Christine McVie

A fatigued McVie is still in fine voice

A nonstop tour schedule of one-night stands since April 15 has left singer-songwriter Christine McVie more than a mite weary. Her lack of energy was evident in concert Thursday night at Sunrise Musical Theatre, and was...

June 2, 1984
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Christine McVie

Fleeing the Mac, Christine McVie goes solo

It has certainly become fashionable for members of a superstar band to break out with their own solo LPs. Fleetwood Mac is a case in point. Side projects have made a solo star of the group’s resident mystic...

May 18, 1984
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Christine McVie

Mac’s First Songstress goes her own way

Christine McVie’s current solo album and cheery single, “Got a Hold on Me,” are being hailed as her first work apart from Fleetwood Mac. But the 40-year -old singer and songwriter, who appears in...

April 22, 1984
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Christine McVie

McVie juggles old, new at Fox

In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie appears as the stable Earth-bound performer balanced against Stevie Nicks’ wild flights of fancy and unfocused demeanor. The rock vs. the roll. McVie’s balancing number is...

April 17, 1984
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Mirage

Fleetwood Mac: Mirage

ROCK/POP Fleetwood Mac: Mirage. 23607-1. The pleasures of this album are in its smooth, understated style and its fresh, uncomplicated melodies. It’s a distinctive flavor that’s been the group’s...

December 9, 1982
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Mirage

Lucky Fleetwood Mac fan jet sets

For Randy Lane, an out-of-work laborer in Toledo, Ohio, one day had passed much like another since he was laid off last February. But all that changed a few weeks back when a sleek black limo pulled into the blue-collar...

October 18, 1982
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Mick Fleetwood affected by Malibu fire

Hundreds displaced, as firefighters continue to battle SoCal brush fire Desert winds that fanned voracious brush fires through three Southern California counties died down today, helping firefighters control separate...

October 11, 1982
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Mirage

Stevie Nicks recovering from the flu

Stevie Nicks, vocalist with Fleetwood Mac and one of rock music’s top sex symbols, is recuperating from a bout with the flu at her parent’s home in Phoenix, a spokesman said Thursday. Miss Nicks’...

October 7, 1982
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REVIEW: The Mac is back

Fleetwood Mac hits overdrive for 13,500 fans at Centrum; Fleetwood Mac at Worcester Centrum, Wednesday Fleetwood Mac was on the spot. Even loyal partisans wondered if they could put aside their famed ego conflicts and...

September 17, 1982
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REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac on Mirage tour

FLEETWOOD MAC’S records have always been better than its live shows. On records, the band has achieved a lovable blend of lyrical effervescence and studio polish. In concert, subtleties have been coarsened and...

September 16, 1982
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Mirage

Fleetwood Mac: Where’s Stevie?

FANTASY ISLAND, Ca. – On the kitchen table in Mick Fleetwood’s Malibu mansion sits a model of the stage design for Fleetwood Mac’s upcoming American tour. In between the tiny amplifiers, drums and pianos stand cardboard...

September 1, 1982
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Mirage Tour (1982)

Mirage Tour (1982)

In 1982, Fleetwood Mac supported the release of their 13th studio album Mirage with a national tour. On February 18, 1983, HBO aired highlights from the band’s two shows at The Forum in Inglewood, CA on October 21...

September 1, 1982
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Mirage

THE POP LIFE: Fleetwood Mac – Mirage

FLEETWOOD MAC’S Mirage (Warner Bros.) has already climbed to the top of the album best-seller charts, just a few weeks after its release. It sounds as if it could repeat the phenomenal commercial success of...

August 11, 1982
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Mirage

Fleetwood Mac: Mirage

FORMULA, BEATS-per-minute, ahhh. Fleetwood Mac really do have a lot of honour for folks with such a pile of cash. Coming after this line-up’s eponymous breakthrough platter and the sullen beauty of Rumours, the double...

July 17, 1982
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Mirage

Inside the Sleeve: Fleetwood Mac – Mirage

This long-awaited studio follow-up to Tusk doesn’t harken back to that somewhat disappointing 1979 album, nor does it bear much semblance to the band’s earlier, more successful releases, such as Fleetwood...

July 17, 1982
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Hold Me
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Fleetwood Mac – Hold Me (1982)

Written by Christine McVie and Robbie Patton, “Hold Me” is the lead single from Fleetwood Mac’s 13th studio album Mirage. Steve Barron directed the promotional video, which was filmed in...

June 18, 1982
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Fleetwood Mac – Gypsy (1982)

“Gypsy” is the second single from Fleetwood Mac’s 13th studio album Mirage. Russell Mulcahy directed the promotional music video. According Mulcahy, “[the filming] shut down Hollywood Boulevard...

June 18, 1982
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Christine McVieMirage

Fleetwood Mac: Mac attack

Mirage is the title of the brand new Fleetwood Mac LP and Christine McVie, as one of the English part of the band has been dispatched straight to London with a rough cassette of the work to play for sundry hacks. And I...

May 6, 1982
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Mirage

Lindsey Buckingham: A Pop Renegade

AS THE NEXT Fleetwood Mac album nears completion, Lindsey Buckingham is faced with divided interests. Much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the album will rest on Buckingham, whose experiments on Tusk...

April 1, 1982
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Mirage

Lindsey Buckingham takes a breather

The Fleetwood Mac of all trades, Lindsey Buckingham takes a breather with his own one-man band. Solo albums marked the beginning of the end for the Beatles. So when Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks recorded her album...

February 22, 1982
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Tusk

Woman drops suit against Fleetwood Mac

Carol Hinton claimed the rock band used her poem without permission. A woman who brought suit against the rock group Fleetwood Mac for using the lyrics of her poem in the hit song ‘Sara’ has agreed to drop...

July 22, 1981
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Tusk

Fleetwood Mac — a Cadillac of the rock business

Fleetwood Mac explores leaner sound on double album Tusk. In a world of pedestrian rock stars, Fleetwood Mac has long been in the top of the line. In the mid-70s, the five-member group strung a series of hits whose lush...

July 9, 1980
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Tusk

Fleetwood Mac: Can’t go home again

OF COURSE, Fleetwood Mac is the American Dream. The band’s success story is the stuff of which the mythology of modern day America is made: Mick Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, down on their luck in the Oulde...

April 1, 1980
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Tusk Tour (1979-1980)

Fleetwood Mac: Madison Square Garden, NYC

YOU ENTER the stream of bodies pouring through the portholes of Madison Square Garden. You get caught up in the tide. Into the awesome space – the impersonality of the place is scary. Why am I here? Their blockbuster...

December 1, 1979
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