Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac 2018/19, Tour Info, UK Articles

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie on ‘American Horror Story’, playing Wembley, and potential new music | Attitude

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“I don’t see any reason why we can’t do another tour and make another record.”

2019-02-13
Words: Will Stroude

With a 50-year legacy of friendship, fallouts and iconic folk-rock hits, the Fleetwood Mac story is as epic as they come in music.

Over the years band members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks have married, divorced, made up, fallen out, and continued to release some of the most defining pop hits of the last century – and the drama hasn’t waned now most of them are in their seventies.

Disagreements over current world tour ‘An Evening with Fleetwood Mac’ led to Buckingham’s sacking from the group in April last year, with the guitarist and vocalist settling a lawsuit against his former bandmates in December.

Talk of that lawsuit is strictly off-limits as Attitude meets Christine McVie ahead of Fleetwood Mac’s two planned dates at Wembley Stadium this June, but the British-born singer is a characteristically open book when it comes to discussing the legacy of a band that has defined her life since 1970.

Despite standing as the (relative) calm at the centre of the Fleetwood Mac storm, McVie has had plenty her own ups and downs during the course of her career, most notably retiring from the group in 1998 for 16 long years after developing a debilitating phobia of flying

Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie on ‘American Horror Story’, playing Wembley, and potential new music | Attitude →

Lindsey Buckingham, UK Articles

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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Rolling Stone Online
By Andy Greene
Feb 8th, 2019

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist recuperating at home after open heart surgery

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Winslow Townson/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (10014909m)
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 →

Fleetwood Mac 2018/19, Tour Info

Two Worlds Collide | Otago Daily Times

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4 February 2019
Bruce Munro

Neil Finn joining Fleetwood Mac seems a bolt out of the blue – until you know the backstory. Bruce Munro talks to Mick Fleetwood about line-up changes, friendship with the Finn family and 50 years of making music with one of the world’s great bands.

The phone jangles.

“Hello, hello,” a rich, friendly, veteran voice says out of the ether.

It is a week out from the post-Christmas reboot of Fleetwood Mac’s year-long world tour; a tour that will close with a concert at Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium, on September 21.

So, is Mick Fleetwood, the co-founder of one of the world’s biggest selling bands, busy getting ready?

“I’m in Maui, at home,” 71-year old Fleetwood replies.

“I live in Maui, so I have no complaints.

“If your readers want a visual, I’m in an area called Kula, which is on the side of Haleakala crater. We hope it doesn’t explode,” he says dryly.

Is that the one spewing lava, slowly swallowing suburbs?

“No, that’s on the Big Island. They tell me this massive mountain I live on is dormant, for the moment.”

That’s comforting, sort of.

So, no, not a lot of rushing around right now. The hard yards were done in the lead up to the 50th anniversary tour that kicked off in October.

“We had a major change in Fleetwood Mac, parting company with Lindsey Buckingham,” he says. Continue reading Two Worlds Collide | Otago Daily Times →

Lindsey Buckingham, Reviews, Solo Activity, Video Clip

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 →

Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, UK Articles

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 →

Fleetwood Mac, Original Content, Reviews, UK Articles

Music Review: 50 Years – Don’t Stop from Fleetwood Mac

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A new career-defining set from Fleetwood Mac that spans their 50-year existence, released in multiple formats on Nov 16th, 2018.

This career spanning collection from Fleetwood Mac has been released as a single CD, three-CD set, 5-LP vinyl set, digital download and streaming edition and is a fine collection of songs that make up the career of Fleetwood Mac from the blues era of the late 60s, to the transition period of the early 70s, the later adult orientated rock era of the late 70s and 80s, to the final set of songs that make up the swansong of the band’s recording output. Each album is represented on this set, including one song from the  2013’s ‘Extended Play‘ release.

The set is chronological in sequence except for the streaming edition (of which I will cover off later in the piece) and most tracks have been remastered for this collection and sound extremely nice and bright. The highlighted of this set for me is the single mix of ‘Fireflies’ and the first-ever physical release of ‘Sad Angel’ from the 2013 ‘Extended Play‘ release, whereas most other tracks have been made available in remastered form on recent deluxe editions of Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk, Mirage and Tango In The Night, special mention should be made for the early to mid 70s songs that have also been remastered and should appeal to casual observers of the band who would not be familiar with these tracks. Continue reading Music Review: 50 Years – Don’t Stop from Fleetwood Mac →

Fleetwood Mac, Release Info, UK Articles

Don’t Stop: 50 years on, Fleetwood Mac are still rising from the ashes of their own self-destruction | The Independent

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The Independent
Alexandra Pollard
15th Nov 2018

The storied band, who are about to embark on a European tour, have found a home for themselves teetering on the brink of implosion – unwilling, or perhaps unable, to let each other go. Their new anniversary album, ’50 Years – Don’t Stop’, could hardly be more aptly titled.

Fleetwood Mac taking part in a US interview broadcast in 1975 ( Polaris )

Affairs, breakups, terrifying brawls between lovers, damage to instruments (and skulls), divorce, drug abuse, alcoholism, rows about money, musical differences, and lots and lots and lots of hit records: Fleetwood Mac might have sounded mellow at times, but off stage they were anything but.

“We’re a group of people who, you could make the argument, don’t belong in the same band together,” Lindsey Buckingham once said of his fractious group. “It’s the synergy of that that makes it work.”

Whether they’ve triumphed because of their famously volatile relationship, or in spite of it, Fleetwood Mac have risen from the ashes of their own self-destruction more times than seemed possible. In the past 50 years, they have found a home for themselves teetering on the brink of implosion – unwilling, or perhaps unable, to let each other go. Their new anniversary album, 50 Years – Don’t Stop, released a month after they announced a 2019 European tour, could hardly be more aptly titled.

Not that the current members haven’t tried to stop. Stevie Nicks left the band in 1990 over a dispute with Mick Fleetwood, but rejoined a few years later. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham quit in 1987, just before the band’s world tour, to “get on with the next phase of my creative growth” – only to spearhead a reunion a decade later. When Christine McVie packed the whole thing in 1998, she even went as far as moving to a sleepy village in Kent. “There’s no more chance of [McVie returning],” said Stevie Nicks in 2012, “than an asteroid hitting the earth.” A little over a year later, McVie was back in the band, no asteroid in sight. Continue reading Don’t Stop: 50 years on, Fleetwood Mac are still rising from the ashes of their own self-destruction | The Independent →

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Fans’ anger as Fleetwood Mac tickets resell online for €740 | The Times (Ireland)

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Katie O’Neill

The Times (Ireland}

Fans of Fleetwood Mac who missed out when tickets for their Dublin concert sold out this week were disappointed to find touts advertising them for €740.

The band are taking their European tour to the RDS Arena in June and tickets sold out minutes after they went on sale on Ticketmaster yesterday morning.

Seats in the golden circle went on sale for €129.50, standing tickets were €89.50 and seated tickets ranged from €79.50 to €144, all excluding a service charge. Tickets quickly appeared on Viagogo, a secondhand retailer, for between €197 and €740 each.

Noel Rock, a Fine Gael TD, said that the high prices being charged by touts online underlined the need for the government to act faster on touting legislation. “Ticketless Fleetwood Mac fans have been left bitterly disappointed after touts snapped up hundreds of tickets today for next June’s much anticipated RDS concert,” he said.

“These tickets, predictably, immediately flooded secondary markets for prices up to €700 within hours. Viagogo are the main facilitators of this gouging of fans online, with tickets going for up to €697 a ticket for this concert already.” Continue reading Fans’ anger as Fleetwood Mac tickets resell online for €740 | The Times (Ireland) →