Carol Ann Harris: 'My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac.'

By editorial board on February 27, 2024

Lindsey Buckingham’s Ex-Girlfriend Described the Fleetwood Mac Member as ‘Half-man, Half Pure Music’

                                               (Main Picture, Lindsey and Carol Ann, Stevie Nicks, Kristen Messner)

Carol Ann Harris leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars—Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson—to the chaotic animosity between band member. - You can read an excerpt of 26 pages  of the book"STORMS" HERE

“At once, it was clear to me what Lindsey essentially was: half man and half pure music — savage, unformed, and fundamentally dangerous,” Harris wrote.

“I knew, as I stood and watched him play,” she continued, “that if I wanted to first half I’d have to nurture and protect the second, inner half of Lindsey, the part that was sheer musical genius. No matter what it might cost me personally.” The two broke up with Buckingham marrying Kristen Messner in 2000.

Barely out of her teens, Carol Ann Harris met Lindsey Buckingham in 1977 while working at the studio where the singer/guitarist was putting the finishing touches on what would be the band's huge international hit album, Rumours. As his live-in girlfriend for the next seven years, she'd accompany him and the band all over the world on tours, in the studio, on exotic vacations and to gala events and parties. And she tells all in this highly readable memoir.

"They seemed to know what came next," she writes. "Like obedient schoolchildren, the band formed their line, holding out their fists. J.C. poured a small pile of cocaine onto each wrist. 'Two minutes! Let's toot and get those roses in your cheeks, Stevie!'"

The artificial stimulants continued throughout the concerts, too, with roadies supplying bottlecaps full of blow to tables in the wings. "During the show, the band would fade back to the speakers at every opportunity and give themselves a bottlecap pick-me-up," Harris writes. "On Christine and John's [McVie] side of the stage, vodka tonics were replenished as needed, and on Lindsey's side ... his roadie always kept a joint going."


Kristen Messner, who's been married to the Fleetwood Mac guitarist/singer for 21 years, filed legal docs recently in L.A. County to dissolve their marriage. It's unclear at this point if she and Lindsey have discussed any terms yet of the split.



Lindsey Buckingham cancels remaining UK / European tour dates on his 73th Birthday

Lindsey Buckingham has called off his UK/European tour due to "ongoing health issues".

“Everyone was tiptoeing around my voice,” Buckingham told Rolling Stone last year. “But at first, I was more concentrated on just being able to walk and get around again.”

Following the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist's appearance at the London Palladium on October 1, a statement was posted on Buckingham's social media declaring that the remaining dates, including his show tonight in Glasgow (October 3), would be cancelled.

The statement reads: "Due to ongoing health issues, Lindsey is regrettably having to cancel the remaining shows on his current European tour.

In 2018, the guitarist angered his old flame Stevie Nicks, and got the boot. He returns to London with a defiant solo gig full of swagger

Just up the road from the Palace of the same name, Lindsey Buckingham took to the stage at the London Palladium. The last time the versatile American guitarist and singer-songwriter played in the city was in 2015, for an audience of almost half a million over five nights at the O2 Arena. But that was with his former band, Fleetwood Mac.

Is not known yet if the UK run follows rearranged gigs in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway and Germany. Original tickets are valid for all the corresponding new dates.

 

Lindsey Buckingham’s UK and European tour dates 2022

OCTOBER
Monday 03 – Glasgow, SEC Armadillo
Tuesday 04 – Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
Thursday 06 – Dublin, Helix

Per a note on his Instagram Stories, Buckingham contracted Covid-19 towards the end of his North American tour back in April. Buckingham was forced to cancel the remaining shows on that leg of the tour, though at the time it was announced, it was only revealed that members of his touring party had tested positive.

Buckingham’s European run was scheduled to begin in May, but the note says “he’s still recovering and has no choice but to move the upcoming tour to a later date.” The statement continues: “This is heartbreaking for Lindsey, he was so excited to come to Europe for the first time as a solo artist this spring.”

 

Stevie Nicks Reveals  Lindsey Buckingham and her they never taked to Her Affair With Mick Fleetwood: ‘That Was Not Good’. Lindsey and I have never, never talked about Mick. Ever.”

Nicks and Buckingham’s relationship was already on the rocks when they started making music with Fleetwood Mac. They agreed that they wouldn’t let the dissolution of their romance break up the band, and they continued working together for decades.

Nicks had an affair with Fleetwood while she was dating someone else, and Fleetwood was married to Jenny Boyd.

“One night we had a party and everybody was drunk and everybody was gone and it was just me and Mick, and we ended up spending the night together,” Nicks told Q Magazine in 2008. “And I fell in love with Mick and I think Mick fell in love with me.”

She added, “It had its month of glory, which was fantastic and very romantic, and then when we got back to LA it was not romantic any more, it was horrifying. It should never have happened.”

 

 

 

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