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Watch Lindsey Buckingham Perform for First Time Since Heart Surgery | Rolling Stone

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By Andy Greene
May 20th, 2019
Rolling Stone

The former Fleetwood Mac guitarist performed “Landslide” at a high school graduation ceremony for his daughter Leelee

Lindsey Buckingham, the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist who underwent open heart surgery earlier this year, made his first public appearance since the procedure over the weekend at his daughter Leelee’s high school graduation ceremony. Buckingham performed Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” on acoustic guitar while students from his daughter’s school sang the 1975 classic.

“Last night was epic,” his wife Kristen Buckingham tweeted. “First time I’ve seen Lindsey play in the last 4 mos, all the while Leelee ending her high school career. AND she sings a little ‘Landslide’ with her dad. I cried, I’ll admit it. Never know what’s ahead so enjoy the moment…”

In early February, Buckingham announced that her husband underwent emergency open heart surgery. “He is now recuperating at home each day he is stronger than the last,” Kristen Buckingham said in a statement at the time. “While he and his heart are doing well, the surgery resulted in vocal cord damage. It is unclear if this damage is permanent, we are hopeful it is not.”

 

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Last year, Fleetwood Mac parted ways with Buckingham shortly before announcing a world tour, replacing him with Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House. The band said the main issue was a disagreement over the timing of the tour. “We arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall,” Mick Fleetwood told Rolling Stone. “This was not a happy situation for us in terms of the logistics of a functioning band. To that purpose, we made a decision that we could not go on with him. Majority rules in term of what we need to do as a band and go forward.” Continue reading Watch Lindsey Buckingham Perform for First Time Since Heart Surgery | Rolling Stone →

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The Never Ending Story of Fleetwood Mac | MOJO Magazine

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“It Wasn’t About Replacing Lindsey Or Replicating Him In Any Way”

Minus the persona non grata and now-incapacitated Lindsey Buckingham, FLEETWOOD MAC truck on towards a date with the UK in June. Their new line-up is controversial, but they claim it’s working and, what’s more, it was ever thus. “If you look at the history of Fleetwood Mac,” Mick Fleetwood tells DAVE DIMARTINO, “it’s a miracle that it survived. A miracle.”

IT IS MID-NOVEMBER OF 2018, FLEETWOOD MAC are performing at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon, and Stevie Nicks is introducing Landslide.

“This song was written in 1973 in Aspen, Colorado,” she tells the rapt audience. “just me and my little guitar, deciding what I want to do with my life. I want to dedicate this to my cousins Sandy and Eddie, who are here, and also to Lindsey Wilkinson, an old friend. Another Lindsey that I also really loved, you know.” There is a brief, barely perceptible pause. “Not like that.” The crowd laughs at her mixture of candour and innuendo, that wee wisp of Harlequin romance paperback covers long gone, and the band plays Nicks’ classic note perfect, as if it were 1975 all over again. But of course, it isn’t 1975 again.

Absent from the stage is guitarist/singer and one-time Nicks musical and personal partner Lindsey Buckingham, who with Nicks joined the band at the tail end of 1974 and helped guide them to an unparalleled level of fame. He’s not only gone, he’s really gone: a month previously Buckingham had filed suit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming to have been unjustly booted from the band. Thus this long-planned, lucrative tour — which extends through 2019 and includes the States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand — now features replacements Neil Finn, of Crowded House, and Mike Campbell, of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and no Lindsey Buckingham. Continue reading The Never Ending Story of Fleetwood Mac | MOJO Magazine →

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20 years of this website celebration, download the Ultimate Lindsey Buckingham Visual Collection

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As part of the 20th anniversary of this website being active, we are sharing a rare collection of promo videos and live clips from Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac.

This collection was curated by me many years ago onto DVD from various live and promo video clips, I cannot recall exactly when this collection was put together, but I suspect around 2003 and the Say You Will era from the latest collection of clips on this compilation.

I had traded this DVD many times in the years of snail mail trades and I have seen this collection being sold on auction sites in the past (tut tut), but this is the first time that I have put this collection out for download, and being the 20th anniversary of this site and Lindsey’s current health complications, now seems a  pretty good time to share. Continue reading 20 years of this website celebration, download the Ultimate Lindsey Buckingham Visual Collection →

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“It was too challenging”: Fleetwood Mac say Lindsey Buckingham left after feud with Stevie Nicks | NME

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Nick Reilly

“A parting of company took place, and it had to take place.”

Fleetwood Mac have confirmed that Lindsey Buckingham left the iconic rock group after reigniting his feud with Stevie Nicks.

The singer left the band in acrimonious circumstances last year and said he had been fired by Stevie Nicks, who reportedly became enraged after he was seen “smirking” while she delivered a speech at a benefit concert.

While Stevie reportedly refused to ever share a stage with Lindsey again, founder Mick Fleetwood told Mojo that it was Lindsey who ultimately received his marching orders.

“Support really could not be given to ask the situation to continue. It was too challenging,” he explained. Continue reading “It was too challenging”: Fleetwood Mac say Lindsey Buckingham left after feud with Stevie Nicks | NME →

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Lindsey Buckingham: Ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist has heart surgery | BBC News

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9th February 2019

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham is recovering after emergency open heart surgery but his vocal cords were damaged as a result, his wife has announced.

Kristen Buckingham, who is based in Los Angeles, said her husband had been taken to hospital late last week.

He is recovering at home and getting “stronger” every day, she said, posting a photo of him in his hospital bed.

Buckingham, 69, was fired from the British-American band last year.

He then launched a legal case before settling out of court.

“This past year has been a very stressful and difficult year for our family to say the least,” Mrs Buckingham said in her social media post.

“We feel so fortunate he’s alive. As does he. He looks forward to recovery and putting this behind him.”

It was not clear, she said, if the vocal damage would be permanent. Continue reading Lindsey Buckingham: Ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist has heart surgery | BBC News →

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Lindsey Buckingham Suffers Vocal Cord Damage From Emergency Surgery | Rolling Stone

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By Andy Greene
Feb 8th, 2019

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist recuperating at home after open heart surgery

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Lindsey Buckingham performs at The Wilbur Theatre, in Boston
Lindsey Buckingham in Concert – , Boston, USA – 05 Dec 2018

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham underwent emergency open heart surgery last week and is now recuperating at his home. “Each day he is stronger than the last,” his wife Kristen Buckingham wrote in a statement. “While he and his heart are doing well, the surgery resulted in vocal cord damage. While it is unclear if the damage is permanent, we are hopeful it is not.”

Buckingham was forced out of Fleetwood Mac last year when Stevie Nicks made it clear to the rest of the band that she could no longer work with him. “After 43 years and the finish line so clearly in sight, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that for the five of us to splinter part would be the wrong thing,” Buckingham wrote in an e-mail to group co-founder leader Mick Fleetwood after learning the news. “At the moment, the band’s heart and soul has been diminished. But out center, which has seen us through so much, is only laying dormant.” Continue reading Lindsey Buckingham Suffers Vocal Cord Damage From Emergency Surgery | Rolling Stone →

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Lindsey Buckingham Reveals Stories Behind His Solo Songs And Whether He’ll Ever Rejoin Fleetwood Mac | Stereogum

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Scott Lapatine
Streogum.com
December 10, 2018

“It certainly has been … a surprising year,” Lindsey Buckingham joked from the stage at Manhattan’s Town Hall last week. Fleetwood Mac’s erstwhile singer and guitarist is playing shows in support of Solo Anthology, a career-spanning collection that’s somehow his first-ever hits package 37 years into a successful solo career.

The just-released 6xLP version of the set marks the first time some of his most beloved songs have been available on vinyl, too. But the big surprise this year is that Fleetwood Mac are also on tour, without him.

Buckingham and his fans were shocked when, following an all-star tribute concert in January, he was unceremoniously kicked out of the band via a phone call from manager Irving Azoff at Stevie Nicks’ behest. Neil Finn and Mike Campbell were hired to replace him and consequently Fleetwood Mac shows now include songs by Crowded House, Split Enz, and Tom Petty. The silver lining is that Buckingham was freed up to do this solo tour featuring some tunes he had never before played live.

From 1981’s Law And Order to last year’s collaborative LP with Mac bandmate Christine McVie, along with a handful of movie soundtrack contributions, Solo Anthology is an overdue showcase for the more adventurous side of Fleetwood Mac’s principal songwriter and arranger, not to mention his blazing fingerstyle guitar work. While he was in NYC, I sat down with the 69-year-old father of three at a restaurant near Central Park to learn the stories behind a selection of his solo tracks, get an update on his lawsuit against Fleetwood Mac (he revealed it was settled a few weeks ago), and find out what’s next for one of rock’s most gifted guitarists.

“Trouble” (1981)

STEREOGUM: “Trouble” was your first solo single. You played basically everything on Law And Order, but “Trouble” had George Hawkins on bass and a drum loop from Mick Fleetwood.

BUCKINGHAM: It was probably a departure from much of that album, and much of what I am not as much a fan of about it now is that it was kind of a reaction to the political climate in a post-Tusk environment. In a moment when I realized the only way I was going to explore the left side of my palate was to do solo work, Law And Order was a bit, shall we say, sarcastic as a body of work, a bit camp, maybe a bit too camp, almost verging on a comedy album in some ways in terms of the irony that was there and the sensibility. “Trouble” was a song that was very absent of that, and that’s probably one reason that they picked it out as a single. Continue reading Lindsey Buckingham Reveals Stories Behind His Solo Songs And Whether He’ll Ever Rejoin Fleetwood Mac | Stereogum →

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You can go your own way! Lindsey Buckingham, 69, settles his lawsuit with Fleetwood Mac after the supergroup FIRED him earlier this year – and he claims his former flame Stevie Nicks was behind it | Daily Mail

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by Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com
December 8th 2018, 6:55:10 pm

  • Lindsey Buckingham, 69, is speaking out in his first televised interview since he was fired from Fleetwood Mac in April 
  • In October he filed a lawsuit against the band after his firing was announced
  • He says long-time former girlfriend Stevie Nicks is behind his dismissal  
  • ‘It appeared to me that she was looking for something to hang on me, in order to instigate some kind of coup’ he said on Nicks 
  • She gave the band an ultimatum – keep her or Buckingham in the group 
  • He revealed that he and the band have reached a settlement 
  • Buckingham added he hasn’t spoken to the band in a year, with the exception of Christine McVie, with whom he made an album and toured with last year  

Fleetwood Mac singer Lindsey Buckingham has revealed he’s reached a settlement with his former bandmates, ending the heated lawsuit that sparked when he was kicked out of the group earlier this year.

Buckingham, 69, has spent 43 years with the acclaimed British-American band but was unceremoniously booted out in April, triggering his lawsuit filed in October that added to the group’s saga of internal conflict and drama.

In his first sit-down televised interview since the band’s split, he’s revealed that he and the band have settled the lawsuit and believes his former flame and band frontwoman Stevie Nicks, 70, was behind his firing.

‘We’ve all signed off on something. I’m happy enough with it,’ Buckingham said on CBS This Morning: Saturday.  

‘I’m not out there trying to twist the knife at all. I’m trying to look at this with some level of compassion, some level of wisdom,’ he added.

 

Lindsey Buckingham, 69, is speaking out in his first televised interview since he was fired from Fleetwood Mac in April saying he’s settled his lawsuit, filed in October, with the band  Continue reading You can go your own way! Lindsey Buckingham, 69, settles his lawsuit with Fleetwood Mac after the supergroup FIRED him earlier this year – and he claims his former flame Stevie Nicks was behind it | Daily Mail →

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Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham Settle Lawsuit Over Dismissal From Band | Rolling Stone

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by Daniel Kreps
8th December 2018
Rolling Stone

“I’m happy enough with it. I’m not out there trying to twist the knife at all,” guitarist tells CBS This Morning of settlement

 

Lindsey Buckingham revealed in a new interview that he has settled his lawsuit against his former Fleetwood Mac bandmates.

Following Buckingham’s surprise firing from Fleetwood Mac in January, the guitarist filed a lawsuit against the band in October, alleging breach of fiduciary duty and breach of oral contract, among other charges

“Fleetwood Mac strongly disputes the allegations presented in Mr. Buckingham’s complaint and looks forward to their day in court,” a rep for the band told Rolling Stone in October.

However, in an interview with CBS This Morning that aired Saturday – the guitarist’s first television interview since his dismissal – Buckingham said that the lawsuit was quietly settled a couple weeks ago.

“We’ve all signed off on something,” Buckingham said of the settlement. “I’m happy enough with it. I’m not out there trying to twist the knife at all. I’m trying to look at this with some level of compassion, some level of wisdom.”

Buckingham did not elaborate on the terms of the settlement. Buckingham declined to comment to Rolling Stone. A rep for Fleetwood Mac did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

During the CBS This Morning interview, Buckingham talked about the “visceral” feeling of being dismissed from the band – reportedly at the behest of Stevie Nicks – and said that, since his firing, he hasn’t spoken to any of his former bandmates except for Christine McVie, who reached out to Buckingham recently. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham Settle Lawsuit Over Dismissal From Band | Rolling Stone →

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Lindsey Buckingham Gets Anthologised By Rhino | Popmatters

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CHARLES DONOVAN
25 Oct 2018

Can’t the members of Fleetwood Mac ever bury their differences and forge a lasting friendship? Even in their dotage, they fall out with each other at the most terrible junctures – on the eve of tours or just after the completion of albums. At one point, it seemed as if we might get another studio album from the classic lineup. It would have been the first since 1987’s Tango in the Night. Christine McVie had finally come back into the fold. Before quitting, she had held down the fort during the troubled era of Behind the Mask (1990) and Time (1995), when first Lindsey Buckingham fled, followed by Stevie Nicks. After live reunion album, The Dance (1997), McVie retired to England, peeping out briefly to issue a so-so solo album in the early 2000s. It was left to Nicks and Buckingham to front the good-ish double-album, 2003’s Say You Will. Then, no sooner was McVie back behind the piano and ready to record, Nicks proved reluctant to enter the studio. Consequently, a 2017 studio album came out under the band-name Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie, even though Mick Fleetwood and John McVie played on it.

Now it’s Buckingham’s turn to be out in the cold, and there are conflicting reports as to why. Slowly, the PR-buffed narrative about scheduling issues is giving way to one of malice, toxicity, ill will, and bad blood, of insurmountable dislike and antipathy, and Nicks giving the band a him-or-me ultimatum. A lawsuit looms while Fleetwood Mac tour with a lineup plumped out by musical everyman, Neil Finn, plus Heartbreaker, Mike Campbell. Oh dear. The sorry mess does, however, mean that Buckingham is suitably placed for touring behind and promoting this three-disc (six on vinyl) anthology and by all accounts, a solo album will follow.

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