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Originally Posted by David

Yeah, but didn't they intend to do a Q&A with Christine on her site? she didn't do it. She dropped the ball. She doesn't seem to want to do this kind of thing.

I'm not sure that's entirely true. Chris did do some interviews to promote 'In the Meantime' ... she did seem willing to do some modest promotion for the record, which could have included answering a manageable number of fan questions. We talked about this at the time over on the old Christine McVie website board, and the conclusion we came to was that Christine must have gotten slammed with way too many questions, and she was overwhelmed by it and just didn't do it.

The record company is to blame ... they thought they'd run some silly contest, and you can be sure that a lot of people jumped on board who are mainly FM or Stevie fans, and, in the absence of a moderator, it's just inevitable that they asked all kinds of tiresome and ridiculous questions ("when will you record with the Mac again ... when will you tour with the Mac again ... do you ever have lunch with Stevie ...").

The mistake made was that nobody filtered the questions. They needed to have a moderator look over the questions and select a small number ... maybe five questions. Good, interesting questions that pertained to 'In the Meantime' or to Christine's actual creative process as a songwriter and musician. It's really too bad it wasn't done this way, because Chris might have actually enjoyed answering a few good questions, and it might have led her to become more engaged in her website. But it's too late for that now. She's been out of the public eye (and undoubtedly thoroughly enjoying her quiet life as an English tea lady) for too long for her to have any interest in being a "celebrity" again.