One factor’s for sure: There is no such thing as a Fleetwood Mac with out Christine McVie. In a latest interview, Stevie Nicks confirmed that she doubtless gained’t proceed performing underneath the label of her iconic rock band following the passing of her longtime greatest pal and bandmate final 12 months.
“We did exit on the highway and do a year-and-a-half tour with [Lindsey Buckingham replacements] Neil Finn and Mike Campbell,” Nicks informed Vulture in a Monday (Oct. 2) Q&A. “We had a extremely nice time and it was an enormous tour. That was there within the realm of chance. However when Christine died, I felt like you may’t substitute her. You simply can’t. With out her, what’s it? You recognize what I imply?”
“She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate, and my greatest pal that I spent extra time with than any of my different greatest pals outdoors of Fleetwood Mac,” she added. “Christine was my greatest pal… Who am I going to look over to on the correct 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.”
The “Fringe of Seventeen” singer went on to check her grief over McVie to Taylor Swift’s Midnights monitor “You’re On Your Personal, Child,” which she’s beforehand stated has helped her mourn her late greatest pal. The Fleetwood Mac keyboardist died of a stroke in November final 12 months at 79 years previous, with a secondary reason for dying listed as most cancers.
“The road ‘you at all times have been,’ it was like, that was Christine and I,” Nicks defined. “We have been on our personal in that band. We at all times have been. We protected one another.”
Nicks, who’s at present launched into a solo tour in addition to a joint tour with Billy Joel, just lately unveiled her very personal Barbie determine with Mattel. Decked out in a Rumours-esque black outfit and feathered ’70s hair, the doll will likely be launched subsequent month.
“I take a couple of photographs of her in each metropolis, which finally ends up being a two-hour photograph session,” Nicks informed the publication of her plastic mini-me, who she additionally revealed has an Elvis-inspired Ken doll boyfriend. “I named him Kenelvis, and I launched Kenelvis to Stevie Barbie. I’ve pictures of those two that can completely knock the world’s socks off. They take a look at one another in a approach that’s like they’ve been in love for hundreds of years.”
