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Throughout various personal unrest for which members Fleetwood Mac Known, one relationship for decades supported the group: friendship between its two advanced ones. Christina Makl And Stevivi NIXField
Makok joined the group in 1970 during one of his early changes in the composition, and for many years her only woman was. When NIX was added to the composition in 1975, they became quick friends.
They were not a competitive relationship, and the women's nursing are gifted by the authors of the songs responsible for the creation of many of the most famous melodies of the group. Despite the fact that they collapsed in the 1980s against the backdrop of the worsening drug addiction of Nix and the growing internal tension of the group, they returned together when Makes returned to Fleetwood Mac in 2014.
At a concert in London, shortly before Makli officially joined the group, NIX Provided The song “Locked” her “mentor. Big sister. The best friend “. And at the end of the show, Maklus was there, accompanying their group comrades for “not to stop.”
“I never want her to ever leave my life again, and this has nothing to do with music and everything connected with her, and I, like friends,” NIX said Minneapolis Star-Traibune in 2015.
On Wednesday Makl, group “singerHe died after a short illness at the age of 79 years. Below re -visit the perennial relations of Makl and Nix as a group of groups, best friends and sisters.
McVie and Nicks hit from the very beginning
The story of how NIX will join Fleetwood Mac, now legend: the founder of the group and drummer Mick Flitwood wanted to hire the guitarist Lindsay Buckingham, who provided that he would join only if his girlfriend and musician NIX could also join. Makl gave a decisive voice, and the rest is a story.
“It was very important that I would go with her because I never played with another girl,” said Gardian in 2013. “But I liked it instantly. She was funny and sweet, but also there were no competitions. We were completely different on stage with each other, and we also wrote in the other way. ”
Throughout the personal complications of the group, Maklu married and bred Basist Flitwood Mac John Makl and had an affair with the director of the group, while Nicks had novels on the American hill with Buckingem and Flitwood – they were the center of each other.
“To be in a group with another girl who was this amazing musician – (Makl) immediately became my best friend,” nix said New Yorkshop at the beginning of this year. “Christina was a completely different ball game. She liked to hang out with the guys. She was just comfortable with men than when I was. ”
According to Nix, these two defended each other in the industry, where men dominate: “At the very beginning, we concluded an agreement that they never treated all the male musicians in society.
“I would say to her:“ Together we are a serious power of nature, and this will give us the power to maneuver with the waters that are ahead of us, ”NIX New Yorku said.
The group succeeds, but McVie and Nicks are growing
“Rumors” have become the biggest success of the group today, when it was released in 1977. But the relationship between the group worsened with each other, except that between McVie and Nicks. While the couple was experiencing gaps with their significant others, NIX and Makl spent time behind the scenes.
The Keeper asked Makl whether she was trying to compensate for the group’s explosion with her songs on “rumors”, including the frivolous “You Make Lovin 'Fun” and the optimistic “Donomet Stop”. She said she probably was.
As the drug use of multiple participants in the group’s dynamics increased. Makli distance from the group in 1984 amid the addiction of her colleague in the group, telling the guardian that she was “just tired of it.” NIX, meanwhile, became dependent on cocaine.
Makl said Rolling Stone in the same year when she grew up from Nicks: “It seems that it has developed its own fantasy world in which I am not part. We communicate little. ”
In 1986, NIKS registered in the center of Betty Ford to relate to her dependence, although later it became dependent on the clonopin, which she said She declared the years of her life. She left the prescription drug in the 1990s.
After the recording of some solo works, Makes returned to Fleetwood Mac for her 1987 album “Tango in the Night”, and her two songs on this record – “Little Lies” and “Everywhere” – became the main hits. But shortly after this, NIX left the group, and the most famous composition of the group will not officially reunite until 1997 for the Tour of The Dance and the subsequent living album.
The reunion was short -lived: after the group was Introduced In 1998, Maklla officially left Flitwood Mac, in the Glory Hall of Glory. quoting Fear of flight and exhaustion of life on the road.
Mcvie returns to Fleetwood Mac – and to the side of Nicks
In the 2010s, after more than a decade of retirement, he played with a return to the performance. She officially joined Flitwood Mac after the Flitwood himself called and assessing what her return would mean for the group.
“Fortunately, Stevi was dying So that I will return, like the rest of the group “, she said Art table.
In 2015, a year after she joined Flitwood Mack, Makok hit her group comrades. The tour with the group was tiring, but fun, for the first time they performed together in recent years.
“I'm here only for Stevi”, she said New York this year.
NIX agreed: “When we hit the road, I realized what amazing friend she was from mine, I lost, and still did not realize all the consequences of this,” she said to “Minneapolis Stars” in 2015.
During this tour, Makli wore a silver chain that Nyx gave to her – “Metaphor”, Mak “New Yorkza” – that the group’s chain will never be broken. In any case, not me. Not again with me. ”
Makes told The Arts Desk in 2016 that she and NIKS were “best friends than (they) were 16 years ago.”
According to Makl, touring with Bakingem and Flitwood can quickly become stormy for Nick, from their common history. “But with me it gave Stevie the opportunity to return her breath and not have this constant thing with Lindsay: her sister returned,” she said.
Their mutual praise continued: in 2019 mcvie said NIX was “just incredible” on stage: “The more I see that she performs on stage, the better, I think she is. She holds the fort. ”
When their tour 2018-2019 ended, at least Bakingham, who was dismissed – The group “Like broke up”, mcvie said Rolling Stone at the beginning of this year. She added that she did not talk to Nix as often as when they toured together.
As for the reunion, Makling Stone said that, although he was not at the table, she did not feel “physically for it”.
“I have a little long in my teeth here,” she said. “I am very glad to be at home. I don’t know if I would ever tour again. This is damn hard work. ”
News about the death of Makl, nickname thundered, which wrote What she found out, only Makok was sick a few days earlier. She called Mcvie her “best friend around the world from the first day of 1975.”
On it social media Accounts, NIX shared a handwritten note containing the texts of the song Haim Song “Hallelujah,” Some of which are discussing grief and the loss of a best friend.
“See you on the other side, my love,” Nyx wrote. “Do not forget me – always, Stevie.”
