By Michael Dwyer
March 14, 2019 — 11.45pm
The Age
The following is based on a true story. That is to say, there’s just enough reported fact, hearsay and dramatic licence for a really good scene in Rumours: The Fleetwood Mac Story, a future Hollywood biopic doubtless being written by someone, somewhere as we speak.
Scene: Backstage, post-gig, Radio City Music Hall, January 26, 2018.
Stevie Nicks: “Lindsay Adams Buckingham. How dare you smirk when I’m addressing my audience!”
Buckingham: “Babe, that monologue was longer than the super deluxe collector’s edition of Tusk!”
Nicks: “Don’t you ‘babe’ me, mister. I’m telling Mick. You’ll never work in this band again … er, again!” (Storms out.)
Buckingham: “Sigh. Been down one time, been down two times …”
Christine McVie: “Shhh, Lindsay. Don’tcha look back.”
John McVie: “Anybody wants me, I’m in the hot tub!”
As the music cue kicks in — “I can still hear you saying/ You would never break the (never break) the chain” — the subtext is clear: the music of Fleetwood Mac is bigger than the soap opera. It will outlive the “classic” Rumours line-up the world knows and loves, and it will outlast all who came before and after. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s world keeps turning | The Age
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