Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
2 appearances
Musician, singer-songwriter and keyboardist, best known as an essential member of the supergroup Fleetwood Mac, with era-defining compositions like 'Songbird' a
On the island
Eight records
Winter (from The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 4 in F minor, RV 297)
Nigel Kennedy, English Chamber Orchestra
this always reminds me of my father, 'cause my father, with being a concert violinist, I always used to hear him practising in the front room, as we called it, and he was often playing Vivaldi.
I think that's how I got interested where my boogie left hand came from
My parents bought me the Beatles album for Christmas... I played this record until there was nothing left of it
This is just before he left. And one can only wonder what he would have written had he stayed
I was a huge Everly Brothers fan... We started playing guitars and singing all the Everly Brothers songs... I met him when I was Christine McVeigh from Fleetwood Mac and we did a duet together
He swept me off my feet big time. And we had a very, very roller coaster affair for a couple of years.
The Lark AscendingFavourite
Tasman Little, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis
I collapsed in tears with emotion... probably the most beautiful piece of music I ever heard.
In conversation
Presenter asks
3:56Songbird is one of my favourite songs. How was it written?
Well, that's a mystery to me as well... I just felt as if it was a universal kind of prayer or something. I just don't know where it came from. It's never happened to me since or before.
Presenter asks
20:23Can you remember what your impressions were of meeting Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham for the first time in that Mexican restaurant?
I remember vividly. It was fantastic, and I just saw the five of us sitting around the table, and I just thought. This has to happen. Did you? Yeah. And Mick had already said to me that it was down to whether I got on with the girl... fortunately, when I met her, I immediately took to her. I just thought she was charming and funny. I just remember her sense of humour, which she still has to this day, and I adore her. Plus, Lindsay was the god. He was such a good looking guy, still is. And then the chemistry flowed from there.
Presenter asks
25:55Despite all the interpersonal chaos, why did you stick with the band?
It was because of the music, because of the art. I think we just knew that we had an alchemy.
The keepsakes
The book
The Life and Times of Henry VIII
I have a great fascination for Henry VIII. ... So I was going to say the largest, biggest, fattest book that I could possibly have of the life and times of Henry VIII, including the social history.
The luxury
a baby grand piano (Songbird piano)
For me, it's obvious. It would have to be a piano, right?
Presenter asks
30:34Do you think that drugs had something to do with the brilliance of the music you were producing? Do you think you needed that to make that music?
I don't know if I would have written Songbird. Had I not had a couple of tuts of cocaine and a and a half a bottle of champagne. And I just couldn't sleep. Or written any of the songs. that were on that album because I mean I think we were all pretty loaded.
Presenter asks
34:39What did you think your life was going to become when you left the band and moved back to England?
some kind of wild image in my mind that I was going to become a country lady. Complete antithesis of somebody in the rock and roll world. So why did you want that? I think I wanted to settle. I wanted a nest. I wanted to be back in England again. I wanted to tread on English soil. Everything had to be really English. The Arger, the Range Rover, the Hunter Boots, the Barber Jacket, even the Horsey Scarf.
Presenter asks
38:32You developed a chronic fear of flying and other issues. Can you elaborate on that?
issues of isolation and uh I developed agoraphobia, dreadful fear of leaving my front doorstep. I mean I couldn't even get in my car. That's how bad it was. And so then this therapist said, Well, first of all, you have to get someone to drive your car out of the garage so it's close to the house. So that happened. He said, Now go and touch the car, have a look inside it, then the next day sit in the driver's seat. And it I did that for about two weeks, and within two weeks I was driving again.
“It was as though it was only yesterday when I had left the band. It was amazing.”
“I just felt as if it was a universal kind of prayer or something. I just don't know where it came from. It's never happened to me since or before.”
“It was because of the music, because of the art. I think we just knew that we had an alchemy.”
“I can't tell you how happy I am that I changed my mind.”
“it's my musical family, and I adore every single one of them. And combined, we just create something.”
“I'm aware of my status in the band now. It's it's secured.”