Christine McVie, who died on Wednesday, was the earthbound counterpoint to bandmate Stevie Nicks’ crystal visions, and Fleetwood Mac's most lovely and merciful presence.
She’s always been the group’s most lovely and merciful figure, someone who was introverted, practical and a fall guy for the most painful and extreme cycles of love. Her contralto voice — creamy and rich like a spoonful of gelato — summons the intense feelings of adolescence through its calm yet fomenting presence. She was a pinnacle of shy girl power.
She translated pathos and joy into unfussy prose set to stirring melodies, and brought a gentle sophistication to the male-dominated world of rock music. But she was easy to overlook because — at the risk of using a sports metaphor — she was a team player, highly skilled but unshowy, a Tim Duncan and not a LeBron James.“If I was to take more solos, stick knives between the keys or something, I’d get more credit, but I’m just not that type of player,” she told a reporter for BAM in 1984.
Her grounding presence was a welcome contrast to Nicks’ nymph-like persona, not because it positioned the two against each other, but because it offered two very powerful frameworks for womanhood and female friendship within the same chart-topping band. The idea that women must choose — that one is either a Christine or a Stevie — is an outmoded and reductive binary in the year 2022.
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