The private {and professional} relationship between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham has been a supply of drama for greater than 40 years.
The 2 singer-songwriters had been romantically concerned once they joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, and their addition to the band helped spawn prompt industrial success. However rock stardom doesn’t typically foster a wholesome relationship.
Issues got here to a head throughout recording periods in Northern California for the band’s 1977 album Rumours.
“Lindsey and I had a really unhealthy battle proper … proper earlier than we had been preparing to return to L.A.,” Nicks recalled a long time later. “And I stated, ‘We’re carried out. I feel that that is over. I don’t assume that each one the king’s horses and all of the king’s males can put this again collectively once more.’”
Regardless of the breakup, each side agreed they might stay within the band. “It doesn’t matter what it takes, we’re gonna maintain Fleetwood Mac collectively,” Nicks remembered saying. “And our breaking apart shouldn’t be gonna break up this band. And I’m not gonna stop and neither are you.”
Although the strain and animosity solid by being exes in a band collectively helped encourage a few of Fleetwood Mac’s greatest hits, it additionally led Nicks and Buckingham to one of the epic rock feuds in historical past. The 2 have lashed out at one another many occasions through the years in music lyrics and the press.
Most lately, Buckingham accused Nicks of giving the band an ultimatum that resulted in his dismissal from Fleetwood Mac in 2018.
“I feel generally [Stevie] may discover it troublesome that I used to be fortunate sufficient to seek out my soul mate late in life and bought married,” Buckingham defined to CBS Sunday Morning round that point. “And that was one thing she by no means did.” The guitarist additional described his relationship with Nicks as “fragmented” and opined that Fleetwood Mac touring with different musicians in his place was “dishonest.”
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