Don’t stop: Rock stars’ feud continues
They famously detailed the ups and downs of their relationship on the 40 million-selling Fleetwood Mac album Rumours. But it seems that for guitarist and songwriter Lindsey Buckingham and his one-time lover, singer Stevie Nicks, the acrimony is never quite over.
Buckingham has stoked his ongoing feud with Nicks by suggesting she had him thrown out of the band because he is a father while she never had children.
The former lovers continued working together after splitting in the late 1970s but Buckingham was fired from the band in 2018. Now Buckingham, who recently split from his wife of 23 years, has claimed that just as he once struggled to get over his relationship with Nicks it was “possible that she has never been completely over me either”.
He also added that his decision to have children – now aged 22, 21 and 17 – with wife Kristen could have affected Nicks.
The 71-year-old said: “I met the love of my life late and that gave me a whole other take on the world. Stevie did not have children.
It’s hard for me to know what her mentality is towards me.”
In an interview with a US newspaper earlier this month Buckingham claimed that he was fired in 2018 because Nicks gave the other members an ultimatum – that it was him or her. They chose her.
Nicks – who has spoken of never wanting children – has disputed Buckingham’s version of events and said she did not ask for him to be fired from Fleetwood Mac.
She added: “We could start in 1968 and work up to 2018 with a litany of precise reasons why I will not work with him.”
Buckingham also claimed that leaving the band cost him more than $12 million.