Fleetwood Mac’s John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and Lindsey Buckingham in 1975.
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Fifty years in the past this month, Fleetwood Mac launched their self-titled 1975 album, which featured two new members: a younger couple named Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
As the story goes, the 2 musicians — who carried out because the duo Buckingham Nicks — launched their self-titled 1973 album, but it surely flopped they usually had been dropped by Polydor. Nicks started working on the Beverly Hills restaurant known as Clementine’s, till their Buckingham Nicks producer Keith Olsen performed the album for Mick Fleetwood. When Bob Welch left the group, Buckingham and Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on New 12 months’s Eve 1974. “I stated, ‘That’s it, I’m by no means one other price ticket,’” she recalled in 2015. “And I meant it.” The remainder is historical past.
Fleetwood Mac, which opens with Buckingham’s “Monday Morning” and options Nicks’ “Rhiannon,” was launched on July 11, 1975. In a brand new Instagram put up, Fleetwood reminisced about this second that modified the band eternally, enjoying the Buckingham Nicks’ nearer “Frozen Love” on headphones.
“Woo! Unbelievable!” he stated. “The wedding of Stevie and Lindsey, the wedding of coming into Fleetwood Mac after they did, it’s all within the music. It’s within the music that performed on for therefore a few years. It’s magic then, it’s magic now. What a thrill, what a thrill. Amen.”
This explicit lineup of Fleetwood Mac performed their final full live performance collectively in July 2017, although their closing efficiency was technically their transient set on the MusiCares occasion at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in January 2018 — which wasn’t nice for the band.
“That’s when he wasn’t very good to anyone; he wasn’t very good to Harry Kinds,” Nicks stated of Buckingham, in her expansive Rolling Stone Interview final fall. “I handled Lindsey for so long as I may. You could possibly not say that I didn’t give him greater than 300 million probabilities.”
The band fired Buckingham shortly after, replacing him with Mike Campbell, the previous guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Crowded Home’s Neil Finn. The final present of that tour was in November 2019, and Christine McVie died in Nov. 2022. As Nicks advised us, she has no plans to reunite the band with out her “music soulmate, my finest girlfriend.” However as Fleetwood stated in his video, the magic of Fleetwood Mac lives on.
From Rolling Stone US.