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McVie Returns With
"Meantime"
Former Fleetwood Mac keyboardist to
release third album
Rolling Stone Magazine
April 2004
Christine McVie will release In
the Meantime, her first set of new songs since departing Fleetwood
Mac, on July 27th. Meantime is only the singer/keyboardist's third
solo release in her almost four-decade career, and it's the
follow-up to a self-titled album issued two decades ago.
McVie's return contradicts comments from her former Mac mates who
said that she had left the music business altogether and retreated
to her home in the U.K. Because Fleetwood Mac's 2003 release Say You
Will included some material from the mid- and late-Nineties, McVie's
keyboards were heard on a couple of the songs, but according to
drummer Mick Fleetwood, McVie "retired" because "she doesn't want to
be in this business anymore. Her heart was in the music always, but
she didn't have her heart in what comes with it." The group released
the album as a four-piece and toured without McVie.
McVie's departure followed a tenure of more than three decades with
Fleetwood Mac, to which she contributed several of its Top Forty
hits including "You Make Loving Fun" and "Say You Love Me."
Christine McVie spawned a pair of hits itself, with "Got a Hold on
Me" breaking the Top Ten and "Love Will Show Us How" going Top Forty
in 1984.
ANDREW DANSBY
(April 5, 2004)
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