsey and stevie doing it again as there own band buckingham and nicks ,that would be okay
F. Mac is one of my favorite bands. I saw them 14 times / 13 with Christine. Yes , it IS time to say "we are done". Go out on a high , classy note. All the players will still play . Best Wishes to all.
I am so elated Christine won the grammy. I have been hoping ever since I learned of her nomination. She would have been so happy... heck, I bet she knows and IS very happy. Sadly, I feel the chain has been permanently broken. Fleetwood Mac may live on, but "Fleetwood Mac," sadly, IS done, as Mick said. Long live Christine McVie!
Personally, I wished Fleetwood Mac would keep away from that cheap Grammy nonsense. It's absolutely meaningless as they hand out these rubbish awards like candy at a children's party.
@@paulk9985 to be fair, the break was not between Christine and Lindsay, but I take your point. even though it was a possibility , now it cannot happen in the same way with the same 5 people because one of them is gone.
So much love and respect in his words, it shows just how much all the members loved and continue to love each other regardless of any differences ♡ Just imagine sharing so much for so many years ...they're family. RIP sweet Christine 🤍
Tears 😭 to my eyes when, he says they're done, backdrop to my life and heart ♥ are Fleetwood Mac my brothers introduced me to them way bk and with the loss of one of my brothers last year im emotional still thus I am thinking, with the loss of Christine's and lyndsey gone 😢frm the band very talented man man that guitar 🎸 plucked sounds fantastic.. Anyway I'm not saying goodbye 👋 I'm saying till next time Mick Fleetwood.. In thr meantime bk catalog always playing on my deck and in my mind.. Special thoughts for Christine in my heart ♥ RIP 😢💕
What a beautifully eloquent interview by Mick. So well-spoken and thoughtful - really enjoyed it despite the sadness of Christine's recent loss. Having grown up with Fleetwood Mac music over the decades it'll seem weird not to hear new stuff from them going forward - but they've given us so much already.
Great interview and always such a sincere guy Mick Fleetwood. Obv. Christine's passing had a massive impact on Mick, being so close. Clear to see here. For Christine, I bang the 'Say you love me' drum (no pun intended....), right at the start of the Buckingham/ Nicks period...thanks for posting.
Well, without Christine and Lindsey, FM would be the Stevie Nicks Band. And while the quality of her shows would benefit enormously from that, it wouldn't be Fleetwood Mac at all. So it's onyl logical for FM to end. And fitting, because Christine is the bandmember the others owe the most, she stabilized the band and reliably wrote the hits, the good songs on each album since she'd joined. Fom 1990 on, I saw FM every time they came to europe and I'll sherish the memories forever. The 2015 concert, when the whole venue welcomed Christine back with a roaring applause and, to her visible wonder and joy, continued to celebrate her throughout the night, will always be my favorite memory of any concert I've been to. I miss her, the world was more fabulous with her in it.
Fleetwood mac... will forever be in our hearts... the music is going nowhere from blues to rock.. they are quite possibly the greatest rock band of all time.
@@eddiepelosi6136 Yes it is! No single band in music history has given the world such an array of different music that was so amazing and iconic. Fleetwood Mac's musical legacy will out live us all. It will be enjoyable by many future generations to come.
yeah back than they were still doing Early Mac songs they did a lot of unreleased stuff back in the day in concert. hell the beach Boys did We Got Love Live and they never put that on album and it's a fantastic song. though they haven't played live i am going to guess since Blondie Chaplin left in (1974)
It's all because of you Mick Fleetwood. It started with your name. We will allow those we love to grieve for a time. Who knows what the future holds. You have given your time and your love freely. May GOD give you back what you have given Freely.
actually it was Peter Green who named the band it wasn't Mick he named the band that even before John joined the band they were trying to get him at the time. and it was called Peter Green's Fleetwood mac for a couple of years i think before it was dropped. Mick was quite surprised that Greene even picked that name at all so a lot of it had to do with Peter Greene mainly but yeah Mick too
@@apollomemories7399 I wish I was the brits and I listen to more music from there I think than the us. And I watch a lot of stuff as well I'm a big python fan and a huge doctor who fan. And so I hear a lot of different ways they talk compared to us here. I'm 44 AMD in 87 when tango came out that's when I became a fan. In high school my brother bought their albums on cd the early ones and that's when I heard those. Also there are tons of documentary and I have both of micks bios. So I'm a massive fan but my brother is a bigger one than I am.
@@rolandofgilead43 That's great and at least you can get to see and hear stuff very easily these days. But admittedly, we Brits did supply you fellas with a whole rosta of incredibly great bands with a list that just goes on and on. Btw, John Cleese has just made a new series of Fawlty Towers, this time set in the Caribbean, which promises to be not in the least bit politically correct. Bring it on.
As a 70's kid I was brought up listening to Fleetwood Mac and my kids now love the band too,I understand Mick saying there is no Fleetwood Mac without Christine.
I'm sure a lot of people commenting are thinking about how much they love Christine's songs from the Lindsay/Stevie version of FM....but if you haven't heard what she did with the Bob Welch version of the group from 1972 to 1974, boy are you in for a treat! Right there is her BEST WORK....and I mean BEST WORK.
Christine McVie joined FM back in 1968 after Peter Green asked her to be backing singer and musician. She has a lot of uncredited work with FM between 1968-1970, until she became a full-time member in 1970 and her first full album was the brilliant albums Future Games which were followed by the equally brilliant Bare Trees, Mystery To Me and Heroes Are Hard To Find albums. After Peter Green left in 1970, Mick Fleetwood said it was Christine who kept the band from falling apart and continued to be the glue that kept FM together. Christine McVie's was the glue that kept FM together for 50 years. She was the constant thru line throughout their enormous legacy. She was responsible for transitioning their sound that would catapult them into mega stardom and music history forever to become one of the greatest bands of the 21st century. She also wrote the majority of songs and their hits twice as many combined as Stevie and Lindsey. Christine McVie was beyond iconic and legendary. She was necessary for the evaluation of Rock N' Roll.
@@tikneshiabeauford7289 Yes, good history lesson! I do know about her uncredited work in those early years. Albums Penguin, Mystery To Me, and Heroes Are Hard To Find contains her BEST WORK!
@MattHatter Thank you! I agree it was some of her BEST WORK EVER! I have to say this is one of the most significantly impactful deaths that I've experienced of a celebrity and musician. She was a musical mentor to me and to millions of people all over the world, with all that said, given how renowned she and she was a musical genius, bo you get the feeling that people still will never know the full extent of her impact on music history even with everything we already know about her extraordinary legacy?
So have I. Christine was our Musical Mother and Earth Angel. She was family. I have loved her for over 40 years and now almost 53 years old. I'm absolutely heartbroken that she's gone. 😢💔
@@tikneshiabeauford7289 Its comforting to know that I'm not grieving by myself...I'm sure that there are millions of us who loved her. (we're from the same generation btw, I've also got 40 years with Fleetwood Mac) hang in there x
I'm surprised no one has brought up the song that Christine McVie wrote specifically for Mick Fleetwood. The song being Oh Daddy. She really loved Mick and she wrote that song just for him.
Not in today's world that's smothered to death in political correctness. That song title has all the wrong connotations that the angry extreme-left woke brigade hate. First off, it's probably "racist" to have a "daddy", etc, etc. Get my drift?
Before joining forces with Buckingham/Nicks, Christine pretty much was the "Mama Lion" who kept Fleetwood Mac going. They soldiered on, playing with other musicians(that's Mick And John McVie playing muscular rhythm behind Warren Zevon on "Werewolves of London," which required more than 30 takes to get right) and even surviving another manager using their name to have another group of musicians play shows - charging money - as "Fleetwood Mac!" She was able to welcome Stevie Nicks eagerly("Oh, good, another girl singer!"), so that the whole group was like a family by the end of their first day together. When they did the tour for their first album together, they traveled in a couple of station-wagons, and Christine made sure that their contract "riders" included good wine and lots of food - bread, fruit, olives and grapes, which would end up in coolers, in the cars, to eat and drink on the way to the next show! The whole band is a bunch of veteran musical road-warriors, and Christine was able to keep working right up to the end of her life. She knew how fortunate she was, and was truly grateful and always gracious; a class act for all to admire. God Bless 'em all.
It was hardly a case of "survival" because of some fake band doing some gigs for a few weeks to cover for them following their upset with the Bob Weston affair. Strange that you don't consider Bob Welch as the "Lion King" as he wrote by far the best songs on all five albums he made with them.
Truly the passing of the greatest era in rock. For a band that persevered through many ups and downs, it’s fitting that they go out at the pinnacle. As a fan since the 1970s, I express my condolences to the band, their families, friends and fans, who mourn Christine’s passing.
Time to call it a day. They had a great run but they struggled somewhat on their last tour. John has been in poor health for years. Let Stevie and Lindsey enjoy their solo careers, but the band's days are over. All good things end.
very sad news with Christine's passing and mick announcing the end of the band, i think they should make a movie about yhe band like they did with Queen and Elton john.
I saw them in 2003 on the “Say You Will” tour, when Christie McVie sat that one out. I took my daughter to our one and only FM concert. RIP Christie. Thank you for the music and songs.
I hope a realistic beautiful movie about Fleetwood Mac comes to be with great actors. Such a legendary group and individuals and do beloved by their fans ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@fredstriker2042 No kidding. I think what Donna meant was Buckingham-Nicks FM. It is what 75% of people think of when they hear FM. And yeah, real Stevie will be shown (if it isnt glosed over, etc). Too many iterations for a full FM movie.
Mick is 100% correct - Fleetwood Mac is over and should just retire. The band was already over when Lindsey departed and Mic knew that too. Two guitarist (known in their own right) couldn't replace Lindsey's presence and the sounds became different as expected. This is what happens when one band member becomes too big for their own britches and harbors old feelings of regret or the inability to accept their own mistakes in life's journey. After Lindsey left, FM sounded like a cover band of themselves and age is certainly the main factor. Once Christine passed, the nail on the coffin was done. Stevie should now realize that she didn't make the band nor did the band make her - she was an integral part, thanks to Lindsey, and that she should've foremost remembered.
When Mick said the band was done, it was both heartbreaking and expected. They had an awesome run, 56 years together, but it'll never be the same without Christine. Rest in peace Songbird.
yeah but that's how they feel right now you never know, what people never talk about is before Stevie and Lindsay Joined the music was fantastic, show me a smile a good Christine McVie song, their cover of For your Love is i think even better a song put out in (1973) Buddy's Song just to name a few. if you want to know how far back she goes in the band she played Piano on their 2nd album Mr. Wonderful in (1968) did the artwork and sang backup on Kiln House (1970) and joined as a member In (1971) for Future Games. not many know that she was there that long cept for the die hard fans like me who listen to their early stuff before 75 when the White album came out
@@rolandofgilead43 Really? Perhaps there's a great deal more of us than you realise. Here in the UK, where EVERYBODY knows Christine Perfect from her Chicken Shack days, dating John McVie from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and singing Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" put out on the Blue Horizon label in April `69. We had five national weekly music press newspapers here and streets ahead of the US in that respect and the FM were never out the news with August 68 being a bumper month with the release of Mr. Wonderful, the McVie/Perfect marriage and Danny Kirwin joining. Mrs. McVie also played keyboards on Kiln House, again uncredited. In 1969, Fleetwood Mac records outsold both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined in UK and Europe, whereas over in the US, it was Creedence Clearwater Revival who did exactly that, too. I still fail to understand quite how Bob Welch has become a very distant memory as without him there never would have been that White album, which I never thought very much of anyway.
@@apollomemories7399 it's weird I agree but Mac was bigger in the uk than over here I wasn't around in the 60s. Mr. Wonderful if I recall never was put out here back than. What's weird is here across the pondrá you have the Beatles who were big but they had done 2 albums before hitting it big here. Their music was scattered all over lps as the actual albums never hit us until sgt pepper. The stones had albums come but until between the buttons which was the last to do this it was a different tracklist. I love that albums buy thr US versión sucks it's awful but the uk versión is brillant. The beach boys by 68 were jokes here by than but huge in the uk. Queen from hot space onward really did poorly sales wise but fared better in britan. Genesis also was bigger in the uk for the longest time for us and than there were three was big for them but in the uk they were huge.
@@rolandofgilead43 In the case of The Beatles' success in the US, they actually had to physically go there to be seen on TV for anything to happen. US record labels hated any success for foreign import records and did everything they could not to support them. Capitol did an excellent job with (and I'm being sarcastic) in not being interested in the Beatles earlier singles, hence, why thy went out initially.on mickey mouse little labels. That's the way it worked back then in that US label execs got to choose what tracks they felt were best for the markets they sold out to. Hence why Stones albums were peeled off with some black R&B covers and replaced with the hit singles - which did not appear on the UK albums, etc. Yes, we loved The Beach Boys and when you listen to these albums today, that's quite understandable. Personally, I gave Queen a miss after the mid-70's when it went one step too far with the Mercury flamboyant stuff. Genesis were indeed very successful here simply on the basis their records were brilliant. Their BBC radio sessions collection gets released early March. I cannot wait.
Christine Mcvie will always keep singing her spirit now dances with the angels. her soul will live on in the generations of fans who loved Fleetwood Mac since the beginning of time.
Too bad they didn't cherish Lindsey Buckingham equally. Really, they ended the band when they "got rid of" him. Kinda ironic. They thought they could do without him now without her it's REALLY over 🤔. All due respect to Christine, she was very talented & beautiful & seemed like a nice person. They just had alot of drama among them over the time they were "Fleetwood Mac"
What an awesome interview by MF of FM about the loss of Christine McVie and the tribute about that fantastic 'Songbird' track which she dreamed up and wrote within 10 minutes. Myself, I saw 'Rhiannon' on November 13th, 2022 at the Hawth in Crawley, West Sussex and met the band in the foyer after the concert for selfies etc and I was absolutely 'Gobsmacked' to hear of Christines' passing on the 30th. I'm continually re-playing the track 'Songbird' whenever I can. You were a star, beyond belief. May you truly rest in peace my darling. Lots of Love - R.I.P. - Graham Hornby xxx ( 71 y.o.a.) 😢😢😢
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What a sweet, well-spoken man. Unlike other interviews, Mick Fleetwood speaks with hint of a broken heart.
It was a sweet inviewer
Probably because he was sober
@@mikeivey8169 how about you crawl back under your rock.
I guarantee a piece flew out the window with this. So many great stories
@@grooviefan I will be happy to do so. That's after you move outta the way.
A lovely well spoken man who had around him a band that thrived on imploding and friction. Maybe that was their secret to success. Christine McVie was such an important cog in the clockwork of the band. Her input into Fleetwood Mac was a highlight.
@@albertmojicajr.-so6uc I think she was more important than mick Fleetwood tbh, he wrote a number of the songs but in the 70s women didn't get a look in with bands but christine changed that for women, she helped a band member who got thrown out for drugs i think and he ended up living in a skip homeless but christine done everything to help him, read her book and you will see things that were so wild and crazy but she had a heart of gold, bless her 🙏❤😥🙏
Christine herself took a 14 year hiatus from the band. I agree. Let the band be an incredible, wonderful memory for all of us now. We have much to treasure.
@@marcj4788I never read the book.Christine’s last name was Perfect. Before McVie.As Mick eloquently said it all! I could’ve said more.
But I forever felt she was the real crystal , in that band…..still shining on…RIP CHRISTINE SONGBIRD ENGLISH ROCKN ROLL
we all cherished our memories of you❤
Fly high 🕊️🕊️💔🌹🌹🌹🌹☮️
Absolutely spot on having others” to try “ & fill her shoes ?
Even Mick, knew wouldn’t work out even short term.
Not only does the man still dress BRITISH CLASSY ****
But, he made the most sensible decision for the band!
Unbelieavable that Christine wrote "Songbird" in a matter of minutes. I've always felt it was one of the most beautiful songs written in the 20th Century.
Agreed!
I wish I could say the same and I don't want to disrespect the recently dead, but I never liked her songs much unless Lindsay Buckingham's contributions saved them.
@@johnkrieger185 You're entitled to your opinion, not to be disrespectful to you either, but you're in a very very small minority.
Played it at my mothers funeral. Such a great song.
@@johnkrieger185 It's to be expected. It may just be a coincidence, but men of a certain age accused all female rock musicians of that era of needing saving. Of FM, it was usually Stevie. When she dies, the world will hear again how Buckingham really wrote her songs and regailed anew of her drugs and sex life.
I am sort of relieved that Mick said that Fleetwood Mac is done. John McVie has been has had health issues recently. Stevie and Lindsey as usual have not been getting along. It is best that they put and end to it out of respect for Christine.
Well you're crazy if you think he won't be back on the road under the same name with any number of Thousands of musicians when he needs a paycheck
@@fredstriker2042 I envision Mick being a hired hand when a drummer is needed here and there. The Foo Fighters haven’t hired a drummer yet. My question is if Mick can physically do it. Stevie Nicks is touring this year and it would be cool to have Mick in her band.
@Jim Miller I have followed the Mac since they were the best Rhythm & blues band in Europe. Mick and John have had to reinvent themselves many times as "Fleetwood Mac". The lineup has changed many times with he and John as the anchor.
I would assume he is speaking with emotion at this time. But when the dust settles hes going to need to make a living and just being a session guy, though you and I might like it, doesn't pay near as much as playing as Fleetwood Mac with anyone in front of him
@@fredstriker2042 Only time will tell. Another thing is that Stevie Nicks and her band are really hot right now. She and Billy Joel are doing a few stadiums this year. Stevie has booked for herself shows in between the stadium shows. We are going to the Knoxville show and we can’t afford floor seats anymore. It’s almost like Fleetwood Mac is a step down for her going forward. I don’t want Mick to book something like he did in support of the Time album. That tour had lower attendance even though the footage I’ve seen is not all that bad. Out of the respect of the McVies he should stop using the Fleetwood Mac name.
@Jim Miller have a great Show. Used to work some Concerts in Knoxville back in the day! Peace
No one could ever replace Christine
Mick Fleetwood knows it. Once a band member passes, such as Tom petty, there's no do overs. I'm sure each of the band members were devasted by her passing. RIP Christine🌹, you were one of a kind ♥️
Just like Stone Temple Pilots. Without Scott Weiland STP is a tribute band. Apologies to Dean, Robert, and Eric.
@@yuvgotubekidding Absolutely 💯 correct there are no do overs. Fleetwood Mac as we know it is done. No one can ever replace Christine McVie.
Everyone in this once in a lifetime band was extraordinary, but Christine brought the secret sauce. She brought the magic.
??? they went on without her before. and without Lindsey more recently.
I think you just need Mick and one other former member (stevie, john or lindsey) and you can fill a tour. Get some studio musicians and you can make an album. She was a great singer , but you have a world of great singers. Lindsey was a one of a kind guitarist, and yet they soldiered on after they fired him.
this was not the first lineup of the band, so it may well not be the last.
I get that she might be your favorite member, but she was NOT the band.
100% replaceable if Mick ever wants to before he gets too old or injured like Phil C did.
@@theoverunderthinker yes, they went on without her before. However, shes passed on that alone changes the whole dynamic. I pretty much think the band is heartbroken over losing her. Things will never be the same for them. They're hearts just not in it. I understand exactly where Mick is coming from. RIP Christine🌹
@@patricialavallee8286 she just passed, so of course they are feeling some kind of way now, but that doesn't mean they will feel the same a year or more from now.
you know, stages of grief and all that....
To Mick, John, Lindsey and Stevie: Fleetwood Mac has been the soundtrack of my life for close for 50 years. Just want you to know that all of you have been my favorites both as a group and individually. There has been a serious void since Chris passed. This is indeed the end of the innocence. THANK YOU!!!
@Philip Martin 32 Grammys . Hmmm, One would wonder, "HOW" she was worthy of so many trophies 🏆
@Philip Martin In the era of fake news, you also witness fake musicians. I'm not surprised.
@@philipmartin2919 exactly
@@philipmartin2919 Yep. That's certainly an indictment of the Grammys.
And Peter and Danny and Jeremy.
With Peter Green and Christine gone, I think old Mick is quite right to put the finest of bands to bed. Bless them all for the music x
I will never forget her singing songbird as the last song. It was one of the best parts of the concert. God bless Christine McVie.
It’s a shame it was left off of The Dance album
I think it's the wise decision. John is in ill health, Stevie won't consider performing with Lindsey. They are pushing 80. It's enough. Leave the legacy intact.
Stevie has been not considering playing with Lindsey on and off for decades; it’s their thing lol
@@MichaelB769 I really can’t blame her tho. After they booted him a few years ago, he made some really unfavorable comments about her to the media, suggesting her life is unfulfilled/less than bc she’s a woman who doesn’t have children or a family. If he was willing to say such bitter and nasty things publicly, I speculate what kind of mean spirited things he said behind the scenes. After so many years, I’d be done too.
@@AprilMHeil-cc1me Hadn’t heard about that, but there’s no telling what she might’ve done or said to him to make him want to say things like that, either; they’ve been going back and forth at each other for decades.
@@MichaelB769 That's only because Stevie comes across as being a bit full of herself. It was Lyndsey who said he wouldn't join the band unless she was included.
Lindsey is no longer with Fleetwood Mac.
I celebrate Christine...but I feel for Mick. You can almost see the hurt in his eyes.
I feel his deep sadness. Losing Christine McVie as a huge fan for 40 years has been absolutely heartbreaking.
So I can only imagine what this loss is like for him. 😢💔
Fleetwood Mac will never die . The music is everywhere ❤️. 🇬🇧🇺🇲
That is a cool comment !
@@pleun315 thank you sir .
@@beccasanchez9299 no thank you 🙏 that was brilliant !
Reading this, want to be with you everywhere popped in my head.
Amen Fleetwood Mac is eternal & a gift to all from each member of the band. Bless Christine & Stevie an epic soul...
I've always loved Christine McVie so much. Her writing, singing, voice, persona, etc - very charismatic, and one of a kind. Content to not have to be the big star all the time, content to do her job quietly in the background and do it well. I was so sad to hear she's gone, and still am
Provided alot of memorable music to their fans throughout the decades. RIP Christine. ♥️
@@billrobbins5874thank God she is real in the resurrection too.
So sad that I will never seen them perform live again, but so happy that I did several times, and that in death Christine's beautiful music is introduced to a whole new generation of fans. Peace be with you, Christine🕊😪
Oh yes you will. He will travel with anyone willing to go into the name Fleetwood Mac in a matter of a few months
@@fredstriker2042 nah, that's not what I meant. I meant I will never again see the magic that those 5 people together on stage can create. Glad I got to see it twice 🕊
@@TheOneandOnlyD-R-E I got to see them in the rock Super Bowl in Orlando. It must’ve been somewhere around 1983 I can’t remember for sure if that was a fun day I couldn’t believe I was watching them play live on stage. Best wishes, DT
@@fredstriker2042 so cynical Fred, lighten up buddy FFS!!!! 🙄
@@shanebriggs1039 it's Ole Sparky again! Hey buddy!
I'm literally crying while watching this. Christine was my idol at 14 years old. My heart couldn't be more broken than it is today.
I'm truly heartbroken as well. Christine McVie was my musical idol since I was 12 years old and I'm now almost 53 years old. She and Fleetwood Mac raised me.😢💔
60 year old grown man here tearing up watching this. She was such a great songwriter. Always in my top 5 songwriter list of all time. Still to this day, I can recall exact moments in my life when I hear her songs. Truly here with me everywhere.
Mick Fleetwood spoke so lovely about Christine & speaks so nice in general ❣️
You can tell Mick is devastated with the loss of Chris.
It's the right time. Am a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac but the lack of Lindsay Buckingham for these past few years has been a critical error for all concerned, they shouldn't have sacked him and now it too late for reconciliation. Christine Mcvie did beautiful work with Buck . Will miss her and her talent but the Mac is no longer and hasn't been for years.
NOT SURE I TOTALY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE SAID CLAIRE, ROB.
@@robertgarrett4046 everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I saw Mac many times. Disregarding previous line ups for a moment....all of which were great for different reasons the rumours line up was a shadow of it's former self without Buckingham. Egos unfortunately overwhelmed the music . Stevie Nicks voice is not what it was , time to end it with dignity. Shame they could not have sorted it out while they were all still well
For me it's the loss of Peter green and Jeremy Spencer
@@fredstriker2042 yes I agree with that as well.
@peter reeves And the wonderfully-talented, late Bob Welch.
I started listening to Fleetwood Mac when I was 15. I'm 68 now and I still play their terrific music. Thank you FM for your music!!❤
The chain was broken when Christine died, she was the link that held them together. They're in their '70's and they had a great run and their music goes on. Good music lasts, and Fleetwood Mac's music was never something that just lasted a few months and forgotten. Most music from their era has lasted the test of time and is more popular than ever.
She wasn't always part of the band and only came back recently
@@bls8959 She was part of the band since Peter Green left way before either Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks arrived. So in essence, she was always part of the band and put in more years than either one of those two.
I watched the tribute and balled my eyes 👀 out. Being born in 1972 this band has been a fabric of my life, and got me through a lot of tough times. Hearing Mick say Fleetwood Mac is done, makes my heart sad. But I still have my records. RIP Songbird 💕 🙏
We'll relax because he'll be back on the road with the same band name very soon guarantee
I think John Macvie has got cancer so that could be another reason that they won't preform again and definitely not without Lyndsey Buckingham ! 👍🇬🇧
@@sickoftheleftwingscum Mick and Lindsey work well together minus Stevie. I'd not surprised to see some collaborations in the future. Man sad news about John
@@fredstriker2042 you have to have Stevie Nicks otherwise the harmony wouldn't work with Lyndsey Buckingham and the tentions between the two of them but I don't think Lyndsey has been well either from what I read ! 👍🇬🇧
Bawled.
Even if the band is over the bands legacy remains
I think that’s the best way to do it, pack it in now as a band and let their incredible legacy continue.
He is so well spoken. Thank u Mick Fleetwood.
So gracious of Mick to take that much generous time to somberly share - very generous of him. Very generous ❤❤❤
What a great interview! Mick is as genuine as they come. I completely understand him saying FM is done. Although I sure would love to see them one more time. One of the best bands ever created. And Christine was a big a part of that greatness as any other member of the band. Past or present. RIP Christine! A songbird of our lives.
Christine's voice has been a constant in my life - and I presume it will forever play in stores and restaurants when I'm not expecting it. At lunch the other day - Sentimental Journey came on in the background - just as my sister and I were talking about her death. It was such a serendipitous and sweet moment. I'll forever love her.
MF is such an eloquent speaker. I’m such a huge fan of the band I would be speechless if I met any of them! They did a wonderful job on Christine’s tribute.
It wasn't even on the same planet as Mick Fleetwood's tribute to Peter Green in London, February 2020. Check it out and be blown away.
It's interesting that they had no problem with performing as Fleetwood Mac without Christine for about 15 years ('98-'13)....but I do agree this IS different. Especially given all their current ages. It may be the right time to call it a day. Maybe put out some live material, or unheard rarities. But a full scale tour seems like it would be a bad idea.
I [ DON'T ] AGREE WITH YOU PENGUIN OR WHAT EVER YOUR NAME IS , FLEETWOOD MAC [ SHOULD ] KEEP GOING IN MEMORY OF CHRISTINE. NOT STOP AT ALL, ROB.
I could see them performing together at a given show or event but a concert tour is unrealistic at this point in their lives. Hopefully they are proud of what they've achieved and should enjoy "retirement".
They may not have had Christine for 15 years, but she was alive, and made a choice to walk away. Their choice was to continue. And Lindsey was still in the band then. They are older now, and the dynamic has really changed with only 3 left.
@@robertgarrett4046 Well, to put it bluntly Robert, I think perhaps Christine herself would disagree with you on that as she very clearly expressed herself during interview in England on the BBC's Radio 2 Johnnie Walker Show, broadcast 9th February 2021. She said she doesn’t think Fleetwood Mac will tour with Stevie Nicks again and she also expressed doubt about going back out on the road again. John McVie also hasn’t got the heart for touring.
I hate to burst your bubble, but the facts are the facts, regardless of your personal fantasy.
@@robertgarrett4046 capslock
Christine has been a hero of mine since I was 18, I'm now 50 . I am so sad that she has passed. I think about her often and listen to her often . Thats some legacy she left behind that total strangers miss her 😢
I could not agree more. She's been my musical hero since I was 12 when I first saw Hold Me the music and saw her and was absolutely mesmerized by her voice and presence and I have been at Christie McVie and Fleetwood Mac devotee for over 40 years so this has truly been heartbreaking to lose her. 😢💔
I have been in love with Christine's compositions and voice since I was 16, and I'm 67 now.
For as long as there is internet.....people will talk about her. Dead? No ! Two clicks and you can hear her sweet voice ❤️🙏
Ditto but I’m over 70…
A sad loss, amazing talent, so many are going home these days. RIP Christine 💜👍😊 Shame they couldn't have all played together just one last time💔
Mick Fleetwood is an English gentleman, utter class! So well said, just lovely words. At least we all have his and Christine and the other band members beautiful music to forever!
You can hear the heart ache in his voice.
She was Fleetwood Mac. She was the voice, music. They left us with some great music. Rumors was my favorite album. R.I.P. Christine
Rumours.
you need to hear her vocals on "if you believe"
Christine McVie was never the voice, the music of Fleetwood Mac.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard...seriously...Mc Vie didn't even perform with them for 15 years...98-13
@@23yearsand76 Shhhh! Them people don't like facts.
I would hope this is not the end for FleetwoodMac but if it is, I thank all of them for the wonderful songs/music they gave us. FleetwoodMac the world's best band. ❤️
Of course it's not hes just blabbing on with nonsense because hes depressed
@@fredstriker2042 I don't know you and I know everyone has a right to speak their mind to a certain extent on RUclips, but every comment that you have put in this video has been negative.
What is your deal? Tthis woman was a musical icon. She was a huge musical influence and presence in Fleetwood Mac.
So let Mick blabber, talk, cry and reflect He's earn it that and so has she. Christine McVie is a legend, iconic and a musical genius.
Oh by the way I know who Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Karwin are. Peter Green was the original founder of Fleetwood Mac. He invited Christine McVie
in 1968 to join Fleetwood Mac as session musician and singer.
@Tikneshia Beauford Sorry If I have offended you. Sometimes hearing an alternate perspective or negative opinion isn't easy to handle, but like you, i wont judge you. But willpoint out some facts..
1. I have not said one negative word about Christine in any way or fashion.
2. I have never said anything negative about Mick. Simply said he was "blabbing on". And he is, call it by another name if that eases the point, how about Mick is depressed from the loss of a friend and is acting "emotional"? That better?
The fact is. He is telling Is the average normie fan they are done when History, Logic, Finance, and Reality dictate otherwise. He is Mick Fleetwood, a drummer, and will slowly go broke otherwise.
It's OK to have a completely different opinion. Sometimes you can learn something by hearing one out. Doesn't mean I'm a negative person. Try debate rather or discussion rather than emotional assumption
@@fredstriker2042 Slowly go broke ? I don't think so given he is estimated to be worth approx $30 million.
@drinkingup broke by his Standards. The man lives a life of luxury. Your point would be valid if he was willing to move to the suburbs and become a nobody
I am so heartbroken, as Fleetwood Mac raised me. Each of their albums was a soundtrack to a different chapter of my life or years in life. I know they are heartbroken and devastated but I hope that when things are healing a little more they might consider what she would’ve wanted for them as well. I love you guys so much, and My Stevie. 🕊 It is a heartbreaking time
i WILL SECOND WHAT YOU HAVE SAID KELLY , ROB.
And I bet you have no idea who Peter green is let alone Jeremy Spencer
@@fredstriker2042 right. .and Bob welch,and Danny kirwan,and Dave walker, and the other Bob hahaha!!Becca Bramlett? Shit idk how she pulled that off during the 'time' tour,filling in Stevies shoes!!! Fleetwood is like dr who,i love all the incarnations regardless!! Def getting a penguin tattoo sometime soon!!🍻✌️🍻✌️🍻✌️
@Steve 0 B Didn't think I'd have to go that deep brother. Bob Welch held that band together for a few years
@@fredstriker2042 oh yeah, he did during those early to mid 70s lol..and had some killer solo albums after!!(church is 1of my fave songs of his)...im 44,so a kid in the 80s all I knew was the 'commercial ' line up!!same with yes and genesis. ..then as a fan I went backwards and started from the beginning!!I'm just tired of this BS where u say bands name and Rumors/Stevie/Lindsay are the only fucking things coming out their mouths!!I get in debates with ppl that say Sabbath ain't Sabbath without Ozzy etc...im like 1st of all,OZZY GOT HIMSELF FIRED, IF HE CARED SO MUCH,HISTORY WOULD BE DIFFERENT!! Also,Dio came in and showed there was still awesome music and power when he was there!!and the born again album (Ian gillen sang) is fucking Awesome-tacular!!!...I like the bands as a whole!!so yeah I learned all the other albums of Macs and loved more of that then the cash grab era lol!!sorry so long ✌️🍻✌️🍻
Noooo. I can't bear that they are "done" NOOOOOOOO! Heart broken please nooooo. I met Mick Fleetwood on stage once and he is the sweetest, most gentle gentleman you could ever wish to meet. Such a positive good energy and soul.
I agree with Mick,.....
" Without Christine, there is no Fleetwood Mac".
Thank You So Much for over 50 years of " Good/ Great Music !
No One can take Christine Mcvie's place !
thank you mick and yes bonnie and cheryl are great singers and do christines song justice !rip our songbird !
We love you MIck. Thank you, to you and the other Fleetwood Mac members, Christine in particular, for the wonderful music of our lives. Thank you.
Sad but can totally understand. Fantastic band.
When I heard that she had passed, I knew this was a hole in Fleetwood Mac that could never be filled. I still have my Christine Perfect lp's and still play them.
check out her (1970) solo album it's so good and my favorite one with her singing Blues, i don't know chicken shack that well though
Why was Stevie Nicks not there…? Or at least in the audience…?
Stevie Nicks makes everything about herself (I was disappointed in her claim that “Go Your Own Way” was Lindsey’s “Dreams” and that her song was optimistic and ladylike-how is “players only love you when they’re playing” optimistic and ladylike when “shacking up” was horrible and disrespectful?) so it’s no surprise that she wouldn’t want to attend an event that honored her “best friend”. 🙄
Fleetwood Mac is the greatest joint of musical talent in the universe. A super group by definition.
Mick is very classy and I can full appreciate his response that Fleetwood Mac is done. Seems like a very fitting and respectful response given the absence of the Songbird.
Heartbreaking to hear the band is put to bed. Understandably, but heart wrenchingly understandable. For Bless Nick for recognizing her importance to the band. 💔
What an eloquent, awesome and thoughtful drummer and man. Christine had the voice of an angel. May she rest in peace 💫
So lucky to have seen Fleetwood Mac live with Christine twice before (2015 and 2019) and both times the band was beyond magical to see them perform and bring the music to life :) I know he said it's unthinkable for now that they'll never come back together and tour again because of Christine but as Mick also said, stranger things have happened and FW is a strange yet very cool band, I think they will do a final tour someday as a final tribute to Christine and the fans all across the world.
So pleased to have seen them sadly only once at Isle of Wight 2015 was fantastic
I was fortunate to have seen Fleetwood Mac live in 1971, and have loved their music ever since.
o2 London for me with Peter Green in the "room" (thanks Stevie). It could never be bettered, and I wouldn't want to try. Mick still has a lot to say, so looking forward to some retrospection.
Hope so. Boomers love the Soundtrack of their lives. ❤
Take the Money and run . . .
goodbye fleetwoodmac ,i know they are going there own waybut ,it will be sad end of a beautiful era of the best music ever !!!but iunderstand christine needs to be there to make the magic
🤣 Whatever they'll be back on the road in no time
@@fredstriker2042 You are very disrespectful even if you're just being cynical. He's clearly mourning and celebrating his dear dear friend and band mate.
I've never seen anybody troll a video like this and just say negative and snarky things to almost every response throughout the whole video.
It's like you're not taking any of this seriously. We all love the different incarnations of Fleetwood Mac which is what makes them so phenominal whether you love the early blues stuff, the transitional blues to California soft rock period stuff or the white album stuff going forward it's all wonderful and it's all relevant. So appreciate the moment knock it off please.
@Tikneshia Beauford If you think my comments are trolling then you havent ventured very deep into the cesspool that is RUclips Commnet threads.
Mick told his fans Fleetwood Mac is done during an emotional period. I said he and the Mac will be back on the road. I stand by my statement.
Seems you are the one with issues chasing me around comment threads lady. Kind of weird don't you think?
@@fredstriker2042 well they didi in there own ways when the guitar player lindsey left finally to get his life together,but it wasnt the same ,i listened to all the other replacements ,good people i ther eown right but not lindsey ,not christine ,mick understands ,it was his special little group ,his fam,would nice to see a tribute with john mick lindsey and stevie for christine ,that would be a nice goodbye song way
@@fredstriker2042 no they wont stevie and lindsey have been solo for awhile now and mick was doing his own thing and john well hes haning at home ,no it wont be the same without christine ever and they have tried to subsitute and it never hit like these same people ,sorry i dont agree with you ,but i know they will be out there soloo somewhere .it would be nice to see lindsey and stevie doing it again as there own band buckingham and nicks ,that would be okay
Always LOVED Fleetwood Mac from the 60's in HS till today.
F. Mac is one of my favorite bands. I saw them 14 times / 13 with Christine. Yes , it IS time to say "we are done". Go out on a high , classy note. All the players will still play . Best Wishes to all.
Nice to see that Mick still has it all together.
I am so elated Christine won the grammy. I have been hoping ever since I learned of her nomination. She would have been so happy... heck, I bet she knows and IS very happy. Sadly, I feel the chain has been permanently broken. Fleetwood Mac may live on, but "Fleetwood Mac," sadly, IS done, as Mick said. Long live Christine McVie!
Personally, I wished Fleetwood Mac would keep away from that cheap Grammy nonsense. It's absolutely meaningless as they hand out these rubbish awards like candy at a children's party.
the chain was broken when they fired Lindsey.
@@theoverunderthinker But it could have been mended. Now we are missing a critical link that can never be recovered.
@@paulk9985 to be fair, the break was not between Christine and Lindsay, but I take your point.
even though it was a possibility , now it cannot happen in the same way with the same 5 people because one of them is gone.
Fleetwood mac couldn't be the same without the main singer songwriter and heart of the band, RIP christine mcvie you will always be remembered ❤🙏💚☘😥
Micks looking so well, he speaks so glowingly of Christine... What a lovely man... 😁
So much love and respect in his words, it shows just how much all the members loved and continue to love each other regardless of any differences ♡ Just imagine sharing so much for so many years ...they're family. RIP sweet Christine 🤍
Tears 😭 to my eyes when, he says they're done, backdrop to my life and heart ♥ are Fleetwood Mac my brothers introduced me to them way bk and with the loss of one of my brothers last year im emotional still thus I am thinking, with the loss of Christine's and lyndsey gone 😢frm the band very talented man man that guitar 🎸 plucked sounds fantastic..
Anyway I'm not saying goodbye 👋 I'm saying till next time Mick Fleetwood.. In thr meantime bk catalog always playing on my deck and in my mind.. Special thoughts for Christine in my heart ♥ RIP 😢💕
Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood were such class. The whole band was so talented but these two had a lovely grace about them.
Tell that to Bob Welch. They treated him like the dirt off their shoe.
Mick is a class act...always.
What a beautifully eloquent interview by Mick. So well-spoken and thoughtful - really enjoyed it despite the sadness of Christine's recent loss. Having grown up with Fleetwood Mac music over the decades it'll seem weird not to hear new stuff from them going forward - but they've given us so much already.
Mick was such a humble guy...Him and Christine were my favourite band members overall for the humility.
I'm glad I got to see them on The Dance tour. I saw them without Christine on the Say You Will tour, and it just wasn't as special.
Great interview and always such a sincere guy Mick Fleetwood. Obv. Christine's passing had a massive impact on Mick, being so close. Clear to see here. For Christine, I bang the 'Say you love me' drum (no pun intended....), right at the start of the Buckingham/ Nicks period...thanks for posting.
Very professional and suitably respectful interviewer.
Sad, but Mick is right. Their mission was accomplished 🙌
Well, without Christine and Lindsey, FM would be the Stevie Nicks Band. And while the quality of her shows would benefit enormously from that, it wouldn't be Fleetwood Mac at all. So it's onyl logical for FM to end. And fitting, because Christine is the bandmember the others owe the most, she stabilized the band and reliably wrote the hits, the good songs on each album since she'd joined. Fom 1990 on, I saw FM every time they came to europe and I'll sherish the memories forever. The 2015 concert, when the whole venue welcomed Christine back with a roaring applause and, to her visible wonder and joy, continued to celebrate her throughout the night, will always be my favorite memory of any concert I've been to. I miss her, the world was more fabulous with her in it.
Such a gentleman and so eloquent.
Fleetwood mac... will forever be in our hearts... the music is going nowhere from blues to rock.. they are quite possibly the greatest rock band of all time.
Amen! Crossing Five Decades❤️
@@tikneshiabeauford7289 Quite remarkable...
@@eddiepelosi6136 Yes it is! No single band in music history has given the world such an array of different music that was so amazing and iconic. Fleetwood Mac's musical legacy will out live us all. It will be enjoyable by many future generations to come.
A fantastic group whose music will live on. R.I.P. Christine.
'A north-country girl from England'. That's a special breed.
She wasn't a horse.
the band all were in the right place at the rights time . all very talented . she will be so sadly missed
I saw Fleetwood Mac in college in 1975;. It was a great concert . Rip Christine
yeah back than they were still doing Early Mac songs they did a lot of unreleased stuff back in the day in concert. hell the beach Boys did We Got Love Live and they never put that on album and it's a fantastic song. though they haven't played live i am going to guess since Blondie Chaplin left in (1974)
It's all because of you Mick Fleetwood. It started with your name. We will allow those we love to grieve for a time. Who knows what the future holds. You have given your time and your love freely. May GOD give you back what you have given Freely.
actually it was Peter Green who named the band it wasn't Mick he named the band that even before John joined the band they were trying to get him at the time. and it was called Peter Green's Fleetwood mac for a couple of years i think before it was dropped. Mick was quite surprised that Greene even picked that name at all so a lot of it had to do with Peter Greene mainly but yeah Mick too
@@rolandofgilead43 You must be a Brit Roland. An American wouldn't know that in a month of Sundays.
Listening to Live in Boston 1970 right now. Wow!
@@apollomemories7399 I wish I was the brits and I listen to more music from there I think than the us. And I watch a lot of stuff as well I'm a big python fan and a huge doctor who fan. And so I hear a lot of different ways they talk compared to us here. I'm 44 AMD in 87 when tango came out that's when I became a fan. In high school my brother bought their albums on cd the early ones and that's when I heard those. Also there are tons of documentary and I have both of micks bios. So I'm a massive fan but my brother is a bigger one than I am.
@@rolandofgilead43 That's great and at least you can get to see and hear stuff very easily these days. But admittedly, we Brits did supply you fellas with a whole rosta of incredibly great bands with a list that just goes on and on. Btw, John Cleese has just made a new series of Fawlty Towers, this time set in the Caribbean, which promises to be not in the least bit politically correct. Bring it on.
I just want to say hi Mick and I'm so sorry about Christine we miss her and we love her I love you❤❤❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹
A beautiful Songbird! And my heart will rise up with the morning sun, and the hurt I feel will simply melt away 😢😢
Christine McVie was a treasure. A classy and humble musical genius.
As a 70's kid I was brought up listening to Fleetwood Mac and my kids now love the band too,I understand Mick saying there is no Fleetwood Mac without Christine.
do you listen to the stuff before Stevie and Lindsay joined? it's worth a listen and it's vastly underrated in my opinion
@Roland of Gilead 43 I have only heard a very small amount,my dad loves it and says it's very bluesy.
I'm sure a lot of people commenting are thinking about how much they love Christine's songs from the Lindsay/Stevie version of FM....but if you haven't heard what she did with the Bob Welch version of the group from 1972 to 1974, boy are you in for a treat! Right there is her BEST WORK....and I mean BEST WORK.
Christine McVie joined FM back in 1968 after Peter Green asked her to be backing singer and musician. She has a lot of uncredited work with FM between 1968-1970, until she became a full-time member in 1970 and her first full album was the brilliant albums Future Games which were followed by the equally brilliant Bare Trees, Mystery To Me and Heroes Are Hard To Find albums.
After Peter Green left in 1970, Mick Fleetwood said it was Christine who kept the band from falling apart and continued to be the glue that kept FM together.
Christine McVie's was the glue that kept FM together for 50 years. She was the constant thru line throughout their enormous legacy.
She was responsible for transitioning their sound that would catapult them into mega stardom and music history forever to become one of the greatest bands of the 21st century. She also wrote the majority of songs and their hits twice as many combined as Stevie and Lindsey.
Christine McVie was beyond iconic and legendary. She was necessary for the evaluation of Rock N' Roll.
@@tikneshiabeauford7289 Yes, good history lesson! I do know about her uncredited work in those early years. Albums Penguin, Mystery To Me, and Heroes Are Hard To Find contains her BEST WORK!
@MattHatter Thank you! I agree it was some of her BEST WORK EVER!
I have to say this is one of the most significantly impactful deaths that I've experienced of a celebrity and musician. She was a musical mentor to me and to millions of people all over the world, with all that said, given how renowned she and she was a musical genius, bo you get the feeling that people still will never know the full extent of her impact on music history even with everything we already know about her extraordinary legacy?
I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac...cried lots of tears for beautiful Christine ♥ 😢
So have I. Christine was our Musical Mother and Earth Angel. She was family. I have loved her for over 40 years and now almost 53 years old.
I'm absolutely heartbroken that she's gone.
😢💔
@@tikneshiabeauford7289 Its comforting to know that I'm not grieving by myself...I'm sure that there are millions of us who loved her. (we're from the same generation btw, I've also got 40 years with Fleetwood Mac) hang in there x
@@doug_1489 Thanks you too. 😉
Why , did you know her
RIP Christine 💔😭
Great songwriter/Singer & person!!!
💓Little Lies😍
Fleetwood Mac gave us great Music for many years & we will cherish there Music!!!👍
I'm surprised no one has brought up the song that Christine McVie wrote specifically for Mick Fleetwood. The song being Oh Daddy. She really loved Mick and she wrote that song just for him.
Not in today's world that's smothered to death in political correctness. That song title has all the wrong connotations that the angry extreme-left woke brigade hate. First off, it's probably "racist" to have a "daddy", etc, etc. Get my drift?
Yes. He was so proud of that!
Before joining forces with Buckingham/Nicks, Christine pretty much was the "Mama Lion" who kept Fleetwood Mac going. They soldiered on, playing with other musicians(that's Mick And John McVie playing muscular rhythm behind Warren Zevon on "Werewolves of London," which required more than 30 takes to get right) and even surviving another manager using their name to have another group of musicians play shows - charging money - as "Fleetwood Mac!" She was able to welcome Stevie Nicks eagerly("Oh, good, another girl singer!"), so that the whole group was like a family by the end of their first day together.
When they did the tour for their first album together, they traveled in a couple of station-wagons, and Christine made sure that their contract "riders" included good wine and lots of food - bread, fruit, olives and grapes, which would end up in coolers, in the cars, to eat and drink on the way to the next show! The whole band is a bunch of veteran musical road-warriors, and Christine was able to keep working right up to the end of her life. She knew how fortunate she was, and was truly grateful and always gracious; a class act for all to admire. God Bless 'em all.
It was hardly a case of "survival" because of some fake band doing some gigs for a few weeks to cover for them following their upset with the Bob Weston affair. Strange that you don't consider Bob Welch as the "Lion King" as he wrote by far the best songs on all five albums he made with them.
Love You Mick❣️and the woman next to you is Beautiful!!!!!
A lot of us were blessed enough to grow up on Fleetwood Mac. They’re old we’re old. God bless them. Especially Christine RIP❤️✌️
Truly the passing of the greatest era in rock. For a band that persevered through many ups and downs, it’s fitting that they go out at the pinnacle. As a fan since the 1970s, I express my condolences to the band, their families, friends and fans, who mourn Christine’s passing.
It's time...All good things must come to an end!!
Thank you for all the music and for being part of the fabric of my life. ❤
Time to call it a day. They had a great run but they struggled somewhat on their last tour. John has been in poor health for years. Let Stevie and Lindsey enjoy their solo careers, but the band's days are over. All good things end.
Great interview. Its time for the band to retire. There is no Fleetwood Mac without Christine or Lindsey. Great memories.
very sad news with Christine's passing and mick announcing the end of the band, i think they should make a movie about yhe band like they did with Queen and Elton john.
I think so too. I can put my two cents in!
I saw them in 2003 on the “Say You Will” tour, when Christie McVie sat that one out. I took my daughter to our one and only FM concert. RIP Christie. Thank you for the music and songs.
I hope a realistic beautiful movie about Fleetwood Mac comes to be with great actors. Such a legendary group and individuals and do beloved by their fans
❤️❤️❤️❤️
If a realistic movie came out most people would not like Stevie Nicks 1/2 the movie wouldn't even have her in it
@@fredstriker2042 No kidding. I think what Donna meant was Buckingham-Nicks FM. It is what 75% of people think of when they hear FM. And yeah, real Stevie will be shown (if it isnt glosed over, etc). Too many iterations for a full FM movie.
Mick is 100% correct - Fleetwood Mac is over and should just retire. The band was already over when Lindsey departed and Mic knew that too. Two guitarist (known in their own right) couldn't replace Lindsey's presence and the sounds became different as expected.
This is what happens when one band member becomes too big for their own britches and harbors old feelings of regret or the inability to accept their own mistakes in life's journey. After Lindsey left, FM sounded like a cover band of themselves and age is certainly the main factor. Once Christine passed, the nail on the coffin was done. Stevie should now realize that she didn't make the band nor did the band make her - she was an integral part, thanks to Lindsey, and that she should've foremost remembered.
Well done Mick nice tribute R I P Christine
I'd seen the band, but decided never again when she quit. So glad she stayed friends with everyone. She never broke the chain!
When Mick said the band was done, it was both heartbreaking and expected. They had an awesome run, 56 years together, but it'll never be the same without Christine. Rest in peace Songbird.
yeah but that's how they feel right now you never know, what people never talk about is before Stevie and Lindsay Joined the music was fantastic, show me a smile a good Christine McVie song, their cover of For your Love is i think even better a song put out in (1973) Buddy's Song just to name a few. if you want to know how far back she goes in the band she played Piano on their 2nd album Mr. Wonderful in (1968) did the artwork and sang backup on Kiln House (1970) and joined as a member In (1971) for Future Games. not many know that she was there that long
cept for the die hard fans like me who listen to their early stuff before 75 when the White album came out
@@rolandofgilead43 Really? Perhaps there's a great deal more of us than you realise. Here in the UK, where EVERYBODY knows Christine Perfect from her Chicken Shack days, dating John McVie from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and singing Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" put out on the Blue Horizon label in April `69.
We had five national weekly music press newspapers here and streets ahead of the US in that respect and the FM were never out the news with August 68 being a bumper month with the release of Mr. Wonderful, the McVie/Perfect marriage and Danny Kirwin joining. Mrs. McVie also played keyboards on Kiln House, again uncredited. In 1969, Fleetwood Mac records outsold both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined in UK and Europe, whereas over in the US, it was Creedence Clearwater Revival who did exactly that, too.
I still fail to understand quite how Bob Welch has become a very distant memory as without him there never would have been that White album, which I never thought very much of anyway.
@@apollomemories7399 it's weird I agree but Mac was bigger in the uk than over here I wasn't around in the 60s. Mr. Wonderful if I recall never was put out here back than. What's weird is here across the pondrá you have the Beatles who were big but they had done 2 albums before hitting it big here. Their music was scattered all over lps as the actual albums never hit us until sgt pepper. The stones had albums come but until between the buttons which was the last to do this it was a different tracklist. I love that albums buy thr US versión sucks it's awful but the uk versión is brillant. The beach boys by 68 were jokes here by than but huge in the uk. Queen from hot space onward really did poorly sales wise but fared better in britan. Genesis also was bigger in the uk for the longest time for us and than there were three was big for them but in the uk they were huge.
@@rolandofgilead43 In the case of The Beatles' success in the US, they actually had to physically go there to be seen on TV for anything to happen. US record labels hated any success for foreign import records and did everything they could not to support them. Capitol did an excellent job with (and I'm being sarcastic) in not being interested in the Beatles earlier singles, hence, why thy went out initially.on mickey mouse little labels. That's the way it worked back then in that US label execs got to choose what tracks they felt were best for the markets they sold out to. Hence why Stones albums were peeled off with some black R&B covers and replaced with the hit singles - which did not appear on the UK albums, etc. Yes, we loved The Beach Boys and when you listen to these albums today, that's quite understandable. Personally, I gave Queen a miss after the mid-70's when it went one step too far with the Mercury flamboyant stuff. Genesis were indeed very successful here simply on the basis their records were brilliant. Their BBC radio sessions collection gets released early March. I cannot wait.
@@rolandofgilead43 Did you understand what means Done ? It’s Done !
Christine Mcvie will always
keep singing her spirit now
dances with the angels.
her soul will live on in the
generations of fans who loved
Fleetwood Mac since
the beginning
of time.
Too bad they didn't cherish Lindsey Buckingham
equally. Really, they ended the band when they "got rid of"
him. Kinda ironic. They thought they could do without him now without her it's REALLY over 🤔. All due respect to Christine, she was very talented & beautiful & seemed like a nice person. They just had alot of drama among them over the time they were "Fleetwood Mac"
They being primarily Stevie upherself Nicks.
You've had a great run made your mark and your music will live on forever thank you
What a great Eulogy and tribute from Mick. There was nothing else he could add.
What an awesome interview by MF of FM about the loss of Christine McVie and the tribute about that fantastic 'Songbird' track which she dreamed up and wrote within 10 minutes. Myself, I saw 'Rhiannon' on November 13th, 2022 at the Hawth in Crawley, West Sussex and met the band in the foyer after the concert for selfies etc and I was absolutely 'Gobsmacked' to hear of Christines' passing on the 30th. I'm continually re-playing the track 'Songbird' whenever I can. You were a star, beyond belief. May you truly rest in peace my darling. Lots of Love - R.I.P. - Graham Hornby xxx ( 71 y.o.a.) 😢😢😢
WRONG Mick!! The BEST way FM could honor Christine is to put the petty crap away and take the stage together to pay tribute to her!