Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham Just Reignited Rumors About an Unexpected Project
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 good...When 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.
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