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In Memorial

  • Christine McVie

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    Christine Anne McVie
    July 12, 1943 – November, 30 2022

    Christine Anne McVie was an English musician and singer. She was principally known as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac, which she joined in 1970, as a singer and the band's keyboardist. She also released three solo albums. Her lyrics focused on love and relationships. Steve Leggett of AllMusic described her as an "unabashedly easy-on-the-ears singer/songwriter, and the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits". Eight songs written or co-written by her, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album.

    In 1998, as a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The same year, after almost 30 years with the band, she opted to leave and lived in semi-retirement for nearly 15 years. She released a solo album in 2004.

    In her early years, McVie was a fan of Fleetwood Mac, and while touring with Chicken Shack, the two bands would often meet. They also were both signed to Blue Horizon, and Fleetwood Mac had asked her to play piano as a session musician for Peter Green's songs on the band's second album, Mr. Wonderful. McVie went on to become an integral member, another lead vocalist, and keyboardist of the group The first album with her as a full band member was Future Games, which was also the first with American-born member Bob Welch in place of founding member Jeremy Spencer.

    After a brief illness, McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79.

  • Taylor Hawkins

    to come

  • Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson

    Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson was co-founder of the band 'Canned Heat' with his friend Bob 'The Bear' Hite. Alan was an unlikely “rock star”. As the band’s primary musical arranger, he drew upon his scholarly knowledge of blues roots music to create the music which would become synonymous with the Woodstock generation.

    To this day “Going Up The Country” a lyrically rearranged cover of the old blues song written by Henry Thomas, and “On The Road Again” are used in the soundtracks of movies, commercials, and TV shows. But his passion for the blues also netted him fame, a fringe benefit that he was not altogether comfortable with. Quiet and somewhat introverted, he preferred the solace and comfort of nature to the rigorous touring schedule of a successful band.

    Alan Wilson battled anxiety and depression in a time when the artillery was rudimentary at best. Unfortunately, he lost the battle in 1970.

    It has been forty years and several generations of blues inspired music since we lost Alan. Almost as many years had passed between Alan’s musical scene of the sixties and that of the founding fathers and mothers of pre war rural blues to which Alan felt such a strong connection.

    Music evolves every time a musician “connects” with an existing genre of music and is inspired to combine different sounds and techniques to create a distinctly new musical style. In this way Alan made his contribution to the evolution of blues/ rock with a unique style that remained true to the spirit and feeling of the early primitive blues he loved. Forty years later the evolution continues as young musicians take inspiration from Alan and other musical innovators to create their own significant “mutations” in the evolution of blues rock!

    Read Alan Wilson's Biography here.
    An interview with Alan Wilson in 1968