Never Going Back Again

EXCEPT, OK, ONE MORE TIME

- by ELIZA THOMPSON

Before they were the messiest situationship in Fleetwood Mac history, they were Buckingham Nicks. The rerelease of the duo's self-titled 1973 studio album has Us looking back on 50 roller-coaster years

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham aren't original members of Fleetwood Mac, though their relationship has become synonymous with the band's signature brand of long-simmering romantic grievance aired out in song.

The duo joined the group as a couple in 1974, nearly a decade after Peter Green founded it. By the time Nicks and Buckingham (now 77 and 75, respectively) came on board, Green was gone, but the remaining members — Christine McVie and her then-husband, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood — were fully capable of causing chaos on their own.

Within a few years, both couples had split, and Nicks had an affair with (the married) Fleetwood. The group managed to stay together, but the turmoil never really stopped. Take a trip back into the half-century saga as Nicks and Buckingham's only pre-Fleetwood studio album, Buckingham Nicks, is rereleased on CD and digital Sept. 19.

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