The place are Fleetwood Mac now? From Stevie Nicks to Lindsey Buckingham | Music | Leisure

Fleetwood Mac was based in London again in 1967 by guitarist and singer Peter Inexperienced. The blues rocker, who left the band in 1970 amid psychological decline and died in 2020, recruited Mick Fleetwood as drummer and John McVie as bassist – happening to call the band after a mixture of each their surnames.

These two would grow to be the longest-serving members of the band and proceed to be to at the present time. A few years later John married Christine McVie who joined Fleetwood as singer and keyboardist.

And in 1974 folk-rock duo and lovers Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks have been recruited, finishing probably the most well-known line-up of the band. Collectively their self-titled 1975 album hit No 1 earlier than 1977’s Rumours, written and recorded throughout the drug-fuelled breakups of each {couples}, went on to grow to be one of many largest data of all time. However simply the place are the large 5 bandmates now?

The 76-year-old drummer and co-founder has been a continuing within the band for nearly 60 years. Fleetwood Mac final carried out along with himself, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mike Campbell and Neil Finn on November 20, 2019.

Since then he’s launched his seventh solo album Mick Fleetwood and Buddies Have a good time the Music of Peter Inexperienced, which landed in 2021. And simply final yr he was the face of Harry Types’ magnificence model Pleasing. 

The drummer lives in Hawaii the place his self-titled bar and restaurant have been closed till additional discover, having sustained injury within the Maui wildfires. 

He’s been married 4 instances to 3 ladies with whom he has 4 youngsters and was most not too long ago divorced from Lynn Frankel in 2015 after 20 years of marriage.

The 77-year-old has been in Fleetwood Mac virtually so long as its drummer. The bassist was married to bandmate Christine McVie in 1968 and the 2 have been collectively for six years earlier than separating mid-tour.

John later remarried to Julie Ann Reubens in 1978 and the couple had their first baby Molly in 1989.

Having been identified with colon most cancers in 2013, the band cancelled the remaining dates of their world tour that yr so he might bear therapy. On the time a press release from fellow band members Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham stated: “We hope our Australian and New Zealand followers in addition to Fleetwood Mac followers in all places will be a part of us in wishing John and his household all one of the best.”

The bassist has as of 2017 been fully away from the illness.

Having began out as a session participant for Fleetwood Mac in 1968, Christine joined her husband John’s band two years later.  After divorcing the bassist in 1976, she went on to marry Eduardo Quintela in 1986, earlier than they too divorced in 2003.

She caught with the band till 1998 when she left, citing that she’d developed a worry of flying. However then, in 2013, Christine carried out with Fleetwood Mac in London earlier than formally rejoining a yr later forward of the On With the Present tour.

In 2017, she launched a duets album with Lindsey Buckingham and final carried out stay with Fleetwood Mac at their newest live performance in 2019.

The singer and keyboardist died on November 30, 2022 on the age of 79 following a stroke.

The 74-year-old was lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist with Fleetwood Mac from 1975 till 1987 following the discharge of Tango within the Night time. His departure was largely as a result of he didn’t need to tour anymore and since he was feeling pressure inside the band. 

He later mirrored: “I wanted to get some separation from Stevie particularly as a result of I do not suppose I might ever fairly gotten closure on our relationship. I wanted to get on with the subsequent part of my inventive development and my emotional development. Whenever you break up with somebody after which for the subsequent 10 years you need to be round them and do for them and watch them transfer away from you, it is not simple.”

Buckingham would return to Fleetwood Mac in 1993 for a one-off efficiency on the request of President Invoice Clinton, earlier than rejoining the band in 1997.  That was till 2018, when he was fired from the band following a disagreement with Nicks. As for the rationale, he later informed PEOPLE: “Stevie principally gave the band an ultimatum that both I needed to go or she would go. It will be like [Mick] Jagger saying, ‘Properly, both Keith [Richards] has to go or I will go.’”

Having initially filed a lawsuit in October 2018, this was settled and he has since reconciled with Mick Fleetwood. However then in 2019, he suffered a coronary heart assault, requiring emergency open-heart surgical procedure.

In line with his spouse Kristen Messner, whom he married in 2000, this life-saving process precipitated vocal twine injury and on the time it was unclear how everlasting this is able to be. Following information of his coronary heart assault, Nicks wrote her former lover a letter telling him: “You higher deal with your self”.

Buckingham has stated that Mick is aware of he would return “in a shot” to Fleetwood Mac, however in fact, he’d must reconcile correctly with Nicks first.

In June 2021, the guitarist’s spouse Kristen filed for divorce however by September it was reported that the couple have been engaged on their marriage.

Final yr, Buckingham guested throughout Killers live performance in Los Angeles, which included a canopy of Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Personal Approach. 

The 75-year-old singer broke up with Buckingham in 1976 and had a short affair with Mick whereas he was nonetheless married to first spouse Jenny Boyd. Nicks later dated Eagles’ Don Henley who received her pregnant, earlier than she had an abortion in 1979.

Her solely marriage was in 1983 to Kim Anderson, her finest buddy Robin Anderson’s widow, quickly after she died from leukaemia. The singer places down the “horrible mistake” of a 3 month relationship to not being in love, however as a result of they have been each grieving. Nicks additionally had a associate in Eagles’ bandmember Joe Walsh from 1983 to 1986.

In 1991 she give up Fleetwood Mac over a dispute with Mick, who wouldn’t enable her to launch the 1977 monitor Silver Springs on her album Timespace: The Better of Stevie Nicks, since he deliberate to reserve it for a Fleetwood Mac field set.

Following the one-off 1993 efficiency at Clinton’s Inauguration Ball with a briefly reunited band, Nicks returned to the group in 1997 and has been with them ever since.

In 2019 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame as a solo artist and in recent times has collaborated with the likes of Miley Cyrus.

Following Christine’s demise final yr, she cited Taylor Swift’s You’re on You Personal, Child as serving to her course of “the unhappiness of how I really feel” of shedding her “finest buddy”.

As for Fleetwood Mac’s future following the loss, she informed Vulture not too long ago: “When she died, I figured we actually can’t go any additional with this. There’s no motive to.”

A fairly ultimate reply from the singer concerning Fleetwood Mac’s touring future, however who is aware of? Maybe a mini-reunion with Lindsey continues to be doable.