If you could ask Christine ONE question, what would you ask?

[aleuzzi]

Will you record another album?

[Cornflake Girl]

Originally Posted by nicepace

Hilarious stuff! funny funny funny! (especially the Lindsey answer ... just what the question deserves)

My question would be so d*rn serious:

"Ms. McVie, did you ever face any sexism or discrimination because you were a female musician in a blues and a rock band at a time when women just were not musicians in bands? If so, how did you handle it? And how have you come to terms with the fact that you hardly ever get any credit for being one of the first women to be a musician/singer/songwriter in a mixed gender band?"

Those are great questions, especially the last one. I've wondered what she thinks of that too. I remember in some radio interview from around the 80s, the presenter making a comment about her being a pioneering woman in a blues/rock band and she kind of acts like she just realised it herself. She says something like, 'I suppose I was,well there was Sandy Denny and Judy Collins but yeah I guess I was one of the only instrumentalists'

Not getting credit from the masses for writing ''Songbird'' (my flatmate swore blindly Eva Cassidy wrote it until I got my Rumours record out) is probably what irks her the most!

[Somajoseph]

My question would be-were you & Stevie ever really friends and did you genuinely like her, or just tolerate her??

[cristochango]

Originally Posted by Somajoseph

My question would be-were you & Stevie ever really friends and did you genuinely like her, or just tolerate her??

great question

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by Somajoseph

My question would be-were you & Stevie ever really friends and did you genuinely like her, or just tolerate her??

She's often answered questions similar to this...My understanding was that at one time they were fairly close--in the 70s, on tours, etc...But then she became estranged from Stevie in the 80s. She was quite vocal about Stevie living in a fantasy world of her own making: "We dont socialize much," she said. But by the end of the 80s, she and Stevie appear to have become close again, as they had the common task of fronting the new band and clung to each other for strength and mutual sympathy.

I don't imagine, however, they'd have become friends at all had they not been thrown together.

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl

Those are great questions, especially the last one. I've wondered what she thinks of that too. I remember in some radio interview from around the 80s, the presenter making a comment about her being a pioneering woman in a blues/rock band and she kind of acts like she just realised it herself. She says something like, 'I suppose I was,well there was Sandy Denny and Judy Collins but yeah I guess I was one of the only instrumentalists'

Not getting credit from the masses for writing ''Songbird'' (my flatmate swore blindly Eva Cassidy wrote it until I got my Rumours record out) is probably what irks her the most!

That's infuriating! You must have got quite a bit of satisfaction from getting the record out..haha

[Cornflake Girl]

Originally Posted by Dodfather

That's infuriating! You must have got quite a bit of satisfaction from getting the record out..haha

Oh yes, yes I did.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl

Oh yes, yes I did.

Hard to believe people don't know Christine wrote and performed Songbird...

[jaycee]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Hard to believe people don't know Christine wrote and performed Songbird...

Especially in my case! FM is my fav band, and yet when I heard Eva's cover of it I thought, for whatever reason, that it sounded pre-70s and must surely be the original! Needless to say I felt pretty embarrassed when I learned the truth! Why did I ever doubt?!

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by jaycee

Especially in my case! FM is my fav band, and yet when I heard Eva's cover of it I thought, for whatever reason, that it sounded pre-70s and must surely be the original! Needless to say I felt pretty embarrassed when I learned the truth! Why did I ever doubt?!

You're forgiven... you must make a mix tape of Christine