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The album at the heart of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s volatile relationship | The Telegraph

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By Craig McLean
18 Sep 2025

The couple’s ‘lost’ first album was the reason they joined Fleetwood Mac – and it’s being re-released after 50 years

When penniless, high-school sweethearts Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham released Buckingham Nicks in September 1973, 16 months before they joined Fleetwood Mac, it flopped. Then it went out of print.

But its gauzy, West Coast-folk, hippie-romance-heavy 10 tracks – not to mention its cover image of the hirsute pair, topless and cosied up – were a soft-launch distillation of the songwriting, singing, harmonising and emotional heft that the couple would bring to the floundering Britons. When band founder and drummer Mick Fleetwood heard the record playing in Los Angeles recording studio Sound City, he moved quickly to recruit the young Californians to the ranks of his band.

It became a great “lost album” – it never appeared on CD and certainly wasn’t available to stream (legally, anyway). It was a mythical premonition of the golden music-making that would appear on the Stevie-and-Lindsey-powered Fleetwood Mac (1975) and Rumours(1977) albums. But now, finally, 52 years on, Buckingham Nicks has been remastered and reissued for the first time.

But how was it lost? I asked Stevie Nicks the question one summer evening in Santa Monica in July 2013, when interviewing her for this newspaper. She was sitting in her sea-front condo by the Pacific, taking a short break from Fleetwood Mac’s world tour before it came to the UK.

She explained to me that the rights to it were split between her, Buckingham and Keith Olsen, producer of the album. “It’s like sharing ownership of an old car,” she said. “But the stars never seem to exactly align.”

In 2011, also in Los Angeles, I asked Buckingham the same question: why wasn’t their album available on CD?

“I don’t know!” the guitarist shot back. “One of Stevie’s managers has the masters in her house. Why? Well, because somebody’s got to have them somewhere. I don’t know, don’t ask me… The politics of Fleetwood Mac are strange.”

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Choose love – Buckingham/Nicks review | MOJO

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Debut LP by the Mac’s golden couple – pre tantrems and tiaras – gets reissued. By James McNair.

Buckingham Nicks
★★★★★

“ IT WAS just a one-off moment,” Stevie Nicks recalled of her and Lindsey Buckingham’s duet on The Mamas & The Papas’ California Dreamin’ at a San Francisco Christian youth party in 1966. Two years later she’d joined the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band, Buckingham’s psychedelic rock act. The pair weren’t yet an item, but support slots with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin seeded their romance with rock’s mythos. “I would stroll through San José State University with my guitar, thinking, Does everybody know who I am? Because I’m a rock star,” Nicks told this writer in 2013. “I felt it and really believed it.”

Despite the best efforts of Fritz’s manager David Forrester, no record deal was forthcoming. It was Keith Olsen, already a producer for The Millennium and Joe Walsh’s pre-Eagles band The James Gang, who helped secure Buckingham and Nicks’s contract with Polydor – but only after he’d persuaded them to ditch the rest of Fritz and make some demos as a duo. Recorded sporadically through much of 1973 at Sound City, Los Angeles, Buckingham Nicks proved to be one hell of a debut. Given that Nicks was working hamburger joints and as Olsen’s cleaner to support herself and Buckingham while making it, Long Distance Winner, a brilliant Nicks song about “living with a difficult musician” seems a wholly valid inclusion.

Though best known as their serendipitous conduit to tenure in Fleetwood Mac after Olsen played Mick Fleetwood its magnificent closer Frozen Love on a whim, it seems astonishing that Buckingham Nicks is only now gaining re-release after languishing online in bootleg form for decades.

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Buckingham Nicks review | Uncut

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Uncut Magazine
October 2025
By Piers Martin

Buckingham Nicks (reissue, 1973)
RHINO
7/10

Fabled sketchbook for Fleetwood Mac’s imperial phase, reissued after so many lost decades.

TAKE it with a pinch of salt, but it’s a tough time to be a Fleetwood Mac fan. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are still at loggerheads after the guitarist was turfed out of the band in 2018 – Nicks declared she was “no longer willing to work with him”; he suffered a heart attack soon after being fired – and the window has all but shut on a Fleetwood Ma classic lineup reunion now that each member is pushing 80 and Christine McVie has gone.

Holograms could be the answer.

But before the credits roll on this most enduring rock’n’roll saga, a key chapter in the band’s origin story from a more harmonious time 52 years ago is finally being reissued. Buckingham

Nicks, the mythologised 1973 folk-rock debut by Buckingham Nicks, as Lindsey and Stevie were known back then, has been cleaned up and remastered from the original tapes and is in print for the first time since 1982, and on streaming services and CD for the first time (there’s also a limited vinyl edition with two reissued 7″ singles).

In some ways, this offers a sense of closure: let’s put it out properly before it’s too late.

Why such a pivotal record in Fleetwood Mac’s history has been ignored for so long does lead you to question the pair’s affection for the material. Surely any scheduling or legal issues preventing the release could have been resolved at any point over the past 40 years if they’d wanted it out, especially given the band’s multi-generational appeal this century. Indeed, it’s such fandom that has kept Buckingham Nicks alive all this time, when it pretty much sank without trace upon release and fared little better when reissued in 1977 and ’81 in attempts to capitalise on the Mac’s global domination.

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Buckingham Nicks reissue Press Release

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BUCKINGHAM NICKS RECEIVES FIRST-EVER REISSUE

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM AND STEVIE NICKS’ ELUSIVE 1973 STUDIO ALBUM ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 19 WITH NEWLY REMASTERED SOUND FOR CD AND DIGITAL DEBUT

RHINO HIGH FIDELITY SERIES PRESENTS TWO LIMITED VINYL EDITIONS, INCLUDING ONE WITH BONUS REPLICA 7-INCH SINGLES

“CRYING IN THE NIGHT” AVAILABLE TO STREAM TODAY
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BOTH AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT RHINO.COM
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Buckingham Nicks, the only studio album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as a duo, will be reissued for the first time on September 19. Originally released in 1973 and unavailable for decades, the album has been sourced from the original analog master tapesfor its long-awaited return to vinyl, as well as hi-res digital files for its CD and digital release. 

Released on September 5, 1973, Buckingham Nicks quickly faded from commercial view but never disappeared from the cultural conversation. Recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Keith Olsen, the album introduced Nicks and Buckingham’s tightly wound harmonies and sharply contrasting songwriting voices across 10 tracks—ranging from the folk-rock shimmer of “Crystal” to the sunbaked strut of “Don’t Let Me Down Again.” 

Its legend only grew with time. In late 1974, Mick Fleetwood visited Sound City while scouting studios to record Fleetwood Mac’s next album. To showcase both his production work and the studio’s sound, Olsen blasted “Frozen Love” for Fleetwood in Studio A. The song reflected the full scope of the album’s ambition and chemistry—and immediately caught the drummer’s attention.

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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are ‘reuniting’ – here’s why it’s such a big deal | Metro

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By Brooke Ivey Johnson
Metro
July 22, 2025

Fleetwood Mac’s estranged lovers Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have once again added to the intrigue surrounding their relationship – this time with an LA billboard. 

The famously acrimonious former bandmates caused fans to ‘crash out’ with a matching pair of social media posts last week. 

The lead singer, 77, and former guitarist, 75, seemed to imply the almost decade-long rupture between them might finally be at an end.

On Nick’s account, she posted the lyrics from the 1973 hit Frozen Love: ‘And if you go forward’ which comes from Buckingham Nicks’ only album as a duo.

Then Buckingham completed the line with his own post reading: ‘I’ll meet you there.’

Conspicuously, the news comes after rumours circulated in recent months that Buckingham’s marriage to Kristen Messner is finally over for good, after she initially filed for divorce in 2021. The pair were married in 2000 and share three children. 

The mysterious posts from Buckingham and Nicks sent generations of fans into a tailspin of speculation. Are the pair reuniting musically? Or romantically? Are they going to re-release Buckingham Nicks after all these years? 

The latter seems more likely than ever after a billboard appeared above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Monday featuring the cover of the 1973 album. 

Social media posts shared images of the billboard, which features both Nicks and Buckingham topless, alongside their names, the LP title, and the date Sept. 19.

The pair, who joined Fleetwood Mac as a couple in December 1974, are the stars of one of the most famous love (and hate) stories in music history. 

The band’s chart-topping, iconic studio album Rumours was written during their breakup in the 1970s, immortalising it for all time. 

They last performed on stage together in January 2018, with reports of a significant disagreement between the pair over their working schedule sealing the deal on their professional breakup.

After bandmate Christine McVie’s death in November 2022, the band seemed pretty set on never reuniting on stage, with Stevie focusing on her successful solo career.

But now, it seems like there may be another chapter to Buckingham and Nicks’ story before the book is closed for good. 

Here’s everything you need to know about the dramatic history of Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood’s relationship. 

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Buckingham Nicks: Goodbye To The First Five Years | Birmingham After Dark

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The following article was written after the last Buckingham Nicks concert in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham After Dark staff writer Jan Susina got a rare opportunity to sit down and chat with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

This is a portion of that interview, which was printed in February 1975.

By Jan Susina

Major changes are underway for Lindsey Buckingham and Stephanie Nicks after their highly successful concert last Friday at the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium (one of two sellouts at the Auditorium during the last year). Back in L.A., the two will begin work, not as the Buckingham Nicks, but as members of Fleetwood Mac, later this month.

Both Lindsey and Stevie voiced strong misgivings over disbanding as a duo. “It wasn’t an easy decision for us, but we decided to do one album before we came out here (to Birmingham),” said Buckingham.

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