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A long -awaited reissue from Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s 1973 debut album, ‘Buckingham Nicks’, leads us back to the beginning of Rock & Roll’s most dysfunctional novel

When Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham launched Buckingham NicksIn 1973, they were just two strangers. Two Los Angeles lost hippies, recording a fashionable folk-rock album. No one bought. No one cared. Some may have seen as a promising debut, others as a failure. But it is safe to say that no one heard and thought, “These two are not just some of the biggest composers on the planet, this is an album they will continue to discuss for the next 50 years!”

But at this point – as in all the others – the world underestimated the amount of drama the two carried. Buckingham Nicks He won his place in history as the origin of Rock & Roll’s most dysfunctional novel. The couple recorded the album before entering the Fleetwood Mac – Before fame, before shawls, before drugs, before someone imagines how much exquisite torture they would drag to our lives forever. Is the Ballad of Stevie and Lindseyin the early days, when they didn’t even need three more freaks in the band to create a cosmic emotional chaos.

After they entered the Fleetwood Mac and created classics like Rumours, Buckingham Nicks It became just one footnote in their history. For decades, it was a rare item for collectors, a lost jewel that never came out on CD. Most fans never heard him. But now he returns, finally, in this awaited reprint. No hits, no bonus tracks-just a charming American album. You can hear these two lovebirds learning the craft, alone, amid the high bush, playing to impress only to each other.

For years it seemed crazy to expect this reprint to happen. They spent decades promising, denying, fighting in public. But the long story of love and hatred of the ex-boyfriends exploded once and for all in 2019, when the band expelled Lindsey. (What another group manages to end a relationship on stage while receiving a humanitarian award from the Music? Only them.) It seemed definitive, especially after the tragic death of Christine McVie.

So it was shocking, this summer, see identical messages of Stevie and Lindsey on social networks, provoking the project. They posted excerpts from “Frozen Love” – The first joint movement in years. On the one hand, we all know that rock veterans do not take care of their nets, right? But, on the other, we also know that no one talks about Stevie without her approval. She would appear in public in public before letting her team post something about Lindseythe “Mr. Rules Make Bad Lovers“It seems that the two pulled us back to their music, their madness, their glorious saga – as always.

This musical chemistry is evident in Buckingham Nicks. “We wrote about each other, we continued writing about each other and we will probably continue until I die,” he said Nicks the Rolling Stone In 2014. “That’s what we have always been to each other. Together, we have been great success, great disagreements, a great musical connection.” Listening now, you can see that they already knew what they were doing. Lindsey It is a Californian who learned tricks from Brian Wilson -Adept of verse-red-reverse compositions, no sloppy jams. Stevie Shows your cowgirl side – they dedicated the album to her grandfather, AJ Nickswho introduced her to country music as a child.

They wrote the songs in Los Angeles after moving San Francisco – she worked as a waitress at night while he was on the couch, smoking hashish and playing guitar. They met in 1965, at a teen party, when he fell on “California Dreamin‘” Breasts and the Popes. She approached and started singing together. “I just fit my harmony from Michelle Phillips“She remembers.” He was so handsome. ” Considering all sexual/chemical disasters of the Breasts and the Popesthis may seem a sinister way to know – but Lindsey and Stevie ended up doing Michelle and John Phillips They look like amateurs on Californian nightmare.

Crystal”It is the one that is the most known in Buckingham Nicks – They rewrote it on the homonymous album of the Fleetwood Macin 1975, slightly overshadowed by two other compositions of Nicks (“Rhiannon”And“Landslide”). There is the guitar instrument“Stephanie”, The Jazz Standard“Django”And the seven -minute epic“Frozen Love”, One of the few official collaborations of these tormented poets. The friend Waddy Wachtel Plays guitar, alongside veterans like Jim Keltner and Jerry Scheff. The brother of Waddy, Jimmymade the photo of the cover, showing the couple hippie in the Eden Garden – Before the shirt is invented. (He would later sign classic covers like The Riverfrom Bruce Springsteen.)

The result was a complete commercial failure, which no one noticed – except Mick Fleetwoodwho recognized the greatness when he heard it. In 1973, Fleetwood Mac It was just an English band of blues in decay, far from the days of glory with the guitarist Peter Green. When Mick listened to the album, through the producer Keith Olsenthought about hiring Lindsey To add a touch of Californian sun to the group.

But Lindsey I needed to complicate – your specialty. He refused to get in unless they also took his girlfriend, even if the band already had a singer-composer. As much as they speak badly Lindseywe need to applaud this gesture of loyalty – he was willing to risk the whole career so as not to leave Stevie back. Mick He could have laughed at his face – who this kid thought he was, playing hard with rock veterans? But decided to give in and hire the two. It was one of the few really sensible decisions that Mick Fleetwood already took.

As everyone knows, the couple took the Mac To the star with classics about finishing, reset, pack, join and cause endless suffering to each other – and the rest of us. Rumours becomes increasingly famous, as the excellent book tells Don’t Stopfrom Alan Light. About that, Buckingham Nicks It was forgotten by the story. At the iconic interview “Ele-Ste-She-Sudse” of 2012 for the Rolling Stonethey contradicted themselves totally about a reissue. “Next year is the 40th anniversary of Buckingham Nicks“, he said Stevie. “And we hope to release the album.” She even suggested a tour Buckingham Nickscalling “a brilliant and special gift.”

But for these two, the sparkles only happen when the house is on fire, and they could not align themselves in time for the 40th or even the 50th birthday. How it lamented Lindseythis “makes us the anti-Eaglesin the sense of never, we never be on the same page. ”Still, there is something poetically perfect in reliving the album on its 52nd anniversary – a round number would be an adult and pragmatic business movement, and what grace would have? Having these songs back to the world is a historical event to be celebrated. Buckingham Nicks In 2025, you can feel all the explosive chemistry, even in young and innocent days. And understand why they have spent the last five decades making the lives of fans – and their own – much more messy. No doubt we would all take more peaceful, civilized and emotionally stable lives if this album had never existed. But that’s exactly why we should thank him for existing.

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Source: Rollingstone

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