They accepted and invited her to play keyboards/piano and to sing background vocals. In 1967, McVie learned that her ex-bandmates, Andy Silvester and Stan Webb, were forming a blues band, Chicken Shack, and were looking for a pianist. By the time McVie graduated from art college, Sounds of Blue had split up, and as she did not have enough money to launch herself into the art world, she moved to London and worked briefly as a department-store window dresser. Knowing that McVie had musical talent, they asked her to join. Her first foray into the music field came when she met two friends, Stan Webb and Andy Silvester, who were in a band called Sounds Of Blue. During that time, she met a number of budding musicians in Britain's blues scene. McVie studied sculpture at Moseley School of Art in Birmingham for five years, with the goal of becoming an art teacher. Other early influences included The Everly Brothers. Continuing her classical training until age 15, McVie shifted her musical focus to rock and roll when her brother, John, came home with a Fats Domino songbook. Īlthough McVie was introduced to the piano when she was four, she did not study music seriously until age 11, when she was reintroduced to it by Philip Fisher, a local musician and school friend of McVie's older brother, John.
McVie's grandfather was an organist at Westminster Abbey. McVie's mother, Beatrice Edith Maud (Reece) Perfect, was a medium, psychic, and faith healer. Her father, Cyril Percy Absell Perfect, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham, and taught violin at St Philip's Grammar School, Birmingham. McVie was born in the Lake District village of Bouth, Lancashire, and grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham. 3.2 Return to Fleetwood Mac and album with Lindsey Buckingham (2014–present).3.1 Hiatus from Fleetwood Mac and semiretirement (1998–2014).She is also the recipient of two Grammy Awards. In 2014, she received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and was honored with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. In 2006, McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from Basca, now The Ivors Academy. She rejoined the band in September 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour. In September 2013, she appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at London's O2 Arena. The same year, after almost 30 years with the band, she opted to leave and lived in semiretirement for nearly 15 years. In 1998, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac, and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. AllMusic describes her as an "Unabashedly easy-on-the-ears singer/songwriter, and the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits." Eight of her songs appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. Her direct but poignant lyrics focus on love and relationships. Christine Anne McVie (née Perfect born 12 July 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, lead vocalist and keyboardist of Fleetwood Mac, which she joined in 1970.
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