Christine Article
 

Has anyone read the (British) Daily Express article, May 12th, about Christine? I haven't, but I know there are some interesting quotes about the upcoming solo album, which is supposed to be in the stage of mixing!
UK Ledgies, please?

Anna

Hey, I got it off Lexis-Nexis. Thanks for the heads-up; I never would have known about it otherwise!
Um, where was the copy editor/fact checker on this one? We've seen "Lindsay" before, but "Eddie Kinsella"? Try Quintela!



Copyright 2003 EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS
The Express

May 12, 2003

SECTION: COLUMNS; Pg. 30

LENGTH: 292 words

HEADLINE: DAY & NIGHT; MCVIE GOES HER OWN WAY WITH A NEW ALBUM

BYLINE: KATHRYN SPENCER, JULIE CARPENTER & KATE BOHDANOWICZ

BODY:
THREE years after quitting the music business and America to live the life of a virtual recluse in an English country village, multi-millionaire former Fleetwood Mac rocker Christine McVie is to bring out a comeback solo album this summer, we can disclose.

Singer-songwriter and keyboard player Christine, 59, quit Fleetwood Mac and her former glittering Los Angeles existence, as we revealed exclusively three years ago, for a new life of quiet anonymity back in the UK in a beautiful home on the edge of a village on the Kent/Sussex border, following a divorce from her second husband Eddie Kinsella.

Now Birmingham-born Christine, who wrote and sang lead vocals on some of Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits, is to revive her music career as a solo artist, just as her former band mates - Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham and her ex-husband John McVie - have released an acclaimed new album Say You Will and embarked on a huge, extended world tour.

Christine's long-time manager Martin Wyatt, who remains close to her, says: "The new songs are distinctly Christine McVie in style and we have got to the stage of mixing and will have the album ready in six to eight weeks.

"Record companies are constantly ringing up to hear the songs or hear the finished album and we are saying we will ring you when we have got it ready."

Christine still prefers the quiet life, we understand. A friend says: "She won't even answer the phone in her house and, if someone answers it for her, she will not talk unless it is a really old and trusted friend.

"She does not want to be asked if she regrets leaving the band. The album came about when friends heard the songs she was doodling with and urged her to write again."

Wow! I missed this! Thanks for posting!

Pip

Thanks for posting.
Isn't it Quintella?

- Jake

Yes

HAPPY DANCE TIME!!!!!!!!@@@@@@@
 

WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!
Finally a confirmation about a new album...YEEEEEHAWWW!
I am more excited about hearing that album then i was to get the new FM. I hope to gawd they get it in some stores around here. These days you are hard up to find people who even know who she is, let alone have her '84 cd in stock.

Thanks!
 

Do we know whether we can trust this Martin Wyatt guy?

Anna

Re: Thanks!
 

Yes. He is cool

Pip

So we can dance?

Anna

This is fantastic news!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting this. Now we know for sure this album is coming. I wonder what happened to John Courage. Does anyone know who Martin Wyatt is?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woohoo!
 

This is terrific news!

This got me thinking . . .
I wonder if that includes certain musicians currently touring and playing a few of her old songs. Hmmm.

And of course, I had to laugh at this:
Yeah, RIGHT! Don't get me going on this "no Vancouver date" thing again!:mad:

There's more to the story of Christine leaving the band than what's been said. If you want to retire...you retire. You don't release a solo project. I wonder when the lid's coming off this?

I don't know . .
 

I don't know . . . I wouldn't read too much into it. Doing a solo project and working with a band (and subsequent tour) are two entirely different things--the latter being far more demanding. She always said she just didn't want to tour anymore. Who knows, she might get off on playing at small venues in the UK--or she may just sit at home and continue to prune her roses.

I find the story quite believable.

Yeah, I'm not reading in to it either, Christine has ALWAYS said that she likes/doesn't mind RECORDING solo albums, just not touring. I don't think she has any problem with the band as such. As for FM, I'm sure at least Mick but possibly some of the others may be upset that, (in the way they would probably word it), she "doesn't want to complete the five member "Rumours" lineup" though so he/they can line his/thier pocket(s) some more but nothing beyond that. For once, not really a scandal with this band! :) If there has to be a "reason" as to why she isn't in FM anymore, I think it's simply because if she's in FM there's more pressure to tour, whereas solo, she can do what she wants (or in this case, not wants).

John

Re: I don't know . .
 

I do too. The story about Chris doing a solo project that is.
What I was talking about is the story about why she isn't with the band any more.
There's more to that story than what's come out in public.
I think there's also a story behind why Stevie appears uninspired on this tour.
Probably no connection between the two.