“Songbird” debuted on the band’s “Rumours” album in 1977. It features McVie singing lead and has come to become beloved by Fleetwood Mac fans around the world.

Fleetwood Mac keyboardist Christine McVie performs with the band as they headline the final night of Classic West at Dodger Stadium Sunday night July 16, 2017. Journey and Earth, Wind and Fire ...

McVie, 79, joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970. She would write and co-write some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Don’t Stop” and “You Make Loving Fun” from the “Rumours” album ...

As one-fifth of the iconic band, some of Fleetwood Mac’s greatest songs written by McVie included “Songbird,” “You Make Loving Fun,” “Little Lies,” “Don’t Stop” and many more.

Christine McVie with Fleetwood Mac in 2014. (Arthur Mola / Invision via Associated Press) McVie was born Christine Perfect on July 12, 1943, in the village of Bouth in northwestern England.

Bass guitarist John McVie, of the Fleetwood Mac pop group, right, and Christine Perfect of the Chicken Shack Group appear at a party for Fleetwood Mac, in London, on Feb. 20, 1969.

Members of the rock group Fleetwood Mac, from left, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie pose with their Album of the Year Grammy Award for “Rumours” in ...