Fleetwood Mac in September 2018.Photo: JB Lacroix/WireImage
Fleetwood Mac’sChristine McVieis uncertain the beloved rockers will ever share a stage again — but if they do, she’d like to see estranged bandmateLindsey Buckinghamjoin them.
The singer and keyboardist, 78, toldRolling Stonethat Fleetwood Mac “kind of broke up” following their most recent tour, which ended in 2019 after nearly 100 shows.
“I don’t know. It’s impossible to say,” she said. “We might get back together, but I just couldn’t say for sure.”
Though McVie and Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood and Buckingham have made music together for more than 50 years, she said that when not on tour, she and Nicks don’t actually speak all that often — and while that’s not to say there’s any bad blood between the two, McVie said that for now, Fleetwood Mac “as we know it” just doesn’t exist.
“I don’t communicate with Stevie very much either,” she said. “When we were on the last tour, we did a lot. We always sat next to each other on the plane and we got on really well. But since the band broke up, I’ve not been speaking to her at all.”
Should they find it in them to reunite, however, McVie said she’d hope Buckingham would join them.
“I’d always want Lindsey back,” she said. “He’s the best. Neil [Finn] and Mike [Campbell] were such a cheerful couple, but Lindsey was missed.”
Nicks, 74, has disputed Buckingham’s account, calling it “revisionist history.”
“I did not demand he be fired,” she said in a statement. “Frankly, I fired myself. I proactively removed myself from the band and a situation I considered to be toxic to my well-being. I was done. If the band went on without me, so be it.”
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.Chelsea Lauren/WireImage
Regardless of Buckingham’s involvement, McVie toldRSthat she doesn’t feel “physically up for” one final tour, but has yet to take it off the table entirely.
“I’m in quite bad health. I’ve got a chronic back problem which debilitates me. I stand up to play the piano, so I don’t know if I could actually physically do it. What’s that saying? The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak,” she said. “I’m quite happy being at home. I don’t know if I ever want to tour again. It’s bloody hard work… I’ll just leave it open and say that we might.”
“That has always been my vision and I’m flatly confident that we can do that,” hetoldRSin March 2021. “We owe it to the fans.”
source: people.com
