Did Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham bury the hatchet?

Oooh the intrigue.

I wonder if they are as sick of hearing about this shit as we are ? 50 fucking years later !

Sad Last Days

JFC they both have one foot in the grave and this shit has been going on for 50 years. It's ridiculous.

Didn’t he die recently?

Maybe Stevie's promised not to kick him in the cunt bone.

I’ll try to hold back here as a huge Stevie fan —

* This is just for a 2025 remaster/re-release of their 1973 album Buckingham Nicks

* It’s nice that they patched things up enough to be willing to make some collaborative gestures for their fans

* But no, she won’t want to be spending any time with him. Neither in a studio nor on a tour. Fans should just appreciate the BN re-release and calm down.

Two weeks-tops.!

R7 If that's true, that's great - people have been jonesing for that album to be repressed for years.

In interviews, she claims to have made her peace with him. He's living with a house full of women (his wife and daughters), and has mellowed with age. She says they were emotionally tectonic, but marvelously good musical partners. And that's how she'll remember it.

But they've both done so much dope over the years that I doubt they know what day it is. I wouldn't worry about a backstage brawl.

It's a miracle Stevie is still alive and in seemingly good shape at age 77. Bitch snorted up 3/4 of Colombia for how many years, and she's still ticking. Amazing.

Sad and annoying that elderly people with too much fame and money are using this as a marketing ploy. If they aren't, they're just petty and lame individuals.

Torta would they really put such a public tease out there just for the BN re-issue? Can't help but think there's something else afoot. Why would Mick Fleetwood tease anything BN related?

I would love them to reunite professionally. Let's face it, the two of them WERE the best and most creative force in the band.

I love them together and I love the heartbreak mystique around their relationship.

R13, not sure; she has been adamant that she’s done spending any professional time with him ever again, but the BN reissue appears to be 100% real. YouTube music just put up holding spaces for the 2025 tracks.

They have been pretty clear that they won't reunite on stage to perform as Fleetwood Mac after Christine's death. That being said, re-releases and reissues are probably a safe bet.

[quote]They have been pretty clear that they won't reunite on stage to perform as Fleetwood Mac after Christine's death.

...as has said The Who (post-Moon), Led Zeppelin (post-Bonham), the Stones (too many to count). Hell even the Beatles reunited for some songs after their leader's death.

I think the pull of the performing limelight will be too much. Plus all that cash.

R13, if you knew your Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac lore, you would know that "Frozen Love" from the Buckingham Nicks album, is the song that Mick Fleetwood heard as an example of a studio's production that he was considering using. Just from that song, Mick wanted to hire the duo to join Fleetwood Mac without an audition. Listening to "Frozen Love" WAS the audition!

Two days ago, Mick is listening to "Frozen Love" on headphones, with the message saying, "Sounds as good now as it did then."

Mick has a history with "Frozen Love" and that is what that whole video is about.

I'm sure he wants to hype up this reissue for his friends and former bandmates.

Well I guess I know the details now r18. Thank you for the Buckingham Nicks schooling (seriously).

Her refusal to ever work with him again has been steadfast and is what got him fired* back in 2018 — and she’s been adamant that Fleetwood Mac no longer exists without Christine. In addition John (whom everyone forgets about) is in poor health and just wants to be left alone.

(* Actual sequence of events: Stevie declared she would never go onstage with him again and she offered to quit FMac. Meanwhile Mick was really itching to tour for $$, they all were up for it except for Lindsey who refused. So Mick and John and Christine voted — keep Stevie and tour, or keep Lindsey and maybe do an album but not tour. They voted to fire Lindsey, keep Stevie, and tour. Mike Campbell and Neil Finn replaced Lindsey, and the tour had mixed reviews.)

Fleetwood Mac existed successfully from 1998 through 2013 without Christine.

The band chose to go with Stevie in 2019 after she drew a line in the sand over Buckingham. That incarnation of FM actually had the highest grossing tour ever for the band. They also successfully toured without Buckingham 1987-1990.

Stevie only said FM was dead after McVie's death because she (rightfully) refused to work with Buckingham ever again in any capacity. Christine's death was a convenient excuse for the fans to comprehend.

And now, Stevie has changed her mind, with the seeming reconciliation in their social media messages that are prepping the Buckingham Nicks reissue.

I'm sure there are real feelings involved in this making up, but it's very calculated as well.

(The PR story about how The Dance came about in 1997 is a complete fabrication; it was a business arrangement that had already been set up for over a year, contracts signed and everything. But fans have to have their ridiculous made-up stories to geek out about.)

Nice, R21, you know more than I do. Didn’t know that about The Dance but it makes sense.

R22, The reunited Fleetwood Mac was to perform at the Kentucky Derby in May 1996, a year before The Dance, as a kickoff buzz to their reunion. At the very last minute, Buckingham chickened out, so Billy Burnette replaced him with the other four members reuniting at the Derby.

The reunion contracts were signed in 1996. WB was adamant that Stevie have an equal say in every aspect - the whole reunion depended on Stevie, not the fake "We all started working on Lindsey's album, and it just naturally came together" ridiculous story. If Stevie wasn't equally represented, there was no recording contract for Fleetwood Mac. If you noticed, The Dance tour was the first time Stevie had equal songs on a tour as Christine and Buckingham. That was in the contract.

Behind the scenes and all of the interviews spouting the same stories, there was a lot of drama going on during The Dance era. Including Christine drama.........

(No, Stevie's not the only one who can be a diva and cause chaos...)

Interesting, R23, thanks for this! Dance Drama, I do recall hearing Stevie was unusually adamant that her new song Sweet Girl be given prominence in the set and make it onto the CD. She was wrong in that case — it’s just not that great of a song, and Stevie’sand the band’s performance of Gold Dust Woman (which got cut from the CD) was far superior.

I'm loving all this BN/Nicks/FM gossip and drama talk. Fascinating - pls post some of the Christine drama if available.

The band wanted new songs on the actual album to show they were still creative. Stevie didn't have "Gold Dust Woman" axed. Stevie Haters making up that story.

But, yes, "Gold Dust Woman" is the best song in the entire concert, along with "Silver Springs."

"Temporary One" and the two Buckingham songs could well have been replaced, too, with better, more famous hits. But only Stevie is the one "demanding" her new song be put on the album?

The PR stories really take hold, it seems.

I could see them reuniting for a "filmed concert" using the magic of AI.

Ow! My cunt bone!

Fair points R26. I just really wanted GDW on my CD back then, and saw an interview with Stevie talking up Sweet Girl and saying how hard she pitched it to the band because she felt it’s “Important.”

Love her, and we all disagree sometimes!

R25, 3/4ths through The Dance tour in Fall 1997, Christine decided to quit the band and the tour. You won't believe this, but she was not happy with Stevie's new power and equality. She was used to getting more of everything in Fleetwood Mac, even if Stevie achieved more solo success and media attention for decades.

There were big legal conference calls (which is how I know about all this), and WB forced Christine to finish the tour and publicity in Europe in early '98. Once that was completed, she left the band.

If you were paying attention from 1998 to 2013, Stevie wasn't using the "My beloved sister in the band, my best friend" stories at all during that era. No one in the band really talked about her or her absence from the band. Buckingham hated performing "Don't Stop" in concert during that era and having to pay Christine royalties as the songwriter.

By the time Fleetwood Mac made it to London on their 2013 tour, they were all older and they all loved money, so Christine rejoining the touring band was concocted as the next step, with her joining for a few songs in 2013's London shows to prep everyone for the "real reunion" on the 2014-2015 On With The Show tour.

Plus, the women had long since gotten over their issues and were friends again (but it was all fake with Stevie and Buckingham, putting on an act for the cat lady fans).

R30, good stuff, thanks. So (since you seem to know).. when Christine rejoined FM a decade ago there was a heartwarming story put out about how she’d actually quit the band in the late ‘90s because of a flying phobia, but now she’s cured. How true or fake was that?

I can understand her feelings back during the Dance tour. This new wave of younger fans who were so into Stevie, Silver Springs, and the Stevie/Lindsey drama and backstory. Even here on Datalounge there was an occasional running joke about it.. “Christine” posting from retirement about having had quite enough of being situated behind Stevie and being “struck in the face by a beaded shawl.” The metaphor didn’t seem entirely inaccurate at the time.

Seeing them all together in 2015 and sounding good, was such a treat. Though Stevie seemed so much happier and in her element a few years later, headlining her own 24 Karat tour.

Seeing as how Christine never mentioned a "fear of flying" in any interview prior to 1998, I discount it as another story.

However, maybe she did and just never mentioned it until needing a public excuse for quitting. I have no idea.

I only related the story to show that Stevie is not the one to blame for every single thing.

I have to laugh when fans whine about not being able to hear the trio of vocalists' "golden harmonies" one more time - uh, you haven't heard any harmonizing from those three together since maybe 1978. And the only ones harmonizing in 2014-2015 were background singers Sharon Celani and Stevii (the Black girl singer).

I think the death of Christine was a turning point. Life’s too short to stay mad.

They could call up Diane for some pointers on keeping that resentment going till the bitter end.

R32, aw come on, they definitely harmonized during the Tusk to Tango years and again during the Dance! Especially on The Chain and the choruses of their bigger hits.

I mean.. this (for example) was real.

But yeah I had to leave the Ledge (longtime FM discussion board) after the Lindsey firing, too many fans of the band-at-large really turned on Stevie and blamed her (and pretty much her alone) for everything. Stories can create villains.

I will grant you that Rick, Billy, Sharon, Lori, Lynn, and Eleiscia harmonized along with Stevie and Christine on the 1987-1990 tours.

r21 "The PR story about how The Dance came about in 1997"

What was the story?

If you listen to Buckingham’s last solo album, I swear he chose a female back up singer/ harmonizer that has that Stevie Nicks quality.

R38, Buckingham purposefully digitizes his voice to sound like Stevie. He's been doing that with backing vocals since 1978.

All his hatred for her, yet he wants the sound of her voice on his songs. AND he wants to sing her songs - "I Don't Want To Know", "Crystal," "(Deep Sense Of A) Funny Kind Of Love".

I'd bury Lindsey's hatchet any time.

She’s such a pain in the ass.

r37 r40

He’s such a pain in the ass.

FTFY R41

They most likely still hate each other, and feel disgusted with themselves for posting these gimmicky things on their social media.

Everyone who wants this recording already has it, from pawn shops and the Internet. The only way to make off the rerelease is to go on tour. And they're going to need a drummer; that's why Mick is so excited.

He looks like Matthew Rhys in that picture.

r42

Stevie Nicks is a fucking egomaniac. EVERY fucking American tragedy has Stevie commenting on how it affected her and how "so and so happened" and she became a Rock and Roll star! EVERY SINGLE THING. She works the "rock and roll star" into every fucking conversation and interview. She is one of the most sheltered air heads EVER.

I truly cannot stand her anymore.

And that single from a few years ago- was comically awful.

I will give her this- despite having NO range- like 1/4 of an octave- her voice still has a lot of power. And that shocks me. I mention this any time we talk about her.

r47 You ok, sweetie? How's your dad?

ROTFLMAO Eat me. R48. That was funny though-

r49 When you're taking a break, I hope your day improves.

It will~