Sheryl Crow Reveals Grammys Blunder That Affected Her Tribute to Christine McVie

The singer was having some technical difficulties on stage.

Sheryl Crow, Mick Fleetwood, and Bonnie Raitt took the stage at the 65th Grammy Awards to honor the late co-lead vocalist and keyboardist of Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie.

The trio joined together on stage to perform Fleetwood Mac's 1977 hit, "Songbird," a tune that was composed solely by McVie–but Crow recently revealed that the performance didn't go as they had planned. 

The "All I Wanna Do" songstress, 60, took to her Facebook on Monday (Feb. 6), where she revealed that there were some technical difficulties that took place during the touching tribute. 

"Beautiful Christine! Last night during our Recording Academy / GRAMMYs tribute, something really strange happened. I sat down to play with Bonnie and Mick and the piano was not working right," she wrote in the post.

"I still cannot wrap my brain around it because I’ve never had it happen but the clock started for Mick and the first chord I played, only a couple of notes at a time would play. At one point, the piano in our ears was in a different key than what I was playing," she revealed.

She noted that the production crew was able to step in and help, writing, "Thankfully, the broadcast mixer noticed something was off and switched over to the microphones. So to everyone else, it sounds completely normal. But for us, the digital patch that was what we heard in our ears was CRAZY!"

"Needless to say, I was disappointed but Mick and I decided after the performance that perhaps Christine might be up there sipping champaign and giggling, having been a keyboard player herself," she quipped, adding, "So happy for my friend, Bonnie though!! What a night!"

McVie died peacefully at a hospital at age 79 on Nov. 30, following a brief bout of illness.

McVie joined the band three years after it formed in 1970. She was one of eight members to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, alongside her ex-husband, John McVie. She left the band shortly after, but rejoined in 2014. 

In 2022, McVie earned a Grammy nomination for an orchestral arrangement of the same song Crow, Fleetwood, and Raitt performed to pay tribute to the late songbird that was arranged by Vince Mendoza.

Despite the blunder in the trio's performance on Sunday evening, they still managed to deliver a beautiful rendition of McVie's song. You can watch the touching tribute below.