British rock singer
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 (as a member of Fleetwood Mac ).
Ranked #63 on VH1s 100 Greatest Women in Rock N Roll
Worked a little bit on Fleetwood Mac s 2003 album, but did not tour with them. Quit touring with Fleetwood Mac after "The Dance" tour in 1997.
Announced her retirement from music when she married John McVie , but was coaxed out of it the next year by Fleetwood Mac , which up to that time had been an all-male band with a raunchy stage act.
Fleetwood Mac was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
The oldest member of Fleetwood Mac.
(June 2004) Will release new solo album, titled In the Meantime, in the UK. In the Meantime is slated to debut in September 2004 in the US.
She is known to be a very private lady.
Her father, Cyril Perfect, passed away in 1998.
Music ran in her family.
Niece of Dan Perfect.
She received the British Academys Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement. [2014].
Her ex-husband John McVie is a cancer survivor.
Has no children.
Before she was a successful singer and keyboardist, she used to work as a window dresser at a department store.
Had temporarily lived in an apartment in Malibu, California, right around the same time when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham , joined her band, on New Years Eve, 1974, at the time, they were boyfriend/girlfriend. Drummer Mick Fleetwood made sure McVie felt that she could get along with Stevie before hiring them; nobody wanted a situation where two women were bickering back and forth.
With former guitarist and vocalist Bob Welch s encouragement, Fleetwood Mac decided to move to Los Angeles, California. She was not too happy with this idea, as she loved the bands home, Benifold, and was very close to her family.
McVie was a devoted fan of Fleetwood Mac , and while touring with Chicken Shack, the two bands often would meet. They also were "label mates" at Blue Horizon, and Fleetwood Mac had asked McVie to play piano as a session musician for Peter Green s songs on the bands second album, Mr. Wonderful.
The song that she wrote, "Dont Stop," was about her divorce from John McVie.
Was given lessons on the piano at the age of four, but her parents soon realized she was not enjoying it in the least.
Before she was a successful singer and keyboardist (for Fleetwood Mac ), she was once a member of the group Chicken Shack.
Despite not being the founding member of Fleetwood Mac , she was the only member of this band to have written or co-written songs more than anyone else. McVie had written and sung 49 songs.
Her father, Cyril Perfect, was a college professor and concert violinist, and her mother, Beatrice (called Tee) Perfect, was a medium, a psychic and a faith healer.
Is very good friends with: George Harrison , Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , Tom Petty , Eric Clapton , Steven Tyler , Peter Green , Jeff Lynne , Joan Baez , Steve Winwood , Stevie Nicks , Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham.
One of the lead vocalists of Fleetwood Mac , from 1970-1998, and came back since 2014. McVie is also the bands keyboardist.
Started singing when she was a little girl.
Left the band Chicken Shack to spend more time with her husband John McVie , she would later join Fleetwood Mac , full-time, after John talked her into replacing Peter Green , who left to pursue other interests.
After her mothers Tees death in 1970, her father, Cyril, remarried.
Has a converted barn at her home in Wickhambreaux, Kent, England.
The only member of Fleetwood Mac who was raised in an out-right musical family where it was accepted--and almost expected-- to pursue a career in music.
McVie was the youngest child of a middle-class family.
Was awarded the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Gold Badge of Merit [2006].
Once said in an interview, McVie is not listening much to pop music anymore and stated instead a preference for Classic FM.
She was asked to do an Elvis Presley song, "Cant Help Falling In Love," for the movie A Fine Mess , and she asked Richard Dashut to act as her producer. He, in turn, said Buckingham would probably love to help out, since he was a huge Elvis fan. She went on to recruit Mick Fleetwood and John McVie for her rhythm section, and 4/5 of the band found themselves together in the studio and actually enjoying it.
Paste Magazine named McVie, together with Fleetwood Mac bandmates (Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks ), as the 83rd greatest living songwriter or songwriting team. [2006].
After quitting Fleetwood Mac , McVie had left Los Angeles to return to London, England, where she purchased a mansion in the countryside, to spend more time with her family, and her father, whom she lost in 1998.
Former girlfriend of Dennis Wilson (of The Beach Boys fame). He would drown almost a year and a half later.
Created the Fleetwood Mac art album of Kiln House..
Had a house in Los Angeles, California.
Met future husband John McVie in the band "Chicken Shack.".
Attended the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, in Birmingham, England, where graduated with a teaching degree in sculpture.
Her birthplace, Greenodd, Lancashire, England, is 162 miles north of Birmingham, England, and nearly 85 miles west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Rejoined Fleetwood Mac , after playing in Maui. [2014].
At a very early age, she learned how to play the cello from her father. She would also play that instrument in her school orchestra.
Member of Buckingham McVie.
