Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, dies aged 79 - BBC

Christine McVie, who played with Fleetwood Mac and wrote immoderate of their astir celebrated songs, has died aged 79, her household has said.

The British singer-songwriter was down hits including Little Lies, Everywhere, Don't Stop, Say You Love Me, and Songbird.

She died peacefully astatine a infirmary successful the institution of her family, a connection said.

McVie near Fleetwood Mac aft 28 years successful 1998 but returned successful 2014.

The family's connection said "we would similar everyone to support Christine successful their hearts and retrieve the beingness of an unthinkable quality being, and revered instrumentalist who was loved universally".

Born Christine Perfect, McVie joined Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie and joined the radical successful 1971.

Fleetwood Mac was 1 of the world's champion known stone bands successful the 1970s and '80s.

Their 1977 medium Rumours - inspired by the break-ups of the McVies and the band's different couple, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks - became 1 of the biggest selling of each time, with much than 40 cardinal copies sold worldwide.

McVie was 1 of 8 members of the set inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame successful 1998.

In the aforesaid twelvemonth aft the occurrence of their unrecorded medium The Dance, she retired to Kent, saying a fearfulness of flying meant she was leaving the band.

But she rediscovered her emotion of performing astatine a one-off quality with the set astatine London's O2 successful 2013 and returned to them a twelvemonth later.

"It was amazing, similar I'd ne'er left. I climbed backmost connected determination again and determination they were, the aforesaid aged faces connected stage," she told the Guardian paper astatine the time.

In 2017 she told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme that she had developed agoraphobia aft leaving the band.

A connection by the set said of McVie: "We were truthful fortunate to person a beingness with her.

"Individually and together, we cherished Christine profoundly and are thankful for the astonishing memories we have. She volition beryllium truthful precise missed."