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Stevie Nicks’ success as a musician went hand in hand with romance from the very starting. Within the Nineteen Seventies, she shaped a duo referred to as Buckingham Nicks with former boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, and the pair would finally go on to hitch Fleetwood Mac.
Between 1975 and 2003, Nicks and Fleetwood Mac would put out eight albums. In her subsequent solo profession, she’d even be prolific, releasing eight albums of her very personal between 1981 and 2014. Behind the scenes of a wildly profitable musical profession, Stevie had one exceptionally temporary marriage, and a few high-profile romances with fellow musicians.
Forward of her efficiency through the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony, airing January 1 on ABC, right here’s all the pieces to know in regards to the hitmaker’s marriage and romances.
Lindsey Buckingham
The 75-year-old songstress was famously linked to her bandmate Lindsey, now 74, from 1966-1977. In accordance with the Los Angeles Occasions, they met as highschool seniors in Palo Alto, and so they each belonged to a scholar band referred to as Fritz. Lindsey requested Stevie to hitch up, and finally, after the band broke up, they fell right into a romantic relationship. “I’m unsure we might have even turn into a pair if it wasn’t for us leaving that band. It type of pushed us collectively,” she as soon as mentioned, per Stephen Davis’ biography on the singer, “Gold Mud Lady.”
They moved to Los Angeles within the Nineteen Seventies and shaped Buckingham Nicks, their folk-rock duo. Sadly, it wasn’t the incarnation that might work for them, and their success was solely restricted to a single album that merely didn’t carry out.
Within the mid-70s, destiny would deal with them higher. The couple joined Fleetwood Mac with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and magic was made. They finally went their separate methods in 1977, but it surely wasn’t at all times simple to proceed performing collectively. They generally “shot eye daggers at one another,” per the L.A. Occasions in 2020, whereas performing to massive crowds.
Stevie as soon as opened up in regards to the relationship and why Lindsey noticed her as completely different from different romantic pursuits. “In Lindsey’s thoughts, all the opposite ladies that got here after me have been all going after wealthy rock-and-roll star Lindsey,” she recalled to Rolling Stone. “No person was trying into the center I had seemed into. No person was seeing the man earlier than he was well-known. We knew one another earlier than. That’s what makes us distinctive to one another.”
The duo reunited in images for the memorial of late bandmate Christine McVie in January of 2023.
Mick Fleetwood
On the heels of the break up, Stevie launched into a short romance with bandmate Mick in 1978. Sadly, nonetheless, Mick was nonetheless married to Jenny Boyd on the time. In accordance with Vulture, she later referred to the connection as “The loopy unintended affair.”
She defined, “By no means shoulda occurred. And we knew it from the start … If there’s something I realized from that relationship, it was, ‘Don’t go after different ladies’s husbands,’ as a result of it by no means works out,” she continued. “You might be by no means gonna be the girl when you break up a wedding. You’re simply the home-wrecker.”
Don Henley
Stevie subsequent launched into a romance with Eagles drummer Don Henley, now 73. In 1979, Stevie grew to become pregnant by the vocalist and drummer. Stevie admitted as a lot throughout a 2014 interview with Billboard when requested about Don’s assertion that Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 tune “Sara” was written by Stevie about their unborn youngster.
“Had I married Don and had that child, and had she been a lady, I’d have named her Sara,” she mentioned. “However there was one other girl in my life named Sara, who shortly after that grew to become Mick’s spouse, Sara Fleetwood.” In accordance with her Wikipedia web page, she terminated the being pregnant.
“My mission perhaps wasn’t to be a mother and a spouse; perhaps my specific mission was to write down songs to make mothers and wives really feel higher,” she instructed ABC Downtown in 2001.
Robin Anderson
Stevie married Kim Anderson, the husband of her finest pal Robin Anderson, three months after Robin Died of leukemia in 1983. Two days earlier than Robin’s dying, she’d given start to her son with Kim, and Stevie felt she wanted to boost the kid.
“I went loopy, completely loopy when Robin died,” she divulged to Lady’s Personal again in 1990. “The one factor I might consider to do was attempt to take the load off Kim by marrying him and serving to increase their son. I believe in her coronary heart Robin knew I’d go after Kim. I had recognized her for 20 years and him for 5, and I felt this child belonged to me virtually as a lot because it did to them.”
Nevertheless, it didn’t take lengthy for her to appreciate it was the improper factor for each of them, and so they break up after solely three months of marriage. “I used to be decided to maintain [Robin’s] child, so I mentioned to Kim, ‘I don’t know, I suppose we should always simply get married.’” she mentioned of the doomed union. “And so we acquired married three months after she died, and it was a horrible, horrible mistake. We didn’t get married as a result of we have been in love, we acquired married as a result of we have been grieving and it was the one method that we might really feel like we have been doing something.”
Stevie stays near her stepson Matthew after reuniting with him throughout his teenagers, and in accordance with Vulture, she put him by school.
