Oh no! That hurt my heart! Such a talented musician.

So upsetting! What an absolute legend.

fuck!

So terribly sad!

RIP! Listen to the live performances of their best songs. She is amazing!

Guess I'm going to be listening to Rumours all day long tomorrow

This is so upsetting. Such an amazing artist, such a gorgeous voice. Seeing her in concert with Fleetwood Mac with the whole band together was one of the greatest live shows I’ve ever seen! She was just magic. Rest in peace.

Oh man, this hurts. Everywhere is literally one of my favorite songs of all time

Goodbye, Songbird 🕊️😢

An incredible talent. I was really hoping the band might make up with Lindsey and do another go around with the classic lineup. RIP.

Yes. She was the heart of the band IMO...Stevie is great but behind the scenes, Christine made it all come together. RIP Christine and Thank You.

I just heard this announced on Radio 2. Such a sad loss.

Devastated. This hurts. She was so talented.

Don’t forget the albums before they became famous as well. ‘Why’ was one of the best songs she ever wrote that people tend to forget about.

This is super sad. So glad I got to hear her live a few years ago. One of my favourite songs of hers that wasn't really known is "All over again". On the last tour they did they actually sung it a few times (not at the show I saw).

Everywhere has been my song this week, wow terrible loss.

Yeah, Everywhere, Don't Stop, little lies are such great songs. This news is a shocker.

I honestly had no idea she was 79.

This is devastating news to wake up to! Say you love me is one of my all time favourites. Gutted I never got to see her or Fleetwood Mac live. So sad, will have rumours on repeat today

Beyond sad for the other members of the band. I really hope they all start to forgive each other. Life is short.

This breaks my heart. I’m a huge Fleetwood Mac fan and I’m one of those weirdos that always liked her songs better that Stevie’s. It’s a shame because I’ve been hearing a lot more of her stuff being used in adverts and other media lately and seems like her music was getting a reappraisal as of late. You can trace her breathy voice and mellow vibes of her music to a lot of modern popular music trends right now. I was hoping that would lead to maybe some more output from her but sadly that’s not to be. I was so very lucky to get to see her perform a few years back (when Lindsay was still with them too) with my wife and my mother who are also fans. RIP to one of my favorite singers of all time. Your music had a big impact on my life! Thanks for all those breezy summer days, driving down backroads with my windows down and vibing. You’ll be missed!

This one hurts. RIP.

For you, the sun will be shining.

Got a Hold on Me is as good as any of her Fleetwood Mac songs too.

Just listened to Did You Ever Love Me. Such a great song of hers.

So glad I got to see her perform a few years ago. Songbird is so beautiful and heartbreaking. RIP 💜🕊️

So did I.... :(

DAMN

This one hurts ... bad

Sadness…

I think every kid in the suburbs was issued a copy of Rumors. It was ubiquitous and still gets a lot of play on oldies stations.

Fellow weirdo here. I loved Christine. This is a huge loss.

Another piece of my youth shuffles off this mortal coil…

Fellow weirdo here. What a loss

79 in coke years makes her 143 in regular person time.

I had no idea that was just her.

It would have made a great Fleetwood Mac song.

Oh shit, rip

Ouch. RIP, angel. Thank you.

Christine > Stevie forever in my book.

This is lovely. Thank you.

Same here, Christine's songs usually resonated more with me than Stevie's did. Too bad local radio stations don't agree with me.

She did fine on her own though. I just always assumed it was a lesser know FM song.

FFS my songbird is gone. I’m crying today. RIP hook queen.

She was Perfect

Songbird may be her best known but she wrote so many amazing songs for the band through the years. What a loss…

She's behind my Fleetwood Mac favorites : You make loving fun, Hold me and Say you love me.

Her music lives forever. Thank you, Christine.

That is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song, hands down. Mystery To Me is such a fantastic album.

Oh shit. She was my favorite. I think Mick Fleetwood wrote in his book “every song she writes is a love song”

I remember waking before dawn one morning in college, and putting “Songbird” on to greet the sunrise.

Fuck I’m old.

ETA a (ahem) years ago we got tickets to see the whole group together, and took my teen daughter and one of her friends with us. Just a few weeks ago, daughter, who is now 30, thanked me for taking them, cause she now knows all the music and loves it.

This hits me right in the feels. My mom never used a babysitter so she took me to the Rumors tour when I was 9.

RIP songbird

Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom

This is so sad that it hurts. I must have listened to her singing every week - sometimes every day. She was the fabric of my pop culture history growing up.

You make loving fun

So many incredible songs she wrote and I'll probably listen to most of them tonight but I'm listening to her version of id rather go blind with her old band chickenshack

Songbird ❤️

Hook queen indeed

Songbird is up there for me.

Well time for me to go listen to Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac until I don't feel sad anymore

For me "As long as you follow" is by far my favorite. Something about that song hits right, especially this time of year.

It really is. I love Bob Welsh and wish he could’ve stayed on after Heroes Are Hard To Find. It’s not like there was never two guitarists in the band.

This. Had Stevie never joined, the band would’ve still been great. But Christine just brought the great vibes, great tunes, and great personality. and was a big reason the band made it to become famous in the first place.

Agreed. Always preferred Christine over Stevie.

Mick Fleetwood played drums on that track, which was a big reason it sounded like a FM song. Those two were the backbone of the group.

Same. But she joined FM way back in 1971. And that was a few years ago. And Chicken Shack was before that.

I see what you did there. Yes, she was.

Rumors would have never been what it became without her contribution

Still pretty wrong that he got left out of the HOF induction, he deserved it for his contributions.

Makes sense!

79 is not old by any means. Such a cool person. Great talent. RIP Chris

She wrote beautiful music and she had a voice like warm honey.

She was part of one of the biggest albums ever!

Peace to her family.

Shit, this hurts. I grew up listening to FM, and never stopped. RIP Christine.

I have no words. Rest in peace, and thank you for the music.

I was listening to The Chain this morning at 4am.

Think About Me

Rumors was one of the albums my brothers and sisters gave me when I was learning guitar way back then. Glad I finally got to see them on that reunion tour several years back. RIP.

Another weirdo checking in. Loved her.

Christine herself once joked “I used to be Perfect before I married John.”

I also wanna make this about me. Wow is me. She'll be missed.

heroes are hard to find is one of all time favorite albums. fleetwood or otherwise.

What a fucking legend.