Fleetwood Mac star Christine McVie has said she will never know what impact excessive drug-taking had on the band’s music.
The 1977 album Rumours, recorded during the group’s turbulent years when their romantic relationships – mostly with each other – were falling apart, has been hailed as a masterpiece and sold more than 40 million copies.
Asked by Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young whether drugs “had something to do with the brilliance of the music you were producing?”, 74-year-old McVie replied: “That’s something that we’re never really going to know.”
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McVie also told how she retreated from the world, developing agoraphobia, after she quit the band and moved from California to Kent.