Lindsey Buckingham Posts Heartfelt Tribute to Christine McVie

As tributes proceed to pour in for longtime Fleetwood Mac singer/keyboardist Christine McVie, who died Wednesday at 79 after a short sickness, her former bandmate Lindsey Buckingham posted a touching tribute to her on social media.

“Christine McVie’s sudden passing is profoundly heartbreaking. Not solely had been she and I a part of the magical household of Fleetwood Mac, to me Christine was a musical comrade, a pal, a soul mate, a sister. For over 4 many years, we helped one another create an attractive physique of labor and an enduring legacy that continues to resonate right now. I really feel very fortunate to have identified her. Although she will likely be deeply missed, her spirit will stay on by way of that physique of labor and that legacy.”

The submit features a handwritten observe that was much like that of the group’s Stevie Nicks, which was posted Wednesday.

That basic lineup of Fleetwood Mac was famously fractious, as Nicks and Buckingham and McVie and her first husband John McVie break up up in the course of the recording of their blockbuster 1977 album “Rumors,” which is without doubt one of the top-selling albums of all time. The group splintered within the mid-Nineteen Eighties and reunited for excursions and/or albums a number of occasions, generally with all 5 members and generally not.

Curiously, the ultimate break up got here after Buckingham and Christine McVie had launched a 2017 duo album, after which the group carried out as honorees of the 2018 MusiCares Individual of the 12 months occasion in 2018. Buckingham was fired from the band and changed by Crowded Home’s Neil Finn and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell.