Chris cracks me up!
 

One thing I have always loved about Chris is that she is just so flippin' hilarious. This quote cracks me up. Can you imagine having a plate of dead bugs hanging on your wall? LOL

Rock Stars with Timothy White - October 31, 1987
(about her family)"My father is sitll alive and kicking and he's wonderful and he's eighty-two now..remarried. Still active in the City of Birmingham Orchestra. He remarried a woman who is actually only a year older than me and fathered another son who is an aspiring classical composer who is only fourteen. My [other] brother is an eptimologist [the study of insects] for the government in England. The study of bugs...I got this little tray of fossilized bugs...he and his wife are both eptimologists...and when they come to stay I always hang this dreadful plaque of dead beatles on the wall to make them feel at home. Very, very interesting family...a great family."

And..on a side note...does Chris really have a brother who is 30 years younger than her or did I just hear her wrong?

No I think you heard her right!

I knew her father had remarried but I didn't know her stepmother was only a year older than Chris!

I wonder if she is close to her half-brother?

Gail

What a great sister she would make! :woohoo:

Yes. though she is not my favorite, I have long felt that Chris is probably the "coolest" member of the band... :laugh: John's cool, too, but in that way where you would never get to talk to him, and if you did, he probably wouldn't say much.. :lol: If I ever met John i would only say, "Hey, wanna go out on the boat?" :p

I'll bet she's just so natural acting, with little to no pretensions.
Too bad she gave up drinking..... :lol: :rolleyes: :distress:, I'd give my life to knock back a couple bottles of wine with her.

By my reckoning Christine's dad would have been 68 when he fathered his second son.

I believe that Christine's brother John has a son of about 16 so he would have been about 50 when Leo was born.

Is there something in the genes of the Perfect men that means they must reproduce late in life? :)

Gail

PS Christine is far and away the coolest member of the band.

You and me both, brother! :nod: All of the members of fm seem funny, but I think she is hella funny...in a way that i would totally get. :)

Christine's much younger brother's name is Cyril Perfect & he is about 30 years younger than her. I think he may be a classical composer, but I'm not completely sure. According to the Time booklet, he may be married now with kids.

That goes without saying. :D The two most common adjectives I've heard to describe Christine McVie are that she's warm & unpretentious. She seems very normal & down to earth with a great sense of humour. I wish she was my next door neighbor. :laugh:

Hhhmm funny how men can do that, isn't it? Must be nice.

....end of my snarky comments.

and yes she is the coolest, tied w/ John. :nod:

-Lis

She didn't mention him at all on ITM which I thought was odd. but then again she never mentioned Dan on any earlier albums and she seems pretty close to him.

-Lis

Yes I remember that. So if Cyril was 14 in 1987 he would have been about 22 when Time was released. So if he is (was) married with kids then he has bucked the trend of the Perfect males. Or maybe he's planning on having another family when he gets into his 50's. :laugh:

As Christine said Very, very interesting family.

I think having Chris as a neighbour would be great. Imagine popping in for a cup of tea (and a chocolate Hobnob) :lol:

Gail

Well, John Perfect was only 27 years old when Dan was born. So, he did buck the trend a bit then. :D

I also wondered why her half-brother, Cyril wasn't mentioned in the ITM booklet. I'll bet the Jo Perfect that's mentioned in the booklet is Dan's wife. I'd still like to know who Tim Butler is. ;)

Isn't Dan nearly 40? As for the couple bottles of wine, she could probably drink everyone under the table. :laugh: I've always laughed at this quote...

"And in terms, I am a star, you know? But...to say those words doesn't mean they're true to my emotions. I don't feel like an arrogant, you know...flippant *****."

Dan is 38, although he doesn't look it.

I LOVE that interview! That's one of her all-time best quotes, typical Christine McVie.

Here we go again! :lol: :lol: :lol: :wavey:

Bring it on Christine! Dueling wine bottles at 20 paces! :xoxo:

I like a half-glass of tawny port in the evening with dinner, but I get loose stools drinking too much alcohol.

I'd like to ask Chris about it. Is she going to do this Q&A still?

Now where's that vomiting emoticon? :lol:
I think Chris has forgotten about the Q&A.......

You are right! Thanks for pointing that out - I will change it :)

Fiona Rae is Dan's wife, I think Jo must be their daughter

Gail

I didn't know that. Thanks. :) How did you know that, Gail?

I learn more every day! Any more family tree trivia?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/s...140769,00.html

Isn't Google wonderful?

And don't some of us need to get out more? :laugh:

Gail

Google is the best! Get out more? Don't be silly! :laugh:

That's incredible. So Dan Perfect is a tennis nut & Fiona Rae is his wife. Well, what do you know. :cool: Thank God for Google. Don't worry about getting out more, Gail. :D I was wondering how you could possible know about Fiona since she wasn't mentioned at all in any of Christine's interviews.

Thanks for the info! I LOVE Google!! I have an old article from about 1077 where Chris mentions that her dad remarried a woman that had a daughter already, so she had a stepsister. Wonder if that is Jo Perfect? Although I guess it's doubtful she'd take the new surname...

Or do you think Jo Perfect IS/was Chris' dad's 2nd wife???? hmmm.

Also In the UK there happens to be another Jo Perfect, that I think is into alternative music/in a band etc...That last name is so unique, it would be weird to imagine a Perfect not being somehow related to Chris..bit I guess it's possible....

-Lis

My science teacher in high school called that the false advertisment pose. :laugh:

Hmm, that's interesting about Jo Perfect. I would guess that the Jo Perfect in the CD booklet & the Jo Perfect who's into alternative music may be the same person. How many Jo Perfect's in the U.K. can there possibly be? :laugh: Did John Perfect have any more children? Is it possible that Dan Perfect has a sister? This is something we should look into. :laugh: We could almost do a Perfect family tree. :lol:

I LOVE that one too. And, this one too. They're from the same photo session.

I Googled Dan and noticed that the name Fiona Rae came up on several of the websites that mentioned Dan. I thought I'm sure I've seen that name somewhere so I looked at the sleeve notes from ITM and voila! So I Googled them both together and that article came up.

It's interesting that he likes tennis like his aunt does. In the interview from the Sunday Express last summer she says she was going to watch Wimbledon on the telly.

I kind of assumed Jo is their daughter but I've absolutely no reason for thinking that. I suppose she could be Chris' step mother but then why would she mention her and not Cyril?

Why are we not being told????????

Gail

I'd never heard that before. What article was that? I assume you mean 1977, not 1077. :) I don't know that she would technically be a stepsister since they don't share the same mother or father though.

I almost posted about the 1077, too. Wanting to make some lame-assed age joke. Sometimes, I CAN stop myself.... :rolleyes: :cool: :lol:

LOL yeah I meant 1977. I think Chris was a little wasted because she got her facts wrong. She was saying how her dad had just remarried 2 yrs ago (??) and so now she had an adopted sister and a stepbrother. Neither of those terms really make sense though... ??? it was the same article where she said she was too set in her ways to have kids of her own but that Mick's kids were her godchildren/like her own kids. I think I used a quote of it in my J/C story.

Hmmm maybe Jo is Dan's sister, very possible!!!


As Gail said, why are we not being told?! :D

-Lis

They do look a bit artificially enhanced. :rolleyes: Or did they maybe have wonderbras back then??? :lol:

-Lis

:laugh: Let's not forget the tan lines. I can't answer, but I know I love Victoria's Secret. :)