There have been countless feuds throughout music history, and most of the greatest ones have been between artists in the same genre. Though some feuds have certainly existed within the same band,none have been more infamous, more drawn out, and the source of more fantastic music, thanLindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicksof Fleetwood Mac.
The pair were a package deal when they joinedFleetwood Mac, having recorded an album in 1973 before they were recruited to join the band. The album,Buckingham Nicks, did not perform very well,but by the time Fleetwood Mac releasedRumoursin 1977, the two were household names,whose dirty laundry was aired worldwide.
Buckingham and Nicks endured quite a bit together, and were the cause of one another’s turmoil for years before things came to a head when they were recordingRumours,and the pair have spent the last four decades hating each other.Now, over five decades later, they seem to have reconciled, and are finally remastering and reissuingBuckingham Nicks.
Buckingham and Nicks Announced the Remastered Album Out Of Nowhere
Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks started promoting the album in the most surprising way they could, starting by following each other on Instagram,marking their first public display of civility towards one another in decades.
They went on to share dual posts, Nicks posting a white screen with the lyrics to their song “Frozen Love,” “And if you go forward…” written in script, presumably her own handwriting. Buckingham followed up with another white screen, with the rest of the lyric, “I’ll meet you there,” seemingly written in his own handwriting.
The promotion forBuckingham Nicks, set to be released on September 19th, didn’t stop there—the pair have released two remastered singles from the album so far:“Crying in the Night,” and, fittingly, “Don’t Let Me Down Again.”
Fans Are More Excited Than Ever About This Already-Released Album
Since artists began remastering music, remastered albums have always garnered a fair amount of interest from fans, especially when a remastered album is released posthumously. That said,it seems as though the remastering of Buckingham Nicks is getting fans even more excited than any posthumously remastered album ever has,or maybe ever could.
The reunion of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks was so unexpected, and has surprised their fans so much, thatthe album’s remastering is the greatest gift the duo could have given them to continue sweetening the deal.Though these songs were released nearly 52 years ago, fans are reacting as though they are brand new in the year 2025.
Buckingham and Nicks sound phenomenal on the remastered recordings of their first two singles, almost as if we’re right there in the studio with them back in the ’70s, before everything came crashing down. If those two tracks are any indication,this album is sure to blow up the charts in a way it never quite could 50 years ago.
