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San Francisco Chronicle
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Mystery solved: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham to reissue long-lost debut album
The mystery of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's online interactions has been solved after weeks of fan speculation. The former Fleetwood Mac bandmates and ex-lovers will not be reuniting, but instead plan to reissue their only studio album as a duo, 1973's 'Buckingham Nicks.' The record, due out Sept. 19, has been out of print in all formats in the U.S. since the early 1980s. The rerelease, available for preorder now, has been sourced from the album's analog master tapes for vinyl, CD and digital formats. No bonus material will be included. Buckingham and Nicks announced the news Wednesday, July 23, sharing a time-lapse video of a billboard featuring the album's title and original cover art being installed in Los Angeles. Their joint Instagram post was set to the remastered version of the album's opening track, 'Crying in the Night,' which is available now to stream. The billboard is reportedly off Sunset Boulevard near Sound City Studios, where the album was originally recorded. It was first spotted by fans on Monday, July 21, adding to the intrigue that began in June when the famously feuding artists began following each other on Instagram. Nicks, who was a lead singer for the band, and Buckingham, who played guitar and keyboard, met while students at Menlo-Atherton High School, and began dating in 1972. Drummer Mick Fleetwood heard 'Buckingham Nicks' while scouting recording studios in 1974, and was so impressed he ended up offering them spots in his band. Buckingham and Nicks famously broke up while Fleetwood Mac was recording its 1977 album 'Rumours,' and had been entangled in a bitter feud since. Internet buzz about the pair began Thursday, July 17, when the artists shared corresponding social media posts that together make up part of the chorus of 'Frozen Love,' a track on 'Buckingham Nicks.' Fleetwood also got in on the promotion last week, sharing a video of himself listening to 'Frozen Love' in a joint Instagram post with Fleetwood Mac's official account. He captioned it: 'Magic then, magic now.'
NZ Herald
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Buckingham Nicks, the missing link of the Fleetwood Mac saga, is back
The 1973 album set out the duo's Laurel Canyon-inflected sound, which convinced Fleetwood to ask Buckingham to join his band. Fleetwood sought out the guitarist after hearing Frozen Love at Sound City Studios, and Buckingham told him that he and Nicks – musical and romantic partners – were a package deal. The pair quickly joined Fleetwood Mac. 'That album holds up pretty well,' Buckingham said in a 2024 interview with Dan Rather. 'It did not do well commercially, but it certainly was noticed. And more important, it was noticed by Mick Fleetwood.' The apparent reissue, which Buckingham and Nicks teased frequently throughout the 2010s, follows decades of fan bootlegs. After Polydor Records let Buckingham Nicks go out of print, it endured as a coveted find at used record stores and in bits and pieces scattered across Nicks' and Buckingham's discographies. The duet Crystal was remade for Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album, a notch more polished than the more biting Buckingham Nicks arrangement. The bouncing Don't Let Me Down Again appeared on almost 15 years of Fleetwood Mac set lists, finding a home on 1980's Live. When touring in 1974 as Buckingham Nicks, the duo tried out a handful of future Fleetwood Mac hits, including Rhiannon and Monday Morning, for the first time live. The original Buckingham Nicks record remains the best place to understand how Nicks and Buckingham would shake up Fleetwood Mac and classic rock. Nicks' assured, fierce voice shines throughout, while Buckingham's steely, fingerpicked acoustic guitar anchors a majority of the songs. But you can also hear what's missing. As good as Nicks and Buckingham sound together, it's natural to long for Christine McVie to round out their harmonies. Meanwhile, the session musicians – including ones who played with Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Bob Dylan – don't match drummer Fleetwood's might or John McVie's supportive, thoughtful bass lines. (But how many ever did?) Just last year, singer-songwriters Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird released Cunningham Bird, their full-length cover of the Buckingham Nicks album, where the arrangements focused on Bird's violin parts and Cunningham's muted guitar playing. Yet the melodies still jump out, especially on the stripped-down renditions of Crystal and Lola (My Love), which Cunningham described as a 'sex blues ballad'. Bird said the lack of a Buckingham Nicks rerelease was a good reason to record it. 'It's this storied prequel to Fleetwood Mac, and you hear all the kind of drama brewing in the songs,' Bird said to Variety. 'So that appealed to me, that it was inaccessible to a lot of people.' That drama would become almost as famous as the music. After dating in the early 1970s, Buckingham and Nicks broke up after joining Fleetwood Mac, and theirs wasn't the only contentious relationship in the group (that's a whole other article). Shrapnel from the romance damaged their working relationship, and Buckingham eventually left Fleetwood Mac after the success of 1987's Tango in the Night, while Nicks followed in 1991. The golden-era lineup reunited in the 90s, but Buckingham was eventually kicked out in 2018. (Christine McVie, who had already stepped back from the group, died in 2022.) Just last year, Nicks said, 'There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way' in an interview with music magazine Mojo. The music, of course, endures, and the intra-band intrigue was most vividly captured on 1977's Rumours, one of the most successful albums of all time (it is still charting, hitting No 21 on the Billboard 200 for the week of July 26). But the group's tense power is previewed on Frozen Love, which erupts into a solo so dramatic and wailing that it can only be seen as a precursor to 1977's The Chain. During the jolting, stirring chorus, Nicks and Buckingham sing, 'And if you go forward/ I'll meet you there,' which is the line they shared on their respective Instagram accounts. After years of animosity, Nicks and Buckingham seem to be putting aside their differences to share some of this early, thrilling material.
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Buckingham Nicks,' the missing link of the Fleetwood Mac saga, is back
Lineups came and went, but only one version of Fleetwood Mac became a legend. After joining the group in 1974, vocalist Stevie Nicks and singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham supercharged the then-B-tier British blues act with a California folk sensibility. What resulted was the glistening, drama-spiked pop rock of 'Dreams,' 'Don't Stop,' 'Gypsy' and more than a dozen other hits over the next 15 years. But before Fleetwood Mac — and way before their creative partnership ruptured, seemingly permanently — Buckingham and Nicks made an album together. And for years, hearing it wasn't easy. That's seemingly about to change. Last weekend, the two musicians each posted a line from 'Frozen Love' across their social media accounts. It's an aching tune from the album 'Buckingham Nicks,' the commercially unsuccessful album they released in 1973. Mick Fleetwood, the band's drummer, joined in on the fun and posted a video of him listening to 'Frozen Love,' prompting glee from fans. Their 'marriage of coming into Fleetwood Mac when they did, it's all in this song,' said Fleetwood in the video. 'It's in the music, played on for so many years. It was magic then, magic now. What a thrill.' The questions began: Would they finally put 'Buckingham Nicks' on streaming services, from which it has been absent? Is it getting remastered? What about a reunion? On Monday, a billboard of the 'Buckingham Nicks' album cover and the date 'Sept. 19' appeared on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, all but announcing its rerelease. Beyond Nicks and Buckingham's social media posts, they haven't confirmed anything. The 1973 album set out the duo's Laurel Canyon-inflected sound, which convinced drummer Mick Fleetwood to ask Buckingham to join his band. Fleetwood sought out the guitarist after hearing 'Frozen Love' at Sound City Studios, and Buckingham told him that he and Nicks — musical and romantic partners — were a package deal. The pair quickly joined Fleetwood Mac. 'That album holds up pretty well,' Buckingham said a 2024 interview with Dan Rather. 'It did not do well commercially, but it certainly was noticed. And more important, it was noticed by Mick Fleetwood.' The apparent reissue, which Buckingham and Nicks teased frequently throughout the 2010s, follows decades of fan bootlegs. After Polydor Records let 'Buckingham Nicks' go out of print, it endured as a coveted find at used record stories and in bits and pieces scattered across Nicks's and Buckingham's discographies. The duet 'Crystal' was remade for Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album, a notch more polished than the more biting Buckingham Nicks arrangement. The bouncing 'Don't Let Me Down Again' appeared on almost 15 years of Fleetwood Mac set lists, finding a home on 1980′s 'Live.' When touring in 1974 as Buckingham Nicks, the duo tried out a handful of future Fleetwood Mac hits, including 'Rhiannon' and 'Monday Morning,' for the first time live. The original 'Buckingham Nicks' record remains the best place to understand how Nicks and Buckingham would shake up Fleetwood Mac and classic rock. Nicks's assured, fierce voice shines throughout, while Buckingham's steely, fingerpicked acoustic guitar anchors a majority of the songs. But you can also hear what's missing. As good as Nicks and Buckingham sound together, it's natural to long for Christine McVie to round out their harmonies. Meanwhile, the session musicians — including ones who played with Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Bob Dylan — don't match drummer Fleetwood's might or John McVie's supportive, thoughtful bass lines. (But how many ever did?) Just last year, singer-songwriters Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird released 'Cunningham Bird,' their full-length cover of the 'Buckingham Nicks' album, where the arrangements focused on Bird's violin parts and Cunningham's muted guitar playing. Yet the melodies still jump out, especially on the stripped-down renditions of 'Crystal' and 'Lola (My Love),' which Cunningham described as a 'sex blues ballad.' Bird said the lack of a 'Buckingham Nicks' rerelease was a good reason to record it. 'It's this storied prequel to Fleetwood Mac, and you hear all the kind of drama brewing in the songs,' Bird said to Variety. 'So that appealed to me, that it was inaccessible to a lot of people.' That drama would become almost as famous as the music. After dating in the early 1970s, Buckingham and Nicks broke up after joining Fleetwood Mac, and theirs wasn't the only contentious relationship in the group (that's a whole other article). Shrapnel from the romance damaged their working relationship, and Buckingham eventually left Fleetwood Mac after the success of 1987′s 'Tango in the Night,' while Nicks followed in 1991. The golden-era lineup reunited in the '90s, but Buckingham was eventually kicked out in 2018. (Christine McVie, who had already stepped back from the group, died in 2022.) Just last year, Nicks said, 'There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way' in an interview with Mojo. The music, of course, endures, and the intra-band intrigue was most vividly captured on 1977′s 'Rumours,' one of the most successful albums of all time (it is still charting, hitting No. 21 on the Billboard 200 for the week of July 26). But the group's tense power is previewed on 'Frozen Love,' which erupts into a solo so dramatic and wailing that it can only be seen as a precursor to 1977′s 'The Chain.' During the jolting, stirring chorus, Nicks and Buckingham sing, 'And if you go forward/ I'll meet you there,' which is the line they shared on their respective Instagram accounts. After years of animosity, Nicks and Buckingham seem to be putting aside their differences to share some of this early, thrilling material. Solve the daily Crossword
San Francisco Chronicle
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘Buckingham Nicks' billboard spotted in this California city. Here's what we know
A mysterious billboard has Fleetwood Mac fans convinced that Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham may soon release the long-awaited reissue of their 1973 album 'Buckingham Nicks.' The sign, spotted in Los Angeles on Monday, July 21, features the album's title and original cover art, which shows a topless Nicks and Buckingham. Below the album's name reads: September 19. The billboard is reportedly located off Sunset Boulevard near Sound City Studios, where the record was originally recorded. 'Buckingham Nicks' was the only studio album that the musicians put out as a duo, and was what ultimately prompted drummer Mick Fleetwood to invite them to join Fleetwood Mac. It has been out of print for decades and has never had a digital or vinyl reissue. Nicks, who was a lead singer for the band, and Buckingham, who played guitar and keyboard, met while students at Menlo-Atherton High School. They began dating in 1972 and famously broke up while Fleetwood Mac was recording its 1977 album 'Rumours.' They've been locked in a bitter feud ever since — at least, until buzz about the forthcoming release began swirling earlier this month. Neither musician has commented on the billboard, but it is the latest in a string of internet interactions and cryptic clues shared by the ex-lovers and bandmates that have led many fans to believe a reunion is in the works. The intrigue began in June, when several attentive fans noticed that the musicians began following each other on Instagram. Interest ramped up more recently after Buckingham and Nicks shared corresponding posts on the social media platform. On Thursday, July 17, Nicks posted a graphic with the line, 'And if you go forward…' Less than an hour later, Buckingham followed with, 'I'll meet you there.' Together, the lyrics make up part of the chorus for 'Frozen Love,' a track on their album. That same day, some fans reported that Rhino Records published a marketing banner for 'Buckingham Nicks,' which also featured the original cover art. It has since been removed. Fleetwood had shared a video of himself listening to 'Frozen Love' in a joint Instagram post with Fleetwood Mac's official account a day prior. He captioned the post: 'Magic then, magic now.' 'There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way,' she told Mojo Magazine in an interview last summer. 'Without her, it just couldn't work.' That said, Nicks hasn't written off revisiting other parts of her musical past, meaning that a 'Buckingham Nicks' resurgence is still within reason.
Elle
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham Just Reignited Rumors About an Unexpected Project
Whatever spell Stevie Nicks cast on Lindsay Buckingham during that fateful 1997 performance of 'Silver Springs,' it doesn't seem to be wearing off any time soon. Nearly three decades later, and her magic is still holding fast: The former couple—whose tumultuous relationship transformed Fleetwood Mac into a rock band as infamous for its romantic dramas as its genre-defining music—are up to something again. This, perhaps, shouldn't come as a surprise to fans who have followed the pair throughout their relationship. (They have, by their own admission, never been great at going their own ways.) But the latest round of buzz comes courtesy of a new project teased on July 17, when Buckingham and Nicks each posted a set of lyrics on their respective social media pages. 'And if you go forward...' Nicks posted, with Buckingham finishing, 'I'll meet you there.' Fans recognized the words as lyrics from 'Frozen Love,' a track off Buckingham Nicks, the 1973 album the couple released together before joining Fleetwood Mac in 1974. The song is central to the band's origin story, having inadvertently earned both Buckingham and Nicks the jobs that would make them famous. As the story goes, co-founder Mick Fleetwood was touring Sound City Studios in Los Angeles one day in 1974 when the house engineer played him Buckingham Nicks, including 'Frozen Love,' which Fleetwood enjoyed so much that he decided he wanted Buckingham to join his group as a guitarist. Buckingham agreed, but only if Nicks got to come with him, too. Buckingham and Nicks went on to mold Fleetwood Mac into a hit engine, with many of their most beloved and famous songs chronicling the relationship between the two (as well as between the group's other members, including Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie. I mean, Daisy Jones and the Six only scratched the surface when it comes to the tangle of affairs that fueled Fleetwood Mac.) 'Go Your Own Way,' 'Silver Springs,' and 'Dreams' are all (reportedly, anyway) songs Nicks and Buckingham wrote about each other, but Buckingham Nicks itself never received a commercial remaster or digital re-release. Thus the latest theory: After half a century, the album might finally get its moment in the spotlight. On July 21, Los Angeles residents spotted a billboard over Sunset Boulevard featuring the iconic Buckingham Nicks cover—in which both Nicks and Buckingham are topless—alongside the date 'Sept. 19.' Neither Nicks nor Buckingham have posted the billboard or any other information about the potential re-release on their social media, so, for now, we can only await their official confirmation. Either way, a collaboration between the two will inevitably raise some eyebrows: Last fans knew, the two were not on amazing terms. After the death of Christy McVie in 2022, Nicks told Rolling Stone in 2024 that she was 'done with Fleetwood Mac for good,' and that the last time she'd spoken with Buckingham was at Christy's celebration of life. 'The only time I've spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes,' she told the outlet. 'I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.' She later added, 'I wish him the best. I hope he lives a long life and continues to go into a studio and work with other people.' But the latest news from the former lovers certainly implies that, instead, they're working with each other again. After first meeting in high school, Buckingham and Nicks have reunited again and again in service of the extraordinary music they make together. Nicks herself put their reasoning best in a 2023 interview with Vulture: When asked why she'd compared watching Prime Video's Daisy Jones and the Six adaptation to 'a ghost watching my own story,' Nicks said, 'It was the kind of snappy sarcasm between [main characters] Daisy and Billy, who in my mind was like me and Lindsey. It was the back-and-forth between the two of them. It was so two people capture the essence of something that reminds you of your life, it's not like you go, They look just like us or They dress just like us. It's something else. It's a certain feeling that they got when they would look at each other after being in an argument and then they'd start to sing. It would blow your mind. I would be watching and be like, Well, there you go. That's exactly why we did it. That's exactly why Fleetwood Mac stayed together for 50 years. It was all for the music. It was all just to keep the music going.' Suffice to say, Buckingham will indeed never get away from the sound of the woman that loves him—and September 19 can't come soon enough.
