Cue “Silver Springs.”
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are formally reuniting — form of — after sparking reunion rumors on social media.
The musicians have revealed that their 1973 album “Buckingham Nicks” is getting reissued for the digital age.
The document might be re-released for the primary time within the US because the early Eighties.
On Wednesday, Nicks, 77, and Buckingham, 75, launched a joint Instagram video of a billboard promoting the album on Sundown Strip in Los Angeles, Calif.
“Buckingham Nicks is available for pre-order now, out September 19th. ✨ ‘Crying In The Night’ is yours now. Listen at the link in bio,” they captioned the publish.
Followers flipped out over the information, contemplating Nicks and Buckingham had been at odds in recent times.
“Finally!!! I LOVE Long Distance Winner!!! This is awesome news!!” one particular person wrote.
“YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS! PRAISE THE MUSIC GODS,” a second added.
Final week, Nicks and Buckingham posted coordinated Instagram posts that despatched social media customers right into a frenzy.
The pair started following one another on the app earlier than Nicks posted a handwritten lyric from “Frozen Love,” a love track off of “Buckingham Nicks.”
The picture learn, “And if you go forward …”
Shortly after, Buckingham accomplished the lyric along with his personal handwritten message that learn, “I’ll meet you there.”
The duo first met as highschool college students close to Palo Alto, Calif., within the Nineteen Sixties. Buckingham was in his rock band Fritz, and requested Nicks to hitch as their lead singer.
After leaving the group, they launched their very own band, Buckingham Nicks.
Their album flopped, nonetheless, and so they had been dropped from their contract at Polydor Data.
Quickly after, they moved to Los Angeles.
In 1974, Nicks and Buckingham had been invited to hitch Fleetwood Mac however break up romantically whereas recording the band’s 1977 album, “Rumours.”
Each exes remained in Fleetwood Mac till Buckingham was fired following a behind-the-scenes altercation in 2018.
Buckingham and Nicks weren’t the one ones within the band with relationship woes. Across the similar time as their late ’70s breakup, Fleetwood Mac’s John McVie and Christine McVie ended their marriage.
Nicks went on to write down “Dreams,” whereas Buckingham penned “Go Your Own Way” on the group’s “Rumours” album.
Through the years, the previous bandmates have thrown jabs at each other.
In 1997, Nicks advised Rolling Stone that she “resented” the lyrics that Buckingham wrote in “Go Your Own Way,” with strains insinuating the singer was “packing up, shacking up” with completely different males 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,” defined the vocalist. “He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ‘I’ll make you suffer for leaving me.’”
By 2018, issues got here to a head when Fleetwood Mac was honored at that yr’s MusiCares profit gala.
An argument ensued, ending with Buckingham being fired from the band.
He was changed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, in addition to Neil Finn.
Buckingham and Nicks allegedly didn’t discuss once more till the celebration of life for McVie. The keyboardist died in 2022 at age 79.
“The only time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes,” the Grammy winner advised Rolling Stone in 2024. “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.”
In March, Buckingham reunited with one other Fleetwood Mac member, Mick Fleetwood.
The guitarist sat in on studio classes with the band’s namesake drummer, 78, who’s engaged on a brand new solo album.
Swedish producer Carl Falk spoke in regards to the mini reunion on Threads.
“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.”
