This month that production arrives in Europe for a run that includes that six nights at London’s O2 and headline slot at the Isle of Wight festival. What began as 42 American shows became 80. with their On With The Show tour, demand for tickets exceeding all expectations. Meanwhile, the quorate Mac have been traversing the U.S. In 2014, she rejoined the fold.īetter still, she’s writing again – collaborating last year with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood as ex-husband John McVie recovered from a bout with colon cancer. But slowly she realised that she missed it. At home in England, she effectively shut herself off from her former life. It’s known dizzying triumphs and weathered catastrophe and decline, and for the last 17 years it has had to cope without singer, keyboard player and hit-writer Christine McVie, MIA since the end of the 1998 tour which celebrated the reunion of the multiplatinum Rumours quintet.
For close to 50 years, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie have been locked in their distinctive groove, and upon it they have built and maintained the strange, enduring entity that bears their names. It shouldn’t work, but it does: the drummer fractionally behind the beat and bass slightly ahead.
“There’s a lot of love, you know,” they tell JIM IRVIN
Cut: good times, bad times, “carnage and intrigue”, plus a massive rubber dildo called Harold. And as they stand on the brink of enormous UK shows and (whisper it) an album, it’s the prompt for all five members to open up to MOJO. Of all their stories rifts and reconciliations, Christine McVie’s return to FLEETWOOD MAC 17 years after her bewildered exit, may be the most extraordinary.