Watch Christine McVie’s Final Public Performance at 2020 Peter Green Tribute Show - Rolling Stone

The devastating quality of Christine McVie’s death deed Wednesday afternoon, and we’re inactive processing it on with Fleetwood Mac fans each implicit the globe. “We were truthful fortunate to person a beingness with her,” Fleetwood Mac said successful a radical statement. “Individually and together, we cherished Christine profoundly and are thankful for the astonishing memories we have. She volition beryllium truthful precise missed.”

When Rolling Stone spoke with McVie successful June, she was excited astir her caller LP Songbird (A Solo Collection), but precise skeptical that she’d ever instrumentality to the roadworthy with Fleetwood Mac. “I don’t consciousness physically up for it,” she said. “I’m successful rather atrocious health. I’ve got a chronic backmost problem, which debilitates me. I basal up to play the piano, truthful I don’t cognize if I could really physically bash it. What’s that saying? The caput is willing, but the soma is weak.”

McVie’s past circuit with Fleetwood Mac took spot betwixt 2018 and 2019, though Lindsey Buckingham was retired of the set by that constituent and Neil Finn and Mike Campbell played successful his place. Just a twelvemonth anterior to that, McVie recorded an medium with Buckingham and took it connected circuit with him. “I had a large clip with him connected the roadworthy and making that record,” she told Rolling Stone successful 2018. “I was amazed to perceive the quality [Buckingham was leaving the band] due to the fact that it happened aft I went backmost to London that the determination was made. But beingness moves connected and I wanted to transportation connected with these guys.”

The circuit was a immense fiscal success, and McVie grew adjacent to the caller members of the band. “Those guys were great,” she said earlier this year. “We had a large clip with them, but we’ve benignant of broke up now, truthful I hardly ever spot them.”

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McVie’s sole onstage quality pursuing the last day of the past Fleetwood Mac circuit took spot connected Feb. 25, 2020 astatine the London Palladium. It was a tribute amusement to founding Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green featuring Pete Townshend, Noel Gallagher, David Gilmour, Kirk Hammett, Steven Tyler, Billy Gibbons, Bill Wyman, Jeremy Spencer, Neil Finn, and Mick Fleetwood. In a video from the performance, McVie sings the 1968 Fleetwood Mac classical “Stop Messin’ Around” with Tyler, Fleetwood, and respective different guests from the evening.

McVie had nary mode of knowing this performance would people the extremity of her performing career, but it feels highly due that she went retired honoring the aboriginal days of Fleetwood Mac. She was a immense portion of their dependable implicit the past 5 decades, and it’s hard to ideate them carrying connected without her.