Stevie Nicks performs in New York City in October 2023.Photo:Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Fleetwood Macwon’t be the same without Christine McVie.
Months afterthe death of McViein November,Stevie Nicksrevealed her thoughts on a Fleetwood Mac reunion.
“When Christine died, I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can’t. Without her, what is it? You know what I mean?” Nicks, 75,told Vulturein an interview Tuesday. “She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate, and my best friend that I spent more time with than any of my other best friends outside of Fleetwood Mac.”
“Christine was mybestfriend. When I think aboutTaylor Swift’s song ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid’ and the line ‘you always have been,’ it was like, that was Christine and I. We were on our own in that band. We always were. We protected each other.”
Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in Atlanta in June 1977.Rick Diamond/Getty
Rick Diamond/Getty
She concludes, “Who am I going to look over to on the right and have them not be there behind that Hammond organ? When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to.”
The “Edge of Seventeen” singer went on to explain that McVie was “the pop star” of the group — something that can’t be replicated.
“She wrote all those really super pop hits. None of the rest of us could write those songs. What would happen is we’d have to take the songs out, like we did when she actually retired for 18 years. We couldn’t re-create those songs. So we became a much more hard-rock band,” she said.
Nicksopened up about the grieving processfor her best friend during a concert in Atlanta in May.
Fleetwood Mac.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
“Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing a favor for me, and that is, writing a song called ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid,'" Nicks said to the audience at State Farm Arena, according to a video shared to social media. “That is the sadness of how I feel.”
She described their friendship as one that could withstand periods of time without contact. “Even on the other side of the world, we didn’t have to talk on the phone. We really weren’t, you know, phone buddies,” said Nicks. “We’d go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we’d walk in and just be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like never a minute had passed. Never an argument in our entire 47 years — never.”
In her shows since, Nicks has paid tribute to McView during “Landslide,” with a slideshow of photos of the late star appearing behind Nicks as she sings.
source: people.com
