The band sold 4 million copies of Fleetwood Mac and over 15 million of its follow-up, Rumours. With a new lineup, their first album together, titled Fleetwood Mac, found success with McVie's songs "Over My Head" and "Say You Love Me" both reaching Billboard's top-20 singles chart.
Within a year, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band. In 1974, with the band, McVie reluctantly relocated to the United States in effort to make a fresh start. Having been a huge fan of the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac and versed in all the lyrics to their songs, she joined in. Peter Green had left the band, leaving Fleetwood Mac with reservations to perform live without him. By the time she had joined Fleetwood Mac full-time, she had already contributed backup vocals and painted the cover for Kiln House (the fourth studio album recorded by Fleetwood Mac). She continued her career with the recording of a solo album, Christine Perfect following her success as a member of Fleetwood Mac, the album was reissued under the name of the Legendary Christine Perfect Album. McVie left Chicken Shack after marrying Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie. Fleetwood Mac asked her to play piano as a session musician for Peter Green's songs on the band's second album, Mr. While touring with Chicken Shack, the band would often meet with Fleetwood Mac (they shared the same label at Blue Horizon). McVie earned a Melody Maker award for female vocalist of the year and lauded for having one of the "top 10 pairs of legs in all of Britain". With two albums in, Chicken Shack found success with "I'd Rather Go Blind", a song originally recorded by Etta James in 1967. Chicken Shack debuted with "It's Okay With Me Baby", written by and featuring McVie. However, after learning Webb and Silvester were scouting a pianist to join their band, Chicken Shack, she wrote them with request to join-they invited her to play keyboards/piano and to sing backing vocals. By the time McVie graduated from college with a teaching degree, Sounds of Blue dismembered McVie, unable to gather funds to find a place in the world of visual arts, took her teaching diploma to London where she worked briefly as a department store window dresser for Regent Street department store. Christine then met Stan Webb and Andy Silvester and joined them in the band, Sounds of Blue. She made some duo appearances with Spencer Davis (before he teamed with Steve Winwood and Muff Windwood for the ignition of the Spencer Davis Group).
While studying sculpture at Birmingham Art College, she got caught in the throes of the blues revival that was sweeping England. It is said that she became addicted to Rock and Roll from the very first time she looked through a Fats Domino songbook. She then shifted her musical focus to Rock and Roll. Introduced to the piano at the age of four, McVie did not study music until age 11, continuing her classical training until age 15. McVie's grandfather was an organist at Westminster Abbey.
Her mother Beatrice ("Tee", née Reece) was a medium, psychic and faith healer. He remained active in the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra into his mid-eighties. Born into a musical family, McVie's father, Cyril Perfect, was an accomplished violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley. English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter for British-American rock band, Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie was born Christine Anne Perfect on July 12th, 1943 in the Lake District village of Bouth, England (then Lancashire, now Cumbria), and grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham.
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