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During the various personal disturbances that Fleetwood Mac members are known, one of the relationship raised the band for decades: friendship between two fronts, Christine Mcfi and Steve Nix.
McVie joined the band in 1970 during one of the early changes, and was her only woman for years. When Nicks was added to the collection in 1975, the two became fast friends.
Their relationship was not a competitive relationship, but the relationship of sister-both women was talented authors responsible for formulating many of the well-known band’s songs. Although the two had grown in the eighties of the last century amid growing drug addiction to Nix and the increasing internal tension of the band, they returned together when McVie returned to Fleetwood Mac in 2014.
At a concert in London, shortly before McVIE officially joined the band, Nicks sincere The song “Earth’s Lands” has her teacher. Big sister. Best friend. ” At the end of the show, it was sufficient there, her colleagues in the band “do not stop.”
“I never want her to get out of my life again, and have nothing to do with music and everything related to her while I am friends,” Nix He said Minneapolis Star-Tribune in 2015.
On Wednesday, McVie, Band “Tagged birdsHe died after a short illness at the age of 79.
McVie and Nicks hit it from the beginning
The Nicks story that joins Fleetwood Mac is the legend now: the founder of the band and the Drama Science Mick Fleetwood wanted to recruit the Lindsey Buckingham guitarist, who stipulated that he would only join if his girlfriend and musicians were able to join as well. McVie has decreased decisive vote, and the rest is the date.
“It was very important to be with her because I never played with another girl,” McVie He said The guardian in 2013. “But I loved her immediately. She was funny and gentle but there was no competition too. We were completely different on the stage with each other and we wrote differently as well.”
During the many personal complications of the band – she married McVy and a divorced player of the Flechowood McPe McPe John McVy, and was in a relationship with the band’s lighting manager, while Nix had romantic romantic with Buckingham and Fleetwood – they were center for each other.
“To be in a band with another girl was this amazing musician – (McVie) became a kind of my best friend,” Nix He said New Yorker earlier this year. “Kristen was another full ball game. She liked to hang up with the players. It was more comfortable with men than you were ever.”
“We have made an agreement, at the beginning, that we will not deal with lack of respect by all male musicians in society,” said Nix, in a male -dominated industry.
“I would like to say to her,” we are together a dangerous natural strength, and it will give us strength to maneuver on the water that awaits us. ”
The band succeeds, but McVie and Nicks grow far away
The “rumors” were the biggest success for the band so far when it was released in 1977. But the band’s relations with each other were deteriorating, except between McVie and Nicks. While the couple was tolerate separation with the important others, Nix spent their time abroad.
I asked the Guardian that it is sufficient if it was trying to compensate for the band’s disturbance with its songs for “rumors”, including “you make” Lofen “fun” and “not stopping” optimistic. She probably said.
With the intensification of drug use for multiple organs, the band’s dynamics grew. McAfee distanced itself from the group in 1984 amid the addiction of her colleagues in the band, and the Guardian told that she was “tired of that.” Nix, in the meantime, became dependent on cocaine.
Sufficient He said Rolling Stone in that year when she slept from Nix: “It seems that she has developed her imaginary world, in some way, and I am not part of it. We do not meet much.”
In 1986, Nix logged into the Betty Ford Center to treat her addiction, although she later became addicted to Klonopin, which is what it is He said He claimed years of her life. The medicine left the recipe in the nineties.
After recording some individual works, McVie returned to Fleetwood Mac to her album in 1987 “Tango in the Night”, and she became two of her songs in this record – “Little Lies” and “Everywhere” – great successes. But Nix left the band shortly after the formal group of the most famous band until 1997 for the “The Dance” and the subsequent direct album.
It was short -term reunion: After the band was It was recruited In the Rock & Roll Celebrity Hall in 1998, McVIE officially resigned Fleetwood Mac, Quoting from Fear of flying and exhausting life on the road.
McVie returns to Fleetwood Mac – and besides Nicks
In 2010, after more than a decade of retirement, McVie played his return to performance. She officially joined the Fleetwood Mac after Fleetwood called himself and measuring what she means to return to the group.
Fortunately, Steve was death For me to go back, as well as the rest of the band. He said Arts Office.
In 2015, a year after joining Fleetwood Mac, McVie struck the road with her group colleagues. Wandering with the group was tiring but fun, and it is the first time they had done each other for years.
“I am only here for Steve,” she He said New Yorker that year.
Nix agreed to: “When we went on the road, I realized what an amazing friend she had lost and I did not realize the full consequences of her yet.”
During that tour, McVie wore a silver chain that Nix gave – “metaphor”, as McVie The New Yorker told, “” The band’s chain will never be broken. Not before me, anyway. Not before me again. ”
McVie told the Arts Office in 2016 that it and Nicks were “better friends now (they) 16 years ago.
McVy said that wandering with Buckingham and Lievod may be turbulent for Nix, because of their common history. “But with me there, Steve gave the opportunity to recover her breath and she does not have this constant thing that happens with Lindsay: her sister has returned,” she said.
Their mutual praise continued: In 2019, McVie He said Nix was “incredible” on stage: “The more I saw it on stage, the better, I think it is carrying the fort.”
When their tour ended 2018-2019, though-without Buckingham, who was Firing – The band “Type of separation”, McVie He said Rolling Stone earlier this year. She added that she did not talk to Nix as she did when they toured together.
As for reunification, McVie Rolling Stone told that although he was not out of the table, she did not feel “physically”.
She said, “I am going to a long time in the teeth here.” “I am very happy to be at home. I don’t know if I want to wander again. It is a heavy hard work.”
McVie death news rocked Nicks, which books I had only discovered that my coast was sick a few days ago. McVy described it as “her best friend in the entire world since the first day of 1975.”
On it Social media Accounts, Nicks shared a handwritten note containing words from Haim “Praise God ,” Some discuss sadness and loss of the best friend.
“I see you on the other side, my love,” Nix wrote. “Don’t forget me – always, Steve.”