UPDATE — 7/23/25 11 a.m. ET: After much speculation, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham confirmed on Wednesday, July 23, that they are reissuing their only album as a duo, 1973’s Buckingham Nicks.
The musicians shared the news via Instagram alongside a video of a recently erected billboard in Los Angeles featuring the record’s artwork and September 19 release date. The caption also shared that the Nicks-penned opening track, “Crying in the Night,” is now available on streaming services for the first time.
The remastered album also will be released on CD and vinyl.
Original story:
There still may be hope for Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
After decades of ups and downs, the former couple and Fleetwood Mac bandmates signaled that a long-awaited reunion is in the works.
Nicks, 77, and Buckingham, 75, took to their Instagram accounts on Thursday, July 17, to share lyrics from “Frozen Love,” the 1973 song they released as the rock duo Buckingham Nicks before Mick Fleetwood heard it and invited them to join his band.
“And if you go forward…” Nicks wrote, prompting Buckingham to complete the line, “I’ll meet you there.”
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Naturally, fans went wild in the comments section of the posts, which were uploaded minutes apart.
“WHAT DOES THIS MEAN,” one Instagram user asked. Another joked, “60 year situationship is crazy.”
Others speculated that Buckingham Nicks’ only album will be remastered and released digitally for the first time.
The cryptic activity comes just weeks after Nicks and Buckingham followed each other on the social media platform.
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The exes also reposted a video that Fleetwood, 78, shared on his page on Wednesday, July 16, of himself listening to “Frozen Love” outdoors. The drummer simply captioned the post, “Magic then, magic now.”
Nicks’ rep had no comment. Us Weekly has also reached out to Buckingham’s rep.
Nicks and Buckingham met at their California high school in the late 1960s and started dating in 1972. They joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, only to split two years later while recording one of the bestselling albums of all time, 1977’s Rumours. The record included breakup songs like “Go Your Own Way” and “Dreams.”
Decades later, in 2004, the Grammy-winning group reissued Rumours with an additional song, “Silver Springs,” which Nicks had written about leaving Buckingham. The track has had a resurgence of popularity in recent years thanks in large part to a viral 1997 performance in which Nicks stared down Buckingham while singing the lyric, “Time cast a spell on you / But you won’t forget me.”
Despite ending their romantic relationship, Nicks and Buckingham continued to work together on and off for years. However, in 2018, Fleetwood Mac fired Buckingham, leading him to sue his former bandmates. They settled the lawsuit later that year, but he never performed with them again.
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“I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could,” Nicks told Rolling Stone last October. “You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.”
If the pair were to team up again, it likely would be as Buckingham Nicks given the “Edge of Seventeen” singer swore off a Fleetwood Mac reunion following the 2022 death of the band’s keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie, who was also her close friend.
“Without Christine, no can do,” Nicks told Rolling Stone in June 2024. “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”
Fleetwood “sadly” agreed during an interview with Us in February, adding, “I always have a fantasy that [Stevie] and Lindsey would pal up a bit more and just say everything’s OK for them both. But we’ve had such an incredible career.”
