Christine is working on a new album

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Originally Posted by Ulpian

This time last year I'd have said you were deluded. Now that Christine has surprised us this year in such a way that her 2004 project didn't, I'm not going to completely dismiss the suggestion that there might be another FM album featuring her. It's now more of a possibility than it was 12 months ago.

However, realistically, we know Lindsey wouldn't be keen. Am I wrong? Come on. He loves this 'new' sound and the fact that he's really the unchallenged musical driving force. I'm not being facetious or unkind. I know the Lindsey fans get their knickers in a twist at the sort if comment I've just made, but tell me he wouldn't have his nose put a little out of joint by having to re-calibrate his approach to accommodate the 'only person in Fleetwood Mac that he ever listened to'.

Plus, what label (and band) is going to allow Chris to contribute without committing to a tour? I think that whilst she has come far with her therapy and new outlook, she still wouldn't want to take a year out to go around the world, or even just the US. The RV thing would be cumbersome and it wouldn't, I don't think, calm the discomfort of a 70 year old who wants to be in her own bed every night.

IMO, at this point the ratio of Chris rejoining FM to a new Chris solo album is 50-50, but I'm still betting more on a solo album for the reasons you give. Though FM members contributing to her songs (we know Mick is helping out, who knows if the others do as well) is still not a far off possibility, and FM albums involving that lineup after Mirage are hijacked solo albums, so maybe this could be a plot twist in which Christine's album was the victim. But again, who knows?

You're right, Lindsey does enjoy this 'freedom' of not having Chris, aka the only one with the balls to stand up to him musically, and the only person in the band he listened to. But there's also the tiny possibility that he missed having someone to bounce ideas off of and get some right back. Things he couldn't really do with Stevie because she's not a musician, per se, or with Mick and John because they don't write.

With the RV thing, we know it's not realistic. Like her, I get major insomnia when I'm not in my own bed too, so I get her feelings about that, the homebodies we are.