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Fleetwood Mac fans think Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are releasing an album together.
According to US Weekly, a reunion between the former friends-turned-bandmates-turned-lovers-turned-strangers is officially in the works.
In addition to Nicks and Buckingham posting back-to-back song lyrics, a billboard recently appeared above Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles teasing a reissue of their first joint album, Buckingham Nicks, initially released in 1973. The suspicion-evoking sign included the record's original cover and a possible release date: September 19.
Though the "Edge of Seventeen" songstress and "Holiday Road" sensation have yet to confirm the news, fans have high hopes for what's to come from the former duo.
To truly grasp the significance of this reunion, we have to go back to the 1960s, when a young Stevie Nicks first met Lindsey Buckingham during their senior year of high school. They went on to attend the same college (as friends) and dropped out at the same time to pursue music, per Woman's World.
Buckingham and Nicks joined a band called Fritz in the late '60s and opened for big names like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, but they eventually grew out of the group. Apart from Fritz, their relationship swiftly evolved from friendship into romance. The lovebirds sparked a passionate entanglement that blazed for just over a year during their time with rock legends Fleetwood Mac. They ended their relationship in 1976 but remained in the band, writing songs about each other and delivering intense live performances for years.
Buckingham left the band a decade later, and cited their love affair as the driving force.
"It was all Stevie’s doing. Stevie basically gave the band an ultimatum that either I had to go or she would go. It would be like [Mick] Jagger saying, ‘Well, either Keith [Richards] has to go, or I’m going to go,'" he told People in 2021, a year before the death of Fleetwood Mac's beloved Christine McVie.
Nicks responded to Buckingham's claims in 2023, assuring they were rumors.
"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."
That was the last the world heard from the once-inseparable duo until 2024 when Nicks revealed the last time she encountered Buckingham was at McVie's celebration of life, and they only spoke for "about three minutes."
See the billboard teasing a reissue of Buckingham Nicks, below via ChristinaD23 on X.