Christine McVie Reviews the Sounds of October 1969

[@ogdenwernstom4085]

What a legend. And love that she reviews a Fleetwood Mac song first. RIP.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

What a great singer, songwriter, and musican. May Christine McVie rest in peace. Cheers! ✌️

[@mariuspoppFM]

Is she dead? Sad

[@goplad1]

I'm not ashamed to say I teared up at the end of this video when I saw a young Christine receiving her Melody Maker trophy. What a great artist. Classy and oh so talented. She will be missed. R.I.P. dear lady. And thanks for the beauty of music you gave to all.

[@MusicEnthuZone]

Recieving it from John Peel no less.

[@stephenwarhurst6615]

Now your making me tear up too. She was the real back bone of Fleetwood mac. R.I.P.

[@mnbv990]

Yes, a nice touch there at the end of the film.

[@PotrzebieConolly]

Same here.

[@jurgenwille135]

Really !

[@thecaveofthedead]

Perfect ending with her being given an award by John Peel.

[@simplechronology2605]

She had a generosity of spirit that comes through in these reviews. The 70's (and indeed the 60's) sure feel very far away today.

[@brucevair-turnbull8082]

I'll drink to that last comment.

[@TheBlueCream]

@@brucevair-turnbull8082 aye

[@TheBlueCream]

aye

[@EddieReischl]

Christine seemed to have an idea that Fleetwood Mac might be a good fit for her talents even at this stage. You get the feeling from the interview that she would be the kind of person you'd want to have around you in the studio, knew what she was talking about and gave constructive criticism. Thanks for sharing this, and may she rest in peace.

[@jimgsewell]

Led Zeppelin and The Sound Of Music sharing the same chart. RIP Christine McVie, your beautiful voice will be missed but not forgotten.

[@debbiewatkins6945]

Love hereing this Christine McVie 💕💕🙏🙏 You Rule Beautiful Songbird ❤️❤️🏵️🌼🌺🌸💐🍀💛❤️💙💚🇺🇸🇩🇪 Christine your beautiful VOICE 🙏🙏💛❤️💙💚 Love you sweet Lady ! Christine you will live forever in my Heart & MUZIK ! God bless

[@chrisbacos]

This a very loving tribute to Christine who left us last week. She obviously had an intelligent knowledge of the insides of the UK music business. She also was very astute with artists and their work as musicians and singers. RIP Christine. You had a great career and a good life.

[@fannycraddock99]

RIP Christine, your voice was indeed 'perfect'.

[@Cream1968]

She made living fun…We’ll never have another Miss Perfect ❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Annie-cb]

Thank you so much for this, YP. I remember going to a tiny Chicken Shack gig in 1968 and being impressed by her quietly professional presence and talent. Rest in love, peace and beautiful memories, Christine.

[@marrrtin]

Lovely footage of winning the Melody Maker award. Well done YP

[@martakrupinska674]

Christine McVie was an amazing singer. May she rest in peace. 🙏🙏🙏

[@lindadote]

A kind and generous critique. Not only was it pleasing to hear Christine praise the fabulous Danny Kirwan, the footage of her receiving her Melody Maker award was truly moving. In light of Christine’s recent passing, an especially poignant video YP, thank you.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers, Linda!

[@mariuspoppFM]

True

[@shemanic1]

Christine Perfect (McVie) was always the voice of Chicken Shack & later Fleetwood Mac that impressed me the most. R.I.P.

[@simonKagree]

I love Ms. Christine -- she was on the best Fleetwood Mac album, Kiln House, even drew the awesome cover -- and had the best voice.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

I love that record.

[@MrDino1953]

I love that record too. Every track is so strong, even those by Jeremy Spencer. And the cover was so wistful.

[@jasontorres7756]

I've been fond of that album ever since I heard it, Maybe my second favorite after BARE TREES.

[@bobsoldrecords1503]

Long live Christine in our memories. Beautiful lady, beautiful singer and beautiful soul

[@kevingill648]

So sad! talented singer/songwriter who will be truly missed. RIP

[@redghettosun9785]

A nice little homage to Christine McVie. She was very knowledgeable and intuitive about her likes in music. Lucky for us, she left a big body of work for us to keep enjoying her voice and spirit. R.I.P

[@davidellis5141]

Yesterday's Gone .. RIP

[@mikej70]

Shows she was a fair person not being harsh or too critical of songs. Her great personality shows through . Fly to the heavens our songbird!!

[@michaelrochester48]

“Oh well” was on the chart…It took Mike Campbell to convince the current incarnation of Fleetwood Mac to cover it in their very last tour with Christine McVie. Love that song

[@MrLuciano54]

One of the voices of my generation.

[@crisprtalk6963]

I always thought Christine was something special. Amazing talent.

[@katbela3971]

John Lennon hated ''Maxwell's Silver Hammer'' (1:25). It is true that the lyrics are weird, but the melody is beautiful. I have always liked it. As for David Essex, I love his films ''That’ll be the day'' (1973), and its sequel ''Stardust'' (1974). He overflowed with charisma. PS: Sad news about the passing of Christine McVie.😞

[@stephenbrown1622]

A lovely lady and a gentle lady RIP Christine mcvie thank you for entertaining us

[@deirdre108]

Choked up a wee bit at the footage of Christine receiving the MM reward. My, wasn’t she just Perfect. Thank you so much for this!

[@HendrixFreakazoid]

I remember so wanting to marry Christine when I was a kid and I never ever stopped loving her because for me she was the most lovely songbird I ever seen heard or felt she was my queen and I am just smashed to pieces that she's no longer here

[@mariuspoppFM]

😢

[@yoooohooooo]

my dad knew her when she was in chickenshack 🤍

[@AlexisDellmann]

So sweet! I think there were alot of guys who felt the same way you did. There was just something very Special about Christine that U couldn't resist..

[@redscunthorpe5501]

A great talent and knew the importance of the hook, always melodic and very hooky........

[@rosesippel2932]

Christie McVie what a Legend R.I.P. Chris

[@total.stranger]

Excellent tribute to Christine, YP. Thank you!

[@michaelrochester48]

Glad you chose Christine Mcvie…One of the great singers in both blues and pop

[@ShannonLee1956]

What a diplomatic lady! I have always preferred her voice to Stevie's. Rest well Christine

[@michaelwilson2340]

She and Lindsey were the creative engine of the band. The others were great but those two were a force together.

[@peterjevans8718]

Thank-you An honourable and "perfect" video on Christine Mcvie. It's sad that so many have gone, your videos are a great tribute to their memories. Best wishes for the new year Peter

[@Cream1968]

Wow, Blind Faith and Jack Bruce in the top album charts that’s awesome

[@MrUndersolo]

Thank you for this. There was so much talent in that woman, and I am still learning a great deal about her and her tastes. A very revealing clip!

[@rabit818]

Really saddened by Christine McVie leaving us. Her review is reasonable and honest. I love the vintage video of Christine.

[@gregbiggs7564]

RIP Christine!!! She was so Fabulous!!!!

[@NigelFortune]

R.I.P Christine 😢

[@BennyTheBall8899]

What a beautiful tribute.❤️

[@jeffclement2468]

Thanks for posting this. Very timely, and a nice clip of her with John Peel. I knew she was gonna like that Jimmy Cliff record. She had good taste. ❤😿🙏✌

[@scootdaws25]

She's so nice talking rating these tunes. She joined Fleetwood Mac during the Kiln House album. My personal favorite.

[@pcno2832]

3:59 I like that way she says she might enjoy it more after a couple of plays; I was thinking exactly the same thing. RIP CM. She and Buckingham had the best two voices Fleetwood Mac ever featured.

[@richsackett3423]

Weird: "Let Us Break Bread Together" was on a 1974 Mahalia Jackson tribute but I can't find the original of her doing it. Awesome to hear a bit of the early David Essex track. Rock on, Christine Perfect.

[@grokeffer6226]

Rest in Peace, Christine. I always liked her songs the best from Fleetwood Mac.

[@harrysmusicroom]

Always loved her vocals, gone too soon.

[@smkelly1970]

love that they played Kirwan's "Coming Your Way" for the Mac's lp review.. such a powerful album opener.

[@mikehunt8997]

She did a real good review of those new songs witout putting them down. A really good music critic besides being a skilled musician and she will be missed. Wonder if this was the only Blind Date episode she did.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yes, I think this was her only Blind Date.

[@edwardmulholland7912]

She was truly great. For the song “Songbird” alone she is in my own songwriters hall of fame - but she was so much more than that. Thank you for this. Loved the footage of her and John Peel.

[@DawlessHouseMusic]

RIP Ms. Perfect

[@SophieLovesSunsets]

Lovely tribute to the late great Christine, YP. A great musician who definitely has her place in music history 🎼💫 Seeing "Space Oddity" in the charts gave me chills. The birth of Ziggy 👨‍🚀💥🚀🛸Your outro was fantastic 💖

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks, Sophie! Glad you liked it.

[@SophieLovesSunsets]

@@YesterdaysPapers ❤

[@CC007]

God bless Christine...R.I.P. Thank you Yesterday's Papers...Happy Christmas, peace.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Happy Christmas.

[@thereunionparty]

I like the way the Melody Maker gave her a big old silver cup, as though she had won the tennis championship or some other sporting trophy. Obviously the days of heavy glass or metal ornaments as awards were still some way off. A very generous and knowledgeable reviewer, as well as a wonderful singer and composer. R.I.P. Christine McVie.

[@MrMjp58]

Another great video. I had just started at secondary school and was getting more and more into (pop) music at that time. A lot of blues- rock around at that time. Christine made some sensitive, thoughtful comments on the eclectic selection here. She was one of the rare cool and laconic pop/rock stars. RIP.

[@tamomarfernandez7548]

Rest in peace, songbird.

[@mackb909]

R.I.P. Christine (Perfect) McVie (1943-2022).

[@kevhead1525]

A timely post. Nice work bud.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks!

[@axelazaryan]

OMG Epic ending Goosebumps...

[@neilforbes416]

1:52 For the "record"(pun intended), *Maxwell's Silver Hammer* was also covered by Marmalade. Sorry to lose Christine this past week. I have the 1975 LP, *New Lovers & Old Friends* by Johnny Rivers on a Canadian-issue LP which contains a Christine McVie composition, "Spare Me A Little", one of my best-liked tracks on that LP.(I don't say "favourite" because it's hard to single out any songs I'd like over others).

[@tomp.6239]

Great stuff, great lady! 1000s of recordings of all genres I've collected over 60 yrs., "Then Play On" is still in my top 5; maybe even top 3. But I'm an old diehard Peter Green guy from Bluesbreakers days, anyhow.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

A truly great album.

[@tomp.6239]

@@YesterdaysPapers Actually, with mucho respects to Christine, 1st time I heard that orchestra "interlude" during "Fighting for Madge," I thought it was great; and hilarious 😂

[@Svain5]

What a top 30!!!

[@radiomindchatter7994]

Pleasant and fair...that was Christine.

[@jerrywatt6813]

RIP Christine you did good lovey ! I likes the TYA ssssh lp it was different and anything with Alvin Lee was a must listen for this guitarist in my young days all the UK guitarist were my inspiration my heroes and still are ! Good job YP in tribute to Christine Mc vie thanks cheers

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Great band, I love Ten Years After. Cheers, Jerry!

[@cbot72]

Rest in peace queen

[@jackal59]

Man, _everybody_ recognizes Dionne Warwick right away and loves her. She's really a singer's singer.

[@Kieop]

Yeah, she didn't fool anyone on the Masked Singer.

[@emiliojoseguimaraes6736]

My friends used to make fun of me when I said I preferred her songs over Stevie Nicks! Great singer and composer! 👏👏👏👏

[@buzzawuzza3743]

Agreed with her on most of this.

[@deadlyoneable]

I forgot about the Jimmy cliff song. I had to add that to my playlist after hearing this video. Love that one!

[@nigden1]

Wonderfully apt video.

[@jurgenwille135]

You made lovin' Fun! Thanxx

[@davidpollard4051]

She knew her stuff and was bang on about Jimmy Cliff. Presumably the Fleetwood Mac track was an album cut and not a single as 'Oh Well' had just entered the charts so must have only been out a week or so before.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yes, it was an album track. It wasn't released as a single.

[@paulcooper8818]

Goodbye Christine, I've spent many hours enjoying your talent.

[@Sp33gan]

A mite bit cheeky to have her review the newest Fleetwood Mac track, especially since she plays on it. lol! I find it interesting to note her wide taste in music, yet she seems to lean into the Pop field a bit more - a portent of where FM would later find its biggest success. Peace be with you, Christine. ♥

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yes, this Blind Date perfectly reflects her music taste.

[@robbalboni4179]

long live christine mcvie, most of these songs she reviewed i had not heard before, i guess because they were british releases and a lot of them didn't make their way over here in the states. i thought they were all pretty decent though and i would have bought them, i will have to see if i can track some of these down to add to my collection. thanks for sharing these, always a delight!

[@n.b.1483]

She’s respectful in her opinions as you’d imagine her to be. RIP beautiful soul

[@spudwas]

Tens Years After LP "SsssH" was a favorite of the FM underground stations in California. The main song they always played was "If you should love me" not "Stoned Woman." P.S. It is always an embarrassment to see the U.S. top ten chart. There was so much great music being played on the underground FM stations at that time, but the AM pre-designated top 40 radio stations made sure none of it surfaced to the public. Hence, that embarrassing top 10 U.S. chart you see here.

[@johnevans9751]

The first three were an embarrassment.

[@alangilbertson8239]

I've still got my copy of Ssssh from back then.

[@paulnolan4971]

Good call. RIP Christine.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

She seemed like the nicest girl and Fleetwood Mac was huge. That Jimmy Cliff Wonderful World, Beautiful People reached #6 in the UK and#25 in America in 1969. Jimmy, along with Desmond Decker and Millie Small with her cover of My Boy Lollipop, were the first Jamaican singers to chart outside the island. The Cliff song however is not ska, as she said, it's pure reggae. Thanks so much YP for your beautiful last shot of Christine. Lovely tribute!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers, Willie! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@joelake7986]

I absolutely loved Wonderful World, Beautiful People when it came out. I must've been 10 years old, but it seemed to be such a happy, uplifting song and had that irresistibly catchy melody, ten-year old me could never resist singing along even though I knew none of the lyrics except for the title. I still love it and I still think it's a song the world needs to hear.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@joelake7986 Absolutely agree. For me here in America it was hearing Desmond Dekker's The Israelites on the radio in 1968 that stopped little me in my tracks. I had never heard s rhythm like that and it was very compelling to my ears

[@lindadote]

@@willieluncheonette5843 and @Joe Lake……did you know that music from both Desmond Dekker (with The Israelites) and Jimmy Cliff features in the British television series Death In Paradise? I smile every time I hear Jimmy’s “Wonderful World, Beautiful People”.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@lindadote Being in America I had no idea this wonderful Jamaican music was featured in a series. The British kids with the skinhead movement were hip to JA music a few years before we Yankee kids were here in America. It really took Bob Marley's signing to Island Records and releasing the Catch A Fire LP in 1973 to break JA music big here.

[@ptournas]

I met Christine and Jenny Boyd at a Fleetwood Mac concert at the Boston Tea Party around early 1970. She was with Jenny Boyd at the refreshment stand while the band was playing. I had no idea who they were and thought they were English tourists. I asked them if they would like to go out for some drinks after the concert. They turned me down, but they were very polite and friendly. We chatted a few more minutes and then I went back to watching the band. Neither of them had mentioned that they were with the band. It was six months or so before Jenny married Mick Fleetwood. I didn't find out who they were until I saw Christine's picture when the first album came out with Christine and Stevie Nicks as full members of the band. I knew the other woman wasn't Stevie Nicks, but knowing that Jennyy Boyd had married Mick, I figured it was her, though I didn't know for sure until I saw a picture of her years later! I was a huge fan of the band and saw them at the Tea Party four or five times, but that was the only time I saw Christine. Still a very pleasant memory.

[@PeterPan-nh7yx]

Good Night Christine good night Christine i'll see you in my dreams

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Beautiful choice of reviewer! And it appropriately begins with Christine reviewing Fleetwood Mac. A fairly messy array of tracks, and her assessment is spot-on all the way through. It is just me though, or does that George Howe have a touch of the John Lennons about him lookswise? Which is pretty funny, considering that he covered 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' -- a song that John loathed.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

He does look a bit like the chubby Lennon of the mid-60s.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

@@YesterdaysPapers So it's a George who looks like John doing a Paul song.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@NewFalconerRecords Hahaha! Exactly! By the way. I just found out that this Geroge Howe cover was number 1 in Sweden. And it stayed on top of the charts for two weeks. WTF!

[@NewFalconerRecords]

@@YesterdaysPapers So Christine was "Perfect" in her prediction that it could be a hit. She just didn't specify in which country...

[@briansykes2806]

I saw Christine Perfect (as she was then) with Chicken Shack at the Marquee Club - I think in 1968. She played keyboards. The sound was good and progessive, and there weren't many female artists involved in this type of music then. Perhaps Julie Driscoll..

[@chasjohn57]

1969 and 1964! The two greatest decades of Rock and Roll RIP Christine McVie

[@64north20west]

Sentimental. R.I.P. Respect to have a lady narrator to better focus on Ms. McVie. BTW, never heard this version of maxwell's hammer.

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

The Yesterday's Papers format offers us a unique way to commemorate McVie. Also, I haven't checked the videos recently (sorry) but I'm pleased to see the sub numbers really taking off. I predicted you'd make 50k by year's end earlier this year but maybe I'm a little off. You'll get there.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers, Outer Galaxy Lounge!

[@ericwinnert]

RIP

[@9thfloorchaos]

Excellent and timely tribute, but my questions in regard to the historical source content is this: why did Melody Maker insist on referencing the top positions on the American charts from the likes of Cash Box rather than the Billboard Hot 100, despite the fact that the later had been regarded during that whole time period as substantively more authoritative?

[@YesterdaysPapers]

No idea but Record Mirror also took their American chart information from Cashbox.

[@mariuspoppFM]

Sue and Sunny made great chorus backing on Island Records albums too, their best work is on Nirvana and Amazing Blondel records

[@kamandi1362]

Another great video, but I think the group who sang Into the Promised Land were called Babylon not Bulldog.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

True, I made a mistake when I edited the video.

[@davidirvine4294]

Some classics there and far superior to the mediocre offerings of today.

[@geekaydee6303]

holy smoke! she reviews the Bulldog Breed! wow.

[@jjohnson07024]

What song is playing at the end? Nice groove with the drums and harpsichord…

[@karlsinclair9918]

Nice tribute. Now is it me or is John peel staring at her legs the WHOLE time? 🤔

[@melbjohn]

A minor error: At 4:00 you have "Into the Promised Land" by Babylon but your text (top left) credits Bulldog. You were probably still thinking about Bulldog Breed?

[@YesterdaysPapers]

You're right, that was a mistake. I was probably still thinking about Bulldog Breed, as you said.

[@bonisubev4281]

👍👍👍

[@subg8858]

At the time of this interview, she went by the name Christine Perfect

[@fuzzydog1100]

true, although she was married already. Prob dropped Perfect very shortly after this , once she 'quit the music business.'

[@danstone8783]

I wonder if Christine got the idea for her song 'Hold Me' from the french singer she reviewed here?

[@mariuspoppFM]

Very likely

[@kirvanext]

🌷

[@lambrattle]

I like a bit of ska, too