Christine McVie was a member of Fleetwood Mac for a few years before Stevie Nicks joined the group in 1974, and the British songstress welcomed the American newcomer with open arms. Instead of seeing McVie as a rival, Nicks viewed her as an ally. “We made a pact, probably in our first rehearsal, that we would never accept being treated as second-class citizens in the music business,” Nicks recalled in a 2013 interview with The Guardian. “That when we walked into a room we would be so fantastic and so strong and so smart that none of the uber-rockstar group of men would look through us.”
In 1984, McVie told Rolling Stone she and Nicks had drifted apart and were barely speaking to one another. They both left Fleetwood Mac in 1990, though the tempestuous band reunited years later. However, McVie decided to make a permanent exit in 1998, telling The New Yorker she’d become terrified of flying. The group took McVie’s words to heart, though they made plans to reunite in 2013. McVie was the holdout, and Nicks told The Guardian that she begged her bandmate to come back, saying, “I miss her like flowers need the rain.”
McVie finally gave in. Speaking to The New Yorker, she described a meaningful gift that she received from Nicks. “Stevie gave me this chain,” she said. “It’s a metaphor, you know. That the chain of the band will never be broken. Not by me, anyways.”
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