Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have officially put their long-running feud behind them.
The former Fleetwood Mac bandmates and one-time couple, who have had a famously turbulent relationship, are now back on friendly terms after reconnecting to work on the re-release of their joint album Buckingham Nicks, which has been out of print for decades.
Speaking on the Song Explorer podcast, Stevie, 77, shared, “Lindsey and I started talking about it last night. This whole thing seems really like yesterday to us.”
Reflecting on the meaning of Frozen Love, a track from the album originally released in September 1973, Stevie 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 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 remained bandmates in Fleetwood Mac until Lindsey was dismissed in 2018.
Stevie admitted that while their relationship had many challenges, it was also full of creative energy and connection.
“Our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult, but at the same time, fantastic,” she explained. “What we were doing was so fantastic that it was worth putting up with the trials and tribulations of a relationship that’s difficult.”
Back in March, founding member Mick Fleetwood shared his hope that the two would one day make peace, saying, “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 Stevie and Lindsey are now talking marks a major shift. When they briefly reunited at the funeral of bandmate Christine McVie in 2023, their exchange reportedly lasted only a few minutes and was noticeably tense.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Stevie recalled, “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 also revealed she had given Lindsey “more than 300 million chances” to change.
“The only time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes,” Stevie said. “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 departure from Fleetwood Mac followed an alleged altercation between the pair at the MusicCares benefit event in 2018.
Stevie later claimed her ex “wasn’t very nice” to “anybody,” including her friend Harry Styles, and said it was actually her parents who encouraged her to finally part ways with him.
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