Stevie Nicks tried to be ‘sweet’ to Lindsey Buckingham for the sake of Fleetwood Mac

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Stevie Nicks tried to be โ€œsweet 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 bandโ€™s acclaimed 1977 album โ€˜Rumoursโ€™ and Stevie admits that she tried to keep the peace to make sure that the group wasnโ€™t ruined.

Stevie told The New Yorker magazine: โ€œYou just have to throw yourself into your song. I mean, I broke up with Lindsey in 1976. Weโ€™d only been in Fleetwood Mac for a year and a half, and we were breaking up when we joined Fleetwood Mac.

โ€œSo 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: โ€œI 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 wasnโ€™t happy, either.

โ€œThen something happened that was, you know, โ€˜Weโ€™re 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€

โ€˜Rumoursโ€™ featured the songs โ€˜Go Your Own Wayโ€™ and โ€˜Dreamsโ€™ 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: โ€œI can just go right back to what pushed me toward writing those words. And I always laugh because Lindseyโ€™s โ€˜Go Your Own Wayโ€™ and my โ€˜Dreamsโ€™ are like, counter songs to each other.

โ€œIโ€™m like, โ€˜When the rain washes you clean, youโ€™ll know,โ€™ and heโ€™s like, โ€˜Packing up, shacking upโ€™s all you want to do.โ€™ Both songs kind of mean the same thing โ€“ itโ€™s really about our breakup.

โ€œHeโ€™s looking at it from a very unpleasant, angry way, and Iโ€™m saying, in my more airy-fairy way, weโ€™re gonna be all right. Weโ€™ll get through this.โ€

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