Stevie Nicks Credits 1 Taylor Swift Song With Helping Her Cope With the Death of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie
24.05.2023 - 17:55
/ usmagazine.com
The songbird is still singing. Stevie Nicks opened up about how she’s been coping after Christine McVie’s death — and gave Taylor Swift a shout-out in the process.
The 74-year-old Fleetwood Mac singer performed at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Monday, May 22, pausing briefly during the concert to thank Swift, 32, for one powerful song on her latest album, Midnights. “Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing a favor for me, and that is, writing a song called ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid,'” Nicks told the crowd. “That is the sadness of how I feel.”
She went on to describe her decades-long friendship with McVie, who died in November 2022 at the age of 79. “Even on the other side of the world, we didn’t have to talk on the phone. We really weren’t, you know, phone buddies,” the “Edge of Seventeen” singer confessed. “We’d go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we’d walk in and just be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like never a minute had passed. Never an argument in our entire 47 years — never.”
Nicks concluded her tribute, saying, “When it was the two of us, the two of us were on our own, kids. We always were, and now, I’m having learn to be on my own, kid, by myself. You helped me do that. Thank you.”
McVie’s cause of death was revealed last month, with her death certificate citing a stroke and secondary cause of cancer. When the British musician’s family announced her passing last fall, their statement noted that she suffered “a short illness.”
Fleetwood Mac began in the late ’60s with Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Christine — who was married to John from 1968 to 1976 — officially joined the band in 1970. Five years later, Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham took the place of Green and Spencer. Rumours, which