Lindsey Buckingham has ended his feud with Mick Fleetwood to work on Fleetwood’s new solo album. Swedish songwriter and producer Carl Falk posted on Threads final month revealing the information. He shared a photograph of Buckingham and Fleetwood within the studio.
“Barely unreal second to sit down with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood to play Lindsey the album we’ve been engaged on,” Falk wrote. “And to see his real happiness for Mick to lastly do his personal album and providing to play guitar and to sing on it. Can’t wait to complete this one.”
Falk posted extra photos from the periods, together with one captioned “Mick and Lindsey collectively once more, what a flawless guitar participant” and one other with Fleetwood and Adam Granduciel, frontman with Philadelphia rockers The Struggle On Medicine. Most lately, Falk posted a video of himself jamming with Buckingham within the studio.
In 2018, longtime guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac, marking a dramatic turning level for the long-lasting band. The dismissal got here after inner tensions reached a breaking level, reportedly over disagreements concerning the band’s upcoming tour schedule. Buckingham had requested a brief delay to advertise his solo work, however different members, particularly Stevie Nicks, opposed the thought.
In line with courtroom paperwork later filed by Buckingham in a lawsuit in opposition to the band, he was abruptly knowledgeable of his firing by the band’s supervisor, Irving Azoff. Buckingham claimed that Nicks gave the group an ultimatum: both he would go, or she would. The lawsuit, which was finally settled, revealed that Buckingham had not anticipated being let go and felt blindsided by the choice.
The band shortly changed him with Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded Home. Regardless of the fallout, Buckingham expressed disappointment somewhat than bitterness, stating in interviews that the break up was extra about private conflicts than musical variations. Fleetwood Mac has a protracted historical past of inner drama, however Buckingham’s 2018 firing underscored simply how deep these tensions nonetheless ran—even after a long time of legendary success.