Harry Types joined Stevie Nicks‘ headlining set for the BST Hyde Park live performance sequence on Friday for a duet of “Cease Dragging My Coronary heart Round” and “Landslide.” Earlier than he appeared on stage, Nicks instructed the viewers in London that she requested Types to assist her in commemorating what would have been her late Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie‘s 81st birthday.

“On the finish of the present, because the finish of final 12 months and since Christine handed away, I’d say one thing about her, and I requested Harry to do that with me and it’s rather a lot to ask somebody to sing a heavy music a few finest buddy that died so all of the sudden and so sadly,” she mentioned. “What I need to say to you is that Christine was Harry’s woman, she was my woman, she was your woman, and he or she liked all of you, and right now would’ve been her birthday.”

Types was sporting an embroidered songbird pin, making a reference to McVie’s vocal efficiency in “Songbird,” the piano ballad off Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album “Rumours.”

Types has not appeared on stage for a efficiency because the finish of his “Love On Tour” on July 22, 2023 in Italy. His final full-length album was 2022’s “Harry’s Home,” which received a Grammy for album of the 12 months. He has remained largely out of the highlight since.

Nicks, in the meantime, instructed the gang at BST Hyde Park that she typically turns to the stage when she is coping with one thing as heavy because the sudden passing of McVie: “One factor that my mother used to say to me once I was little was… Once I was harm, she’d go ‘Stevie whenever you’re harm, you all the time run to the stage.’ And that’s what I’ve been doing since Chris handed away.”

Nicks is a headliner for the live performance sequence that additionally consists of performances by Kings of Leon, Kylie Minogue, the Corrs, Stray Children, Shania Twain, Robbie Williams and Andrea Bocelli.