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Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie dies at 79

NEW YORK — Christine McVie, the British-born Fleetwood Mac vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose cool, soulful contralto helped define such classics as "You Make Loving Fun," "Everywhere" and "Don't Stop," died Wednesday at age 79.

Her death was announced on the band's social media accounts. No cause of death or other details were immediately provided, but a family statement said she "passed away peacefully at hospital this morning" with family around her after a "short illness."

"She was truly one-of-a-kind, special and talented beyond measure," the band's statement reads in part.

Individuals from Fleetwood Macintosh (from left) Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Scratches, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie present with their Collection of the Year Grammy Grant for "Bits of hearsay" in Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 1978.

McVie was a consistent presence and character in a band known for its continuous setup changes and unpredictable characters — outstandingly individual vocalist musicians Stevie Scratches and Lindsey Buckingham.

Fleetwood Macintosh began as a London blues band during the 1960s, and developed into one of the characterizing creators of 1970s California pop-rock, with the consolidated gifts of McVie, Scratches and Buckingham secured by the cadence segment of organizer Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass.

During its pinnacle business years, from 1975-80, the band sold huge number of records and was a continuous wellspring of interest for fans as it changed individual fights into melodic, convincing tunes. McVie herself had been hitched to John McVie, and their separation — alongside the split of Scratches and Buckingham — was broadly reported on the 1977 delivery "Tales," among the top of the line collections ever.

Fleetwood Macintosh was enlisted into the Rowdy Corridor of Notoriety in 1998. The gathering's numerous other hit singles incorporated Scratches' "Fantasies," Buckingham's "Head out in a different direction" and McVie's "Little Lies." Perhaps of McVie's most darling work, the smart ditty "Warbler," was a grandstand for her in show and covered by Willie Nelson, among others.

McVie, conceived Christine Amazing in Bouth, Lancashire, had been playing piano since adolescence, however put away her traditional preparation once she heard early stone records by Fats Domino and others.

While learning at the Moseley School of Craftsmanship, she got to know different individuals from England's arising blues scene and, in her 20s, joined the band Chicken Shack as a vocalist and piano player. Among the adversary groups she respected was Fleetwood Macintosh, which then highlighted the abilities of blues guitarist Peter Green alongside the cadence segment of Fleetwood and McVie. By 1970, she had joined the gathering and hitched John McVie.

Scarcely any groups succeeded so exceptionally well as Fleetwood Macintosh, against such one in a million chances. Green was among the numerous entertainers who left the gathering, and at different times Fleetwood Macintosh appeared to be very nearly finishing, or disappearing. All the more as of late, Buckingham was thrown out, supplanted on visit by Mike Campbell and Neil Finn.

McVie herself left for quite a long time, just to return for good in 2014.