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âWelcome back, Chris!â Stevie Nicks proclaimed soon after Fleetwood Mac started its set on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. âWhere have you been?â
âLong story, Stevie,â said the laconic Christine McVie from behind her keyboards. In 1998, after 28 years with Fleetwood Mac, Ms. McVie retired from touring with the band.
But in January, as Ms. Nicks told it in a post-encore monologue, Ms. McVie phoned to ask, âHow would you feel if I decided to come back to the band?â (She had already made a guest appearance in September 2013 at a Fleetwood Mac concert in London.) Ms. Nicks added that she advised Ms. McVie to get a trainer because Fleetwood Macâs shows are so âphysicalâ; its concert set runs 2 ½ hours. And while Ms. McVieâs voice, like the others in the band, has roughened over the decades, itâs still hearty.
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With Ms. McVie, Fleetwood Mac has returned to the lineup that made it the worldâs best-selling band 37 years ago when it released âRumours,â an album of sparkling pop-rock songs about, mostly, crumbling relationships. Ms. McVie was the more levelheaded, kindly voice alongside the bandâs other two songwriters: Ms. Nicks â" sometimes dreamy, sometimes vindictive â" and the guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who tucked angry, wounded lyrics into virtuosic guitar parts.
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Ms. McVieâs demure alto bound together the groupâs vocal harmonies; her songs promised that loyal affection was still possible. The three singers and songwriters were backed by the bandâs namesakes and tireless rhythm section, the drummer Mick Fleetwood and the bassist John McVie, Christineâs ex-husband since 1977.
Ms. McVie wrote the determinedly optimistic, forward-looking âDonât Stop,â which insists âyesterdayâs gone.â But to the delight of a nostalgic audience on Monday, the band drew its entire set from the five albums this lineup made together: âFleetwood Macâ (1975), âRumoursâ (1977), âTuskâ (1979), âMirageâ (1982) and âTango in the Nightâ (1987). There was camaraderie onstage; when Ms. McVie sang âSay You Love Me,â Ms. Nicks was singing along without a microphone, like a fan who knew all the words.
Fleetwood Mac canât duplicate its youthful sweetness. Ms. McVieâs voice has held its richness, but sometimes falters at high notes. Ms. Nicksâs huskiness has grown harsher, and in her glittery shawls she turns slowly now instead of twirling across the stage. But Fleetwood Mac still has the intricacy, elegance and underlying punch of its songs.
Mr. Buckingham is clearly the bandâs leader now. The guitar parts that twinkle through Fleetwood Macâs albums â" patterns of picking and strumming that meld folk styles with classical guitar detail â" come into the foreground onstage. He turned Ms. Nicksâs âGold Dust Womanâ into a darker incantation before taking a long, skirling, keening solo in his own âIâm So Afraidâ; âTuskâ was a cry of despair, not a novelty.
But Ms. McVie was the bandâs quieter center of attention, and she had the last word with her âSongbird.â Even though she played it largely alone on piano, with a modest guitar solo from Mr. Buckingham, it meant that Fleetwood Mac was complete again.
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