Lindsey Buckingham Says He and Stevie Nicks ‘Talk All the Time’
Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has revealed that he and former bandmate and one-time romantic partner Stevie Nicks are now in regular contact, marking a significant thaw in one of rock music’s most famously turbulent relationships after years of public tension.
Speaking to E! News at the Variety Power of Young Hollywood event in Los Angeles on August 5, Buckingham said the pair are now speaking frequently, crediting the band’s ongoing work on an upcoming documentary as part of what has been a healing process for all the surviving members. He explained that things had been left in a difficult place following the band’s 2019 tour, a period he said no one involved was happy about, but said those old wounds have since been addressed and resolved.
Buckingham’s relationship with Nicks has long been one of the most scrutinised in music history. The pair dated in the early 1970s before joining Fleetwood Mac together, and their turbulent romantic split during the recording of the band’s landmark 1977 album “Rumours” famously fuelled much of that record’s material. Their professional relationship reached a breaking point in 2018, when Buckingham was dismissed from the band following tension at that year’s MusiCares tribute concert honouring Fleetwood Mac. Nicks later disputed characterisations of the split, describing it as revisionist history and maintaining that she had effectively removed herself from a situation she considered toxic to her wellbeing, adding that she had given her former partner what she described as more than 300 million chances over the years.
The relationship between the two began visibly softening last year, when they jointly released a remastered version of their 1973 pre-Fleetwood Mac album, “Buckingham Nicks.” In October, both artists appeared separately on the Song Exploder podcast to discuss the making of their song “Frozen Love,” with Nicks revealing during her segment that the two had spoken the night before her interview, reminiscing about first meeting as high school students in California in 1966. She described their decades-long relationship as having been consistently unpredictable yet ultimately meaningful.
Buckingham did not rule out the possibility of a fuller reunion but stopped short of confirming any specific plans, offering only a cryptic tease that next year would prove to be an interesting one, with several developments expected to reveal themselves. He confirmed that Fleetwood Mac’s surviving members are participating in an upcoming documentary for Apple TV, expected for release in 2027.
Fleetwood Mac has not toured or recorded together since the death of keyboardist and singer Christine McVie in 2022, with Nicks having repeatedly stated in the years since that she does not envision the band reuniting again. Whether the renewed communication between Buckingham and Nicks signals any prospect of that changing remains unclear, though their improving relationship marks a notable shift after decades defined as much by personal conflict as by the band’s enduring musical legacy.
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