Christine McVie’s shimmering pop gem was forged during the band’s most dysfunctional period, with Lindsey Buckingham’s meticulous production holding the pieces together.
When Christine McVie died in November 2022, the obituaries tallied a quiet fact: half the songs on Fleetwood Mac’s 1986 best-of were hers. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham may have drawn the spotlight, but McVie supplied the band’s most reliable melodic core—Don’t Stop, You Make Loving Fun, Say You Love Me, Songbird. Few tracks capture her craft and the group’s fraught resilience better than “Everywhere,” the fourth single from 1987’s Tango In The Night.
The album began as a Buckingham solo project. After years of hiatus following Mirage, he was working alone at his home studio on songs like Big Love and Caroline. Mick Fleetwood, deep in a cocaine addiction, agitated to reunite the band. Bassist John McVie’s drinking was out of control; Nicks, fresh from cocaine rehab, soon slipped into a tranquilizer dependency. Against that backdrop, Christine McVie and Buckingham were sober and creatively lucid. Buckingham seized control of the 18-month sessions, mostly recorded at his house.
Out of the dysfunction came a strangely pristine record. “Everywhere” is its apex: a buoyant, skipping track built on a direct, unadorned melody. McVie’s vocal carries the lyric without artif
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