It has been reported that tensions initially flared up during the MusiCares event when Buckingham reacted unhappily to the Nicks-penned Rhiannon being played to announce their arrival, and that he smirked during Nicks’ acceptance speech.īuckingham and Nicks met in their high-school days. She rejected his claims about her wanting children: “I’m proud of the life choices I’ve made, and it seems a shame for him to pass judgment on anyone who makes a choice to live their life on their own terms, even if it looks differently from what his life choices have been.”įleetwood Mac’s manager Irving Azoff sided with Nicks, saying her account is “factual and truthful … actions alone are responsible for what transpired.” And after many lengthy group discussions, Fleetwood Mac, a band whose legacy is rooted in evolution and change, found a new path forward with two hugely talented new members. I have championed independence my whole life, and I believe every human being should have the absolute freedom to set their boundaries of what they can and cannot work with. If the band went on without me, so be it. I proactively removed myself from the band and a situation I considered to be toxic to my wellbeing. To be exceedingly clear, I did not have him fired, I did not ask for him to be fired, I did not demand he be fired.
She wrote:įollowing an exceedingly difficult time with Lindsey at MusiCares in New York in 2018, I decided for myself that I was no longer willing to work with him … we could start in 1968 and work up to 2018 with a litany of very precise reasons why I will not work with him. Nicks has responded by calling Buckingham’s account “revisionist history”. She has the people who work for her, and I’m sure she has friends, but, you know.” I think that was hard for her, seeing me jump around in an age-inappropriate way. In another interview with the LA Times, Buckingham said of Nicks: “Her creativity, at least for a while, it seemed like she wasn’t in touch with that – same with the level of energy she once had on stage. In October, Buckingham released his Solo Anthology (opens in new tab) and recently completed a tour across North America.He said the ensuing tour, with Mike Campbell and Crowded House’s Neil Finn replacing him on guitar, “seemed somewhat generic and perhaps bordering on being a cover band … what this did was dishonour the legacy that we built”.īuckingham claimed Nicks was dismayed that Buckingham eventually had his first child at the age of 48, while she remains childless: “It certainly wasn’t lost on her that … I did get in under the wire.” Again, I just have to forgive them because it’s really just Stevie being so needy for a certain kind of attention and maybe not wanting to compete with the vitality that I have.” “I won’t hear from Stevie because it was all her trip anyway. I know Mick would probably like to, but I think he’s too embarrassed and just a little too weak-willed to do it. He now says: “Once we signed some papers a few weeks ago, I did hear from Christine in an email, as I expected to. I can’t stop loving them because of that.”īuckingham previously said he hadn’t spoken directly to any of his old bandmates since the split, but had received an email from Christine McVie. “I mean, it does make me question who these people are, but again, to look at it compassionately, I think it’s all coming from a lack of perspective and to some degree a certain weakness on their parts. “The way I look at it is it’s giving me an opportunity to do some things in a more rapid-fire way with some new people who actually care about what I’m doing and not just about getting the money from Fleetwood Mac. It’s a cover band kind of deal Lindsey Buckingham If she’s happy doing that, there is no one outcome that I think is going to be OK. It’s a cover band kind of deal, and Stevie Nicks may be enjoying that, and that’s fine. “If they ask me to come back, would I? Sure, because to me I think the lack of a proper farewell tour – if that’s what we’re doing – that doesn’t undercut, like I say, the legacy that we have so carefully built as the five of us, which they’re not doing right now.