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Yes, Stevie Nicks sang lead on “Dreams” and “Landslide,” and Lindsey Buckingham fronted “Go Your Own Way” and “Tusk.”
And yes, Fleetwood Mac took its very name after drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie.
But singer, songwriter and keyboardist Christine McVie — who died following a “short illness” at 79 Wednesday — was the real secret weapon of Fleetwood Mac.
The numbers don’t lie: McVie — who, after marrying John in 1969, joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970 — wrote or co-wrote half the songs featured on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group’s 1988 “Greatest Hits.”
Culled from the band’s golden years, those include “Don’t Stop,” which served as Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign song in 1992, “You Make Loving Fun,” which she wrote about an affair she had with the band’s lighting director Curry Grant and the “Tango in the Night” twosome of “Little Lies” and “Everywhere.
