They once appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in a semi-naked cuddle, but now, more than 40 years since Annie Liebovitz photographed Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie in bed with their Fleetwood Mac bandmates, the pair has finally released their debut album together. On new release Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie, the songwriters behind quintessential Mac classics such as "Songbird", "Go Your Own Way", "Don’t Stop", "Tusk", "You Make Loving Fun" and "Say You Love Me" have joined forces for an album certain to win over Fleetwood Mac fans. To celebrate the new album, we’ve pored through the archives to find key media quotes from the Fleetwood Mac bandmates talking about each other.
- CHRISTINE ON FLEETWOOD MAC’S FIRST SESSION WITH LINDSEY AND STEVIE NICKS
“The first time I started playing Say You Love Me and I reached the chorus, Stevie and Lindsey started singing with me and fell right into it. I heard our sound – our three voices – and my skin turned to gooseflesh.”
Performing Songwriter, May 2003
- LINDSEY ON CHRISTINE’S VOCALS COMPLEMENTING THE BUCKINGHAM NICKS SOUND
“Stevie and I both are on the nasal side, which works really well in a two-part Appalachian kind of harmony style. Christine has this very round, flutey voice that warmed up the whole thing… It was just apparent right away that it was something that really worked.”
Guitar World, September 1997
- CHRISTINE ON LINDSEY CHANGING HER MUSICAL DIRECTION
“Lindsey and I got on well musically because we could jam off each other… He knew his blues chops and had a unique way of playing. I was able to play around him. He pulled me out of the rhythm section and I got a lot more creative, started writing more songs.”
Sunday Express, 2004
- CHRISTINE ON LINDSEY FIXING “BORING” STEVIE NICKS SONGS
“When Stevie first played Dreams for me on the piano, it was just three chords and one note in the left hand. I thought, ‘This is really boring’, but the Lindsey genius came into play and he fashioned three sections out of identical chords making each section sound different.”
Q, May 1997
- LINDSEY ON CHRISTINE AS A MUSICAL EQUAL
“Because Stevie isn’t a musician, she doesn’t share in that thing with Christine and me. She can feel totally out of her depth.”
Record, September 1982
- CHRISTINE ON EARLY LINDSEY COLLABORATIONS
“There’s endless things we can do. Lindsey and I are just learning to write with each other – an exciting possibility that would be more of a rock n roll thing. Lindsey and I are very much alike. We’ll fool around with chords first and work out words later.”
Circus, April 1977
- LINDSEY ON HIS MYSTIC BOND WITH CHRISTINE
“She and I have a real valid rapport between us. Something that was there before we even met. It’s like she can play the piano and I can play the guitar just wonderfully along with her. It’s almost like parallel lines during our formative years of music until we met, and it gave us common ground.”
Record, September 1982
- CHRISTINE ON LINDSEY ENRICHING HER SONGS
“I feel very comfortable working with Lindsey… I have a lot of respect for this man. I don’t really imagine anybody else being able to do what he does with my songs.”
Record, September 1982
- CHRISTINE ON LINDSEY’S EARLY ‘80S DRUG USE
“Lindsey was smoking a lot of marijuana. He lived in a marijuana cage.”
Sunday Express, 2004
- LINDSEY ON CHRISTINE RETIRING FROM FLEETWOOD MAC BEFORE THE RELEASE OF 2003’S SAY YOU WILL ALBUM
“There was never a sense that we were in any way crippled without Chris, because we’ve made a record that’s at least as potent.”
Uncut, May 2003
- CHRISTINE ON WRITING NEW MUSIC AFTER RETURNING TO FLEETWOOD MAC IN 2014
“I sent Lindsey some new songs and he loved them. You could hear his mind whirring, figuring out how he could improve them, Mac them up.”
Daily Mail, 2013
- CHRISTINE ON RECORDING WITH LINDSEY AGAIN AFTER 30 YEARS
“It really has been a true collaboration where I’ve done lyric writing on his songs as he has done equally on mine, It’s really been a true duet and it has been enlightening, since I’ve never done anything like this. The knowledge that we could actually sing so well together and we sing so alike in many ways, it has grown very organically from the start of all this.”
Christine McVie, The Making Of Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie documentary, May 2017
- LINDSEY ON THE BUCKINGHAM MCVIE STUDIO REUNION
“It kind of blew our minds that it was so easy. It was even better than if we had picked up where we left off – somehow the connections were even more intricate and profound than when she left [Fleetwood Mac].”
Lindsey Buckingham, The Making Of Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie documentary, May 2017
- CHRISTINE ON THE BUCKINGHAM MCVIE STUDIO REUNION
“Lindsey gets me, and I love working with him. As with everything in Fleetwood Mac, it’s chemistry. I’ve come home. The prodigal daughter returns.”
Mojo, April 2017
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