Music more “dysfunctional” album of Fleetwood Mac, according to Lindsey BuckingHammranalho in question, was far beyond the separations of Rumours (1977) when having recordings marked by another type of writing

The History of Fleetwood Mac It is marked by interpersonal tension. After numerous changes, the formation was established in the middle of the 1970s and the greatest classic, Rumours (1977), was between separations of the two couples who were also members of the band.

Interestingly, another album of them remains untouchable in terms of dysfunction. At least in the opinion of Lindsey Buckingham.

In an interview from 2021 to Volture (via Far Out Magazine), the guitarist and vocalist elected Tango in the night (1987) as the worst process in which he was involved as part of the group. He recalled:

Come to the end of Tango in the night It was kind of a triumph. We got it! Because that album took around a year to record. During that period, I swear to God, we probably saw Stevie [Nicks, cantora] Just for a few weeks. Three at most. ”

The album was recorded between November 1985 and March 1987. During this time, Nicks It was in a complicated period. The singer even hospitalized in rehabilitation in October 1986 to treat her cocaine addiction.

For her part, the singer cites another element that demotivated her from participating so much in the recordings. Tango in the night was produced at the home studio of Lindsey Buckinghamwho was his ex-boyfriend. Both continued to work together even after the breakup, still in the 1970s, but it is known that the relationship was never the best.

In an interview of 2017 to Miami Heraldthe singer talked about the experience:

I remember going there and I don’t feel good even being in place… I don’t think I went much. And when I was going, I was like, ‘Give me a dose of brandy and let me sing four or five songs that come to my head.’

It wasn’t just she who was in trouble in Fleetwood Mac. According to Buckingham This also manifested in the period with Mick Fleetwooddrummer, and Christine McViekeyboardist and vocalist. Nicks And the pair mentioned were close to reaching the bottom of the well at the time.

Lindsey Buckingham leaves Fleetwood Mac

Tango in the night was very successful – it’s the second best -selling album in the career of Fleetwood Macbehind only Rumours -, but Lindsey Buckingham I didn’t want to know. The singer and guitarist left the band in August 1987, four months after the album reached public.

The reason was simple. The musician states that the experience of the recordings was so dysfunctional that it came to the conclusion: the tour would be even worse.

I didn’t want to live it again on the road. I realized that they needed… if there was a time when they were gathering, they would need to solve some of their things in the meantime – which they fortunately did. ”

The guitarist only came back with the Fleetwood Mac again in 1993, when the song “Don’t Stop” – gift from Rumoursand sung by Lindsey – became the subject of the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. The group separated in 1995 after the album’s commercial failure Teamin which the musician only participated with backing vocals. Dave Mason It was the guitarist. Stevie Nicks also does not collaborate with this disc, being replaced by Bekka bramlett.

The most famous formation of Fleetwood Mac – Stevie, Lindsey, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie and the bassist John McVie – met again in 1997, with the album live The Dance. The group also launched a studio work, Say you willin 2003. Lindsey Buckingham was officially fired from the band in 2018, after an ultimatum of Stevie Nicks. With the death of McViein 2022, the group is ended as closed.

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Collaborated: Pedro Hollanda.