Godspeed, songbird. You've earned your wing. "For you, they'll be no more crying, for you the sun will be shining." This brings a tear to my eye, her loss feels so much like a personal loss, and I grieve for her family and bandmates. Christine, your voice was purely angelic. May you sing with the angels now. RIP, great lady. 😢🙏🏼 🕊 Lex, from the moment we are born we are already on the journey toward the end of life. So celebrate those little moments, hold on to the memories. . . time is fleeting. . . 🌹🌹
I've shed some tears about her passing. Her music was part of the musical score of my life. I lost a dear loved one recently and I am pretty emotional about things.
The world will miss Christine for sure. She is such a truly beautiful woman and her voice is so sweet. You two just heard a lullaby to sing to your little one. RIP Songbird we love you.
Fleetwood Mac truly was a super group. Every member was extremely talented in at least two areas. Whether it was singing, writing, playing, or performing.
And don't forget past members Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and Bob Welch who guided FM thru the mostly blues period from 1967-74. All excellent guitarists, singers, and songwriters.
@@egorzimowski3505 Wrong. They became successful solo artists *after* they'd hit it big with Fleetwood Mac. And your second argument is just as ignorant. Who they hell cares if they each played in other bands before joining FM, they weren't stars with those other bands. FFS, tons of musicians that make it big in a band were in at least one other band beforehand. Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself.
I discounted McVie as a young man. After seeing FM live she became one of my favorite artists. I remember looking around and seeing grown men in tears while she sang Songbird. You Make Loving Fun and Say You Love Me became 2 of my favorite songs. Christine McVie was always understated. She didn't need to be in the spotlight shine. Such a beautiful talented woman. FM would not have been the same without her contributions. Hearing of her death hurt my heart💔. She has been part of the soundtrack of my life. Fleetwood Mac will never be the same. Their Songbird has flown away.
I knew Chris when she was in Chicken Shack and I was playing in another local band. We all knew each other very well. She was the nicest person you could ever wish to meet.
Smokey, seductive and soothing. That's how I describe her voice. Christine McVie had such a beautiful gift. Such sad news of her passing. She wrote many wonderful songs as well. Her talent was many times overlooked by the drama and presence of Lindsey and Stevie, but was a very essential part of the group. She is a huge loss. I'm sure she's resting and singing in peace. ❤
She brought a quiet grace and dignity to a band that too often lacked it. She was a crush of mine before I even knew what a crush was!! But the warmth of her voice, the space her songs gave and her craftsmanship will resonate through the ages. Long after we’re all gone, her songs will still play. RIP to a legend.
She’s an incredible talent and core to the success of Fleetwood Mac even though she was never the front lady or headliner person. This song is subtle and beautiful…. One of my favorites ❤️
Tears streaming down at the realization of her passing yesterday. This is one of the most beautiful songs written/played/sung by one of our generations' greatest classic rock songwriters. RIP Christine McVie. We will miss you, but we will continue to cherish the musical gifts you left us forever.
💔🎼💔 R.I.P. Christine McVie ... she had one of the greatest voices in Rock n Roll history. Here songwriting skills are legendary , and she was great live with harmonies. Check out "Say You Love Me" ❤
Made me really sad to read about her passing. 70s kid - loved her contribution to Fleetwood Mac. Her voice was such a smooth, soothing contrast to Stevie Nicks.
I feel like so many people are waking to the absolute talent of Christine, she was a trailblazer for women singer,musician, songwriters and now she’s getting recognition....rest in peace❤
And all it took for people to "wake up" to Christine's talent was…her dying. Every damn reaction channel (including this one…love y'all, but…) is all Stevie, Stevie, Stevie. Meanwhile Christine wrote half the band's hits, easily. FFS, "Don't Stop" is the Official Song of the Democratic Party! (It used to be "Happy Days are Here Again", but Bill Clinton changed it.) I blame TikTok. That stupid Ocean Spray challenge made everybody remember "Dreams" and forget the other songs. Yes, "Dreams" was a #1…but "Don't Stop" was #3, from the same album. Well, if Lindsey Buckingham wants to stop being "Secondhand News" and get people to listen to "Tusk", I guess he knows what to do. Granted, that would mean "Never Going Back Again", but… (Just kidding, Lindsey. I hope you're here for the long run.)
this is the song that played at my wedding as my bride walked down the aisle, the marriage didn't last (14 years) but the memory of this as she walked will forever be special... RIP BEAUTIFUL LADY...
She was also great (pre-Fleetwood Mac) when she was a lead singer for the British blues band Chicken Shack (Christine Perfect at that time, before she married John McVie)
This one is my all time favorite song from this band. Glad you finally listened to it. Its a true love song. It can be placed on any kind of love and it's perfect.
Her singing, playing, writing, were top tier, but she also had the gift of eliciting our emotions, and thoughts. Strip away everything but the pallet of words she wrote, and you're left with pictures of your own making. May she rest in peace and eternal joy.
Watching your "reaction" video is very pleasing as it just reaffirms what beautiful music is meant to do to us, bring us together regardless of our differences! Amen. Christine McVie is a special lady and wrote such beautiful music. We'll miss you Songbird.
This song always had me welling up, but now .....if you don't tear up then you must be a robot. RIP Christine, you'll never know how you touched my life x
It was the first song I thought of when I saw she passed away yesterday. I was maybe 5 when that album came out, but my parents had it and I played and sang to it until there were holes in the vinyl. Such a beautiful song. Farewell, rest in peace songbird.
Not afraid to say I shed many tears at this news - Christine has played a huge part of my life from this song being a key part of my dad's funeral to me singing 'everywhere' at my wedding and dancing to 'you make loving fun' as my first dance. RIP you amazing human being x
THANK YOU for doing the studio version! I love just about everything that Fleetwood Mac has released, but this is my favorite song of theirs. Christine McVie just sends these lyrics straight to Heaven. So beautiful. She will be missed, but her music lives on.
Such a sweet, beautiful song by an enormously talented musician and beautiful spirit. Sing with the angels now Christine. We will still be listening...🦋🧡 Thank you guys for posting
You guys, listen to "As Long As You Follow". it's a later FM tune, and Christine is doing lead and harmonies and other wonderful angelic things on that song. Rest easy, Christine, shine on!
What a massive privilege it is to have shared this time in history with her and receive her gift of music and poetry. Rest in peace beautiful Songbird.....❤🙏✌
She was the one that said that Fleetwood Mac was greater than the sum of it's parts. Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie all put their unique song styles on each album and it just worked like no other group made it work. She was a true artist in every Sunday of the word. Also, Stevie Nicks may have gotten all the press, but Christine McVie was the soul of Fleetwood Mac. #RIPChristineMcVie ✨🙏
I love her songs "everywhere" , "over my head" and "little lies" she was so great and I am so sad rn... I've been listening to her songs and almost crying...
When i was a teen I went to my sisters flat often and she played Rumours album, she died 15 years ago at 39, I played this song at her funeral. Still makes me sad
I am so glad you guys ended up doing the studio cut because while it's interesting to see her in that live clip that is so popular, that is many many years later and I honestly think that this recording far better captures the sheer emotion and husky power in her voice along with that serene piano. It's fantastic. I would also point out that there is another band member, I'm not sure who, strumming an acoustic guitar along with it. It's mixed kind of low and more in the left ear and it provides a perfect rhythmic counterpart to what the piano is doing. And it's not easy, because this is a free flowing delivery by her, singing and playing and so it does a lot of what you call rubato, which just means that the tempo can ebb and flow as necessary to capture the emotion. Just now listening to your reaction, and this happened to me yesterday when I played this exact same cut, there is such a feeling of peace and calm and resolution that washes over me and it seems to relate very much to her passing. One other thing that I would say is that this came out when I was in junior high and I already had their album before this one, which is fantastic, and then Rumors came out and just blew up. Every song on it is amazing. But I was going through some pretty heavy emotional family trauma at that time, and so this song took on even more depth and meaning to me. I would often play it on the piano and sing along, and it really helped me feel better in the moment. This to me is such a poignant example of how someone in her position can reach out and have a tangible and beneficial effect on one of millions of fans that she will never meet and yet the connection is powerful. I hope she realized how much she meant to an awful lot of people, and I am pretty sure that she did. Once again I have tears in my eyes while I try to type this out. Rest in peace, Christine.
It's Lindsay Buckingham playing the acoustic guitar softly in the background just off stage. The story is that they recorded this live in a theater using something like 15 microphones placed throughout to capture the full ambiance. The version on the album was one complete take (not a bunch of takes spliced together). I think this is the perfect treatment for such a perfect song.
@@dtkincaid as a musician and composer and longtime band guy that has been in the recording studio a lot, I absolutely love the thing that you're describing. That is fantastic. Wow.
RIP Christine...ALWAYS loved her Fleetwood Mac songs best, her voice is enchanting. And her harmonizing with Stevie Nicks was beyond heavenly. She was elegantly sexy too...she lives on IF you play her music
Christine on Songbird: "It doesn't really relate to anybody in particular; it relates to everybody. A lot of people play it at their weddings or at bar mitzvahs or at their dog's funeral. It's universal. It's about you and nobody else. It's about you and everybody else. That's how I like to write songs."
For me, being aware of the transition in Fleetwood Mac from the Peter Green led blues band to a much more varied band that tried many types of songs. Christine was always the glue that held everything together she had a ton of good tunes even before her more famous band mates showed up. Try Homeward Bound from the great album Bare Trees, one of her best. Such a great and unique singer/songwriter, They would not have been nearly as good without her. RIP. 🎵🎤🎹🎸🎶
Nick's and Buckingham got all the attention, but McVie was the first voice I heard from Fleetwood Mac, and the one I liked best. Lex, Mick Fleetwood (drummer) was quoted as saying he wants this song played at his funeral, as he flies away on a songbird's wings. Good call.
Christine was the rock and soul upon which Fleetwood Mac at their best was founded. She was quintessentially English, super talented, modest, lovely, a great musician and poet, as well as pure class. Heartbroken
This song was originally recorded during an all-night session in an open-air band shell in California. Christine sang it over and over until they got the take they wanted. Christine - a grand piano, and a single rose in a crystal vase.
About birth and death being similar, depending on the death, I think they really can be. When my dad died, it wasn't sudden and my siblings and mom and I were able to be with him in his last days. Just as with birth, nonemergency dying is a process, with phases and changes to the dying. We all felt like we were helping him to make his transition. It was such a gift and a privilege to be with him for that.
The fact that Christine Mvie has passed and I am writing this electronically is so wrong because if this was paper, it would be smudged and unreadable due to the tears that are flowing 😢
Fly high and free sweet songbird, fly free…she was the earth mother and backbone of Fleetwood Mac. This is the best song she ever wrote…. Until we meet again….
So many of their songs were to each other or about each other. She eventually divorced her husband John (also in the band) in the years that they all were still performing. Guessing it could have been for him or about him, even after they separated. She seemed like a princess, and he would have been a lucky man.
The secret weapon of the band. I remember watching a documentary about the band and they said when they watched her record this all the guys in the band had tears streaming down their faces.
I absolutely adored Christine for a very long time. Nothing against Stevie but Christine had more talent in her hands than miss Nicks could ever dream of. Hopefully the great, talented, and beautiful Christine McVie will now get the recognition she's always desrved.💔💔💔
Christine said at times she hated playing Songbird as it brought her to tears, brought the band to tears and often brought the crowd to tears as well. She has now rejoined both Peter Green and Bob Welch (both former band members) in Heaven’s band.
Christine McVie really spanned the eras from the blues-based album rock years of the late '60s and early '70s to the pop-oriented era that began in the late '70s on. Really a true artist who came into her own and improved with age.
She can’t be compared to Stevie because their voices are so different. Stevie, her voice was lower and more raspy, and her voice was feminine and higher pitch. Their delivery was different from one another. I guess that’s what made their harmonies & music so good is that every band member was different from each other as far as style, but they blended so perfectly together
Christine wrote so many of Fleetwood Mac’s songs. She was a treasure and will be greatly missed by FM fans all over the world.
Perfectly said!
She was a true musical genius, both in the writing and in the playing.
Godspeed, songbird. You've earned your wing. "For you, they'll be no more crying, for you the sun will be shining." This brings a tear to my eye, her loss feels so much like a personal loss, and I grieve for her family and bandmates. Christine, your voice was purely angelic. May you sing with the angels now. RIP, great lady. 😢🙏🏼 🕊 Lex, from the moment we are born we are already on the journey toward the end of life. So celebrate those little moments, hold on to the memories. . . time is fleeting. . . 🌹🌹
I've shed some tears about her passing. Her music was part of the musical score of my life. I lost a dear loved one recently and I am pretty emotional about things.
Beautifully said. I too shed a tear or two when I heard the news.
The world will miss Christine for sure. She is such a truly beautiful woman and her voice is so sweet. You two just heard a lullaby to sing to your little one. RIP Songbird we love you.
Her maiden name was Christine Perfect...and her voice was just that. Her legacy will live forever!
Fleetwood Mac truly was a super group. Every member was extremely talented in at least two areas. Whether it was singing, writing, playing, or performing.
And don't forget past members Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and Bob Welch who guided FM thru the mostly blues period from 1967-74. All excellent guitarists, singers, and songwriters.
That's not what a "super group" is.
@@Cosmo-Kramer most of them are successful solo artists so you can call it a supergroup. And most of them played in a different band before joining FM
@@egorzimowski3505 Wrong. They became successful solo artists *after* they'd hit it big with Fleetwood Mac. And your second argument is just as ignorant. Who they hell cares if they each played in other bands before joining FM, they weren't stars with those other bands. FFS, tons of musicians that make it big in a band were in at least one other band beforehand. Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself.
I discounted McVie as a young man. After seeing FM live she became one of my favorite artists. I remember looking around and seeing grown men in tears while she sang Songbird. You Make Loving Fun and Say You Love Me became 2 of my favorite songs. Christine McVie was always understated. She didn't need to be in the spotlight shine. Such a beautiful talented woman. FM would not have been the same without her contributions. Hearing of her death hurt my heart💔. She has been part of the soundtrack of my life. Fleetwood Mac will never be the same. Their Songbird has flown away.
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definitely she was a huge piece of their sound. in ways, I love mcvie's voice more than Stevie's.
Fly high Songbird and Rest In Peace. One of the most beautiful songs ever written. ❤
She recorded this song alone on a stage surrounded by candles with a bouquet of flowers on top of the piano. RIP Christine your voice was so beautiful
I knew Chris when she was in Chicken Shack and I was playing in another local band. We all knew each other very well. She was the nicest person you could ever wish to meet.
No artist on the charts nowadays can write a love song like this. The 70’s had the most beautiful heartfelt songs. Absolutely beautiful. ❤️
Christine wrote this, sang this and played the piano. Beautiful and timeless.... RIP Christine.
R.I.P. Christine. The voice of an angel.
The voice of an angel. Now she flies above with them. RIP Christine. She gave so much joy to the world with her voice. Sadly missed :(
It's really sad to lose someone who helped write the soundtrack of your life, even though we never met.
Smokey, seductive and soothing. That's how I describe her voice. Christine McVie had such a beautiful gift. Such sad news of her passing. She wrote many wonderful songs as well. Her talent was many times overlooked by the drama and presence of Lindsey and Stevie, but was a very essential part of the group. She is a huge loss. I'm sure she's resting and singing in peace. ❤
She brought a quiet grace and dignity to a band that too often lacked it. She was a crush of mine before I even knew what a crush was!! But the warmth of her voice, the space her songs gave and her craftsmanship will resonate through the ages. Long after we’re all gone, her songs will still play. RIP to a legend.
She’s an incredible talent and core to the success of Fleetwood Mac even though she was never the front lady or headliner person. This song is subtle and beautiful…. One of my favorites ❤️
Tears streaming down at the realization of her passing yesterday. This is one of the most beautiful songs written/played/sung by one of our generations' greatest classic rock songwriters. RIP Christine McVie. We will miss you, but we will continue to cherish the musical gifts you left us forever.
💔🎼💔 R.I.P. Christine McVie ... she had one of the greatest voices in Rock n Roll history. Here songwriting skills are legendary , and she was great live with harmonies. Check out "Say You Love Me" ❤
Made me really sad to read about her passing. 70s kid - loved her contribution to Fleetwood Mac. Her voice was such a smooth, soothing contrast to Stevie Nicks.
I feel like so many people are waking to the absolute talent of Christine, she was a trailblazer for women singer,musician, songwriters and now she’s getting recognition....rest in peace❤
And all it took for people to "wake up" to Christine's talent was…her dying.
Every damn reaction channel (including this one…love y'all, but…) is all Stevie, Stevie, Stevie. Meanwhile Christine wrote half the band's hits, easily. FFS, "Don't Stop" is the Official Song of the Democratic Party!
(It used to be "Happy Days are Here Again", but Bill Clinton changed it.)
I blame TikTok. That stupid Ocean Spray challenge made everybody remember "Dreams" and forget the other songs. Yes, "Dreams" was a #1…but "Don't Stop" was #3, from the same album.
Well, if Lindsey Buckingham wants to stop being "Secondhand News" and get people to listen to "Tusk", I guess he knows what to do. Granted, that would mean "Never Going Back Again", but…
(Just kidding, Lindsey. I hope you're here for the long run.)
I cannot listen to this song without crying, this is Christine's song. We were blessed with your music 🎶 🙏💔😭
She'll be missed. Her voice always has moved me to tears.
this is the song that played at my wedding as my bride walked down the aisle, the marriage didn't last (14 years) but the memory of this as she walked will forever be special... RIP BEAUTIFUL LADY...
She was also great (pre-Fleetwood Mac) when she was a lead singer for the British blues band Chicken Shack (Christine Perfect at that time, before she married John McVie)
I used to think of this as a love song. Now that she is gone, I think of it as a goodbye song. I can't help but cry when I hear it now. RIP Songbird.
This song is amazing and it's so sad we lost a truly amazing voice
This one is my all time favorite song from this band. Glad you finally listened to it. Its a true love song. It can be placed on any kind of love and it's perfect.
Her singing, playing, writing, were top tier, but she also had the gift of eliciting our emotions, and thoughts.
Strip away everything but the pallet of words she wrote, and you're left with pictures of your own making.
May she rest in peace and eternal joy.
Watching your "reaction" video is very pleasing as it just reaffirms what beautiful music is meant to do to us, bring us together regardless of our differences! Amen. Christine McVie is a special lady and wrote such beautiful music. We'll miss you Songbird.
This song always had me welling up, but now .....if you don't tear up then you must be a robot. RIP Christine, you'll never know how you touched my life x
It was the first song I thought of when I saw she passed away yesterday. I was maybe 5 when that album came out, but my parents had it and I played and sang to it until there were holes in the vinyl. Such a beautiful song. Farewell, rest in peace songbird.
I love this song and have now added it to my Memorial Song List.
RIP Christine and thanks for the music 😢
Not afraid to say I shed many tears at this news - Christine has played a huge part of my life from this song being a key part of my dad's funeral to me singing 'everywhere' at my wedding and dancing to 'you make loving fun' as my first dance. RIP you amazing human being x
THANK YOU for doing the studio version! I love just about everything that Fleetwood Mac has released, but this is my favorite song of theirs. Christine McVie just sends these lyrics straight to Heaven. So beautiful. She will be missed, but her music lives on.
She's probably showing the Angels how it's done, RIP Christine 😎🖐💕🎵🎶
This song hits me differently now that we've lost such a beautiful sole, RIP Christine McVie😔🙏
Wow first i hear her voice, just sublime.. she sounds like an angel. RIP Christine 🙏🏼
One of the most beautiful songs EVER written and performed. Rest in peace.
I also always liked the song she wrote & sang on Rumours entitled "You Make Loving Fun".
Such a sweet, beautiful song by an enormously talented musician and beautiful spirit. Sing with the angels now Christine. We will still be listening...🦋🧡 Thank you guys for posting
You guys, listen to "As Long As You Follow". it's a later FM tune, and Christine is doing lead and harmonies and other wonderful angelic things on that song. Rest easy, Christine, shine on!
What a massive privilege it is to have shared this time in history with her and receive her gift of music and poetry. Rest in peace beautiful Songbird.....❤🙏✌
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One of my all-time favorites. Christine will be greatly missed. Prayers for her loved ones.
Christine wrote more than half of the songs on Fleetwood Mac’s smash hit album Rumours. She was very talented yet very modest! RIP Christine McVie ❤😢
That is not accurate. There are 11 total songs on Rumors. Christine wrote 4 of them "Don't Stop", "Songbird", "You Make Lovin' Fun", and "Oh Daddy".
@@juliusseizure2673 - It doesn't matter, no need to get your panties in a wad. 🙄
Christine’s songs piano and vocals are the primary reason Fleetwood Mac became such a huge band
I chose this song to dance with my daughter at her wedding. I love Christine’s voice. BEAUTIFUL!!!
Soft spoken, classy, Christine -
Thank you for your gifts to us
You left us many
Fly high Songbird
I can’t possibly add to anything said about this remarkable lady,Rest In Peace Songbird
She was the one that said that Fleetwood Mac was greater than the sum of it's parts. Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie all put their unique song styles on each album and it just worked like no other group made it work. She was a true artist in every Sunday of the word.
Also, Stevie Nicks may have gotten all the press, but Christine McVie was the soul of Fleetwood Mac. #RIPChristineMcVie ✨🙏
With a voice like that along with Stevie Nicks', Fleetwood Mack could never miss! They could read from the phone book and it would sound good..
I love her songs "everywhere" , "over my head" and "little lies" she was so great and I am so sad rn... I've been listening to her songs and almost crying...
growing up in the 70s the rumors Album was everywhere! R.I.P. Songbird! we love you and you will be missed!
RIP Christine. You're a legend. You will be missed.
When i was a teen I went to my sisters flat often and she played Rumours album, she died 15 years ago at 39, I played this song at her funeral. Still makes me sad
I am so glad you guys ended up doing the studio cut because while it's interesting to see her in that live clip that is so popular, that is many many years later and I honestly think that this recording far better captures the sheer emotion and husky power in her voice along with that serene piano. It's fantastic.
I would also point out that there is another band member, I'm not sure who, strumming an acoustic guitar along with it. It's mixed kind of low and more in the left ear and it provides a perfect rhythmic counterpart to what the piano is doing. And it's not easy, because this is a free flowing delivery by her, singing and playing and so it does a lot of what you call rubato, which just means that the tempo can ebb and flow as necessary to capture the emotion.
Just now listening to your reaction, and this happened to me yesterday when I played this exact same cut, there is such a feeling of peace and calm and resolution that washes over me and it seems to relate very much to her passing.
One other thing that I would say is that this came out when I was in junior high and I already had their album before this one, which is fantastic, and then Rumors came out and just blew up. Every song on it is amazing. But I was going through some pretty heavy emotional family trauma at that time, and so this song took on even more depth and meaning to me. I would often play it on the piano and sing along, and it really helped me feel better in the moment.
This to me is such a poignant example of how someone in her position can reach out and have a tangible and beneficial effect on one of millions of fans that she will never meet and yet the connection is powerful. I hope she realized how much she meant to an awful lot of people, and I am pretty sure that she did. Once again I have tears in my eyes while I try to type this out. Rest in peace, Christine.
It's Lindsay Buckingham playing the acoustic guitar softly in the background just off stage. The story is that they recorded this live in a theater using something like 15 microphones placed throughout to capture the full ambiance. The version on the album was one complete take (not a bunch of takes spliced together). I think this is the perfect treatment for such a perfect song.
@@dtkincaid as a musician and composer and longtime band guy that has been in the recording studio a lot, I absolutely love the thing that you're describing. That is fantastic. Wow.
RIP Christine...ALWAYS loved her Fleetwood Mac songs best, her voice is enchanting. And her harmonizing with Stevie Nicks was beyond heavenly. She was elegantly sexy too...she lives on IF you play her music
To put Fleetwood Mac in perspective: Christine (RIP) was THIRD string vocals. These guys are so impressive. Thanks for continuing to feature them.
Excellent interpretation ... both birth and death. ...l and the opening of your heart completely. Luv Lex's oozing welling up smile toward the end.
Christine on Songbird: "It doesn't really relate to anybody in particular; it relates to everybody. A lot of people play it at their weddings or at bar mitzvahs or at their dog's funeral. It's universal. It's about you and nobody else. It's about you and everybody else. That's how I like to write songs."
A farewell song to her ex husband John McVie who was also in the band. Nicks and Buckingham had bitter songs about their breakup.
she got her first break doing an Etta James cover " I'd Rather Go Blind". I think you can hear some of that in this.
RIP Christine - Thank you for your music 🖤
Was never a fan of this song until I seen them live and they closed with this song. Just Christine alone on stage with the piano. Magic 👌
Christine McVIe was so talented, it was such a shock to hear she had died because I didn't even know she was ill. May she R.I.P.
For me, being aware of the transition in Fleetwood Mac from the Peter Green led blues band to a much more varied band that tried many types of songs. Christine was always the glue that held everything together she had a ton of good tunes even before her more famous band mates showed up. Try Homeward Bound from the great album Bare Trees, one of her best. Such a great and unique singer/songwriter, They would not have been nearly as good without her. RIP. 🎵🎤🎹🎸🎶
Also, Sentimental Lady, with Bob Welch
Nick's and Buckingham got all the attention, but McVie was the first voice I heard from Fleetwood Mac, and the one I liked best.
Lex, Mick Fleetwood (drummer) was quoted as saying he wants this song played at his funeral, as he flies away on a songbird's wings. Good call.
Gorgeous song from a beautiful lady. Requiescet in pace, Christine.
Christine was the rock and soul upon which Fleetwood Mac at their best was founded. She was quintessentially English, super talented, modest, lovely, a great musician and poet, as well as pure class. Heartbroken
This song was originally recorded during an all-night session in an open-air band shell in California. Christine sang it over and over until they got the take they wanted. Christine - a grand piano, and a single rose in a crystal vase.
About birth and death being similar, depending on the death, I think they really can be. When my dad died, it wasn't sudden and my siblings and mom and I were able to be with him in his last days. Just as with birth, nonemergency dying is a process, with phases and changes to the dying. We all felt like we were helping him to make his transition. It was such a gift and a privilege to be with him for that.
Rip to a songbird queen 👑 beautiful voice
The fact that Christine Mvie has passed and I am writing this electronically is so wrong because if this was paper, it would be smudged and unreadable due to the tears that are flowing 😢
I walked down the aisle to this for my 2nd wedding 😍😍
A voice smoother than silk.R.I.P., Christine. Fleetwood Mac 🐐 🐐 🐐
R.I.P. Christine. I grew up on Fleetwood Mac. So devastating.
I'm bawling like little baby right now, and not ashamed to admit it.
One Christine McVie song that was released as a single that nobody mentions is "Think About Me". An AWESOME song!!
Fly high and free sweet songbird, fly free…she was the earth mother and backbone of Fleetwood Mac. This is the best song she ever wrote…. Until we meet again….
So many of their songs were to each other or about each other. She eventually divorced her husband John (also in the band) in the years that they all were still performing.
Guessing it could have been for him or about him, even after they separated. She seemed like a princess, and he would have been a lucky man.
I've always loved the sound of her voice. A very underrated artist IMO.
Godspeed Christine. Thank you for the beauty.
The secret weapon of the band. I remember watching a documentary about the band and they said when they watched her record this all the guys in the band had tears streaming down their faces.
One of the most beautiful songs ever. I played this song when the most beautiful woman in the world said yes to joining me and she became my wife.
Great reaction…Rest in Peace Christine 😔
A true great artist 😇😇
Can't believe she grew up 10 miles from me
Rip
Fleetwood Mac is one of my top five bands of all-time! RIP Christine McVie now go fly high!
I absolutely adored Christine for a very long time. Nothing against Stevie but Christine had more talent in her hands than miss Nicks could ever dream of. Hopefully the great, talented, and beautiful Christine McVie will now get the recognition she's always desrved.💔💔💔
A true Songbird ! Wrote and sang many Fleetwood Mac songs.
Rip Christine, you were such a great song writer, performer & musician. But even a better person!!!
What a beautiful voice.
Christine said at times she hated playing Songbird as it brought her to tears, brought the band to tears and often brought the crowd to tears as well.
She has now rejoined both Peter Green and Bob Welch (both former band members) in Heaven’s band.
Christine McVie really spanned the eras from the blues-based album rock years of the late '60s and early '70s to the pop-oriented era that began in the late '70s on. Really a true artist who came into her own and improved with age.
Christine wrote this song, played the piano and sang it. This was her own tribute
RIP - Christine McVie. Rock on Brad & Lex
McVie's lyrical and vocal talents were second to none. She's going to be missed.
That iconic “Rumors” album wouldn’t exist without Christine McVie. She wrote the greatest songs on it.
She past away days ago! She is Christine Mcvie., My favorite songrihter.
I still can't believe she's gone
She can’t be compared to Stevie because their voices are so different. Stevie, her voice was lower and more raspy, and her voice was feminine and higher pitch. Their delivery was different from one another. I guess that’s what made their harmonies & music so good is that every band member was different from each other as far as style, but they blended so perfectly together