#bob welch

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Stevie performs with Bob Welch & friends at the Roxy on November 19, 1981

© Roman Salicki

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Fleetwood Mac photographed by Bob Gruen, October 1971.

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Christine McVie Dead at 79

- “She was the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life,” Fleetwood Mac says

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie has died “following a short illness,” her family said in a statement.

McVie died Nov. 30 in a hospital with her family nearby. She was 79.

“We would like everyone to keep Christine in their hearts and remember the life of an incredible human being, and revered musician who was loved universally,” McVie’s family said.

“Gutted to learn about the passing of Christine McVie,” Garbage said in a statement. “Just gutted. Songbird forever.”

“This is so unbelievably sad,” Foghat wrote on Facebook. “RIP, Christine McVie. Such a beautiful soul.”

Born Christine Perfect, the singer/songwriter/keyboardist played first with Chicken Shack. She joined Fleetwood Mac after contributing to 1970’s Kiln House and was the band’s third-longest-serving member after Mick Fleetwood and her ex-husband John McVie.

“We cherished Christine deeply, the band said in a statement.

“She was truly one-of-a-kind, special and talented beyond measure,” Fleetwood Mac said. “She was the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life.”

McVie played alongside every member of Fleetwood Mac save for Peter Green and appeared on all but four of the band’s 18 studio albums.

Living Colour’s Vernon Reid eulogized McVie as his second-favorite Mac member after Green and quoted her lyrics to “You Make Loving Fun” as some of her best.

“No other voice … captured that feeling of the narcotic stage of love better than Christine McVie,” Reid said.

“What a tremendous loss to the music community,” Bret Michaels said on Twitter. “My deepest condolences to the family, friends and fans of Christine McVie.”

She recorded three solo albums between 1970 and 2004 and released a 2017 duo album with Lindsey Buckingham that was followed by a tour.

Her death is “terribly heartbreaking” and an “enormous loss,” Ron Sexsmith wrote on Twitter.

“She wrote my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs and I also loved her solo work,” he said.

11/30/22

[jasmineaxd]

Fleetwood Mac aesthetic 🌞

(Pics from Pinterest)

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Painting by Maxwell Armfield

Drawing by Christine Perfect (McVie)

Photograph by Mick‘s sister Sally

Photograph by John McVie

Mystery to Me ….

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I‘ve found a CD collectors edition that contains those 5 pre Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac albums and I‘ve been listening to them all day. SO UNDERRATED!! SUCH GREAT MUSIC!! Gotta love the blues!

* Then Play On (1969)

Mick Fleetwood

John McVie

Peter Green

Jeremy Spencer

Danny Kirwan

Christine Perfect (uncredited)

Sandra Elsdon (Peter‘s GF)

* Kiln House (1970)

Mick Fleetwood

John McVie

Jeremy Spencer

Danny Kirwan

Christine Perfect (uncredited)

* Future Games (1971)

Mick Fleetwood

John McVie

Christine McVie

Danny Kirwan

Bob Welch

John Perfect (Chris‘ brother)

* Bare Trees (1972)

Mick Fleetwood

John McVie

Christine McVie

Danny Kirwan

Bob Welch

Mrs Scarrott (reads a poem, elderly neighbor)

* Mystery to Me (1973)

Mick Fleetwood

John McVie

Christine McVie

Bob Welch

Bob Weston

Richard Hewson (string arrangement)

[mudwerks]

(via Bob Welch - Ebony Eyes (1977)

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Fleetwood Mac, 1974.

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Cactus Jack by Tom Curry // "Somebody" by Fleetwood Mac

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[goldduststevie]

Stevie, Mick and Bob Welch photographed at the Cal Jam II festival in Ontario, CA - March 18, 1978. Clipping from Creem magazine.

[thegroovywitch]

Fleetwood Mac in Los Angeles, 1974.

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Stevie Nicks & John McVie photographed by Bob Welch, 1977

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With Bob Welch …

Just look at the married couple!

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Fleetwood Mac

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