When Nicks dedicated a song to Adele (“You’re gonna be me in 40 years”), you could imagine Adele appreciating the sentiment but not envying everything Nicks has been through. From past ones - the implosion of Christine’s relationship with bassist John McVie and Buckingham’s with singer Stevie Nicks - to present ones - John is in remission from cancer.

Their woes, singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham noted wryly, have been “quite well documented”. John McVie and Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac Marilyn KingwillĮlation or desolation - they don’t really do anything in between. “Our songbird has indeed returned,” beamed Mick Fleetwood, and the giant drummer wasn’t the only one feeling elated during a show full of potent renditions of their Seventies standards: The Chain, Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon. Four out of Five stars After leaving one of the most dysfunctional bands in rock, Christine McVie is back, and Fleetwood Mac’s classic line-up are performing together for the first time in 16 years.

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