Fleetwood Mac lived hard and created some of the best music of the 1970s. Mick Fleetwood said the band had snorted seven miles of cocaine, but the band’s tunes continued to earn honors even the Beatles couldn’t reach. We hope that won’t happen for a while, but when Fleetwood dies, he wants a Christine McVie song from the Fleetwood Mac catalog to be played at his funeral.
Christine McVie wrote 8 of Fleetwood Mac’s singles
McVie stood out in a group full of expert songwriters. Stevie Nicks wrote the group’s only No. 1 single, which his bandmate found boring, but McVie wrote or co-wrote several of Fleetwood Mac’s singles:
- “little lies”
- “Hold me”
- “above my head”
- “love in store”
- “As long as you follow”
- “You make love fun”
- “Think of me”
- “Save me”
“Little Lies” and “Tiens moi” reached #4 on the Billboard Singles Chart, and “You Make Loving Fun” peaked at number 9 in 1977. McVie also sang the Fleetwood Mac song which returned to the charts nearly 30 years later. It came out. She has written several notable Mac songs, but none are the McVie song that Mick Fleetwood wants to play at his funeral.
Mick Fleetwood wants “Songbird” of McVie to be played at his funeral, and it’s a fitting choice
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“The song at my funeral, which will be in five minutes! Wow, that’s maudlin. I’d probably pick Christine McVie’s ‘Songbird’ to get me high.
Mick Fleetwood
“Songbird” of McVie is an appropriate choice for a funeral. The piano-voice ballad is delicate and sincere. His lyrics share a deep and heartfelt message of love that makes everything right.
Fleetwood Mac had a tangled web of intra-group relationships and what could be described as dysfunctional behavior when the group was at its peak. Fleetwood choosing that specific McVie song could send the message that he never lost his love for his bandmates, no matter how bad things got. Given his song choice, Fleetwood might have a dark but celebratory send-off in mind.
‘Songbird’ was an outlier on ‘Rumors’
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