

If one had been writing a rock’n’roll soap opera, the emotional maelstrom of this torrid plot would surely have been rejected as too preposterous.

To rub salt into the wounds, after separating from her husband, Christine had started an affair with the group’s lighting director while at the same time two other members of the band, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, were also breaking up and Nicks began an affair with the fifth member of the group, drummer Mick Fleetwood. There were no children to consider and nothing to keep them together - except that they were trapped in the same band, forced to see each other each day and share a stage together every night as they toured the world with Fleetwood Mac. Under normal circumstances, when Christine and John McVie divorced, they would have gone their separate ways. Reserved, intelligent singer and songwriter for Fleetwood Mac whose album Rumours was one of the biggest-selling of all time Christine McVie in 1979: she wrote many of the band’s most famous songs
