Stevie Nicks paid tribute to the late Christine McVie on Friday through the first date of her co-headlining tour with Billy Joel, delivering an emotional, tearful rendition of the Fleetwood Mac traditional “Landslide.”
You’ll be able to watch video of the efficiency beneath.
Nicks ended her 16-song set at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium with the poignant acoustic ballad. Footage of her and McVie flashed on the screens behind her as she sang. When the tune ended, she clutched the microphone stand and commenced to cry, then informed the viewers, “There’s actually not a lot to say. We simply will fake that she’s nonetheless right here. That is how I am attempting to cope with it. Thanks for listening.”
Friday’s live performance marked Nicks’ first efficiency of 2023 and first efficiency since McVie died on Nov. 30 on the age of 79. Nicks shared a handwritten observe to Twitter the identical day by which she known as McVie “my finest buddy in the entire world for the reason that first day of 1975.” She additionally quoted the lyrics to Haim’s 2020 tune “Hallelujah,” which she had hoped to sing to her: “I had a finest buddy however she has come to cross – one I want I might see now. … You have been there to guard me like a defend, lengthy hair operating with me by way of the sphere.“
McVie mirrored on her friendship with Nicks in a 2014 archival Rolling Stone interview revealed after her demise. “We met and I immediately appreciated her,” McVie stated. “She and I will not be aggressive in any manner in any respect. We’re completely completely different, however completely sympathetic with one another. We’re pricey, pricey associates. We have no competitors on stage. She is who she is. I’m who I’m. Straightforward, simple, simple.”
The “Songbird” creator had no scarcity of superlatives to explain Nicks. “She’s an icon. She’s a genius. She’s a stunning, form, stunning girl and I like her to demise,” McVie stated. “She and I are completely different, and I can not not love the girl. She’s simply wonderful. She’s very, very beneficiant in each, single division – in each single division.”
Co-founding Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood stated final month that he suspects the band is completed following the demise of McVie. “I feel proper now, I really suppose the road within the sand has been drawn with the lack of Chris,” he stated throughout an interview on the Grammys (through The Los Angeles Instances). “I might say we’re accomplished, however then we have all stated that earlier than. It is form of unthinkable proper now.”
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There have been greater than 40 of those exterior tasks, which deepen and add to the band’s legacy.
