They will never break the chain, after all.
Seven years after Lindsey Buckingham was famously fired from Fleetwood Mac, he reunited with Mick Fleetwood — the legendary band’s namesake drummer — in the studio.
The 75-year-old singer-guitarist sat in on studio sessions with Fleetwood, 77, who is working on a new solo album.
Swedish producer Carl Falk — who is collaborating with Fleetwood on the LP — posted about the Macters’ reunion on Threads.
“Slightly unreal moment to sit with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood to play Lindsey the album we have been working on,” Falk wrote. “And to see his genuine happiness for Mick to finally do his own album and offering to play guitar and to sing on it. Can’t wait to finish this one.”
In another Threads post by Falk, it appeared that Buckingham was armed and ready for action with his axe in hand.
“Mick and Lindsey together again, what a flawless guitar player,” the caption wrote.
It’s been seven years since Buckingham unceremoniously got the boot from Fleetwood Mac — during the MusiCares pre-Grammy benefit in 2018.
“I have sadly taken leave of my band of 43 years, Fleetwood Mac. This was not something that was really my doing or my choice,” Buckingham later explained during a concert. “I think what you would say is that there were factions within the band that had lost their perspective.
“It harmed the 43-year legacy that we had worked so hard to build,” he continued, “and that legacy was really about rising above difficulties in order to fulfill one’s higher truth and one’s higher destiny.”
Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac together with Stevie Nicks, his girlfriend at the time, on New Year’s Eve 1974.
But the pair broke up after joining the band — an unraveling that was famously captured in Fleetwood Mac’s classic “Rumours” album in 1977 — and Buckingham left the group in 1987.
However, Buckingham came back to the Mac pack in 1997 to restore the band’s signature lineup with Nicks, Fleetwood, Christine McVie and John McVie.
But it was rumored that Nicks had had enough of working with her ex in 2018.
“I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could,” she told Rolling Stone in 2024. “You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.”
It took not one but two guitarists to replace Buckingham: former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers member Mike Campbell,and Crowded House’s Neil Finn.
But Fleetwood Mac was dealt a perhaps final blow after Christine McVie died in November 2022, with the group essentially disbanding.
But Fleetwood — who hasn’t released any official details about his upcoming album — held out hope that Buckingham would come back to the Mac fold.
“Stevie’s able to speak clearly about how she feels and doesn’t feel, as does Lindsey,” he told Mojo in 2024. “But I’ll say, personally, I would love to see a healing between them.”
