By Greg Kot
Sat 27 Jun 1992
The Canberra Times

Lindsey Buckingham, late of Fleetwood Mac, is back on top, as Greg Kot reports.

IN 1987, when the musical world last heard from Lindsey Buckingham, he was telling Fleetwood Mac he wanted out — and his bandmates were not taking the news well.

The break-up, on the eve of a world tour, was recounted in bloody detail by Mick Fleetwood in a recent autobiography, but the drummer says that, in retrospect, everyone saw it coming.

Buckingham had been the creative hub of the band for 12 years, as songwriter, singer, guitarist, producer and arranger, the “boy wonder” — as Fleetwood described him — who could take one of Stevie Nicks’s raw, rambling stories and sculpt it into a pop song such as Sara or Gypsy.

But he found himself no longer being challenged. “I had not been very happy in that situation for a while,” Buckingham says. His first new music in five years, Out of the Cradle (Warner Bros), is a fresh start for the 42-year-old singer.

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