Christine McVie was fed up with all of them. Stevie Nicks didn’t want to walk on the sand with her platforms. My Fleetwood Mac collection by joonathanb My records by mae.chloe View More Lists. Hold Me Lyrics by Fleetwood Mac from the Classic Rock 80s album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Can you understand me Baby. The band’s relationship was so strained at the time, the producer of the song’s music video called the shoot “a fucking nightmare” and its director added “Four of them-I can’t recall which four-couldn’t be together in the same room for very long … (John McVie was drunk and) tried to punch me. Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me (Official Music Video) 3:52 Lists Add to List. “Hold Me” is one of the few times McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham sing together on Mirage. The song was the first track to be released from the 1982 album Mirage, the fourth album by the band with Lindsey Buckingham acting as main producer with Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat. It was inspired by McVie’s recently-ended relationship with Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson – two years before he drowned while drunk. Fleetwood Mac singer/keyboard player Christine McVie wrote this song with Robbie Patton, a singer who had a 26 US hit in 1981 with Dont Give It Up, which. Hold Me is a single by British-American rock group Fleetwood Mac. However, when Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits came out in late 1988, the song was reissued as a single to promote the album and it finally entered the UK singles chart, but only for one week peaking at #94.Ĭhristine McVie wrote “Hold Me” with Robbie Patton, a British singer-songwriter that Fleetwood Mac had recently worked with and brought on tour. In the UK, “Hold Me” did not chart at all in 1982. The track was not as successful overseas where it found varied levels of moderate success. Eventually it was ranked the #31 song of 1982 there. It shot up to #4 in the US and held the spot for seven consecutive weeks. In the spirit of the pair's demos of the song, the final recording was sung as a duet between McVie and Lindsey Buckingham. Patton had opened for Fleetwood Mac on tour in 1979-80 and McVie had produced his second album Distant Shores (1981). “Hold Me” was the first single from Mirage. Hold Me is a song written by Christine McVie and Robbie Patton and recorded by McVie with Fleetwood Mac for their 1982 album Mirage.