A LIFE IN PICTURES
Christine McVie: from Shack to Mac.
1 Perfect start: Christine after picking up Melody Maker’s as Number One Girl Singer award, September 17, 1969, Waldorf Hotel, London.
2 With Chicken Shack, 1968 (from left) Stan Webb, Andy Sylvester, Dave Bidwell, Christine. They’d have a Top 20 UK hit when she covered Etta James’s I’d Rather Go Blind.
3 Say you love me: Fleetwood Mac reinvigorated in LA in 1975 with (from left) new members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine, her thenhusband John McVie.
4 “We started being a bit more adventurous”: Mac in Hollywood celebrate Heroes Are Hard To Find in 1974 (from left) McVie, Fleetwood, guitarist Bob Welch, who’d joined in ’71 for Future Games, and Christine.
5 Ready to make sweet music: Lindsey and Christine in Los Angeles,
1988 celebrate Fleetwood’s wedding to Sara Recor.
6 Keep it in the family: Christine with her father Cyril, January 1984. “He taught, but always wanted to be first violinist in an orchestra.” 7 Show me a smile: Christine, a Blue Horizon artist with Chicken Shack. “I’d started playing undercover piano on Fleetwood Mac records as well.”