Just a couple of years ago, any sort of reconciliation between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham felt like an absolute impossibility. They briefly interacted at a memorial event for Christine McVie in January 2023, but otherwise had no communication since Buckingham was removed from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, sparking a legal battle that was eventually settled out of court.
“The only time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was [at McVie’s memorial], for about three minutes,” Nicks told Rolling Stone in 2024. “I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.”
But in October 2025, Nicks revealed that the number grew to 300 million and one when she was interviewed on the Song Exploder podcast. “Lindsey and I started talking about [the night we met in 1966] last night,” Nicks said. “This whole thing seems really like yesterday to us.”
And in March of this year, Buckingham said the recent reissue of the 1973 Buckingham Nicks album drew them back together. “What that translates to specifically, I wouldn’t want to speculate yet,” he said. “But I believe with all my heart, it will translate to something good, and something wonderful, and something needed and something extremely appropriate.”
These were very tantalising words that generated tremendous excitement in the Fleetwood Mac fan community. And in a new interview with E!, Buckingham again hinted at a future project with Nicks, seemingly tied to the release of an upcoming documentary about Fleetwood Mac’s history directed by Frank Marshall.
“I think the process of making that has been a very circular healing process for all of us,” said Buckingham, who dodged a question about a possible tour, instead saying the “the mort important thing” was the fact they’re reconciled. “Because we had left things in 2019, maybe as far as I was concerned, not in a very good place for all the wrong reasons,” he said. “No one was happy about it, and all of that has been healed and worked out.”
“Stevie and I are talking all the time now,” he added. “Next year should be a pretty interesting year, because I think quite a few things will reveal themselves.”
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Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac’s landmark 1977 LP Rumours. At some point, the documentary will also come out.
The dream scenario for most fans is a reunion tour of the four surviving Rumours-era band members. During Christine McVie’s long absence from the group between 1998 and 2014, they launched many tours as a four-piece. But any sort of tour that brought Nicks and Buckingham back onto the same stage for the first time since 2018 would be a major event that could pack arenas and stadiums all across the globe.
It’s worth noting that Nicks hasn’t played a solo show since April, and her concert calendar is totally blank. Is she resting up and preparing for a “pretty interesting” tour with Buckingham? We’ll have to wait and see.
From Rolling Stone US
