The non-public {and professional} relationship between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham has been a supply of drama for greater than 40 years.
The 2 singer-songwriters have been romantically concerned after they joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, and their addition to the band helped spawn prompt business success. However rock stardom doesn’t typically foster a wholesome relationship.
Issues got here to a head throughout recording classes in Northern California for the band’s 1977 album Rumours.
“Lindsey and I had a really unhealthy battle proper … proper earlier than we have been preparing to return to L.A.,” Nicks recalled many years later. “And I stated, ‘We’re carried out. I believe that that is over. I don’t suppose that every one the king’s horses and all of the king’s males can put this again collectively once more.’”
Regardless of the breakup, either side agreed they’d stay within the band. “It doesn’t matter what it takes, we’re gonna preserve Fleetwood Mac collectively,” Nicks remembered saying. “And our breaking apart is just not gonna break up this band. And I’m not gonna stop and neither are you.”
Although the stress and animosity cast by being exes in a band collectively helped encourage a few of Fleetwood Mac’s greatest hits, it additionally led Nicks and Buckingham to probably the most epic rock feuds in historical past. The 2 have lashed out at one another many instances over time in tune 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 believe typically [Stevie] may discover it tough that I used to be fortunate sufficient to seek out my soul mate late in life and acquired 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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