Stevie Nicks has paid tribute to her Fleetwood Mac bandmate, the late Christine McVie, with an emotional rendition of their basic Landslide.
Acting at her co-headlining tour with Billy Joel in Los Angeles yesterday, Nicks ended her 16-song set with a tribute to her “greatest buddy in the entire world”, as she known as McVie in a press release shortly after McVie died on November 30 final yr.
Coming to the top of her efficiency of the band’s hit tune Landslide, with footage of the 2 buddies all through the years flashing on the display screen behind her, Nicks struggled to get the final of the lyrics out, bowing her head and resting it on the mic as she cried.
Watch the video above.
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As soon as she was in a position to communicate once more, she instructed the group, “There’s actually not a lot to say. We simply will faux that she’s nonetheless right here. That is how I am attempting to cope with it. Thanks for listening.”
She then retreated again to her bandmates and took a bow with them to shut out the present, nonetheless visibly upset.
It is the primary time Nicks has spoken out concerning the tragedy since penning a touching handwritten tribute when she first heard of McVie’s passing late final yr.
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“A couple of hours in the past I used to be instructed that my greatest buddy in the entire world for the reason that first day of 1975, had handed away. I did not even know she was unwell… till late Saturday evening,” Nicks wrote on Twitter and Instagram on the time.
“I needed to get to London however we have been instructed to attend. So, since Saturday, one tune has been swirling round in my head, again and again and over. I believed I would presumably get to sing it to her, and so, I am singing it to her now. I at all times knew I would want these phrases at some point (written by the Women Haim). It is all I can do now.”
Nicks, 74, then wrote out the lyrics to Haim’s 2019 hit Hallelujah, which embrace the lyrics, “I had a greatest buddy however she has come to go – one I want I may see now … You have been there to guard me like a protect, lengthy hair operating with me by means of the sector.”
“See you on the opposite aspect, my love,” Nicks concluded. “Remember me – All the time, Stevie.”
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