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Originally Posted by PenguinHead
It doesn't surprise me that John will be retiring from touring. I think it's a bit unreasonable to expect them to maintain this level of activity on the road. Hopefully they will finish their final studio album. There are many ways to promote it without touring the world.
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I think we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves re John retiring... this is the quote that it all stems from, from the Mojo interview:
How much longer can the Mac be a working band? Not much longer, for me anyway,” he explains. “It’s not the music – it’s the peripherals, the travelling. Mick will go on until they put him up against the wall and shoot him.”
McVie also admits he does worry what audiences see when he takes the stage, having been through the mill a bit since helping form the band in 1967: including marrying and divorcing a bandmate and being treated for cancer last year.
“I do flash on it, what must I f*cking look like, this old fart up there,” he laughs. “But I look out and there’s kids, and kids on their shoulders now, and they all seem to be having a good time. It’s sort of worrying… Jesus Christ,
will there still be a demand when I’m 75?!”
http://www.mojo4music.com/20358/flee...ac-john-mcvie/
So he's still thinking that he'll be around in 2020, from my reading of it. Maybe the new album will be out by then....