Buckingham, Lindsey

Fleetwood Mac’s sixstringed lucky charm

Eight years, nine albums and four guitarists down in their career, Fleetwood Mac would hook up with a player who would accompany the group from the brink of major worldwide success to multi-platinum domination. The band’s first release with Buckingham – their ‘White Album’ – would be their first number one, in the USA at least, and the follow up, 1977’s Rumours, hit the stratosphere all round the planet. Favouring fingerstyle over picking, and citing Scotty Moore and Chet Atkins as heroes, Buckingham would steer Mac in a broader musical direction, from pop and rock to folk and more avant garde offerings.