Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have put their feud firmly behind them.
The former Fleetwood Mac bandmates and ex-lovers haven’t always seen eye to eye, but are now back on speaking terms after reuniting for the re-release of their joint LP, Buckingham Nicks, after decades out of print.
Speaking on the Song Explorer podcast, Stevie, 77, said: “Lindsey and I started talking about it last night. This whole thing seems really like yesterday to us.”
Discussing the meaning of the track Frozen Love on the record, which was originally released in September 1973 and unavailable for decades, she said: “The song is about two people that were in love, that had a lot of differences and saw the world slightly differently, but had this like relationship that seemed to be, like a gift.
“I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations — a modern-day love affair, tragedies. Because nobody really loves happy songs. Certainly I didn’t, and neither really did Lindsey.”
The pair dated between 1972 and 1976 and were in Fleetwood Mac together until Lindsey was fired in 2018.
Stevie admits that while their relationship was testing at times, it was also “fantastic”.
She explained that “our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult, but, at the same time, fantastic. And what we were doing was so fantastic, that it was worth putting up with the trials and tribulations of a relationship that’s difficult.”
In March, founding member Mick Fleetwood said: “I always have a fantasy that (Stevie) and Lindsey would pal up a bit more and just say everything’s OK for them both.”
The fact that the pair are even on talking terms is a major turnaround, as when they briefly reunited at late bandmate Christine McVie’s funeral in 2023, they had an extremely awkward encounter that lasted a mere three minutes.
Stevie told Rolling Stone magazine: “Christine threw down a hurricane on top of Nobu, which is where we had it.
“Almost blew the whole place away, honest to God. Tore down the entire deck that was all decorated and everything. So it was kind of crazy. We all felt like she was there, because it was really intense.”
She went on to claim she gave Lindsey, 76, “more than 300 million chances” to change his ways.
Stevie continued: “The only time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes. 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.”
Lindsey’s firing came after an alleged altercation between the former couple at the MusicCares benefit in 2018.
The Dreams hitmaker claimed her ex “wasn’t very nice” to “anybody”, including her pop star friend Harry Styles, and it was actually her parents who persuaded her to send him on his way.