Fleetwood Mac fans are hoping that the band might come together once more.
The hope stems from a recent creation of an official Instagram account and an official TikTok account for the iconic band. This discovery has had fans filled with optimism and excitement at the possibility of what this could mean. Many have their fingers crossed for a reunion tour. The last time the British rock band performed was for their An Evening with Fleetwood Mac tour in 2019.
It is still unclear the purpose of the new social media activity. While there is still hope, former member and vocalist Stevie Nicks did say to Mojo in June that there was "no chance" the band would get back together since Christine McVie's death in 2022. Christine was the keyboardist and one of songwriters for the band. The band's originally comprised of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer then Christine, Stevie, Danny Kirwan, Bob Welch and Lindsey Buckingham joined later. Over 60 years of the band history, they've had a tumultuous past.
Messy Relationships
The band when it was initially Mick, John, Peter, and Jeremy Spencer, John was married to Christine at the time and she eventually joined the band. The band wanted guitarist Lindsay to join and he said he would only be apart of the band if his then-music partner and girlfriend Stevie was included.
The couples ended up breaking up and in John and Christine's case specifically divorcing. The dissolution of their relationships happened during the time they made their most well-known album Rumours. Legendary songs like Go Your Own Way and Second Hand News were evident of their situations as they channeled it to the music while writing and recording for the album.
"We rose above our personal difficulties so beautifully in order to make [ Rumours ]," says Lindsey said to the Independent "In doing that [we realized] we had a destiny that was more important and greater than all of us personally. When that album did succeed on the level it did, it just made us realize that our personal lives were one thing, but there was something more profound that was going on, and that it was our job to embrace that. In a way, I guess you could say that was galvanizing."
Rumors went on become the sixth best-selling album of the '70s and the 12th best-selling of all time. The band's Eleventh studio album also won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1978.
Mike also talked to PEOPLE how they all were in an "emotional ditch" and everyone was aware of everyone's situation in the band and how he was the "piggy in middle" because he experienced "less trauma then the others." In a 1997 article with Rolling Stones, Christine stated that Mick was "the figurehead" when everybody was "weirded out."
"Everybody was pretty weirded out. Somehow Mick was there, the figurehead: 'We must carry on … let's be mature about this, sort it out.' Somehow we waded through it," she said.
An Affair
After making Rumors, Stevie and Mick had an affair. At the time he had remarried his wife Jenny Boyd after they divorced in 1976. They were first married in 1970 and they divorced for the second time in 1978. The couple share two daughters together, Amelia and Lucy.
Stevie shared with Uncut magazine that she was "horrified" by her actions while they were promoting Rumours: "Never in a million years could you have told me that would happen. Everybody was angry, because Mick was married to a wonderful girl and had two wonderful children. I was horrified. I loved these people. I loved his family. So it couldn't possibly work out. And it didn't. I just couldn't."
They both decided to stop the affair due to the fear that continuing to have it " would have been the end of Fleetwood Mac."
Jenny in an interview with Fox News shared how she forgave Stevie and although the affair was "devastating" she understood how one between the two could have occurred with Stevie being "pretty" and their time creating as well as performing as a band on the road constantly.
"Yes, it was devastating. But after all these years, it’s all water under the bridge. Mick and I are great friends. We are parents and grandparents. We have a love. And I think we all kind of have a love for each other because we’ve all experienced such extraordinary times together," the former model said.
She added that Stevie apologized years later and while Jenny appreciated it, she had already forgiven the singer. Jenny spoke to the Guardian in 2020 about her affair with the band's guitarist Bob Weston when she was still with Mick which lead to Mick firing Bob.
She expressed her guilt at the affair: "The affair I had with Bob, I felt so guilty about it. It took me many years to get over it, because it was so against my nature."
The impact of drugs
After Rumours, the band went on to their next album Tusk which was a more experimental album than their usual sound. At the time, the album was a setback for the band when it only sold four million records. In the 2015 Uncut article, the late Christine mentioned how their session when making Tusk was filled with excess with lobster, exotic foods, and champagne of the crateful coming to the studio.
"And it had to be the best, with no thought of what it cost. Stupid. Really stupid,” she elaborated. “Somebody once said that with the money we spent on champagne in one night, they could have made an entire album. And it’s probably true."
Lindsey in the 2024 Independent article talked about how drugs didn't get in the way or "affect" the production of Tusk the way it did for 1986’s Tango in the Night where it got "bad."
"The habits of some members of the band had gotten so bad that the making of that album was so difficult because people were just so erratic in terms of their behavior and in terms of showing up at all."
Lindsey continued to reflect on the making of the album saying they were paralleling with "the late-Seventies counterculture." at the time: "We were also collectively enjoying ourselves in various ways that the subculture offered. But that led to a lot of late nights."
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