Nicks and Buckingham had to perform songs their respective ex wrote about them. Sometimes, as with “Silver Springs,” this led to intense onstage moments. With other songs, though, it led to fury. Nicks said she struggled to get through one of Buckingham’s songs. (Showbiz)
Nicks and Buckingham broke up in 1976. Their split fueled the creation of the band’s seminal Rumours. Though Nicks was writing songs about Buckingham, she said one of his songs felt like a low blow. In the song “Go Your Own Way,” Buckingham sings, “Packing up / Shacking up is all you want to do.”
“I very, very much resented him telling the world that ‘packing up, shacking up’ with different men was all I wanted to do,” she told Rolling Stone in 1997. “He knew it wasn’t true. It was just an angry thing that he said.”
Nicks said she hated having to sing backup vocals on the song.
“Every time those words would come out onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him,” she said. “He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ‘I’ll make you suffer for leaving me.’ And I did. For years. Lindsey immediately got girlfriends. I never brought men around, because I wasn’t going to tick him off any more than I had already.”
Lindsey Buckingham always have something snidey to say about Stevie Nicks.
The pair were never exactly well known for seeing eye to eye – to put it lightly – with their feud broiling all the way from their disastrous breakup in the 1970s until 2018 when Buckingham was ultimately fired from the group.
The song ‘Come’, from the 2003 album Say You Will, it’s a rarer occasion, at least from that era, that the album was dominated by Buckingham’s vocals, and indeed on this song. But it wasn’t necessarily by choice. As it turns out, the reason Buckingham took the lead was because Nicks flat-out refused to sing it.
Speaking at the time of the album’s release, he sermonised his feelings by saying: “Stevie sees herself as being defined within a certain set of boundaries, outside of which things probably don’t ring true to her, or to the people who listen to what she does. But at the same time, I think she’s intrigued by the idea of pushing the envelope, especially on this album. She never wants to go too far with it, though.”
