Buckingham Nicks

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“We’re old enough now that we’ve laid down our weapon,” Stevie Nicks told <i>Rolling Stone</i> in 2012. She was talking not only about potential songs for a new Fleetwood Mac album, but also her fabled, contentiou, and musically revelatory relationship with Lindsey Buckingham. The 40th anniversary of their debut together, 1973’s <i>Buckingham Nicks</i>, was quickly nearing, so she was hoping for a deluxe box set and a grand tour where they reunited their old band to play that album end-to-end. Trouble wa, though, that Buckingham wasn’t entirely on board, telling <i>Rolling Stone</i> a week later that her plan would be “economically suicidal.” Some dynamics are hard to change, and <i>Buckingham Nicks</i>—one of the most famous footnotes in rock ’n’ roll history—remained out of print beyond even its 50th anniversary. At last, it is back. The early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac was stumbling out of the smoky ’60s haze when producer Keith Olsen played Mick Fleetwood a track from a debut he’d just produced by a handsome duo called Buckingham Nick. Their record barely sold or generated much interest at all, but Fleetwood was so struck by what he heard that he wanted the guitarist in his own band. Buckingham, however, insisted that his girlfriend and harmony partner come along for what turned into one of music’s most infamous rides—a nonpareil hit factory fueled by breakup, blow, and betrayal. .

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