Fleetwood Mac – Perfect Days
The music here on Perfect Days is from a pivotal eighteen months in Mac’s history as it lost its original “if it ain’t the blues we don’t wanna know” attitude and looked to its own songwriters – and America’s West Coast sound – for inspiration. Christine McVie (aka Christine Perfect) was a crucial link in the chain. Earlier in 1969, Christine had left her previous band, Chicken Shack, just as her smoky vocals helped to land that group in the Top 20. Her reason for leaving? Being husband John McVie’s good lady took priority. The Mac boys brought in Christine on vocals and keyboards to help out on an American tour. And it is at this point – unknowingly of course – that the band began to lay down the musical roots that would grow into Rumours.
