On the eve of the release of a solo concert film, Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks opens up on Lindsey Buckingham’s exit and looking for love in her 70s. The moonlight confessions of Stevie Nicks Buckingham had gone out on a tour with Don Everly that had ended badly. Nicks was exhausted from waitressing and cleaning houses to make ends meet. They had begun to fight, and money was tight, but the music making didn’t stop - with the beginnings of later hits “Rhiannon” and “Landslide” among the fruits of their labors.
Despite the album cover’s iconic photo of them topless, the record flopped and the label dropped them. In the star-filled atmosphere of early-’70s Los Angeles, they teamed up as a folk-rock duo called Buckingham Nicks, releasing an eponymous album in late 1973. Intense, he in his curly locks and icy blue eyes and she in her long straight hair and her piercing gaze when you talked to her.” People who encountered them recall an aura about them, a radiance,” Davis wrote. When they finally hit the City of Angels in late 1972, “They were immediately perceived as a sexy, star-bound couple. By the time the two decided they were moving to L.A., the band had broken up, and Nicks and Buckingham were suddenly a romantic item. At this point they were mutually interested in music but weren’t yet romantically involved.įritz stayed together until the early 1970s, with Nicks and Buckingham dating other people the entire time.
He was in a psychedelic rock band, Fritz, and asked her to join it as lead singer after two members left to go to college. The early yearsīuckingham and Nicks met as high school seniors near Palo Alto, Calif., in the late 1960s. So read on for highlights and lowlights from one of rock’s most storied relationships. Their complicated dynamic is back in the spotlight this week following Buckingham’s new Los Angeles Times interview, and the details can’t be summed up in any four-minute single. Somebody should write a song about the romantic drama that’s gone down over the years between Lindsey Buckingham and Steve Nicks.īut of course, both of them already did: Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” written by her, and “Go Your Own Way,” written by him, to name only two songs about their tumultuous relationship.