Musical Success However Relationship Challenges
Clearly, it was the suitable transfer. The band’s 1975 eponymous album landed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart and featured hits like “Landslide,” “Rhiannon,” “Over My Head,” and “Say You Love Me.”
Afterwards, the group started work on their 1977 album Rumours, which might go on to win Album of the Yr.
However as their star was rising, the relationships between Nicks and Buckingham, the McVies, and Fleetwood and his spouse Jenny Boyd had been all crumbling.
“Once we joined Fleetwood Mac, the whole lot was actually rocky between me and Lindsey,” Nicks stated within the Do not Cease documentary. “I feel we sort of all made a bit of silent vow: Let’s repair these relationships for proper now, as a result of we can not breakup. We simply cannot. If we do, there can be no Fleetwood Mac.”
Nonetheless, the relationships did finish. In 1976, the McVies divorced whereas Nicks and Buckingham cut up (Fleetwood and Boyd would additionally later breakup).
And if followers actually hearken to the monitor’s—together with Christine’s “Do not Cease,” Nicks’ “Desires” and Buckingham’s “Go Your Personal Manner”—they’ll get a way of what they had been going via.
“My songs had been all about Lindsey, and Lindsey’s songs had been all about me,” Nicks added, “and also you simply needed to blow it off and play the tune.”
