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Stevie Nicks has confirmed that her former bandmate Christine McVie will be joining Fleetwood Mac on the European leg of their world tour.
McVie played keyboard and sang in the iconic group between the 1970s and 90s, when some of their biggest hits were released, but left the group in 1998.
Nicks was speaking with BBC Radio4’s Woman’s Hour when she revealed that McVie would perform and one or two of the European concerts.
“She is going to come and do a song on the second two shows. I think it will probably be ‘Don’t Stop’. I don’t know, but she’s coming to Ireland to rehearse with us.”
The band will play two shows in Dublin on September 20 and then a further three shows in London.
Nicks stopped short of clarifying exactly which songs McVie will be performing, but ‘Don’t Stop’ was McVie’s most successful song as a songwriter, reaching No. 3 in 1977.
The news might come as a surprise to some fans, after Nicks said in an interview in December that, “There’s no more chance of that [McVie rejoining the band] happening than an asteroid hitting the Earth.”
But Nicks did say that McVie was reluctant to fly and didn’t want to be in America, which might go some way to explaining why McVie has agreed to appear in the UK.
McVie, born Christine Perfect, married the band’s bassist John McVie and joined the band in 1971. Along with Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham they gave the band its reputation for complicated internal relationships, with the McVie’s divorcing in 1976. Those romantic tensions inspired the album Rumours, which has sold 19million copies in the US.
Fans will be pleased to hear McVie will be rejoining the band, even fleetingly
During the Woman’s Hour interview Nicks also spoke of the important bond she and McVie had while band mates.
“Both of us in a man’s world, from the very beginning, we made a pact that we would be a force of nature together. And we were.
“We had a lot of power when there was two of us. That wasn’t really so noticeable to us because we just had it until she left.
“And when she left I realised how much power we had when she was there, and how when she left she took 50% of the power with her... I felt powerless in many ways.”
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