After much speculation, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announce
'Buckingham Nicks' reissue
[July 24, 2025]
By MARIA SHERMAN
NEW YORK (AP) — They're not going their own way anymore. After much
speculation, Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham
announced Wednesday the reissue of “Buckingham Nicks,” more than 50
years after the release of their only full-length album as a duo.
Originally released in 1973, “Buckingham Nicks” is not currently
available on streaming platforms. According to Discogs, the album was
last issued on vinyl on the Polydor label in the U.S. in 1981. The
remastered version arrives Sept. 19 via Rhino Records' high-fidelity
series and was sourced from the original analog master tapes. The album
will also receive a CD and digital release for the first time, and the
opening track, “Crying in the Night,” was available to stream Wednesday.
Buckingham and Nicks were in their early to mid-20s during the making of
their album. “It was a very natural thing, from the beginning,” Nicks
says in the re-release's liner notes, written by music journalist David
Fricke.
Despite their relative inexperience, “it stands up in a way you would
hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that
work,” Buckingham says, according to the announcement release.
The reissue announcement was foreshadowed by cryptic Instagram posts
last week. Both Nicks and Buckingham shared handwritten lyrics to their
official social media accounts.
“And if you go forward…” Nicks posted, a line from their song “Frozen
Love,” which appears on “Buckingham Nicks.”
“I’ll meet you there,” Buckingham shared, completing the lyric.
In 2011, Buckingham told Uncut that he and Nicks had “every intention of
putting that album back out and possibly even doing something along with
it, but I can’t put any specifics on that.” In 2013, on the album’s 40th
anniversary, Fleetwood Mac released “Extended Play,” their first new
studio material since 2003’s “Say You Will.” The four-track collection
featured a song titled “Without You,” which had been originally slated
for “Buckingham Nicks.”
The reissued version of “Buckingham Nicks” features the same album cover
as the original, despite Nicks' public dissatisfaction with the
photograph, telling classic rock magazine MOJO that she “felt like a rat
in a trap” during the shoot.
“I’m actually quite prudish. So when they suggested they shoot Lindsey
and I nude I could not have been more terrified if you’d asked me to
jump off a speeding train,” Nicks told MOJO in 2013. “Lindsey was like,
‘Oh, come on — this is art. Don’t be a child!’ I thought, ‘Who are you?
Don’t you know me?’”
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This album cover image provided by Rhino Records shows "Buckingham
Nicks" by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. (Rhino Records via
AP)
 “Buckingham Nicks” was released one
year before they joined Fleetwood Mac, and was met with little
commercial success. But it did attract the attention of Mick
Fleetwood, who invited Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham
in turn insisted Nicks come, too. The two, then a couple, became the
central faces, voices and songwriters of the group for the four
decades that followed.
The pair’s tumultuous relationship appeared across the band’s
discography: She wrote “Dreams” about him. He wrote “Go Your Own
Way” about her. Infamously, they broke up while writing the 1977 hit
album “Rumours.” Footage of Nicks staring down Buckingham 20 years
later during a performance of “Silver Springs” routinely goes viral
(“You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you,”
Nicks and Buckingham sing in unison, at one point, holding each
other's gaze.)
Buckingham left the band in 1987, returning in 1996. The last time
the band reunited, however, for a 2018-2019 tour, the rest of the
members kicked Buckingham out, and as a result, he sued them. He
claimed he was told five days after the group appeared at Radio City
Music Hall that the band would tour without him. He says he would
have been paid at least $12 million for his share of the proceeds.
Later that year, Buckingham said they had settled the lawsuit.
Both Buckingham and Nicks have also released reams of solo music.
Some fans had theorized that Nicks and Buckingham were teasing a
Fleetwood Mac reunion, which would have been the first since the
death of vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player Christine McVie in
2022.
Last year, Nicks told MOJO that without McVie, “there is no chance
of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way.”
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