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 Clinton presented Fleetwood Mac with statuettes as the 2018
MusicCares honorees, making them the first band to win the
annual award given to a musician for creative achievements and
charitable work.
Clinton chose the British-American band's single "Don't Stop" as
the theme song for his 1992 presidential campaign, helping to
revive their popularity and encouraging the fractious soft rock
band to reunite for his inaugural ball in 1993.
"They let me use it as a theme song and I have been trying to
live by it ever since," Clinton told the audience at Radio City
Music Hall in New York.
Former U.S.
President Bill Clinton (L) and Neil Portnow (R), President & CEO
of The Recording Academy, stand with honorees (2nd L-2nd R)
Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Mick
Fleetwood, and John McVie during the 2018 MusiCares Person of
the Year show honoring Fleetwood Mac at Radio City Music Hall in
Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew
Kelly
"I owe a great deal to all of them," he added.
At the concert and ceremony on Friday, Miley Cyrus, Lorde, Keith
Urban, Harry Styles and Juanes were among musicians across
genres to perform their own interpretations of Fleetwood Mac's
biggest hits over a 50-year career.
Band members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Christine
McVie and Lindsey Buckingham ended the three-hour celebration by
taking to the stage to perform "Go Your Own Way" and "Little
Lies."
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Fleetwood Mac formed in London in 1967 and went on to become one of
the best-selling bands in the world, with more than 100 million
records sold, including Grammy-winning 1977 album "Rumours" and hit
singles "Songbird," "Rhiannon" and "Dreams."
After romantic and creative tensions, some members going solo and
several changes of line-up, Fleetwood, McVie, Nicks, Buckingham and
Christine McVie put their differences behind them and reunited in
2014 for the first time since 1998, and embarked on a sell-out world
tour.
"Fleetwood Mac is well known for being a dysfunctional family... and
it was certainly much of the fuel for our material," said
Buckingham.
"But what we are feeling really more now than ever in our career is
love," he added.
Proceeds from the annual MusiCares gala support members of the music
industry in times of financial and medical need.
Friday's event, held two days before the Grammy Awards, raised some
$7 million for MusiCares, Recording Academy chairman Neil Portnow
said.
Previous recipients include Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand,
Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney.
(Editing by Nick Macfie)
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