Christine McVie
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Christine McVie enjoyed huge success with Fleetwood Mac, penning many of their signature songs including You Make Loving Fun, Oh Daddy, Little Lies, Everywhere and Songbird. The band has sold more than 100 million records and the album Rumours remains one of the most popular discs of all time, with sales of more than 40 million copies. The album was recorded during 1976 whilst the band members were going through relationship break-ups and the stories of excess and drug taking during the 1970s and 1980s are well documented.
In 1998 McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The same year, after almost 30 years with the band, and having a developed a fear of flying, she opted to leave and lived in semi-retirement for the next 15 years, releasing only one solo album in 2004. She bought a Jacobean house in Kent and spent the next four years restoring it.
Christine rejoined the band officially in January 2014, and that year she received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Presenter: Kirsty Young Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, I'm Kristi Young. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Desert Island Discs, where every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, the book and the luxury item |
| 0:11.0 | that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away on a desert island. |
| 0:15.0 | For rights reasons, the music on these podcast versions is shorter than in the original broadcast. |
| 0:22.0 | You can find over 2,000 more editions to listen to and download on the Desert Island Discs website. |
| 0:28.0 | This is an extended edition of the original broadcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Music |
| 0:52.0 | My cast away this week is the musician Christine McVeigh, |
| 0:57.0 | as an essential part of the Supergroup Fleetwood Mac, the singing, songwriting and keyboard playing |
| 1:02.0 | she contributed to their sound was ero defining. |
| 1:05.0 | You make loving fun, oh daddy, little lies, everywhere and songbird, |
| 1:09.0 | at a few of her most enduring compositions. |
| 1:12.0 | But whilst Fleetwood Mac's output represents the ultimate in mid-70s melodic rock, |
| 1:17.0 | their backstage behaviour was often less than harmonious, |
| 1:21.0 | with breakups, booze, drugs and egos making life in the band, well complex. |
| 1:26.0 | Yet through it all, my cast away seemed to steer a relatively straight path, |
| 1:31.0 | never entirely giving way to the worst excesses of the rock and roll playbook. |
| 1:35.0 | Maybe it was something to do with her background. |
| 1:38.0 | Her father was a concert violinist, her grandfather and organist at Westminster Abbey, |
| 1:43.0 | and her maiden name is, I kid you not, Christine perfect. |
| 1:47.0 | She says of the glory years with Fleetwood Mac, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.