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Stevie Nicks Claps Back At Lindsey Buckingham Over Fleetwood Mac Allegations: ‘I Was No Longer Willing To Work With Him’ Rumours boasted the competing songs “Dreams”, written by Nicks, and Buckingham’s “Go Your Own Way”. And the band was solid, by that time, so I could walk away knowing that he was safe. “Then something happened that was, you know, ‘We’re done.’ And he knew it. “I just bided my time, and tried to make everything as easy as possible, tried to be as sweet and nice to Lindsey as I could be. Like the best art, Fleetwood Mac’s acclaimed 1977 album Rumours was fuelled by the reported tension between bandmates. “So we just put our relationship kind of back together, because I was smart enough to know that, if we had broken up the second month of being in Fleetwood Mac, it would have blown the whole thing.” “We’d only been in Fleetwood Mac for a year and a half, and we were breaking up when we joined Fleetwood Mac.” I mean, I broke up with Lindsey in 1976,” Nicks told The New Yorker.
“You just have to throw yourself into your song. Nicks and Buckingham had to mend their fractured relationship early into the band’s lifecycle.īillie Lourd Honours Late Mom Carrie Fisher With Fleetwood Mac Cover In a new interview, Nicks opens up about the long, roller-coaster relationship between the two musicians. Stevie Nicks is opening the book on her tumultuous relationship with former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham.įleetwood Mac’s immense success has been dotted by friction between Buckingham and his bandmates, primarily Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks - Photo: Nicholas Hunt/WireImage