Christine McVie has announced that Fleetwood Mac have been heavily involved in creating new material and are working on a new album to be released in 2017. McVie said in a statement:

“We cut seven songs in the studio already for the start of a brand-new studio album, which we did probably nearer two years ago,” she said. “We shelved that temporarily and then went on the road and did the tour. And now, actually, I think we’re going back in, in October to try to finish it off. Stevie (Nicks) hasn’t participated yet, but hope springs eternal. She’s going on a solo tour at the moment.

“Lindsey (Buckingham) and I, we have plenty of songs. There are tons more in the bag that we have yet to record. And they’re fantastic. So we’re going to carry on and try to finish the record. And then maybe if Stevie doesn’t want to be part of that then we can go out and just do some smaller concerts.”

Fleetwood Mac’s last release was a deluxe reissue of the 1982 album Mirage. Mirage follows the 1979 Tusk – which has also had a remastered, deluxe reissue in 2015 – and Mirage follows arguably one of the best albums of all time, the 1977 Rumours. Their eponymous debut was released in 1968. The 2003 Say You Will was their last album to date.

The hugely successful On With The Show tour 2014-2015, which ended in Auckland, New Zealand on 22 November, grossed over $199million. In 1998 Fleetwood Mac won the BRIT award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Watch ‘Hold Me’ from Mirage below: