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The ambiguity of “Songbird” captures the selflessness of love—for someone or one’s self. McVie insisted that the song was never about anyone, or anything, in particular. “It doesn’t really relate to anybody in particular; it relates to everybody,” said McViein a 2017 interview on the meaning of the song. “A lot of people play it at their weddings o...
McVie has said on many occasions that she wrote “Songbird” in just 30 minutes and needed to get the melody and lyrics out as swiftly as possible so she wouldn’t forget it. “I called a producer first thing the next day and said, ‘I’ve got to put this song down right now,’” shared McVie. “I played it nervously, but I remembered it. Everyone just sat ...
Playing right in the center of the band’s 1977 album, Rumours, “Songbird” was a focal point, and perhaps a turning point for the band, which was tangled in intra-band relationships, drugs, and other dysfunctional behavior, prior to recording the album. When McVie played the song for them, they all realized how much they loved one another.
Breaking from the Sausalito Record Plant where the band was finishing up their Rumourssessions, Caillat brought McVie to the Zellerbach Auditorium to record “Songbird.” Setting up 15 microphones placed around the auditorium, “Songbird” was captured with McVie, alone at the piano, as if she was performing alone, once everyone had left a concert. Lin...
McVie’s spiritual connection, or “visitation,” to a song like “Songbird” is likely linked to her mother Beatrice Edith Maud (1915-1968), who she said was a psychic medium and healer. When Fleetwood Mac was first moving from London to Los Angeles, and after several lineup changes, Maud had a premonition that things would go wrong, but that “not to w...
When asked what song he would want to be played at his funeral, drummer Mick Fleetwood named the McVie classic.” “The song at my funeral, which will be in five minutes—wow, that is maudlin,” said Fleetwood in an NMEinterview. “I’d probably pick ‘Songbird’ by Christine McVie, to send me off fluttering.” And the songbirds keep singing Like they know ...
Learn how McVie wrote "Songbird" in 30 minutes, inspired by a spiritual visitation, and how it saved Fleetwood Mac from their turmoil. Discover the song's universal message of love and its connection to McVie's mother and Mick Fleetwood.
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Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut. " Songbird " is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. The song first appeared on the band's 1977 album Rumours and was released as the B-side of the single "Dreams". It is one of four songs written solely by Christine McVie on the album.
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- February 1977
- March 3–4, 1976
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Jun 16, 2022 · Christine McVie On Her New Solo Collection ‘Songbird,’ Uncertain Future of Fleetwood Mac. Listen to her new version of the 1976 Fleetwood Mac classic "Songbird" where the original vocal...
Songbird Lyrics. [Verse: Christine McVie] For you, there'll be no more crying. For you, the sun will be shining. And I feel that when I'm with you. It's alright, I know it's right. To you, I...
