Christine McVie, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist who became the biggest hit-maker for Fleetwood Mac, one of music¡¯s most popular bands, died on Wednesday. She was 79.
Her family announced her death on Facebook. The statement said she died at a hospital but did not specify its location or give the cause of death. In June, McVie told Rolling Stone that she was in ¡°quite bad health¡± and that she had endured debilitating problems with her back.
McVie¡¯s commercial potency, which hit a high point in the 1970s and ¡¯80s, was on full display on Fleetwood Mac¡¯s ¡°Greatest Hits¡± anthology, released in 1988, which sold 8 million copies: She either wrote or co-wrote half of its 16 tracks. Her tally doubled that of the next most prolific member of the band¡¯s trio of singer-songwriters, Stevie Nicks. (The third, Lindsey Buckingham, scored three major Billboard chart-makers on that collection.)
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