You’re seeing everybody at their best and their worst and Christine saw me at my worst one time too many. “You have the pressure of being on the road and living together. John McVie, now 67, admits he was heartbroken. Apart from basic civilities like asking what key is this song in, we spent six months avoiding each other.” Stevie and Lindsey didn’t get on well either but they used to fight except when they were writing songs together. “My boyfriend at the time was not welcome at the studio for obvious reasons. “John and I just didn’t talk,” recalls Christine McVie, now 69. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was newly divorced from model Jenny Boyd (sister of Patti, who was married to George Harrison) and was about to complicate things by embarking on a two-year affair with Stevie Nicks. The Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks who had been together since school were splitting up amid much acrimony. All five were going through painful break-ups – mostly with each other.Īfter nearly eight years John and Christine McVie had called time on their marriage and Christine was already involved with the band’s lighting engineer. Now the band – drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, his keyboards player and singer wife Christinalito McVie, guitarist-singer Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks – were gathered at Record Plant, a recording studio in Saus Northern California, to start work on the follow-up.īut for all their success, away from the music their lives were a mess.
Their 10th album released the previous year had sold four million copies. In February 1976 Fleetwood Mac were at the top of their game.
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