

The legendary group have cancelled the Australia and New Zealand legs of their tour so that the British-born. He was born in Glasgow, UK, on Jan 13, 1945, and died in Bristol, UK, with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and COVID-19 on Jan 20, 2021, aged 76 years. View original Fleetwood Mac's John McVie Has Cancer Band Scraps Overseas Tour at TVGuide. Fleetwood Mac's John McVie has been diagnosed with cancer, the band have announced. John McVie, bassist and founding member of Fleetwood Mac, has been diagnosed with cancer.The band has cancelled its tour of Australia and New Zealand, due to timing conflicts with McVie's treatments. McVie, 67, originally founded the band with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1967.

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"We hope our Australian and New Zealand fans as well as Fleetwood Mac fans everywhere will join us in wishing John and his family all the best."įall TV Popularity Contest: Which new shows won you over?ĭetails about what type cancer illness McVie is battling were not given, only that he "is scheduled to be in treatment for cancer during that time."įleetwood Mac - whose current touring lineup consists of McVie, singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and drummer Mick Fleetwood - recently wrapped up the European leg of its world tour and was scheduled to play 14 dates in Australia and New Zealand over the next two months. The band just completed the European leg of the tour and had been. Afterwards, John McVie merely shrugged: It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out this was gonna happen.

Member European Organisation Research and Treatment of Cancer (lung cancer cooperative group 1981-1988, protocol review committee 1984-1991, president 1994-1997, Executive Committee, board directors since 1997). "We are sorry to not be able to play these Australian and New Zealand dates," the band said in a statement on its Facebook page Sunday. Fleetwood Mac co-founder John McVie has been diagnosed with cancer, forcing the group to cancel upcoming shows on its world tour. John Gordon McVie, British Research administrator, oncologist. Fleetwood Mac is canceling upcoming tour dates in Australia and New Zealand because bassist and founding member John McVie will be receiving treatment for cancer, the band announced Sunday.
