“Christine was the pop star… None of the rest of us could write those songs,” Stevie Nicks praised her late bandmate.
Vulture asked Nicks what it feels like to have her own Barbie doll (we’ll get to that) before broaching the subject of Fleetwood Mac’s future. Turns out, Stevie Nicks agrees with Mick Fleetwood’s remarks at the Grammy Awards earlier this year, saying there is no reason for a Fleetwood Mac reunion after Christine McVie’s death.
Even though the band toured in 2018 and 2019 without Lindsey Buckingham, McVie’s absence hits different.
We did go out on the road and do a year-and-a-half tour with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell. We had a really great time and it was a huge tour. That was there in the realm of possibility. But when Christine died, I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can’t. Without her, what is it? You know what I mean? She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate, and my best friend that I spent more time with than any of my other best friends outside of Fleetwood Mac. Christine was my best friend. When I think about Taylor Swift’s song “You’re on Your Own, Kid” and the line “you always have been,” it was like, that was Christine and I. We were on our own in that band. We always were. We protected each other. Who am I going to look over to on the right and have them not be there behind that Hammond organ? When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to.
And her songs, you take out all of those songs. Christine was the pop star. She wrote all those really super pop hits. None of the rest of us could write those songs. What would happen is we’d have to take the songs out, like we did when she actually retired for 18 years. We couldn’t re-create those songs. So we became a much more hard-rock band.
As for the Stevie Nicks Barbie… Holy crap! Didn’t they absolutely nail those 70’s era witchy vibes?
Here’s a link to Mattel’s website for more info on how to pick up the doll. Looks like it’s available at KC area Target and Walmart locations.
Do you agree that there could be no more Fleetwood Mac now that Christine McVie has passed?
