Mick Fleetwood “would love to see a healing” between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham

“That doesn’t have to take the shape of a tour, necessarily”

Mick Fleetwood has said he wants to see a “healing” between his former bandmates Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

Buckingham and Nicks, then romantic partners, joined Fleetwood Mac on New Year’s Eve 1974 after they’d performed in a duo called Buckingham Nicks. Both were mainstays in the lineup until 1987, when Buckingham left, before Nicks’ departure in 1990. They both rejoined in 1997, before Buckingham was fired in 2018.

Fleetwood discussed their relationship in a new interview with Mojo saying: “It’s no secret, it’s no tittle-tattle that there is a brick wall there emotionally. Stevie’s able to speak clearly about how she feels and doesn’t feel, as does Lindsey.”

He continued: “But I’ll say, personally, I would love to see a healing between them – and that doesn’t have to take the shape of a tour, necessarily.

Buckingham and Nicks’ relationship ended in 1976, shortly before the band recorded their seminal album ‘Rumours’, and tried to keep things professional while remaining in the band together.

After Buckingham’s firing in 2018, however, he told People that it was “all Stevie’s doing,” and that she “basically gave the band an ultimatum that either I had to go or she would go.”

For her part, Nicks denied the accusations in a statement, saying: “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 well-being. I was done. If the band went on without me, so be it.”