Stevie Nicks tried to be ‘sweet’ to Lindsey Buckingham for the sake of Fleetwood Mac

By editorial board on February 19, 2022

Stevie Nicks admits that she tried to keep the peace to make sure that the group wasn’t ruined.

Stevie told The New Yorker magazine: “You just have to throw yourself into your song. I mean, I broke up with Lindsey in 1976. We’d only been in Fleetwood Mac for a year and a half, and we were breaking up when we joined Fleetwood Mac. Source (Socialitelife)

“So we just put our relationship kind of back together, because I was smart enough to know that, if we had broken up the second month of being in Fleetwood Mac, it would have blown the whole thing.”

Stevie continued: “I just bided my time, and tried to make everything as easy as possible, tried to be as sweet and nice to Lindsey as I could be. He wasn’t happy, either.

“Then something happened that was, you know, ‘We’re done.’ And he knew it. It was time. And the band was solid, by that time, so I could walk away knowing that he was safe. And that the band was safe. And that we could work it out.”

‘Rumours’ featured the songs ‘Go Your Own Way’ and ‘Dreams’ – written by Lindsey and Stevie respectively – and she believes the tracks reflect the ending of their relationship.

The 73-year-old musician said: “I can just go right back to what pushed me toward writing those words. And I always laugh because Lindsey’s ‘Go Your Own Way’ and my ‘Dreams’ are like, counter songs to each other.

“I’m like, ‘When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know,’ and he’s like, ‘Packing up, shacking up’s all you want to do.’ Both songs kind of mean the same thing – it’s really about our breakup.

“He’s looking at it from a very unpleasant, angry way, and I’m saying, in my more airy-fairy way, we’re gonna be all right. We’ll get through this.”

The inspiration behind Stevie Nicks' distinct style

Stevie Nicks put shawls on the freakin' map. The Fleetwood Mac rock goddess' style — lacy shawls, leather gloves, piled-high hairstyles — seems to be all her own. In fact, however, the look was inspired by a random woman she saw in Santa Monica, she once told.

She saw the woman in 1970, when she and Lindsey Buckingham were still a performing duo instead of members of Fleetwood Mac. Before their show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Nicks saw a woman walking by in Edwardian-inspired garb — a riding jacket, platform boots, and a layered jacket, topped with a Gibson Girl hairstyle. "This girl obviously had some money, because this was not a cheap outfit. It was beautiful, and I went, 'Oh, that's exactly how I want to look,'" Nicks told the newspaper. (Grunge)

It would be a year before Nicks began wearing the costume she imagined on stage. But she had help to bring it to life.

BLACK DRESSES AND A SHAWL VAULT

She has always been a night owl, but has recently become nocturnal, typically going to bed around 8 a.m. She attributes the change in her sleep pattern to the news, which she says she watches constantly.

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A friend of Nicks introduced her to a costumer that helped outfit her for performances. She showed the designer what she wanted by sketching out a stick figure with bell sleeves and a top hat, according to the Pocono Record. She now has worn this outfit countless times in the years since. Her thousands of shawls are particularly delicate, and kept in a temperature-controlled vault (per Rolling Stone).

Her clothes are usually black, though she stopped wearing them for a while because she was tired of being called a witch, according to Showbiz Cheatsheet. "I don't like it all and I wish people would stop thinking about that because I spent thousands of dollars on beautiful black clothes and had to stop wearing them for a long time because a lot of people scared me."

 

 

"I stopped wearing black for like a year," she told the Los Angeles Times. "Then I was just like, 'OK, just bring it, freaks. I'm not going to wear apricot. You think whatever you want because I'm going to wear my beautiful, long black dress. Get out of my face.' I got mad. I went back to black."

 

 

 

“My biggest regret is that I never got to share the stage with him. I always hoped in my heart of hearts that that would happen,” singer says of Fleetwood Mac co-founder

"When I first listened to all the Fleetwood Mac records, I was very taken with his guitar playing. It was one of the reasons I was excited to join the band.

"His legacy will live on forever in the history books of Rock n Roll. It was in the beginning, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and I thank you, Peter Green, for that. You changed our lives. (sic)"

Meanwhile, Mumford and Sons guitarist Winston Marshall has also paid tribute to the music star, whose death was announced on Saturday (25.07.20).

He wrote on Twitter: "RIP Peter Green. #GOAT . Man of the world, oh well, albatross, need your love so bad. Some of my favourites songs and performances of all time. Thank you for the music (sic)"

David Coverdale, the lead singer of Whitesnake, also hailed the late star, describing him as a "loved and admired" artist.

In Stevie Nicks’ latest Instagram dispatch from home, the rock legend befriends a dove and reveals the inspiration behind the opening lyrics to her hit song “Edge of Seventeen.”

 

 

Related Stevie Nicks to work a shift at McDonald’s in Fleetwood

 

 

 

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