Return of the Mac duo
Music with Eddie Rowley
FLEETWOOD Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have joined together to record their first-ever album as a duo.
The collaboration on their album, Lindsey Buckingham/ Christine McVie, began three years ago when McVie rejoined Fleetwood Mac after 16 years for the group’s ‘On With The Show’ tour.
Christine came out of seclusion after overcoming her crippling fear of flying. She went to a psychiatrist who helped her overcome her chronic fear of flying, and then he encouraged her to get back into music.
“It turns out there were underlying problems and I wasn’t afraid of flying at all,” Christine tells me, adding: “I was afraid of the world.”
Fast-forward to 2013, and McVie was now hankering after her life with the band, something she never thought would happen.
“I was just rotting away doing nothing,” Christine said. “I thought to myself that the only people I would want to play with again would be Fleetwood Mac. I didn’t want to form another band.”
When McVie contacted the band they welcomed her back with open arms — and she went on to rehearse with them for three days in Dublin where she also watched their shows before playing The 02 in London.
As they reunited, McVie and Buckingham began working on new songs and soon realised they had enough in the can for an album. “It felt like it was meant to be a duet album,” Lindsey says. “We acknowledged that to each other on many occasions, and said to ourselves, ‘what took us so long?!’ ”
Buckingham and McVie were joined in the studio by fellow bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, who supplied much of the rhythm engine.
“It’s the very last thing I thought would happen,” Christine says. “I joined Fleetwood Mac and I end up doing a duet album with Lindsey.”