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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Inside Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's decades-long feud - as former lovers spark reunion rumours following cryptic Instagram posts
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham sent fans into a meltdown earlier this week after they hinted at the end of their decades-long feud. Fleetwood Mac 's Stevie, 77, and Lindsey, 75, both based in the US, shared related Instagram posts of the lyrics from their song Frozen Love, which they released under their pop-duo group Buckingham Nicks in 1973. The move came as a massive surprise to fans, with most under the impression that the pair's tumultuous romance and eventual breakup left their relationship beyond repair. 'And if you go forward…' Stevie's graphic read. Then, only half an hour later, Buckingham shared his own picture, with the line, 'I'll meet you there.' Fans quickly took to social media to question what the posts mean. Some claimed that it meant the musicians have finally found resolution after their messy 1976 breakup, while others thought it means new music is on the way. 'Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham following each other in the year of 2025, after their fallout is proof that it's never over and you can have a 60-year-old situationship with your ex,' one user joked on X. Speculation heightened because Stevie and Lindsey followed each other on Instagram, despite their thorny relationship between 1972 and 1976, and emotionally charged performance of Silver Springs in Burbank, California, one year later. Here, Femail explores the highs and lows of Stevie and Lindsey's romance, from the formation of Buckingham Nicks to the Fleetwood Mac glory days and the bombshell post-break up claims. The pair met at Menlo-Atherton High School in California, when Nicks was a senior and Buckingham a junior. It was during a Christian youth music group when Buckingham strummed California Dreamin' and Nicks harmonized that they realised their potential together. The duo first joined a band called Fritz before settling on forming their own rock duo in 1971, called Buckingham Nicks. Nicks waited tables and cleaned houses to support them while Buckingham lounged all day with his friends, including Warren Zevon, she has said. 'I was making $50 a week cleaning,' Nicks once recalled to Rolling Stone. 'I'd come in every day and have to step over these bodies. Me, I've just been cleaning. I'm tired. I'm pickin' up their legs and cleaning under them and emptying out the ashtrays,' she recalled. The rock and roll couple were posing for the cover art on their self-titled first album in 1975 when a photographer told her to take off her blouse, according to Stephen Davis' biography of Nicks, Gold Dust Woman. She didn't want to do it, and Buckingham lost it, shouting: 'Don't be a f**king child, this is art!' Despite initial differences, the pair got an opportunity in 1975 when drummer Mick Fleetwood recruited the pair to join Fleetwood Mac. The duo were both admitted and completed the band's enduring line-up alongside Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie and John McVie. 'When they first joined the band, Lindsey had control [over Nicks],' Mick Fleetwood told Davis in the biography. 'And, very slowly, he began to lose control. And he really didn't like it.' With Nicks fronting the act, the band shot to stardom. But Buckingham was madly jealous that Nicks' songs 'Rhiannon' and 'Landslide,' about their fading romance, were more popular than his own, the biography claimed. Ahead of the band's landmark album Rumours, which was released in 1977 and would later earn them a Grammy, the couple ended their love affair. 'I don't even remember what the issues were; I just know that it got to the point where I wanted to be by myself,' Nicks told Rolling Stone of the split. 'It just wasn't good anymore, wasn't fun anymore, wasn't good for either of us anymore. I'm just the one who stopped it.' The ill-feeling between the on-off couple acted as a catalyst for songs such as Second Hand News and Never Going Back, which saw Buckingham write some very spiky lyrics, seemingly directed at his former love. The most controversial was seemingly his Go Your Own Way, which states: 'Tell me why everything turned around, packing up, shacking up is all you want to do.' And Nicks felt aggrieved at the sentiment. She told the publication: 'I very, very much resented him telling the world that 'packing up, shacking up' with different men was all I wanted to do. 'He knew it wasn't true. It was just an angry thing that he said. Every time those words would come out onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. When recording the band's 1977 album, 'Rumours,' he demeaned Nicks' songwriting and told her she needed him to make her songs sound halfway decent. She said he was 'hijacking' her music and told her mother that Buckingham had 'thrown her down to the floor' when the two were arguing. 'He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ''I'll make you suffer for leaving me.' And did. For years.' The singer said that she 'never brought men around' in case it added fuel to the fire, but that Buckingham 'immediately got girlfriends.' But towards the end of the band's Rumours tour, Nicks seemingly looked closer to home for her next tryst after having an affair with married bandmate Mick Fleetwood. The singer said that the pair would never had hooked up, had they not been intoxicated on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol. Nicks said that the band were spending 'gazillions' on drugs during the '70s and admitted that used to carry a gram of cocaine in her boot at all times. She revealed: 'It was the first thing I thought of when I woke up in the morning and the last thing I thought of before I went to bed.' 'Mick and I would never have had an affair had we not had a party and all been completely drunk and messed up and coked out, and, you know, ended up being the last two people at the party,' she told Oprah's Master Class. 'So guess what? It's not hard to figure out what happened – and what happened wasn't a good thing. It was doomed. It was a doomed thing, caused a lot of pain for everybody, led to nothing.' But Buckingham did not appear to hold the affair against either of his bandmates. He later told The Independent: 'I didn't feel betrayed by Mick when he later had an affair with Stevie. 'Quite honestly I'd have been surprised if it hadn't happened. I remember he came over, sat me down and told me, and I went, ''Oh, okay.'' Stevie and I had long since parted company and she'd had several boyfriends in between.' Stevie made further accusations in Stephen Davis' biography of her, which was published in 2017. In one incident in 1987, the couple were arguing in front of the rest of the band when Buckingham 'manhandled Stevie, slapped her face and bent her backward over the hood of his car,' the book said. 'He put his fingers around her neck and started to choke her,' it read. The other bandmates intervened and told him not to lay a hand on her again. 'I thought he was going to kill me,' Nicks said. Speaking to the book's author, bandmate Mick Fleetwood seemed to corroborate the manipulative behavior. After the confrontation in front of their bandmates in 1987, Buckingham reformed his ways and never laid hand on her again, according to the book. Nicks and Buckingham often 'shot eye daggers at each other in front of packed stadiums,' according to the LA Times, but the band largely soldiered on. And fans have found it hard to let go of the chemistry between Nicks and Buckingham. Nicks hinted at it during an interview with MTV in 2009, in which she said: 'That electric crazy attraction between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks never dies, never will die, never will go away... Who Lindsey and I are to each other will never change.' She continued: 'It's over. It doesn't mean the great feeling isn't there, it must mean that we're beauty and the beast. 'It means that the love is always there but we'll never be together, so that's even more romantic.' In an interview with The Guardian in 2011, Nicks reflected on the end of her relationship with Buckingham. She told the publication that had Fleetwood Mac, fame and drugs not become part of their lives, she believes the couple would have stayed together. 'We would have married and had children because we were headed that way. We didn't really mess up till we moved to Los Angeles. And that was when the whole world just ripped us apart.' But far from time being the best healer, the former couple continued to clash in their seventies. As recently as 2022, Buckingham hit out at Nicks once again as he blamed her, as well as band manager Irving Azoff, for his abrupt removal from Fleetwood Mac in January 2018. Following his departure, Buckingham filed a $12million to $14million lawsuit against former bandmates: Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Christie McVie and John McVie for lost wages that he would have earned from the 2018 tour. It was eventually settled in December of 2018. However, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 2021, Buckingham maintained that his firing was a result of Nicks giving the rest of Fleetwood Mac an ultimatum - either he goes or she goes - following his request that the band delay a tour by three months so he could promote his new solo album. 'It would be like a scenario where Mick Jagger says, 'Either Keith [Richards] goes or I go,'' Buckingham recalled before adding, 'No, neither one of you can go. But I guess the singer has to stay. The figurehead has to stay.' He continued: 'I think she saw the possibility of remaking the band more in the Stevie Nicks vein. More mellow and kind of down, giving her more chances to do the kind of talking she does onstage.' Through her publicist at the time, Nicks told a far different ending to Buckingham's time in the band, calling his version 'revisionist history.' 'His version of events is factually inaccurate and while I've never spoken publicly on the matter, certainly it feels the time has come to shine a light on the truth,' Nicks said. '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. Frankly, I fired myself. 'I proactively removed myself from the band and a situation I considered to be toxic to my wellbeing. I was done. If the band went on without me, so be it. '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.' That move forward was made by firing Buckingham and adding new members - Mike Campbell from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House. Buckingham went on to question Nicks' creativity and energy level, in the time leading up to his firing. 'I think that was hard for her, seeing me jump around in an age-inappropriate way,' he said, before directing his comments on her personal life and the choices she made to remain in the band. 'Also, she's lonely. She's alone. She has the people who work for her, and I'm sure she has friends, but you know.' Nicks simply retorted: 'Those are my decisions that I get to make for myself. 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.' However, bridges might have been built between Stevie and Lindsey following their recent moves on social media. Earlier this month, the pair shocked and delighted followers when they took to Instagram to share lyrics from their song Frozen Love, which they released under their pop-duo group Buckingham Nicks in 1973. The move did not go unnoticed by frenzied fans, who rushed to social media to speculate over what it could mean. One fan said, 'My divorced parents are back together.' Another wrote: 'I cannot handle the prospect of my queen, Stevie Nicks, reuniting with Lindsey Buckingham.' Some fans speculated the pair might be working on a creative project or album together. 'Fleetwood Mac reunion in 2025? A girl can dream,' another wistfully wrote. 'Our minds are exploding! Are you remastering BN or is this our dreams coming true,' gushed another.
Al Arabiya
5 days ago
- General
- Al Arabiya
Shocking plunge by Southwest flight departing L.A. was to avoid another aircraft
Passengers aboard a Southwest Airline jet that took a dramatic plunge to avoid an oncoming aircraft were told by the pilot that they nearly struck another plane before landing safely in Las Vegas. The Boeing 737 jet dropped hundreds of feet in a little over 30 seconds during a flight on Friday, according to a flight tracking website. Caitlin Burdi, who was on the flight, said it took a short plunge and then a more drastic drop as passengers screamed in terror. 'We really thought we were plummeting to a plane crash,' Burdi told Fox News Digital in an interview at the Las Vegas airport. She said the pilot told passengers they had nearly collided with another plane. The Federal Aviation Administration said the flight Southwest 1496 was responding to an on-board alert about another aircraft in its vicinity. The FAA is investigating. Southwest said the crew responded to two alerts that required the pilot to climb then descend. The flight left Hollywood Burbank Airport just before noon. Another passenger, comedian Stef Zamorano, said she saw a woman who was'nt wearing her seat belt shoot up and out of her seat and a man next to her was clutching her arm. 'A woman across the aisle was panicking,' she said. 'She was pretty much verbalizing how we all felt, saying 'I want to get off this plane. I want to be on the ground,'' Zamorano told The Associated Press on Friday. Another woman was panicking and saying she wanted to get off this plane. The plane was in the same airspace near Burbank as a Hawker Hunter Mk. 58, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware. Records show it is owned by Hawker Hunter Aviation, a British defense contracting company. The company didn't respond to messages on Friday and Saturday seeking comment. Southwest said the flight continued to Las Vegas, where it landed uneventfully. The airline said that it is working with the FAA to further understand the circumstances of the event. This close call is just the latest incident to raise questions about aviation safety in the wake of January's midair collision over Washington D.C. that killed 67 people.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
70s TV icon wears bold political hat during rare outing with actress wife who famously said 'NO' to Elvis
Fans were thrilled to catch a rare glimpse of one of Hollywood's most enduring couples out and about in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The M*A*S*H legend, 85, and his wife of over four decades, 81, who got her start on The Donna Reed Show, looked completely smitten as they strolled hand in hand through a sunny Burbank park. Dressed down in jeans, a crisp white tee, and a cheeky black baseball cap that read 'Make America Normal Again,' the TV icon was a far cry from his days playing the clean-cut army doctor B.J. Hunnicutt in the 1950s-set classic. Meanwhile, his ageless better half—who also sang 1961's Johnny Angel—turned heads with pastel-pink hair and a David Bowie tee, showing the same youthful energy that made her a teen star and later a sitcom standout on Coach alongside Craig T. Nelson. Back in the day, she lit up the screen opposite Elvis Presley in Girl Happy, Spinout, and Clambake—and while the King was reportedly smitten, the young starlet, already spoken for, famously turned him down without hesitation. Still stumped? If you guessed Mike Farrell and Shelley Fabares—you're spot on! The adorable couple have been going strong since tying the knot back in 1984. Before finding lasting love, Farrell was married to Judy Hayden—his college sweetheart and a high school English and drama teacher in Laguna Beach. They wed in 1963, had two children together, Michael and Erin, but ultimately split in 1980 and finalized their divorce the following year. Shelley also had a high-profile first marriage, saying 'I do' to music producer Lou Adler in 1964. Though they separated just two years later, their divorce wasn't finalized until 1980—just in time for both stars to get a second shot at love. Born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Farrell has carved out a diverse and respected career in Hollywood. He joined the legendary MASH* during its fourth season, stepping in to replace Wayne Rogers and quickly winning over fans with his portrayal of the empathetic army doctor B.J. Hunnicutt. Alongside Farrell, the iconic ensemble cast featured Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Loretta Swit as Hot Lips Houlihan, Jamie Farr as Klinger, and many others who helped shape the show's enduring legacy. After MASH* ended, Farrell continued to build an impressive résumé, appearing in numerous television roles including guest spots on Justice League. He also stepped behind the camera, producing the acclaimed 1998 film Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams. Farrell's post-M*A*S*H* career also includes a notable role in the legal drama Providence. He also became the Vice President of the Screen Actors Guild for a time. Meanwhile, Fabares rose to fame as a teen star on The Donna Reed Show, quickly becoming a household name in the late 1950s and early '60s. She made a successful transition to music with the chart-topping hit Johnny Angel before continuing her acting career in both film and television. In the '80s and '90s, she earned critical acclaim and Emmy nominations for her role as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom Coach. Early in her career, Shelley starred opposite Elvis in films like Girl Happy and Spinout. Although Elvis was reportedly smitten, Shelley famously turned down his advances. She has since explained that while they didn't share a romance, they genuinely cared for each other, and she found it refreshing to be free of any romantic pressure. 'The presence that this man had — you couldn't talk, nobody did anything — you just sort of stopped and watched him,' she once said of the icon. 'He was beautiful and [he had] a charisma that was just amazing.'
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Southwest passengers hurled out of seats to avoid mid-air collision
Southwest passengers were hurled out of their seats and onto the plane's ceiling, and two flight attendants were injured after the pilot was forced to make an evasive maneuver to avoid a mid-air collision. The jet, which was flying from Burbank, California, to Las Vegas, dropped 475 feet within seconds to avoid colliding with a Hawker Hunter military fighter aircraft in its path. Southwest Flight 1496 was climbing toward its cruising altitude on the 73-minute journey at around 11am on Friday and was passing through 14,100 ft when it suddenly plunged. The military jet was at 14,653 ft. The dramatic dive to 13,625 ft was detailed by several passengers, including comedian Jimmy Dore, who described the terrifying few seconds when 'plenty of people flew out of their seats.' Two flight attendants were hurt during the ordeal, according to the airline. The commercial aircraft continued its journey and landed safely in Las Vegas. 'Just now on SW Flight #1496 Burbank to Las Vegas,' Dore posted to X. 'Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport. Myself & plenty of people flew out of their seats & bumped heads on ceiling, a flight attendant needed medical attention.' Dore said the pilot later told passengers that an aircraft collision warning had been triggered in the cockpit. Video shared by Dore's producer, Stef Zamorano, showed shaken passengers moments after the ordeal. 'Just a few minutes ago we ended up having crazy turbulence on this flight,' Zamorano said in the clip. 'Turns out that turbulence was the pilot taking an aggressive move because there was another plane coming at us. That's what it was. It was collision avoidance,' Dore added. He said several passengers were violently flung upwards as the aircraft dropped. 'We were all shaken up,' Zamorano wrote. 'The flight erupted with applause once we landed.' 'The screaming, it was terrifying. We really thought we were plummeting to a plane crash,' Burdi said. 'It was absolutely terrifying. I just remember him saying, "What just happened was we almost collided with another plane, and I had to make the emergency attempt to go under because we lost service with the air traffic controller."' Another passenger, Steve Ulasewicz, told NBC LA the dip occurred about eight minutes into the flight and lasted for 8 to 10 seconds. 'Felt a significant drop. The plane was just in a freefall. It was pandemonium,' he said. 'The drop occurred about a minute after the crew announced the beverage service was about to begin.' Other passengers also shared their shock online. 'Our pilot had to make the most insane dive ever to avoid the other aircraft,' one person wrote on Reddit. 'So many of us flew out of our seats for about 20 seconds, even with seatbelts on, and one of the flight attendants got hurt and needed medical attention after we landed.' Passengers said one flight attendant was dazed after hitting her head, while another said he was quitting. Hollywood Burbank Airport said authorities are 'looking into the incident, however, there is currently no evidence that it occurred within the airspace above our airport.' An FAA spokesperson told that 'Southwest Airlines Flight 1496 responded to an onboard alert that another aircraft was in the vicinity while in Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center airspace. The FAA is investigating the event that occurred around 11am local time on Friday, July 25.' Sources familiar with aircraft warning systems say a TCAS alert likely triggered the evasive action. When such a system detects another aircraft converging on a dangerous path, pilots are instructed to immediately alter altitude or direction—usually within seconds. Preliminary data shows the planes were several miles apart when alerts were triggered. This close call is just the latest to raise concerns about aviation safety following January's midair collision over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people. It also comes days after a similar scare on a Delta flight that narrowly avoided a B-52 bomber. 'For those of you on the right-hand side, you probably saw the airplane kind of sort of coming at us,' the Delta pilot said. 'Nobody told us about it… Sorry about the aggressive maneuver. It caught me by surprise. This is not normal at all.' While mid-air collisions are exceedingly rare, experts say 'near misses' are rising due to outdated radar coverage, traffic volume, and strain on air traffic control systems.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Southwest flight from Burbank drops hundreds of feet to avoid possible collision
A Southwest flight climbing away from Burbank Airport suddenly descended hundreds of feet Friday afternoon, possibly to avoid a mid-air collision. The plane was at 14,100 feet above Angeles National Forest headed northeast to Las Vegas at 12:03 p.m. when it abruptly dropped to 13,625 feet, data from Flightradar24 showed. The drop of around 500 feet came moments after the plane had been gaining altitude steadily since takeoff, causing tense moments on the plane. Passengers said on social media that they were startled by the move. Steve Ulasewicz, 33, was on the plane. The Woodland Hills resident felt a sudden drop around eight minutes into the flight, and thought it might be bad turbulence. After a two- or three-second pause, the plane went into "free fall for about eight to 10 seconds," he said. "People were screaming. I felt my body come up and out of the chair." In a lifetime of flying, he had never felt anything like it. 'I thought that was it — I thought we were all dead,' he said. 'I don't want to die,' Ulasewicz told his friend sitting nearby during the fall. After the plane leveled out, passengers were confused. Ulasewicz wondered if there was a bird strike or mechanical issue. He waited the "longest two to three minutes of [his] life" before the pilot came on the intercom to announce the near collision, he said. He saw a female attendant with an ice pack on her head. Unlike the passengers, she was not buckled in during the ascent as she prepared to serve beverages. After the terror of the incident, Ulasewicz said the revelation that his plane was involved in a near miss changed his emotions to anger. He listed off a number of similar incidents in U.S. skies in recent months. The commercial flight had to climb and descend to comply with two onboard traffic alerts, Southwest spokesperson Lynn Lunsford said in a statement to The Times. "The flight continued to Las Vegas, where it landed uneventfully," the statement said. "Southwest is engaged with the Federal Aviation Administration to further understand the circumstances." "No injuries were immediately reported by Customers, but two Flight Attendants are being treated for injuries," Lunsford said. The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating the incident in a written statement. A jet was headed southwest to Naval Base Ventura County in Point Mugu and was at a similar altitude — 14,525 feet — when the Southwest flight dropped, per Flightradar24. The planes were around five miles apart and within 400 vertical feet of one another, headed in opposite directions, when the Southwest flight took evasive action, flight data on the website showed. A Times analysis of the flight data estimated that the aircraft could have collided within 20 seconds of the diversion if the planes had each held course. The military craft was descending from above as the commercial flight ascended from below, making a collision over the mountains northeast of Santa Clarita possible. The jet stopped its own steady descent and maintained its height for several minutes after the incident. It was unclear whether the jet belonged to the military, as its listed owner was a corporation in Delaware. The naval base did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The plane landed in Las Vegas at 12:39 p.m. Friday. There has been growing focus on aviation safety in recent months. A series of radar outages at Newark Liberty International Airport brought massive flight delays in May. Federal officials continue to investigate the January collision in Washington between a commercial jet and a military helicopter that killed 67 people. In San Diego, a private jet crashed, killing all six on board, in June. A federal investigation found the aircraft was flying too low before it hit power lines and slammed into a house. The automated system that provides weather conditions and runway lights weren't operating at the airport before the plane crashed, the report confirmed. This is a developing story and will be updated. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
