What will be your Christine celebration?

[DownOnRodeo]

Nice!

I imagine it was a difficult choice between the Casio Privia from Sam Ash and Christine's Songbird grand piano from the Julien's auction?

Originally Posted by David

Let’s hear it, kids!

Word is that sodascouts recently sold her catalog for a cool million to an music equity fund, and I no longer own the master tape.

[tango87]

It's rather taken me by surprise, but the song I've been playing most since we heard the news about Christine is 'Love Shines'. It's such a gorgeous, upbeat song, Christine doing what she does best - a lovely melody, beautifully sung, with emotional, optimistic lyrics.

I love the rooftop video too. There's something pure about it, even though it came at the very end of her first tenure with the band; I think it's do with the simple band of Christine, Mick, John and Billy, still making wonderful music, but without all that distracting drama and noisy egomania that came with Lindsey and Stevie. Here she's properly centre stage, where she belonged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dreb...3rgpQc&index=1

[HomerMcvie]

Watching The Making Of Rumours now. Bawling after watching her sing Songbird.

[aleuzzi]

I listened to the alternate version of Only Over You on the Mirage deluxe and couldn’t finish it. It was too stressful.

I’ve been humming The Way That I Feel (1973, not 2017) for the past two days.

[Street_Dreamer]

I'm going to take some time to really listen to her 84 solo album.

[michelej1]

Lucky for many of us, she has never been off our playlist anyway, especially with the collection having been released so recently. So, I cannot say that I have done anything to celebrate her really, because those people are on regular rotation. In fact, it is irritating, because my Apple Music and Alexa are always prompting me to play one mad Macster or another, even when I am trying to listen to something else.

But I had BuckVie on in the car today when going to the market and in the fade Chris is faintly repeating “yes, I’m too far gone. Too far gone. Yes, I’m too far gone” and that just made me cry. Obviously, she is still as close to me as she always was. It is not like I was accustomed to passing her on the stairs or running into her at the mall. We did not exchange birthday cards. I knew her through audio and video and I still have as much of that as I want. But somehow just knowing that she is not on the earth anymore makes a difference and feels so sad.

And I do not feel she was 79 and it was to be expected. It feels premature. I have thought about them all dying. But I suppose I pegged John as the first. With Christine, I guess I thought there would be one more thing. Something I could mark as a farewell. I knew the end was coming, but this feels abrupt. In her actual life, she may well have prepared for death, but for my imagined Christine, there is an awful lack of completion.

[Ulpian]

It genuinely has not registered properly with me. I haven’t cried properly for her (and her family), but I know I will.

I played All Over Again last night and I was so frazzled from my work day that I just listened, stunned.

What I will do, right now, is put on You Make Loving Fun from The Dance. That song kicks the living daylights out of everything. The Dance was my reintroduction to the Mac as an adult. It never sounded better (to me) and I just love the reaction it gets. I want to remember Christine like that. And I will.