Thursday, December 1, 2022

Christine McVie

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/christine-mcvie-dead-fleetwood-mac-singer-songwriter-1235445846/

 

Trivia note from Variety’s obituary: “Between her 1976 divorce from McVie and her 1986 marriage to [Eddy] Quintela, she was engaged for three years to the Beach Boys’ drummer-songwriter-vocalist Dennis Wilson.”

 

I have to admit that I didn’t know that “Perfect” was her given surname; I had always assumed that it was something that she adopted for professional purposes.

 

Favorite songs:

Heroes Are Hard To Find

Over My Head

Say You Love Me

Little Lies

Everywhere

 

And, although she didn’t write it, be sure to give a listen to her take on “I’d Rather Go Blind”, with her first band, Chicken Shack, which reached #14 in the UK. Despite the song’s ubiquity – it was originally released by co-writer Etta James and covered by B.B. King and Rod Stewart, among many others – no one ever had a hit with it on this side of the Atlantic.