Stevie Nicks paid tribute to the late Christine McVie on Friday throughout 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 music ended, she clutched the microphone stand and started to cry, then instructed the viewers, “There’s actually not a lot to say. We simply will faux 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 be aware to Twitter the identical day during which she known as McVie “my finest pal in the entire world for the reason that first day of 1975.” She additionally quoted the lyrics to Haim’s 2020 music “Hallelujah,” which she had hoped to sing to her: “I had a finest pal however she has come to move – one I want I may see now. … You had been there to guard me like a protect, lengthy hair operating with me by means of the sphere.“
McVie mirrored on her friendship with Nicks in a 2014 archival Rolling Stone interview revealed after her dying. “We met and I immediately preferred her,” McVie stated. “She and I are usually not aggressive in any means in any respect. We’re completely totally different, however completely sympathetic with one another. We’re pricey, pricey buddies. We have no competitors on stage. She is who she is. I’m who I’m. Simple, 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, type, lovely lady and I like her to dying,” McVie stated. “She and I are totally different, and I can not not love the lady. 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 dying of McVie. “I feel proper now, I actually assume the road within the sand has been drawn with the lack of Chris,” he stated throughout an interview on the Grammys (by way of The Los Angeles Occasions). “I might say we’re executed, 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 outdoors tasks, which deepen and add to the band’s legacy.
