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Neil Finn is joining Fleetwood Mac, and Grant Smithies reckons the move is a stroke of genius. OPINION: It is, as they say, a match made in heaven. It is a coupling of such startling rightness, it makes me think of other such unimprovable pairings: Simon and Garfunkel, Torville and Dean, Gin and Tonic, fish and chips, myself and my beloved missus Josephine. Neil Finn - he of the indelible melodies, the finely turned lyric, the carefully razor-cut mop of hair - has joined Fleetwood Mac, the former British blues band who came to dominate the late-70s pop charts after the addition of two sun-baked Californian hippies.

The vocal harmonies alone might just stop your heart with their sugar-rush of beauty. READ MORE:. Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac and Neil Finn.

It just feels right somehow, doesn't it? There's a deep logic to it, an attractive symmetry.

After all, this is no chalk and cheese juxtaposition of opposites. This is a like-meets-like cheese-board in which your problem, if anything, might just be that there's too much of a good thing. Your cracker might crumble under the weight of this brie-meets-camembert combo of toothsome trad-pop. You might feel a tad overfed after such a feast of hovering harmonies, cunning couplets, and burnished melodies that stick in your head as firmly as any filling. Or then again, maybe not. After all, we're not talking about an equal partnership here. Finn is joining Fleetwood Mac, not the other way around.

We are unlikely to hear Four Seasons In One Day appended with a pummelling Mick Fleetwood backbeat, or Don't Dream It's Over carried upwards to heaven by Stevie Nicks' distinctively nasal, wavering backing vocals. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac was drafted to the band in 1973, along with Lindsey Buckingham, whose recent departure made way for Kiwi musician Neil Finn. Our local lad is more back-up player than main event. But Finn has clearly been chosen for what he can bring to the table, and he brings a great deal.

There's an emotional affinity, for a start. Finn's best songs have a similar mix of tenderness, pain and sentimental heft to the songs you will find on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. He is a fine rhythm guitarist and piano player, and his strong, clear vocal harmonies could have been cut from the same sun-bleached bolt of cloth (denim, naturally) as mid-period Mac.

Finn announced the appointment via a winningly casual tweet a few hours ago: 'Snow warnings for parts of the country, the mystery of Stonehenge solved and yes, I've joined Fleetwood Mac.' How did he get there? There was, unknown to the rest of us, a fairly sudden Situations Vacant scenario in the band. Hey now, hey now - don't dream it's over.

Well, yes, I'm sorry, it is. Guitarist/producer Lindsey Buckingham has left the firm ('not voluntarily', according to some sources) after approximately a gazillion years of loyal service - a loss felt so keenly that it was decided that not one but two replacements would be required when Mac next went out on tour: former Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers lead guitarist Mike Campbell - at a professional loose end since the death of Petty last year - and Finn. 'Fleetwood Mac has always been about an amazing collection of songs that are performed with a unique blend of talents,' said drummer Mick Fleetwood in the official announcement statement. 'We jammed with Mike and Neil and the chemistry really worked and let the band realise that this is the right combination to go forward with in Fleetwood Mac style. We know we have something new, yet it's got the unmistakable Mac sound.' The rest of the band issued a joint statement welcoming the new members while also suggesting that change is nothing to be afraid of, given that 'Fleetwood Mac has always been a creative evolution'. Fleetwood Mac in their early days.

Understatement alert! Looking in from outside, it might seem that a broadly similar and superficially stable line-up has toured the globe as Fleetwood Mac since dinosaurs roamed the earth, but this is not the case.

Indeed, the band's history resembles a soft-rock Spinal Tap, replete with madness and cults, lawsuits and lust, bogus touring bands, clandestine shagging, industrial strength bitchiness, oceans of alcohol, blizzards of cocaine. Numerous members have burnt out, flipped out or been kicked out along the way, leaving drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie the only surviving members from early line-ups.

Formed in London in 1967, Fleetwood Mac began as a tough British blues band, then the addition of McVie's wife, singer Christine Perfect, helped broaden their appeal. By the end of the 60s, they were one of Europe's most popular bands, then things started to go seriously awry. Guitarist Peter Green developed schizophrenia after taking LSD in Munich.

Second guitarist Jeremy Spencer went out to buy a paper one day and joined a religious cult instead. Replacement Danny Kirwan was fired after destroying instruments in an alcohol-fuelled rage, and another replacement guitarist, Bob Weston, was given the boot after having an affair with Fleetwood's wife. Singer Dave Walker was dismissed due to 'attitude issues'. Eventually, touring became so difficult that the band's early manager put together a fake Fleetwood Mac with no original members and toured that instead. In search of a fresh start, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie relocated to Los Angeles in 1973 and drafted in new members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham of California soft-rock duo, Buckingham Nicks. Their sound became lighter, dreamier, more melodic, and thus, you could say, not a million miles away from that of our mate, Neil Finn.

World domination. This line-up's second album Rumours won the 1977 'Album Of The Year' Grammy and went on to sell over 40 million copies worldwide, and it's easy to see why. On the surface, Rumours sounds as middle of the road as a white line, but there's a compelling undercurrent of darkness that really evokes its era - the drugs, the sexual shenanigans, the emotional carelessness, the hippie dream starting to turn sour. Immediately before Rumours was recorded, the Fleetwood Mac soap opera had become particularly sudsy. John and Christine McVie split, and the latter started dating the band's lighting director.

Adding insult to injury, she wrote You Make Loving Fun about the sexual superiority of her new man, and her ex had to play it, night after night, on the road. Then Nicks left Buckingham and started a secret affair with Fleetwood, who was married to George Harrison's sister-in-law Jenny Boyd at the time. When I talked to him in 2002, Mick Fleetwood revealed that their affair began right here in New Zealand, after a November 1977 concert during the Rumours tour.

Stevie Nicks, left, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood appear at the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute honouring Fleetwood Mac in New York. Soon afterwards, Fleetwood left his wife for Nicks' best friend, Sara Recor, and Nicks convened a soft-rock supergroup shag-fest with The Eagles' Don Henley. A few years later, one of Nicks' friends died of leukemia and she married the woman's grieving husband, only to divorce him eight months later. 'Those twelve songs came out of a very dark time and told the story of their times' Stevie Nicks told me when I interviewed her by phone in 2009. 'That music captured what was going on in everybody's hearts, not just ours.

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We were telling stories everybody could relate to, so people carried those songs around like their own little mantras.' Indeed they did.

As a spotty 16-year-old growing up in Whanganui, I loved that record to death. No doubt Neil Finn learned a couple of those songs when Rumours first came out, too. He would have been 19 at the time, and you can guarantee that he appreciated the elegant melodic updrafts, the gloss and grit of them. Now he's 59, a musical legend in his own right, and about to embark on a new adventure, singing those same songs with the band that made them.

What a thing that is. Let's wish him well.

Touring with these grizzled soft-rock troopers is certain to be mad, exhausting, exhilarating, weird. But Finn's dry sense of humour should get him through any unexpected turbulence. The last time I saw Neil Finn was August last year, when he opened the door to his Roundhead recording studio in Auckland and let me in for coffee. He was knackered but jubilant after spending all night mixing a new single that had been recorded live the night before.

Neil Finn in March 1980, with former Split Enz band members Tim Finn, Eddie Raynor, Malcolm Green, Noel Crombie and Nigel Griggs. To be honest, the future member of Fleetwood Mac was a worrying sight that morning. Finn was fresh out of bed, his hair a twisted grey nest, his skinny chest clad in a bottle green corduroy shirt, with baggy pajama pants running down his legs to, ahem fall at his feet, terminating above a ratty pair of sheepskin slippers.

'I made a little bit of effort,' he told me. 'As you can see, I got half dressed.'