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Blog #414-Christine McVie and Fleetwood Mac

December 12, 2022

On November 30th, we lost musician Christine McVie from the band Fleetwood Mac. I was fortunate enough to photograph Christine with Fleetwood Mac three times through the years. She had such a great voice and was a talented artist.  She even did the album cover artwork for their album "Kiln House". That album is one of my personal favorites, especially  the song "Station Man".

In my very early photography days back on October 20th 1971 at the Milwaukee Arena, I photographed Rory Gallager, Frank Zappa and Fleetwood Mac with Christine. Also playing in the band was guitarist and vocalist Bob Welch who passed in 2012.  Rhythm guitarist, Danny Kirwan, also played that night. He passed away in 2018.

Maybe there is a new Fleetwood Mac band upstairs having fun and playing music again. Christine and Bob Welch really worked well together with their awesome vocals. Christine has been quoted saying  that she really enjoyed working with Bob.

These black and white photos shown here are not the greatest photos I've ever taken but I was just getting started at 17 years old!

The next time I photographed Fleetwood Mac was on September 11th, 1977 at Milwaukee County Stadium. I wasn't allowed to photograph the show but had fun backstage taking a few photos and then listened to the band play to a very large crowd. One of the photos shows Christine backstage with a large boombox! Kenny Loggins and his band opened up  for Fleetwood Mac that night.

Then in 1987 as a house photographer for Alpine Valley Music Theater, I was allowed to take a few photos and one of Christine is included here as the last photo.

Enjoy a look at Christine, Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan and a couple of Mick Fleetwood.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

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