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Stevie Nicks tried to be โsweet and niceโ to Lindsey Buckingham in order to keep Fleetwood Mac together.
The roller-coaster relationship between the two bandmates fuelled the making of the bandโs acclaimed 1977 album โRumoursโ and Stevie admits that she tried to keep the peace to make sure that the group wasnโt ruined.
Stevie told The New Yorker magazine: โYou just have to throw yourself into your song. I mean, I broke up with Lindsey in 1976. Weโd only been in Fleetwood Mac for a year and a half, and we were breaking up when we joined Fleetwood Mac.
โSo we just put our relationship kind of back together, because I was smart enough to know that, if we had broken up the second month of being in Fleetwood Mac, it would have blown the whole thing.โ
Stevie continued: โI just bided my time, and tried to make everything as easy as possible, tried to be as sweet and nice to Lindsey as I could be. He wasnโt happy, either.
โThen something happened that was, you know, โWeโre done.โ And he knew it. It was time. And the band was solid, by that time, so I could walk away knowing that he was safe. And that the band was safe. And that we could work it out.โ
โRumoursโ featured the songs โGo Your Own Wayโ and โDreamsโ โ written by Lindsey and Stevie respectively โ and she believes the tracks reflect the ending of their relationship.
The 73-year-old musician said: โI can just go right back to what pushed me toward writing those words. And I always laugh because Lindseyโs โGo Your Own Wayโ and my โDreamsโ are like, counter songs to each other.
โIโm like, โWhen the rain washes you clean, youโll know,โ and heโs like, โPacking up, shacking upโs all you want to do.โ Both songs kind of mean the same thing โ itโs really about our breakup.
โHeโs looking at it from a very unpleasant, angry way, and Iโm saying, in my more airy-fairy way, weโre gonna be all right. Weโll get through this.โ