Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie by Lesley-Ann JonesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I took a freshly purchased copy of this biography with me on my recent visit back home to California, and left it sitting on a tabletop at SFO for some other reader to find, should they be interested in a free book. My family always loved the late Christine McVie most of any of the three vocalists of the great Buckingham/Nicks era of Fleetwood Mac, but this biography covers her early Mac work as well, and also her pre-Mac time with the band Chicken Shack and how she had a background with almost as much mysticism as Stevie Nicks's image, thanks in part to her mum's claims of psychic and healing powers. It's a bit detached in style, but given that McVie was quite private and content to shun the spotlight in comparison to Buckingham and Nicks and of course Mick Fleetwood, that's not really much of a surprise.
This would've been a four star read for me, but I feel compelled to drop one in response to Jones's insistence on belittling two of my favorite underrated Mac albums - Mirage, which was an old fave of my parents too because of it coming out around the time they first dated, and Behind the Mask, which I fell in love with as a child when I found it on tape, and is one of the few albums I've heard on vinyl, cassette, CD, and MP3. (And, of course, it's the title of my projected first Finn Cooper Mystery, a book that wouldn't exist without my love for Fleetwood Mac deep cuts of a certain vintage.)
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