A Re-Post from 5 August 2018, about Christine McVie who passed away this week:<\/p>\n
Fleetwood Mac \u2013 A Soul Group \u2013 Part 3:\u00a0 Christine Perfect\/McVie<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf you wake up and don\u2019t want to smile from \u201cDon\u2019t Stop\u201d by Christine McVie<\/p>\n Christine McVie<\/strong><\/p>\n Time to introduce the first female member of the band, but before Christine\u2019s arrival, they had to deal with the loss of founder member Peter Green.\u00a0 The band were doing well, releasing two albums in 1968, \u201cFleetwood Mac\u201d and \u201cMr. Wonderful\u201d.\u00a0 They continued to increase their fan base.<\/p>\n Although he had founded the group, Peter Green, was becoming increasingly unhappy with the way of life.\u00a0 Belonging to the band gradually became dissonant with his developing philosophy of life.\u00a0 He told Mick:<\/p>\n \u201cMick I don\u2019t want to waste my life.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing.\u00a0 I\u2019m wasting my life.\u201d<\/p>\n He was becoming increasingly sensitive to the suffering in the world, and wanted to give all his money to the poor.\u00a0 He was obsessed with his search for God.\u00a0 Mick described the reaction of the rest of the group: \u201cWe agreed with the beauty of his idealism, but we were practical.\u201d<\/p>\n During their European tour of February 1970, he took LSD with some German hippies, and effectively left the band.\u00a0 The effect on the band, according to Mick, was \u201clike taking the rudder out of a sailing boat\u201d.\u00a0 Mick stepped into the role of leader, but there was a huge void: \u201cLuckily we knew the finest blues-woman and piano player in all of England, Christine Perfect.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n Christine was a member of the group Chicken Shack, who had married John McVie in August 1968.<\/p>\n Her Birth Chart<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n She fitted right into the band, astrologically.\u00a0 As we saw in Part 1, three of the original members of the band were Cancerian (Mick Fleetwood, Jeremy Spencer and Bob Brunning).<\/p>\n The soul characteristic of the group was about expressing human emotion.\u00a0 So of the 6 members introduced thus far, four were Cancerian, though one had left (Bob Brunning).\u00a0 When I come to write my future blog on Music band Sun signs, Fleetwood Mac will represent that sign!\u00a0 From Part 2 in the series, we saw that John McVie\u2019s North Node in Cancer gave him a karmic key into the group.<\/p>\n As well as being a vocalist and keyboard player, Christine was a major force in terms of songwriting for the group, and this is shown by her conjunction of Venus and Chiron (across the cusp of Leo\/Virgo).\u00a0 Adele also has this conjunction, which has the ability to express the poignancy of love.\u00a0 Christine\u2019s hits would later form the core of the great album Rumours, which included Don\u2019t Stop, Little Lies, Everywhere, and You Make Loving Fun.<\/p>\n Relationships<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n In her synastry with John McVie, there was much tension (which may have been creative).\u00a0 Her Sun squared his Jupiter, her Venus squared his Sun, and their Marses were squared.\u00a0 On the plus side, her Jupiter was conjunct his Mars, and her Uranus trine his Neptune.<\/p>\n Their transits on their marriage (after a two week romance) were Mars sextile her Uranus (whirlwind relationship) and conjunct her Pluto (a force of nature); and for John the transits were more involved but positive (three trines), giving him more personal stability.<\/p>\n For her personal and working relationship with Mick Fleetwood: Mick\u2019s Jupiter was trine exactly Christine\u2019s Sun (success).\u00a0 His Saturn was supportive of her Uranus in a sextile, balancing discipline and innovation.\u00a0 His Saturn was also conjunct her Pluto, which was more difficult, and his Chiron aspects were a little antagonistic, so again there may have been some creative tension between these two.<\/p>\n As for her relationship with Peter Green, who had been best man at their wedding: harmoniously, her Jupiter trined his Venus.\u00a0 And as so often when someone replaces someone else in a role or line up, there is an exact, powerful Pluto interaspect (as I have mentioned before) \u2013 in this case, her Pluto was exactly square his Sun.<\/p>\n Her synastry with the chart of the band (see Part 1) was largely harmonious: her Saturn sextile its Sun, her Mercury trine its Mars, her North Node conjunct its Jupiter (a beneficial karmic link), and her Sun sextile its Pluto.\u00a0 Her Mercury squared its Saturn, so she may have brought some challenging thought to bear.<\/p>\n Progress<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Christine joined Fleetwood Mac on tour at the start of 1970, and Mick Fleetwood describes the state of affairs at that time:<\/p>\n \u201cThe band\u2019s new formula remained true to our roots, showcasing Jeremy\u2019s skills, whilst allowing Danny to do more melodic rock\u2026Christine became the glue\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n On a personal note, we went to see them at Nottingham University (before hubby and I were married) in early 1971.\u00a0 We were a little disappointed by their performance at the time, Christine had already joined them, but it was before some of their dizzier heights as a group.\u00a0 I do seem to recall they played Albatross, Black Magic Woman and Man of the World.\u00a0 We always remember different things.\u00a0 Hubby recalls some hiccups, such as a lack of co-ordination between the drummer and the bassist, while trying to get the rhythm right.\u00a0 They were about to lose Jeremy Spencer (departing in February 1971) and Danny Kirwan, but about to gain Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (subjects of Part 4).<\/p>\n Bibliography:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPlay On\u201d by Mick Fleetwood<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Re-Post from 5 August 2018, about Christine McVie who passed away this week: Fleetwood Mac \u2013 A Soul Group \u2013 Part 3:\u00a0 Christine Perfect\/McVie \u201cIf you wake up and don\u2019t want to smile If it takes just a little while Open your eyes and look at the day You\u2019ll see things in a different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph9pin-1RW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf it takes just a little while
\nOpen your eyes and look at the day
\nYou\u2019ll see things in a different way\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n