1986 Christine McVie interview

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Besides her sequencing being out of order her charting is a bit off. Kiln House did not chart at #48 in the United States. It hit #69 in USA and #39 in the UK. Still pretty good. Maybe she was referring to the UK charts. Vintage Mac albums hovered in the 60s and 70s until Heroes Are Hard To Find was released and cracked the U.S. Top 40 at #34.

Her memory seems different than Micks. She makes it sound like Kiln House's success in the States made them eager to go there. I think Mick tells a different story.
We need a verdict. Anyone got John's number?

While that’s true, the first album peaked at 198 in the US, English Rose peaked at 184, Then Play On hit 109, Fleetwood Mac In Chicago hit 118, and Kiln House reached 69, so her larger point about it charting significantly higher than any of the Peter Green albums was accurate.

While I don’t know if the band was universally excited to go to the USA for the Kiln House tour, I could imagine Christine and John being excited, and Mick always seems excited to play. At some point, surviving the loss of Peter probably didn’t seem nearly as insurmountable.

What’s interesting is that Penguin hit 49.