According to a handwritten note Stevie Nicks posted on social media last Wednesday, Christine McVie’s bandmates in Fleetwood Mac hadn’t even known she was ill until a few days before her death. “I wanted to be in London; I wanted to get to London,” Nicks lamented. “But I was told to wait.”
It’s a sad story, but it somehow seems very McVie. The singer-songwriter, who died last Thursday aged 79, gave every impression of being unfailingly modest and understated while playing a vital role in one of the most successful rock bands in history, maintaining a remarkably clear-eyed view of their strengths and failings. She
