Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are seemingly back on talking terms – find out more below.
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Last month, the legendary duo reissued their 1973 album ‘Buckingham Nicks’, making it publicly available for the first time since its original release. Now, Nicks has announced that they’ve appeared on the Song Exploder podcast to discuss their iconic track ‘Frozen Love’.
While the Song Exploder appearance seems to comprise of two separate interviews, Nicks did share that the former lovers and Fleetwood Mac members are now back on talking terms: “Lindsey and I started talking about it last night. This whole thing seems really like yesterday to us.”
During her segment of the interview, Nicks explained the theme of ‘Frozen Love’: “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,” she continued.
After Stevie Nicks had written the song, she handed it over to Buckingham for instrumental and production work. According to Buckingham, he didn’t think “she craved my input on that level, and nor did I crave hers on production or instrumental level, either. She understood that I was transforming things for her, and I understood that I wouldn’t have had anything to transform without the beautiful center that she’d given me.”
Elsewhere, the pair discussed their romantic relationship, sharing that they probably never would have dated if they hadn’t left their band Fritz to work on music as a duo prior to Fleetwood Mac.
Nicks also noted that while “our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult,” it was “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.”
The podcast appearances come just weeks after Nicks took to social media to wish Buckingham a happy birthday. “Wishing you the best Birthday ever @lindseybuckingham! Love’s ya! Stevie,” she wrote as he turned 76.
Prior to the ‘Buckingham Nicks’ re-issue and subsequent confirmation that the duo are back on talking terms, Mick Fleetwood publicly expressed his eagerness to see the two reunite. Their supposed reconnection now is all the more surprising, given that just last year, Nicks said to Rolling Stone that the last time she had seen Lindsey was at Christine McVie’s celebration of life, and that she could only talk to him “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.”
Nicks has also continually shot down the idea of the band getting back together, and has said that without the late Christine McVie, “there is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together.”
Earlier this month, Nicks kicked off her North American tour at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. On the opening night, Nicks played a career-spanning set, including a rendition of Fleetwood Mac‘s ‘Angel’ live for the first time in 42 years.
The tour was originally set to kick off in August, but was rescheduled after she suffered a shoulder fracture. The August and September dates have since been rescheduled for October, November and December – see the full list of dates here.
