Desert Island Discs Revisited

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Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Musicians: Christine McVie

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Christine McVie, musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

4 Extra Debut. From Etta James to Ralph Vaughan Williams. Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie shares her choices with Kirsty Young. From 2017.

From Etta James to Ralph Vaughan Williams. 

Singer and composer Christine McVie shares her choices with Kirsty Young. 

Christine enjoyed huge success with Fleetwood Mac, penning many of their signature songs including You Make Loving Fun, Oh Daddy, Little Lies, Everywhere and Songbird. 

The band has sold more than 100 million records and rumours remains one of the most popular albums of all time, with sales of over 40 million. It was recorded in 1976 whilst band members were going through relationship break-ups and the stories of excess and drug taking during the 1970s and 1980s are well documented. 

In 1998, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The same year, after almost 30 years with the band, and having a developed a fear of flying, she opted to leave and lived in semi-retirement for the next 15 years, releasing only one solo album in 2004. She bought a Jacobean house in Kent and spent the next four years restoring it.

Christine re-joined the band officially in January 2014, and that year she received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Musicians

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A collection of musician castaways share their desert island choices.

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