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During various individual turmoil, for which Fleetwood Mac
McCavi joined the band during one of her early lineup changes in 1970 and was the only woman for years. When Nix was added to the lineup in 1975, the two became sharp friends.
They did not have a competitive relationship, but a sister was gifted to women responsible for preparing several most famous tunes of the band to each other. Although the two separated in the 1980s amidst the addiction of the deteriorating drugs and the growing internal stress of the band, they returned together when McVavi returned to Fleetwood Mac in 2014.
In a concert in London, McCavi officially re -included the band, Nix Dedicated The song “Landslide” her “mentor. Elder sister. Best friend.” And at the end of the show, McVavi was there, with her bandmates for “Dont Stop”.
“I never want to get out of my life, and it is nothing to do with its music and her and I as friends,” told In 2015, Minianapolis Star-Tribune.
On Wednesday, McWe, Band’s “Songbird“Death after a brief illness at the age of 79. Below, see the years of McVi and Nix’s years-Lumb Relations as Bandmates, Best Friends and” Sisters “again.
McVavi and Nix hit it from the beginning
The story of Nix who joined Fleetwood Mac is now legend: Band founder and drummer Mick Fleetwood wanted to recruit Lindsay Guitarist Lindsay Buckingham, who determined that he would join only when his girlfriend and musician Nix could also be included. McCavi cast a decisive vote, and the rest is history.
“It was important that I met him because I never played with another girl,” McVi told The Guardian in 2013. “But I liked her immediately. She was funny and good, but there was no competition. We were completely different on stage for each other and we wrote differently.”
During the band’s several individual complications – McVavi married Fleetwood Macist John McVavi and divorced and had a connection with the band’s lighting director, while Nix had romance rolled with Buckingham and Fleetwood – he was the center of each other.
“Being in a band with another girl who was this amazing musician – (McCavi) immediately became my best friend,” Nix told New Yorker earlier this year. “Christine was a whole other ballgame. He loved to hang out with people. She was more comfortable with men as I was ever. ,
The two protected each other, Nicks said in a male-dominated industry: “We initially signed an agreement that we would never treat all male musicians in the community.
“I would say to him,” together, we are a serious power of nature, and it will give us the strength to maneuver that is ahead of us, “Nix told The New Yorker.
The band is successful but McVavi and Nick grow away
The “rumors” was the biggest success of the band on release in 1977. But the band’s relationship with each other was deteriorating, save for one between McVi and Nick. While the pair ended the breakup with their important others, Nick and McVavi spent their time together.
The Guardian asked McKvi if she was trying to offset the band’s tumor with her songs on “rumors”, including “You Make Lavin ‘Fun” and optimistic “donated stop”. He said that he was likely.
As many members’ use of drugs intensifies, the dynamic tension of the band increased. In 1984, McCavi removed herself from the group amidst the addictions of her bandmets, saying that she was “just ill, telling the guardian. Meanwhile, Nix was dependent on cocaine.
McWe told That year Rolling Stone that she separated from Nix: “She feels that she has developed her imaginary world, somehow, which I am not part. We are not very social. ,
In 1986, Niches examined at Betty Ford Center to treat her addiction, although she later became accustomed to Clonopin, which she Said Claimed the years of his life. He left the prescription medicine in the 1990s.
After recording some single tasks, McCavi returned to Fleetwood Mac for his 1987 album “Tango in the Night” and became his two songs on that record – “Little Lies” and “Everyware” – became the major hit. But Nix soon left the band, and the band’s most famous lineup will not officially get the “The Dance” tour and later for the Live Album till 1997.
Reunion was short -lived: after the band Involved In 1998 in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, McVavi officially left Fleetwood Mac, with citing a reference Fear of life flight and tiredness on the road.
McVi Fleetwood returns to Mac – and towards Niches
In the 2010s, after more than a decade of retirement, McCavi played with returning to perform. He officially involved Fleetwood Mac after fleetwood called Fleetwood and to find out what his return to the group would mean.
“Fortunately a stevy Die To come back to me, as the rest of the bands were, “he told Arts Desk.
In 2015, a year later when he rejuvenated Fleetwood Mac, McCavi hit the road with his bandmates. The tour was tired of touring with the group, but was fun, first when they performed together over the years.
“I’m here only for the stevy,” that told New Yorker that year.
Nicks agreed: “When we went on the road, I realized that he was a wonderful friend who was mine that I had lost and didn’t realize the entire results till now,” he told the Minianpolis Star-Tribune in 2015.
During the tour, McCavi wore a silver series that Nick gave him – a “metaphor”, McCavi told The New Yorker, “that the series of bands would never break. Not by me, not by me.” Not by me. ”
McCavi told The Arts Desk in 2016 that he and Nix “were better friends than (they) (they) 16 years ago.”
A tour with Buckingham and Fleetwood can quickly hum to Nix, McCavi said, because of his shared history. “But with me, it gave the stavi a chance to bring back his breath and it’s not a constant thing with Lindsay: her sister came back,” she said.
His mutual praise continues: in 2019, McCvi Said Nix “was just on the stage” on the stage: “The better I perform on the stage, the better I think she is. She keeps the fort.”
When his tour of 2018-2019 ended, although without Bitchham, which was Fired – Band “Broke”, “McCavi told Rolling Stone earlier this year. He said that when he visited together, she did not speak with Nix as many times.
For a reunion, McCavi told the rolling stone that when it was not away from the table, she did not feel “physically up” for it.
“I am getting a little longer in the teeth here,” he said. “I am very happy at home. I don’t know that I want to visit anytime. This is a bloody hard work. ,
The news of McV’s death shook the nix, which wrote That he came to know that McWvi was ill before. He called McCvi “the best friend in the whole world from the first day of 1975”.
On Social media Accounts, Nix, shared a handwritten note which includes songs from snow songs “Halelujah,” Some of which discuss sorrow and loss of a best friend.
“You look at the other side, my love,” Nix wrote. “Don’t forget me – always, stew.”
