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“It’s like when you’re a kid. The first time they tell you that the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it because everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it; the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We’re falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go… That’s who I am.”

Christine McVie didn’t attract as much attention as the two other principal singer-songwriters in Fleetwood Mac, Nicks and Buckingham, after they joined. But she was just as vital to their most popular albums, penning the hits “Over My Head,” “Say You Love Me,” “You Make Loving Fun,” and “Don’t Stop.” Getty Images