# The nine-time Grammy winner who turned down the chance to replace Christine McVie. In 2017, she admitted it was the wrong decision

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-nine-time-grammy-winner-who-turned-down-the-chance-to-replace-christine-mcvie-in-2017-she-admitted-it-was-the-wrong-decision/
- Published: 2026-10-25T19:07:36+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/nine-time-grammy-winner-who-turned-down-the-chance-to-replace-christine-mcvie/
- Topics: Business, Markets

## Key points

- Sheryl Crow declined an invitation to join Fleetwood Mac.
- In 2017, she said she wished she had accepted.
- She feared joining might cause tension around replacing Christine McVie.

## Summary

Sheryl Crow turned down Stevie Nicks’s invitation to join Fleetwood Mac as a replacement for Christine McVie, who had stepped away from the band during the early 2000s. Crow worried that joining could create tension and that she would be seen as taking McVie’s place, despite being an accomplished singer and musician.

In 2017, Crow told Howard Stern she wished she had accepted and said she would still love to perform with the band. Nicks said she had wanted another woman in the group and understood Crow’s decision as a friend, though she was disappointed. Christine McVie returned to Fleetwood Mac in 2014 and died in 2022, making a future reunion with Crow appear unlikely.

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