The stuff of legend. Fleetwood Mac’s historical past of breakups, affairs and lineup modifications is so well-known that their title is now synonymous with rock ‘n’ roll drama.
Based in 1967 by Peter Inexperienced, Jeremy Spencer and Mick Fleetwood, the group initially began as a blues band earlier than pivoting to a rock-forward sound within the early Seventies. By the point Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band in 1975, Fleetwood Mac had already launched 9 albums.
The “Fringe of Seventeen” songstress and the guitarist have been courting once they grew to become a part of the group, however their romance started to fizzle shortly after they settled in. In accordance with Nicks, they rekindled their relationship for the sake of the music.
“I mentioned, OK, that is what we’ve been working for since 1968,” the American Horror Story alum instructed Buckingham, in line with the 2017 biography Gold Mud Lady. “And so, Lindsey, you and I’ve to stitch this relationship again up. Now we have an excessive amount of to lose right here. We have to put our issues behind us. Possibly we’re not going to have any extra issues, as a result of we’re lastly going to have some cash. And I received’t should be a f–king waitress.”
The reconciliation didn’t final, nevertheless, and throughout the recording of Rumours — arguably the band’s most well-known album — Buckingham and Nicks known as it quits for good.
Whereas the romantic drama between band members cooled down within the late Seventies, the skilled pressure was simply heating up. Nicks, Fleetwood and Buckingham all launched solo albums in 1981, and in 1987, Buckingham made his first exit from the band. He later rejoined the group earlier than leaving once more in 2018.
After Buckingham’s ultimate exit, Fleetwood Mac accomplished one other world tour with out incident, however their previous drama made headlines once more in 2019 with the discharge of Taylor Jenkins Reid‘s novel Daisy Jones & the Six. The guide is an oral historical past of a fictional band that readers couldn’t assist evaluating to the “Desires” group, particularly after a TV adaptation hit screens in March 2023.
Jenkins Reid, for her half, has mentioned that the band’s TV particular Fleetwood Mac: The Dance partly impressed her primary characters, who harbor a secret love for each other whereas in relationships with different folks.
“Once I determined I needed to jot down a guide about rock ‘n’ roll, I stored coming again to that second when Lindsey watched Stevie sing ‘Landslide.’ The way it regarded a lot like two folks in love. And but, we’ll by no means actually know what lived between them,” the Malibu Rising writer wrote in a Howdy Sunshine weblog publish in 2019. “I needed to jot down a narrative about that, about how the traces between actual life and efficiency can get blurred, about how singing about previous wounds would possibly maintain them contemporary.”
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