Me: Hmmm. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks? To Wikipedia!

Me, 20 mins later: This band has lost 7 guitarists, including one who *left to get a magazine and instead joined a cult*. Buckingham and Nicks haven’t even joined yet!

Fleetwood Mac is drama on a level I never DREAMED

I’m still not at Buckingham and Nicks, but now a guitarist has had an affair with Mick Fleetwood’s wife, causing a tour cancellation

I’m honestly not sure Buckingham and Nicks can live up to this level of drama

Now there’s a rogue manager and a FAKE FLEETWOOD MAC — members of a different band — touring as Fleetwood Mac

What is even going on here

Buckingham and Nicks are going to be a minor side note at this rate

NO ONE KNOWS WHO OWNS THE BAND’S NAME

NOT EVEN THE LABEL

WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE EARLY ‘70S????

BUCKINGHAM AND NICKS HAVE ARRIVED

At this point they’ve been a band for 9 years, released 10 or 11 albums (I lost count), including two called Fleetwood Mac, and cancelled two tours, and are currently undergoing three simultaneous divorces

I

I hardly know what to say

Some people get therapy. Some people write an album absolutely filled with their thoughts and feelings about their exes and then record them WITH those exes and then go on tour and play those songs every night

“Every note a heartbreak” is apparently the band’s motto for 1977

They just got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Who did they invite to the ceremony? Like. All the band members through history, or just the ones getting divorces from each other at this point?

Christine McVie winning the coveted “Only Remotely Functional Member of a Band Somehow Still Generating Hits While Being Epic Disasters” prize

Please, Christine, find other coworkers. I just want you to be happy at this point

I feel like this Wikipedia article is not giving me the full Buckingham/Nicks drama

I’m going to their personal Wikipedia pages

Oh my God

Buckingham cut Nicks’s song “Silver Springs” (which was about him) from the album and instead had it released as the b-side to his own song (about her).

The PETTY

Did anyone in this band not have sex with every other member? Nicks is banging Fleetwood now

Wait. Stevie Nicks has a backup singer named Lori Perry who changed her name to Lori Perry-Nicks? Just … what?

Ohhhhh. Lori married Stevie’s brother. This band is like a giant, sprawling, eight-volume family epic

UPDATE: there are a LOT of Fleetwood Mac fans, and many of them are still holding out hope for Buckingham (married) and Nicks (lol fuck men forever) to get back together. They’ve been on that ship for FIFTY YEARS and honestly I respect that

Shout out to the commenter on the “The Chain” video who said “some of the finest dirty laundry ever to be washed in public,” which is the best summary of a) the song b) the album and c) the band I’ve ever heard