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On November 30th, Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie will have been gone two years, dying from a stroke and metastatic cancer, leaving a hole so profound in the band that both Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood said the band cannot go on without her....Yesterday, a new Christine McVie biography came out from rock biographer Melissa Ruggieri (She's done bio's of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, among others) -- it's called "Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie"...chronicling her early life in Birmingham, England, how she was hoping to be an art teacher and artist like her dad, then hanging out in art school with blues musicians, leading to her being part of the band "Chicken Shack," then Fleetwood Mac....here's a bunch more details from the book, like what led to her divorce from Mick Fleetwood, why she retired from the band in 1998, then rejoined in 2014, and her incredibly tight relationship with Stevie Nicks: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/christine-mcvie-s-life-from-stevie-nicks-to-complicated-loves-celebrated-in-biography/ar-AA1uo2kb?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=456061512ab74afa8ddf3fd40e90806b&ei=32