Stevie Nicks paid tribute to the late Christine McVie on Friday in the course of the first date of her co-headlining tour with Billy Joel, delivering an emotional, tearful rendition of the Fleetwood Mac basic “Landslide.”
You can watch video of the efficiency beneath.
Nicks ended her 16-song set at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium with the poignant acoustic ballad. Pictures of her and McVie flashed on the screens behind her as she sang. When the track ended, she clutched the microphone stand and commenced to cry, then instructed the viewers, “There’s really not much to say. We just will pretend that she’s still here. That’s how I’m trying to deal with it. Thank you for listening.”
Friday’s live performance marked Nicks’ first efficiency of 2023 and first efficiency since McVie died on Nov. 30 at the age of 79. Nicks shared a handwritten observe to Twitter the identical day wherein she referred to as McVie “my best friend in the whole world since the first day of 1975.” She additionally quoted the lyrics to Haim’s 2020 track “Hallelujah,” which she had hoped to sing to her: “I had a best friend but she has come to pass – one I wish I could see now. … You were there to protect me like a shield, long hair running with me through the field.“
McVie mirrored on her friendship with Nicks in a 2014 archival Rolling Stone interview revealed after her dying. “We met and I instantly liked her,” McVie stated. “She and I are not competitive in any way at all. We’re totally different, but totally sympathetic with each other. We are dear, dear friends. We don’t have any competition on stage. She is who she is. I am who I am. Easy, easy, easy.”
The “Songbird” creator had no scarcity of superlatives to explain Nicks. “She’s an icon. She’s a genius. She’s a lovely, kind, beautiful woman and I love her to death,” McVie stated. “She and I are different, and I can’t not love the woman. She’s just amazing. She’s very, very generous in every, single department – in every single department.”
Co-founding Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood stated final month that he suspects the band is completed following the dying of McVie. “I think right now, I truly think the line in the sand has been drawn with the loss of Chris,” he stated throughout an interview at the Grammys (through The Los Angeles Times). “I’d say we’re done, but then we’ve all said that before. It’s sort of unthinkable right now.”
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There have been greater than 40 of those outdoors initiatives, which deepen and add to the band’s legacy.
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