Nicks, Fleetwood and Buckingham all released solo albums in 1981, and in 1987, Buckingham made his first exit from the band. While the romantic drama between band members cooled down in the late 1970s, the professional tension was just heating up. The reconciliation didn’t last, however, and during the recording of Rumours - arguably the band’s most famous album - Buckingham and Nicks called it quits for good. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies And I won’t have to be a f–king waitress.” Maybe we’re not going to have any more problems, because we’re finally going to have some money. “And so, Lindsey, you and I have to sew this relationship back up. “I said, OK, this is what we’ve been working for since 1968,” the American Horror Story alum told Buckingham, according to the 2017 biography Gold Dust Woman. According to Nicks, they rekindled their relationship for the sake of the music. The “Edge of Seventeen” songstress and the guitarist were dating when they became part of the group, but their romance began to fizzle shortly after they settled in.

By the time Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band in 1975, Fleetwood Mac had already released nine albums. Fleetwood Mac’s history of breakups, affairs and lineup changes is so famous that their name is now synonymous with rock ‘n’ roll drama.įounded in 1967 by Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Mick Fleetwood, the group initially started as a blues band before pivoting to a rock-forward sound in the early 1970s.

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