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Sep 5, 2008 · Fleetwood Mac-Christine McVie - SongBird
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Sep 20, 2019 · Documentary profile of Christine McVie, the longest-serving female member of Fleetwood Mac, who has never fronted the band despite being the group's most successful singer-songwriter. Show more
- Who/What Is The Meaning of “Songbird”?
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- “Songbird” Saved Fleetwood Mac
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- Mick Fleetwood’s Send-Off Song
The ambiguity of “Songbird” captures the selflessness of love—for someone or one’s self. McVie insisted that the song was never about anyone, or anything, in particular. “It doesn’t really relate to anybody in particular; it relates to everybody,” said McViein a 2017 interview on the meaning of the song. “A lot of people play it at their weddings o...
McVie has said on many occasions that she wrote “Songbird” in just 30 minutes and needed to get the melody and lyrics out as swiftly as possible so she wouldn’t forget it. “I called a producer first thing the next day and said, ‘I’ve got to put this song down right now,’” shared McVie. “I played it nervously, but I remembered it. Everyone just sat ...
Playing right in the center of the band’s 1977 album, Rumours, “Songbird” was a focal point, and perhaps a turning point for the band, which was tangled in intra-band relationships, drugs, and other dysfunctional behavior, prior to recording the album. When McVie played the song for them, they all realized how much they loved one another.
Breaking from the Sausalito Record Plant where the band was finishing up their Rumourssessions, Caillat brought McVie to the Zellerbach Auditorium to record “Songbird.” Setting up 15 microphones placed around the auditorium, “Songbird” was captured with McVie, alone at the piano, as if she was performing alone, once everyone had left a concert. Lin...
McVie’s spiritual connection, or “visitation,” to a song like “Songbird” is likely linked to her mother Beatrice Edith Maud (1915-1968), who she said was a psychic medium and healer. When Fleetwood Mac was first moving from London to Los Angeles, and after several lineup changes, Maud had a premonition that things would go wrong, but that “not to w...
When asked what song he would want to be played at his funeral, drummer Mick Fleetwood named the McVie classic.” “The song at my funeral, which will be in five minutes—wow, that is maudlin,” said Fleetwood in an NMEinterview. “I’d probably pick ‘Songbird’ by Christine McVie, to send me off fluttering.” And the songbirds keep singing Like they know ...
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Sep 20, 2019 · Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie: Directed by Matt O'Casey. With Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks. Christine McVie is undoubtedly the longest-serving female band member of any of the enduring rock 'n' roll acts that emerged from the 1960s.
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Feb 12, 2010 · This is the original studio version of SONGBIRD. Written by Christine Mcvie, and recorded by Fleetwood Mac, 1976. This is the only version worth listening to.
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Dec 1, 2022 · Christine McVie had already given up her own career as a singer and keyboardist after realising she would hardly see her husband, Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie, if they were in different...
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In 2019, McVie was featured in the 90-minute BBC documentary Fleetwood Mac's Songbird – Christine McVie, directed by Matt O'Casey. In 2022, a compilation album titled Songbird (A Solo Collection) was released.
