Fleetwood Mac has become almost as famous for its infighting over the years as it has for its iconic music.
More than 50 years after the band first formed, it’s still going.
The publicist for Stevie Nicks issued a rare response from the singer after former bandmate and ex-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham told that Nicks had him fired from the band in 2018.
Buckingham, 71, claims that Nicks, 73, gave the band an ultimatum that it was either him or her in 2018, resulting in him being fired.
“It would be like a scenario where Mick Jagger says, ‘Either Keith (Richards) goes or I go,’” Buckingham said. “No, neither one of you can go. But I guess the singer has to stay. The figurehead has to stay.”
Nicks, who had a famously tumultuous romantic relationship with Buckingham in the band’s heyday in the 1970s, told the Los Angeles Times through her publicist that Fleetwood’s recounting of his firing is “revisionist history.”
“His version of events is factually inaccurate and while I’ve never spoken publicly on the matter, certainly it feels the time has come to shine a light on the truth,” Nicks said. “To be exceedingly clear, I did not have him fired, I did not ask for him to be fired, I did not demand he be fired. Frankly, I fired myself. I proactively removed myself from the band and a situation I considered to be toxic to my wellbeing. I was done. If the band went on without me, so be it.
“And after many lengthy group discussions, Fleetwood Mac, a band whose legacy is rooted in evolution and change, found a new path forward with two hugely talented new members.”
