John Graham McVie (born November 26, 1945) is best known as the bass guitarist in the rock group Fleetwood Mac. He joined Fleetwood Mac shortly after its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967, and, along with Mick Fleetwood, is the only original member still with the band. In 1968 he married blues pianist and singer Christine Perfect, who became a member of Fleetwood Mac two years later. John and Christine McVie divorced, however, in 1977, about the time the band recorded the album Rumours, a major artistic and commercial success, and which borrowed its title from the turmoils in McVie's and other band members' marriages and relationships. Image File history File links Joohn_mcvie. ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rock and roll. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music: A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... See also: 1962 in music, other events of 1963, 1964 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // January 1 - The Beatles start a 5 day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, Love Me Do. January 4 - At Cortina dAmpezzo... The present is the time that is perceived directly, not as a recollection or a speculation. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Reprise is also the name of a record label, see Reprise Records In music a reprise is the repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition such as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though it originally (18th century) was simply any repeated section, such as... Blue Horizon was a British blues record label founded by Mike Vernon in the early sixties. ... Fleetwood Mac (formed in July 1967) are an influential and commercially successful English-American band, who have had a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success. ... John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers was a pioneering British blues band that included such luminaries as: Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce (both later in Cream), Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood (later all in Fleetwood Mac), Mick Taylor (later in The Rolling Stones), Don Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor (Canned... November 26 is the 330th day (331st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... Fleetwood Mac (formed in July 1967) are an influential and commercially successful English-American band, who have had a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success. ... Fleetwood Mac (formed in July 1967) are an influential and commercially successful English-American band, who have had a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success. ... Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, October 29, 1946, in Bethnal Green, London) is a British blues-rock guitarist and founding member of the band Fleetwood Mac. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Mick Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947 in Redruth, Cornwall) is a British musician best-known for his role as the drummer with the rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect, July 12, 1943, in Birmingham) is an English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. ... Fleetwood Mac (formed in July 1967) are an influential and commercially successful English-American band, who have had a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Rumours is a rock and roll album released by Fleetwood Mac in 1977. ...

Early life

John Graham McVie was born on November 26th, 1945, in Ealing, West London, United Kingdom to Reg and Dorothy McVie and attended Walpole Grammar School. Aged 14, McVie began playing the guitar in local bands covering songs by The Shadows.^[1] However, he soon realized that all of his friends were learning to play lead guitar, so he decided to play the bass guitar instead. Initially, he just removed the top two (E and B) strings from his guitar to play the bass parts. When his parents became aware of his musical abilities, his father bought him a pink Fender bass guitar.^[1] Incidentally, this model was the same The Shadow's bass player and McVie's major early musical influence, Jet Harris, had played. The Shadows are an English instrumental rock n roll group active from the 1950s to the 2000s. ... Jet Harris (real name Terence Harris) was the bass guitarist and leader of The Shadows until April 1962. ...

Soon after leaving school at 17, John started training to be a tax inspector, which also coincided with the start of his musical career. A tax is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (for example, tribes, secessionist movements or revolutionary movements). ...

Early Music

John McVie’s first job as a bass player was in a band called the "Krewsaders", formed by boys living in the same street as McVie in Ealing, West London. The "Krewsaders" played mainly at weddings and parties covering songs from the The Shadows.^[2] The Shadows are an English instrumental rock n roll group active from the 1950s to the 2000s. ...

John Mayall Bluesbreakers

Around the time of McVie’s tenure as a tax inspector, John Mayall began forming a Chicago-style Blues band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Initially Mayall wanted to recruit bass player Cliff Barton of the Cyril Davies All Stars for the rhythm section of his new band. Barton declined, however, but gave him John McVie's phone number, urging Mayall to give the talented young bass player a chance in the Bluesbreakers.^[3]. Mayall contacted McVie, and asked him to audition for his band. Soon thereafter, McVie got offered to play bass in the Bluesbreakers. McVie accepted while still holding down his daytime job for a further nine months before becoming a musician full time.^[4] Under Mayall's tutelage, McVie, not having had any formal training in music, learnt to play the blues mainly by listening to BB King & Willie Dixon records given to him by Mayall.^[5] For the photographer, see John Jabez Edwin Mayall. ... John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton album cover John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers was a pioneering British blues band that included such luminaries as: Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce (both later in Cream), Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood (later all in Fleetwood Mac), Mick Taylor (later in... Cliff Barton (Born - September 3, 1907 in Sault Ste. ... Riley B. King aka B. B. King (b. ... Willie Dixons style of blues was one of the inspirations for a new generation of music, rock and roll. ...

Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood

In 1967, a young Peter Green was asked to join Mayall's Bluesbreakers as the band's new lead guitar player, after Eric Clapton, the original guitar player, had left the band. The arrival of Peter Green to the Bluesbreakers coincided with the joining of Mick Fleetwood as new drummer, replacing Aynsley Dunbar.^[1] Green, Fleetwood, and McVie quickly forged a strong personal relationship, and when John Mayall gave Green some free studio time for his birthday, Green asked McVie and Fleetwood to join him for a recording session. Produced by Mike Vernon, they recorded three tracks together, "Curly", "Rubber Duck", and an instrumental called "Fleetwood Mac".^[6] Later the same year, Eric Clapton decided to rejoin the Bluesbreakers, and Peter Green opted to form his own band, which he called "Fleetwood Mac" after his preferred rhythm section (McVie and Fleetwood). Mick Fleetwood immediately joined Green's new band, having been dismissed earlier from the Bluesbreakers for drunkenness. However, McVie initially was reluctant to join Fleetwood Mac, not wanting to leave the security and well-paid job in the Bluesbreakers, forcing Green to hire a temporary bassist named Bob Brunning. A few weeks later McVie changed his mind, however, as he felt that The Bluesbreakers musical direction were shifting too much towards jazz, and he joined Fleetwood Mac on bass in December 1967.^[7] Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, October 29, 1946, in Bethnal Green, London) is a British blues-rock guitarist and founding member of the band Fleetwood Mac. ... Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century,[1] garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... Mick Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947 in Redruth, Cornwall) is a British musician best-known for his role as the drummer with the rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. ... Prolific English drummer Aynsley Dunbar (born on January 10, 1946, in Liverpool, England) has worked with some of the top names in rock and roll, including John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, and Sammy Hagar. ... Mike Vernon was a British record producer. ... Robert Bob Brunning (born June 29, 1943 in Bournemouth, Dorset) is a British musician best known for his role as temporary bass guitar player with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac. ... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ...

Fleetwood Mac

With McVie now in Fleetwood Mac, the band recorded its first album, the self-titled Fleetwood Mac in the following months. The album was released in February 1968, and became an immediate national hit, establishing Fleetwood Mac as a major part in the English Blues movement.^[1] Fleetwood Mac started playing live gigs in blues clubs and pubs throughout England, and became a household name in the national blues circuit. In the next three years, the band scored a string of hits in the UK and also enjoyed success in continental Europe. Fleetwood Mac (formed in July 1967) are an influential and commercially successful English-American band, who have had a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success. ...

Christine Perfect

John McVie with wife Christine, 1972

While on tour, Fleetwood Mac would often share venues with fellow blues band Chicken Shack. It was on such occasion that McVie met his future wife, the lead singer and piano player of Chicken Shack, Christine Perfect. Following a brief romance of only two weeks, McVie and Perfect got married with Peter Green as best man. With the couple being unable to spend much time together because of the constant touring with their bands, Christine (now McVie) quit Chicken Shack to become a housewife to spend more time with John.^[8] However, following the departure of Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac in 1969, McVie successfully persuaded Christine McVie to join him in Fleetwood Mac. Image File history File links Johnchris. ... Image File history File links Johnchris. ... Chicken Shacks 1969 album, 100 Ton Chicken Chicken Shack were a British blues band of the late 1960s, consisting of Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards), Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Sylvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums). ... Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect, July 12, 1943, in Birmingham) is an English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. ...

International success and personal life

In the years to follow, Fleetwood Mac went through several different line-ups, which occasionally became the source of friction and unease within the band. In addition, frequent touring as well as John McVie’s heavy drinking began to put some strain on his marriage to Christine. In 1974, the McVies, along with the other members of Fleetwood Mac, moved to Los Angeles, where they lived briefly with John Mayall.^[9] In 1975, Fleetwood Mac achieved enormous worldwide success after recruiting American singer-songwriter duo Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. However, on the heels of the band's success followed serious marital problems for the McVies, and in 1977, during the recording of Rumours, John and Christine McVie’s marriage unravelled and the couple divorced the same year. As way to put behind the hurt and final dissolution, several of Christine's songs on this album were about John McVie, particularly "Don't Stop"^[10] Stephanie Lynn Stevie Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and a long solo career, which collectively has produced over twenty Top 40 hits. ... Lindsey Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist and singer for the musical group Fleetwood Mac. ... Rumours is a rock and roll album released by Fleetwood Mac in 1977. ...

John McVie remarried in 1978 to Julie Ann Reubens, but still continued to drink heavily. An alcohol-induced seizure in 1987 finally prompted him to kick the habit, and he has been sober ever since. In 1989, McVie’s wife gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Molly McVie. In his spare time, McVie is a sailing enthusiast, and he nearly got lost at least once on a Pacific voyage.^[1] A naturally reclusive man, his involvement with Fleetwood Mac has been constant but notably low-key, despite the fact that the band takes the 'Mac' part of its name from him. He received co-writer credits for a very small number of tracks throughout the band's existence, including "Station Man" and "The Chain".

Compared with many bass players of the British music scene of the Sixties, such as John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, and Paul McCartney, John McVie’s contribution to rock music in general, and Fleetwood Mac in particular, has often been somewhat overlooked. His bass playing is characterized by a warm, full tone, slightly offset with Mick Fleetwood’s beat, and brief melodic and exquisitely phrased runs. His contributions provide an invaluable solid rhythmic-harmonic basis for all of Fleetwood Mac’s songs many of which, such as ‘’Don’t Stop’’ and ‘’Rhiannon’’ went on to become notable international hits. Thanks to his unique feel for melody and tempo, and his soulful phrasing, McVie's bass playing has left an indelible and profound mark on Fleetwood Mac's artistic legacy. John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 – June 27, 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for rock band The Who. ... John Symon Asher Jack Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a Scottish-born musician, composer and singer. ... Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is an iconic Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ...

Discography

With Fleetwood Mac

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With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

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Solo Albums

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References

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External links

• Fleetwood Mac Official Website
• Penguin Fansite Biography