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Stevie Nicks turned 75 with a powerful and emotional performance in Orlando, Florida on Thursday - paying tribute to her beloved late bandmate Christine McVie.
The music icon took to the stage at the Amway Center on the eve of her birthday - wowing with a 15 song set which included a heartbreaking performance of Landslide.
The star looked visibly emotional as she performed, while poignant photos of Stevie with Christine throughout their careers flashed up on the scene behind her - six months after McVie died aged 79.
Before performing her iconic song Gypsy, the star opened up about her rise to fame, saying: 'There was a point in my life where I made it, and it was really good. But I said, ‘Back up, Stevie,'
'I took my bed off the bed frame, put it on the floor, threw some really pretty old-fashioned coverlets and flowers on it. I sat down and I’m like, ‘I’m still Stevie.'”
Forever love: Stevie Nicks turned 75 with a powerful and emotional performance in Orlando, Florida on Thursday - paying tribute to her beloved late bandmate Christine McVie
Music icons: The star looked visibly emotional as she performed, while poignant photos of Stevie with Christine throughout their careers flashed up on the scene behind her - six months after McVie died aged 79 (pictured together 2018)
She also covered Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth and paid an emotional tribute to veterans with Soldier's Angel - ahead of Memorial Day and amid the war in Ukraine.
She said: 'In my opinion, Ukraine is fighting for all of us. I stand with Ukraine.I stand for democracy. I stand for freedom.'
The concert comes six months after McVie died after suffering a stroke as she battled against cancer.
The singer-songwriter died after an ischaemic stroke, according to her death certificate which was seen by The Blast.
Ischaemic strokes are caused when blood flow is restricted to the brain by blood clots which form where the arteries have been narrowed.
Her secondary cause of death was cancer, which she had previously been diagnosed with. Her cancer was a 'metastatic malignancy of unknown primary origin', which means cancer had spread in her body while the origin of a tumour was not known.
McVie wrote and sang on some the band's biggest hits, including Don't Stop, Little Lies, Say You Love Me, You Make Loving Fun and Songbird.
Her genius and warm, soulful vocals helped to turn the one-time blues band into one of the most successful rock groups of all time, with more than 100million record sold worldwide.
Lost in memory: Stevie honored her late bandmate with a beautiful rendition
Song: Stevie wore a black dress as she performed a 15-song set
Many of her songs featured on Rumours, their best-known work from 1977 which chronicled the group's drug use and affairs and is regularly cited as one of rock's greatest albums.
Born Christine Perfect in the Lake District village of Bouth, Cumbria, in 1943, she grew up near Birmingham. She studied at art school and qualified as an art teacher – but instead became one of the few women involved in the British blues boom of the late 1960s, joining a band called Chicken Shack and also releasing a solo album. She married Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie in 1968 and by 1970 was an integral part of Fleetwood Mac.
