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San Francisco Chronicle
19 hours ago
- 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.
Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Fleetwood Mac's ‘Rumours' Rocks To A New Chart Peak
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours reaches a new high of No. 17 on Billboard's Top Streaming Albums chart as ... More "Dreams" and "The Chain" surge in popularity. LOS ANGELES - SEPTEMBER 1: Fleetwood Mac (L-R Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood) backstage at the Los Angeles Rock Awards on September 1, 1977 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Richard Creamer/Michael) No matter how many greatest hits compilations or box sets Fleetwood Mac releases, Rumours will always be the focus for millions of listeners around the world. It remains one of the most successful albums of all time, and it's still very much alive on the charts. The full-length sounds almost like a singles compilation, as many of the group's most famous tunes are featured on its tracklist. Decades after its release, Rumours remains a bestseller and powerful streamer in the United States, and plays on platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and others help the Grammy-winning set soar higher than ever this week. Rumours Climbs to New Chart Peak Rumours jumps on the Top Streaming Albums chart this week, rocketing from No. 31 to No. 17 on Billboard's ranking of the most successful projects on major streaming platforms. That position marks a new peak for the full-length and for the band, as Rumours is, so far, the only release by Fleetwood Mac to reach the Top Streaming Albums chart. That means every time it lifts to a never-before-seen position, the group raises the bar again. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Vs. Greatest Hits Rumours first reached the Top Streaming Albums chart in October 2023, many decades after it was originally released. Billboard didn't introduce the tally until several years ago, and so far, Fleetwood Mac's classic has now spent 41 frames somewhere on the ranking. Somewhat surprisingly, the group's Greatest Hits has never reached the Top Streaming Albums list, as American fans apparently prefer to press play on the original album itself. Two Fleetwood Mac Songs Help Power Rumours Two Fleetwood Mac singles appear on Billboard's streaming rankings, and an increase in plays of those cuts may have played a major role in sending Rumours higher on the Top Streaming Albums tally. "Dreams" climbs to No. 22 on the Streaming Songs chart, lifting from No. 31. At the same time, it holds in the runner-up spot on the Rock Streaming Songs list. Fleetwood Mac doubles up on the ranking of the most-streamed rock tracks in America as "The Chain" reenters that tally at No. 17. Rumours Is a Hit on Multiple Billboard Charts Rumours lives on half a dozen Billboard charts this week, climbing on all of them — though it only reaches a new peak on the Top Streaming Albums tally. The bestselling set sits inside the top 10 on half of those rosters and occupies space within the top 20 on the other three.
Telegraph
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The signs Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are getting back together
Rumours have always been the lifeblood of Fleetwood Mac, from the name of their 40-million selling album in 1977 to the mind-boggling web of intimate relationships between bandmates. Key members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham may be 77 and 75 respectively, but the former lovers have sent the rumour mill into overdrive yet again with a series of cryptic social media posts. Almost six decades after the original iteration of the band formed, the psychodrama continues. And it feels strangely reassuring. Here's what happened. On Thursday afternoon, Nicks posted five words in squiggly writing followed by an ellipsis on her Instagram account: 'And if you go forward…' A hardcore contingent of her 2.2 million followers went bananas, recognising the words as lyrics from a 1973 song called Frozen Love, which appeared on Buckingham Nicks, her sole album with Buckingham before the pair joined Fleetwood Mac the following year. An hour later, excitement hit Defcon 1. Buckingham, with whom Nicks has always had an intense and tortured relationship, put a similarly squiggly-written post on his own Instagram account. 'I'll meet you there,' he wrote – the second half of the line that Nicks had posted shortly before. Cue a landslide of excitement and speculation. 'Buckingham Nicks in 2025 was not on my bingo card,' wrote one fan. '60-year situationship is crazy,' wrote another. A third fan, assuming that a joint tour was being suggested, wrote: 'Stop it! I will liquidate my assets for front row tickets RIGHT NOW.' So what's going on? Just as the pair no doubt intended, we're all in the dark. A contact of mine put me in touch with Buckingham's manager, but he was keeping shtum. There are four possibilities. One is that, as the asset liquidator assumes, the pair are going to hit the road together. Nicks, who drew a vast crowd at London's BST Hyde Park last summer, already has a massive US tour starting next month and Buckingham has nothing planned. It's entirely feasible. The second possibility is that a wider Fleetwood Mac reunion is on the cards. Frozen Love was the song that led drummer Mick Fleetwood to ask Buckingham to join the band back in 1974 (he said yes, on the condition that his musical partner and girlfriend Nicks could join too). It was actually Fleetwood who kicked the whole thing off on Wednesday when he posted a video snippet of himself listening to Frozen Love on Instagram. 'Magic then, magic now,' Fleetwood wrote. Fleetwood Mac last toured in 2019, with Crowded House's Neil Finn replacing Buckingham, who was fired after a reported disagreement with the band over tour dates. However the death of Christine McVie in 2022 might have put paid to this: Nicks told Mojo magazine last year that there's 'no chance' of the band getting back together without McVie. The third possibility is that nothing is going on. It's just a truce between old lovers. The fourth reason, and the most likely, is the re-release and digitisation of the Buckingham Nicks album. With its sleeve featuring a topless photo of the hirsute sweethearts, the record bombed on its release and has never even been available on streaming platforms. There would be huge demand for it. More than Kurt and Courtney or Mick and Marianne, Nicks and Buckingham are rock's most famous couple. Theirs was a story of backstabbing and bed-hopping. They met at high school in California, joined a band called Fritz and became lovers. Their passionate and stormy relationship lasted until 1976 before it brutally collapsed, just as Fleetwood Mac were writing Rumours. Both were too proud to walk away from the band. Nicks later had a brief affair with Fleetwood – hardly the recipe for smooth band relationships. Nicks and Buckingham's tempestuous relationship yielded some of pop's greatest songs. Buckingham wrote the self-explanatory Go Your Own Way and Never Going Back Again about Nicks. She wrote Dreams about Buckingham ('You say you want your freedom… But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness'). As Nicks later described it: 'He's looking at it from a very unpleasant, angry way, and I'm saying, in my more airy-fairy way, 'We're gonna be alright. We'll get through this.'' To a point, Stevie. Her most intense song about Buckingham was Silver Springs, which was intended for Rumours but ended up as a B-side to Go Your Own Way (the yin and yang of a relationship right there on one seven-inch disc). The lyrics to Silver Springs are excoriating. 'I know I could have loved you / But you would not let me,' Nicks sang, before going on: 'You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you.' A live performance of Fleetwood Mac performing Silver Springs in 1997 is one of the most impassioned and powerful pieces of live music imaginable – explaining why it has more than 50 million views on YouTube. The intensity of the song is breath-taking. As Nicks sings, she constantly glances at Buckingham, to her left, until they both hold each other's stares and sing directly at each other. ' Never get away,' Nicks sings with fervid intensity, her anger – decades on – never far from the surface. I saw Fleetwood Mac play in Dublin in 2015 and the interplay between Nicks and Buckingham was still captivatingly intense. There was a sense of unfinished business there, of two former lovers whose issues with each other remained unresolved. Whatever these cryptic new posts mean, it's a chapter that remains tantalisingly open. After all this time, they're still finishing each other's sentences.
New York Post
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham spark Fleetwood Mac reunion rumors
Fans are hypnotized by this social media exchange. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have sparked reunion rumors with seemingly coordinated Instagram posts. The musicians famously dated in the late '60s and made the 1973 studio album 'Buckingham Nicks.' Shortly after, Nicks, 77, and Buckingham, 75, joined Fleetwood Mac. Advertisement 10 Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham performing in 2014. Getty Images However, the duo famously split while recording the band's 1977 album 'Rumours.' Both exes stayed in Fleetwood Mac until Buckingham was fired following a behind-the-scenes altercation in 2018. Advertisement 10 Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac perform during their 'Unleashed' tour at Wembley Arena on October 30, 2009. Getty Images The pair recently began following each other on Instagram, and on Thursday, Nicks posted a handwritten lyric from 'Frozen Love,' a love song off of 'Buckingham Nicks.' The image read, 'And if you go forward …' Shortly after, Buckingham completed the lyric with his own handwritten message that read, 'I'll meet you there.' Advertisement 10 Fleetwood Mac performs at the Forum. Mark Sullivan Fans flocked to the comments section of both posts, excited about the possibility of something brewing. One follower wrote, 'What in the silver springs is going on around here!!!!' while a second chimed in, 'no because what is going on in this house.' 'Buckingham nicks in 2025 was not on my bingo card,' a third person added. 'DID WE KISS AND MAKE UP? Oh my god GUYS. WHAT IS HAPPENING?!' another asked. Advertisement 10 Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood. Redferns Rounding out the shocked social media users, someone else noted, 'Fleetwood Mac reunion in 2025?? A girl can dream.' However, this wouldn't be Buckingham's first reunion with a Fleetwood Mac member in recent months. In March, the guitarist reunited with Mick Fleetwood. Buckingham sat in on studio sessions with the band's namesake drummer, 78, who is working on a new solo album. Swedish producer Carl Falk spoke about the reunion on Threads. 10 John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and Lindsey Buckingham of the rock group Fleetwood Mac pose for a portrait in 1975. Michael Ochs Archives 'Slightly unreal moment to sit with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood to play Lindsey the album we have been working on,' he wrote. 'And to see his genuine happiness for Mick to finally do his own album and offering to play guitar and to sing on it. Can't wait to finish this one.' Nicks and Buckingham, meanwhile, first met as high schoolers near Palo Alto, Calif., in the 1960s. Buckingham was a guitarist in his rock band Fritz, and asked Nicks to join as their lead singer. Advertisement After leaving Fritz and launching their own band, Buckingham Nicks, the couple moved to Los Angeles. Soon after, they were invited to join Fleetwood Mac. 10 Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac perform as part of the 2003 'Today' Concert Series. Getty Images However, Buckingham and Nicks weren't the only ones in the band with relationship troubles. Around the same time as their late '70s breakup, Fleetwood Mac's John McVie and Christine McVie ended their marriage. Nicks went on to write 'Dreams,' while Buckingham penned 'Go Your Own Way' on the group's 'Rumours' album. Advertisement Over the years, the two have taken jabs at one another in the media. 10 Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. WireImage In 1997, Nicks told Rolling Stone that she 'resented' lyrics Buckingham penned in 'Go Your Own Way,' with lyrics insinuating the singer was 'packing up, shacking up' with different men after their breakup. 'He knew it wasn't true. It was just an angry thing that he said. Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him,' explained Nicks. 'He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, 'I'll make you suffer for leaving me.'' Advertisement Then, when Fleetwood Mac was honored at the 2018 MusiCares benefit gala, an argument ensued that ended with Buckingham being fired from the band. 10 Fleetwood Mac performs. Rick Diamond Buckingham was replaced by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, as well as Neil Finn. The former flames allegedly didn't speak again until the celebration of life for McVie. The keyboardist died in 2022 at age 79. Advertisement 'The only time I've spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes,' Nicks told Rolling Stone in 2024. 10 Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks. Michael Ochs Archives 'I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could,' she expressed. 'You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.' Nicks also told the outlet she didn't think she should have kicked out Buckingham any sooner than she did. 'No, I think that all just happened the way it should have. It happened one night, not planned, at a MusiCares. I didn't even tell anybody it had happened in my head until the whole ceremony was over,' she added. 'I took with me that night a song that I had done with LeAnn Rimes called 'Borrowed.' I took it with me to play for [Buckingham] because I thought we could do this song beautifully.' Nicks went on to share that her former bandmate even had a tiff with Harry Styles, whom she performed the Fleetwood Mac hit 'Landslide' with. 10 Mick Fleetwood, (middle): Bob Weston, Bob Welch, Dave Walker, (front): Christine McVie, John McVie. Redferns 'That's when he wasn't very nice to anybody; he wasn't very nice to Harry Styles,' she claimed. 'I could hear my mom saying, 'Are you really going to spend the next 15 years of your life with this man?'' Nicks continued. 'I could hear my very pragmatic father — and by the way, my mom and dad liked Lindsey a lot — saying, 'It's time for you guys to get a divorce.' Between those two, I said, 'I'm done.''
Extra.ie
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Fleetwood Mac fans go crazy after reunion rumours spark
Fleetwood Mac fans have been given a reason to speculate about a surprise reunion after core band members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham shared a pair of cryptic posts on social media. On Thursday, the rock duo teamed up for a coordinated message on social media with lyrics from their 1973 song Frozen Love. The song featured on the pair's sole studio album as a duo, Buckingham Nicks, before they joined Fleetwood Mac the following year. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham finished a lyric together on social media. Pic:for NARAS Stevie shared a picture of a hand-written line, reading: 'And if you go forward…', with Lindsey sharing his own hand-written message: 'I'll meet you there', to complete the lyric. Neither post had any caption or explanation to go along with it, leaving fans to speculate what it could be hinting towards. However, another post earlier this week by the band's co-founder and drummer, Mick Fleetwood, also referenced the song which has led fans to believe a reunion could be on the cards. WHAT IN THE SILVER SPRINGS IS HAPPENING WITH FLEETWOOD MAC??!! — em 🇵🇸 (@youroulonemily) July 17, 2025 In his own Instagram post, Mick was seen listening to the track and saying: 'It's all in the song… It's in the music that played on for so many years. It's magic then, magic now. What a thrill.' Naturally, Fleetwood Mac fans have been whipped up into quite a frenzy as they eagerly await the explanations of the cryptic messages. One fan posted on X: 'WHAT IN THE SILVER SPRINGS IS HAPPENING WITH FLEETWOOD MAC??!!' Another added: 'I will pay an INSANE amount of money for a Fleetwood Mac reunion tour.' A third said: 'Please let this be a hint to a Fleetwood Mac reunion! I will cry.' for non fleetwood mac fans this is like zayn rejoining one direction — harriet 🌙 (@blackmoonpoet) July 17, 2025 Another hopeful fan jokingly explained: 'For non Fleetwood Mac fans this is like Zayn rejoining One Direction.' To see Stevie and Lindsey coordinating a post together is looked at as a surprise in itself considering the pair's notoriously turbulent past. Having been romantically involved with each other to then breaking up during the band's recording of the album Rumours, the duo have given fans an emotional rollercoaster over the years. WAKE UP!!! EVERYBODY WAKE UP!!! — Dr. Raven the Science Maven (@ravenscimaven) July 17, 2025 Their separation made an everlasting impact on music however, inspiring songs such as Stevie's 'Dreams' and Lindsey's 'Go Your Own Way'. Fleetwood Mac did technically reunite back in 2019 during their 'An Evening with Fleetwood Mac' tour, although it was without Lindsey. However this could not be what fans are hoping for due to the death of keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie in 2022 and Stevie has previously stating that there is no band without her. Fleetwood Mac fans are eagerly awaiting some context for the posts. Pic:Last year, she told Mojo: 'Without Christine, no can do. There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn't work.' The only sure thing right now is that fans will be on the edge of their seats for whatever announcement could appear over the next while.
