Stevie Nicks has opened up about whether or not there’s any chance of a future Fleetwood Mac reunion, saying that “there’s no motive” after Christine McVie’s loss of life as a result of “you possibly can’t substitute her”.
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McVie died in November 2022 aged 79 “following a brief sickness”. It was later revealed that her loss of life was primarily attributable to struggling an ischemic stroke. The musician had additionally been identified with “metastatic malignancy of unknown main origin”, that means most cancers cells had been detected in her physique.
Fleetwood Mac described the singer as “actually one-of-a-kind, particular and proficient past measure” in a press release on the time, including that she will probably be “so very missed”.
Nicks has now opened up about whether or not Fleetwood Mac would ever take into account reuniting with out their late bandmate.
“When Christine died, I felt like you possibly can’t substitute her. You simply can’t,” Nicks stated in an interview with Vulture.
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“With out her, what’s it? what I imply? She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate, and my finest buddy that I spent extra time with than any of my different finest buddies exterior of Fleetwood Mac.
She went on: “Christine was my finest buddy. After I take into consideration Taylor Swift’s track ‘You’re on Your Personal, Child’ and the road ‘you at all times have been,’ it was like, that was Christine and I. We have been on our personal in that band. We at all times have been. We protected one another. Who am I going to look over to on the precise and have them not be there behind that Hammond organ? When she died, I figured we actually can’t go any additional with this. There’s no motive to.”
Nicks beforehand thanked Swift for penning ‘You’re On Your Personal, Child’ for capturing how she feels concerning the lack of McVie.
“And her songs, you are taking out all of these songs,” Nicks continued. “Christine was the pop star. She wrote all these actually tremendous pop hits. None of the remainder of us may write these songs. What would occur is we’d should take the songs out, like we did when she really retired for 18 years. We couldn’t re-create these songs. So we grew to become a way more hard-rock band.”
Nicks’ phrases echo earlier feedback from Mick Fleetwood, who stated “I really assume the road within the sand has been drawn with the lack of Chris”.
He added that he nonetheless plans to carry out reside, however “not as Fleetwood Mac”. “I’d say we’re performed, however then we’ve all stated that earlier than. It’s kind of unthinkable proper now.”
Nicks wrote a transferring letter to her “finest buddy in the entire world” after she died.
The soloist is because of wrap her present tour this December and hits the highway once more in North America subsequent 12 months.
At her present Madison Sq. Backyard present in New York earlier this week, she informed the gang she was “overwhelmed” when Barbie toy maker Mattel approached her with the thought of constructing her right into a doll primarily based on Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ cowl artwork.
