Fleetwood Mac is still popular thanks to 'drama', says star Christine McVie
FLEETWOOD MAC keyboard player Christine McVie reckons the only reason the group are still so popular and manage to sell out huge concert venues is because fans are hoping to see a punch-up on stage.
Christine McVie reckons fans are hoping to see a punch up on stage
The songwriter acknowledges that the turbulent personal history of the band – with marriages and break-ups and comings and goings – is as alluring as the music itself.
Speaking ahead of a Fleetwood Mac world tour next year and as the group’s 1982 album Mirage is reissued Christine, also one of their singer/songwriters, said: “I think people know what they’re going to get.
"I think people hope they’re going to see some drama or something on stage.
“Maybe they’ll see somebody beat somebody up. There’s always a bit of tension. There’s always some little thing somewhere. But that’s part of the band.”
The 73-year-old also puts their longevity and unquenchable popularity down to them never really being seen as trendy and as such are appreciated more retrospectively – much like Swedish group Abba have been.
“We were like Abba. Abba would be so uncool and then people would realise these guys are geniuses. A bit like that we’d disappear for five years and then pop up with another record and tour.
“It’s very difficult to get all five of us in one room. It’s like herding sheep. It’s almost impossible. You need a really good sheepdog.”
Myleene Klass reckons her chances of a good night’s kip have gone
MYLEENE KLASS reckons her chances of a good night’s kip have gone such is the difficulty of combining childcare with her hefty workload.
“Being a working mother is my life. I will probably never sleep again,” says the model, pianist, fashion designer and presenter, who has daughters Ava, eight, and Hero, five, with her ex-husband Graham Quinn.
Myleene, 38, does at least think of her kids as more than just a source of sleep deprivation: “As a single mother and working mum, you take your strength from your children.”
They are everything to me. They give me a new lease of life every day.” Just a shame she’s too tired to appreciate it!
Lady Gaga held a specially arranged album preview in New York for just 100 of her fans
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LADY GAGA held a specially arranged album preview in New York for just 100 of her fans to showcase her latest offering Joanne.
The 30-year-old invited the select group of her Little Monsters – the term for Gaga afi cionados – to a private party to listen to the new LP at Electric Lady Studios, where it was recorded.
The album, which comes out next month, is said to be “rock-pop with hints of country-rock overtones”, according to a source.
Gaga also used the opportunity to showcase the video for Perfect Illusion, the first single from the album, which sees her dancing in the desert.
WANT to dress like a Beatle? JOHN LENNON’s made-to-measure stage suit from 1964 is up for auction this month with an estimate of a rather hefty £50,000.
The grey and black tweed houndstooth suit in a classic early 1960s close-fi tting style was created by the band’s bespoke London tailor DOUGLAS MILLINGS.
John Lennon's made-to-measure stage suit from 1964 is up for auction this month
He was commissioned by their manager BRIAN EPSTEIN to make the once scruffy leatherclad Fab Four’s smart stage outfits “in an effort to make them more visually palatable to the pop audience he felt they could reach”.
Lennon later donated the suit to London’s Madame Tussauds.