![]() That powerful chorus anchors one of McVie’s most upbeat songs, a swinging rock number held down by her piano, which she pounds like a percussionist. This one - “Don’t stop thinkin’ about tomorrow” - was directed at her husband, John, as their marriage deteriorated during the recording of Rumours. McVie understood the power of simplicity, writing her best songs as vessels for basic, evocative declarations. It’s easy enough to shout along, and it’ll pull you in by the second chorus. The hook feels instantly familiar, like you’ve spent your whole life with it, even if you haven’t. “Don’t Stop” is the first Fleetwood Mac song I remember, and I’d say it’s the perfect introduction. Below, Vulture staffers celebrate their favorite contributions from Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird. On 1977’s smash Rumours, she penned and performed some of their biggest (“Don’t Stop”) and most indelible songs (“Songbird”), a trend that continued for years, with McVie responsible for the group’s later hits like “Little Lies” and “Everywhere.” McVie faded out of the band in the 1990s, eventually retiring in 1998 due to a phobia of flying - but spent her last years as an official member again after rejoining in 2014. Once she became an official member (she’d infamously married the bassist, John McVie), she asserted herself as one of the group’s core songwriters. Though never as big of a personality as Stevie Nicks or Lindsey Buckingham, the singer, songwriter, and keyboardist was a cornerstone of the group even before she joined the band, playing keys in studio sessions and painting the album art for 1970’s Kiln House. If Fleetwood Mac and “underrated” could somehow go in the same sentence, we’d be talking about Christine McVie, who died on November 30 at 79. ![]()
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