Fleetwood Mac was based in London again in 1967 by guitarist and singer Peter Green. 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 develop into 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 had been recruited, finishing probably the most well-known line-up of the band. Together their self-titled 1975 album hit No 1 earlier than 1977’s Rumours, written and recorded in the course of the drug-fuelled breakups of each {couples}, went on to develop into one of many greatest data of all time. But simply the place are the huge 5 bandmates now?
Mick Fleetwood (Image: GETTY)
The 76-year-old drummer and co-founder has been a relentless 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 Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green, which landed in 2021. And simply final 12 months he was the face of Harry Styles’ magnificence model Pleasing.
The drummer lives in Hawaii the place his self-titled bar and restaurant have been closed until further notice, having sustained injury within the Maui wildfires.
He’s been married 4 instances to a few girls with whom he has 4 youngsters and was most recently divorced from Lynn Frankel in 2015 after 20 years of marriage.
John McVie (Image: GETTY)
The 77-year-old has been in Fleetwood Mac nearly so long as its drummer. The bassist was married to bandmate Christine McVie in 1968 and the 2 had 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 youngster Molly in 1989.
Having been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2013, the band cancelled the remaining dates of their world tour that 12 months so he might bear therapy. At the time an announcement from fellow band members Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham mentioned: "We hope our Australian and New Zealand fans as well as Fleetwood Mac fans everywhere will join us in wishing John and his family all the best."
The bassist has as of 2017 been fully away from the illness.
Christine McVie (Image: GETTY)
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 fear of flying. But then, in 2013, Christine carried out with Fleetwood Mac in London earlier than formally rejoining a 12 months later forward of the On With the Show 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 at the age of 79 following a stroke.
Lindsey Buckingham (Image: GETTY)
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. His departure was largely as a result of he didn’t wish to tour anymore and since he was feeling pressure inside the band.
He later mirrored: “I needed to get some separation from Stevie especially because I don't think I'd ever quite gotten closure on our relationship. I needed to get on with the next phase of my creative growth and my emotional growth. When you break up with someone and then for the next 10 years you have to be around them and do for them and watch them move away from you, it's not easy.”
Buckingham would return to Fleetwood Mac in 1993 for a one-off efficiency on the request of President Bill 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 advised PEOPLE: “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.’”
Having initially filed a lawsuit in October 2018, this was settled and he has since reconciled with Mick Fleetwood. But then in 2019, he suffered a coronary heart assault, requiring emergency open-heart surgical procedure.
According to his spouse Kristen Messner, whom he married in 2000, this life-saving process triggered vocal wire injury and on the time it was unclear how everlasting this is able to be. Following news of his coronary heart assault, Nicks wrote her former lover a letter telling him: “You better take care of yourself”.
Buckingham has mentioned 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 wife Kristen filed for divorce however by September it was reported that the couple had been engaged on their marriage.
Last 12 months, Buckingham guested throughout Killers live performance in Los Angeles, which included a canopy of Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way.
Stevie Nicks (Image: GETTY)
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 acquired her pregnant, earlier than she had an abortion in 1979.
Her only marriage was in 1983 to Kim Anderson, her finest good friend Robin Anderson’s widow, quickly after she died from leukaemia. The singer places down the “terrible mistake” of a 3 month relationship to not being in love, however as a result of they had been each grieving. Nicks additionally had a companion in Eagles’ bandmember Joe Walsh from 1983 to 1986.
In 1991 she quit Fleetwood Mac over a dispute with Mick, who wouldn’t permit her to launch the 1977 observe Silver Springs on her album Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks, since he deliberate to put it aside for a Fleetwood Mac field set.
Fleetwood Mac's major 5 members (Image: GETTY)
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 Hall of Fame as a solo artist and lately has collaborated with the likes of Miley Cyrus.
Following Christine’s loss of life final 12 months, she cited Taylor Swift’s You’re on You Own, Kid as serving to her course of “the sadness of how I feel” of shedding her “best friend”.
As for Fleetwood Mac’s future following the loss, she advised Vulture not too long ago: “When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to.”
A reasonably ultimate reply from the singer relating to Fleetwood Mac’s touring future, however who is aware of? Perhaps a mini-reunion with Lindsey continues to be attainable.
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