Lindsey Buckingham will never get away from the sound of the woman that loved him, or the social-media presence. The former Fleetwood Mac bandmates are teasing a collaboration. On July 17, Nicks and Buckingham shared coordinating quotes in each other’s handwriting. “And if you go forward …,” reads Nicks’s post. “I’ll meet you there,” responds Buckingham’s. The quote is a lyric from their 1973 song “Frozen Love,” off their album Buckingham Nicks, which they wrote when they were dating before joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, writing one of the biggest albums of all time, and giving some iconic performances amid a nasty falling-out. Buckingham Nicks, a flop when it was first released, is not currently available on streaming and has never been released on CD. Whatever this ends up being will be their first collaboration since Fleetwood Mac performed together at a MusiCares benefit in 2018, after which Nicks fired Buckingham from the band because, according to a later interview in Rolling Stone, “he wasn’t very nice to anybody; he wasn’t very nice to Harry Styles.”
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While the duo have not yet confirmed what it is, exactly, that they’re teasing, Nicks has said she doesn’t want to revive Fleetwood Mac following the death of bandmate Christine McVie in 2022. “When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this,” Nicks told Vulture in 2023. “There’s no reason to.” The last time Fleetwood Mac toured, in 2018–19, Buckingham was fired from the group before the tour began. So what’s bringing them together? Resident Fleetwood Mac expert Devon Ivie has a confident bet: “I will buy every Vulture subscriber a silk shawl if it’s not a deluxe box set for Buckingham Nicks.”
