Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham got fans excited about a possible musical reunion after they appeared to exchange messages with one another on social media.
The communication between the two former Fleetwood Mac members is big news for anyone aware of their complicated relationship over the past five decades.
The two exes — who famously dated and then broke up while recording Fleetwood Mac’s hit 1977 album “Rumours”— recently began following each other on Instagram, a hint that the chill between them may have thawed since Buckingham was fired from the band in 2018.
Nicks got things started July 17 by posting a handwritten lyric from the love song “Frozen Love” on her official Instagram and X accounts. She and Buckingham recorded the song in 1973 with their pre-Fleetwood Mac band, Buckingham Nicks.
“And if you go forward …” Nicks wrote.
Not long after, Buckingham responded to complete the lyric in his own handwritten message. “I’ll meet you there,” he wrote.
Excited fans reacted to the surprise exchange in the comments of both musicians’ posts with many wondering if a reunion was in the works.
“Omg! What is happening?! Is he joining her on tour?!” one fan said alongside Nicks’ post on Instagram.
“Stevie never fails to give us hope and magic. I will go wherever a reunion happens,” wrote another.
The hubbub continued on Buckingham’s Instagram, with one fan remarking, “DID WE KISS AND MAKE UP? Oh my god GUYS. WHAT IS HAPPENING?!”
“I will prolong being a home owner if it means I get to watch Silver Springs 1997 happen in real time,” another added, referring to a video that shows Nicks glaring at her ex while practically spitting out the lyrics of “Silver Springs” during a 1997 performance.
“You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you,” Nicks sings, staring at Buckingham.“You’ll never get away, never get away!”
Nicks and Buckingham met in high school near Palo Alto, California, in the 1960s, according to the Los Angeles Times. Buckingham, a guitarist, invited Nicks to join his rock band Fritz as its lead singer.
The pair later ditched Fritz, became a romantic couple and launched their band Buckingham Nicks. Eventually, they relocated to Los Angeles together where by late 1974, they were invited to join Fleetwood Mac, which was then a British blues band.
Nicks and Buckingham ended their romance while Fleetwood Mac recorded its 1977 album “Rumours.” (Their fellow band members John McVie and Christine McVie, who had been married since 1968, also split around the same time.)
Nicks and Buckingham poured their heartbreak into catchy breakup songs that went on to become hits, including “Dreams,” written by Nicks, and “Go Your Own Way,” written by Buckingham.
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Over the years, Nicks and Buckingham would continue on in Fleetwood Mac together, although their personal relationship was often in tatters. Both also stepped away from the band at times to focus on their solo careers.
They also traded plenty of jabs in interviews, with Nicks telling Rolling Stone in October 1997 that she “resented” that Buckingham wrote in “Go Your Own Way” that she was “packing up, shacking up” with different men since their split.
“He knew it wasn’t true. It was just an angry thing that he said. Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him,” said Nicks. “He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ‘I’ll make you suffer for leaving me.’”
A final behind-the-scenes incident with Buckingham at the 2018 MusiCares benefit gala held in Fleetwood Mac’s honor was apparently the last straw for Nicks and resulted in Buckingham being fired from the band, the Los Angeles Times previously reported.
Nicks and Buckingham apparently didn’t speak again until a celebration of life for their former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie, who died in 2022 at age 79.
“The only time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes,” Nicks told Rolling Stone in October 2024.
“I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could,” she added. “You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.”
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