Editing Christine McVie (section)

==Early life==
Christine Anne Perfect was born on 12 July 1943 in the village of [[Greenodd]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie: 'Cocaine and champagne made me perform better' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/09/fleetwood-macs-christine-mcvie-cocaine-and-champagne-made-me-perform-better |website=The Guardian |date=9 June 2022 |language=en-GB |access-date=19 June 2023 |last1=Simpson |first1=Dave }}</ref> in the [[Furness]] area of [[Lancashire]]. She grew up in the [[Bearwood, West Midlands|Bearwood]] area of [[Smethwick]] near [[Birmingham]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Graham |last=Betts |date=2014 |title=Motown Encyclopedia |publisher=AC Publishing |page=380 |isbn=9781311441546}}</ref>{{sfn|Unterberger|2017|p=61}} Her father, Cyril Percy Absell Perfect, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at [[St Peter's College, Saltley|St Peter's College of Education]], [[Saltley]], Birmingham, and taught violin at [[St Philip's School|St Philip's Grammar School]], Birmingham. Perfect's mother, Beatrice Edith Maud (née Reece), was a medium, psychic, and faith healer. Perfect's grandfather was an organist who had performed at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Doerschuk |first=Bob |date=October 1980 |title=Christine McVie |url=http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=11&c=2 |website=Contemporary Keyboard |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312173340/http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?c=2&id=11&page=index_v2 |archive-date=12 March 2016 |access-date=17 August 2011}}</ref>

Perfect was introduced to the piano when she was four, but did not study music seriously until the age of 11 when she was reintroduced to it by a local musician who was a friend of her brother John.<ref name="birminghammail.co.uk">{{cite news |last=Richards |first=Andy |url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/rumour-christine-mcvie-play-fleetwood-6110299 |title=Rumour: Christine McVie to play with Fleetwood Mac in Birmingham |work=Birmingham Mail |date=29 September 2013 |access-date=5 April 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226221349/http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/rumour-christine-mcvie-play-fleetwood-6110299 |archive-date=26 December 2014 }}</ref> She continued classical training to the age of 15, but shifted her musical focus to [[rock and roll]] when her brother acquired a [[Fats Domino]] songbook.<ref>{{cite news |title=Christine McVie: Life After Fleetwood Mac |url=http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=942&c=2 |work=Sunday Express |date=27 June 2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929143415/http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=942&c=2 |archive-date=29 September 2011}}</ref> Other early influences included [[the Everly Brothers]].<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Christine McVie |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jby2m |website=BBC |language=en-GB |access-date=1 December 2022}}</ref>