And it was great fodder for writing! The songs poured out of us.Stevie Nicks is the ultimate rock’n’roll mystic. Sara was banished from the studio by the rest of the band… No one was speaking, and I wouldn’t even look directly at Mick. But losing my friend Sara? That was a huge blow. “So I lost Mick, which honestly wasn’t that big of a deal because that was a rocky relationship. “That was three months into a 13-month album,” Nicks said. Though these behind-the-scenes doings took a major toll on Fleetwood Mac, the band remained together through it all. And I just thought you might wanna know.'” “And they fell in love, and the next thing, Sara’s husband is calling me to say ‘Sara moved in with Mick this morning. I had a very dear friend whose name was Sara who just went after Mick,” Nicks previously told Independent. I had started to see Mick Fleetwood romantically. Shortly after the affair, Fleetwood left his wife for Nicks’ best friend Sara Recor, whom he eventually wed and stayed with for seven years. Everybody was angry because Mick was married to a wonderful girl and had two wonderful children. “But that really wasn’t good for anybody. That was the biggest surprise,” she later claimed, according to Uncut. “Never in a million years could you have told me that would happen.
Though their affair didn’t last very long, Nicks said her relationship with Fleetwood almost broke up the band at the height of their career. I’m like, ‘Gee, could you have just laid off the brandy and the coke and the pot for two days?'” Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood’s relationship almost put the band out of business
It was a doomed thing, caused a lot of pain for everybody, led to nothing.
So guess what? It’s not hard to figure out what happened - and what happened wasn’t a good thing. ended up being the last two people at the party. “Mick and I never would have had an affair had we not had a party and all been completely drunk, messed up, and coked out. “It turned people into nutcases,” she said during a 2013 episode of Oprah’s Master Class via HuffPost. RELATED: Fleetwood Mac’s First Rolling Stone Cover Sparked 1 Famous Affair Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood | Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Though the “Edge of Seventeen” singer still calls Fleetwood one of her “great great loves,” per MamaMia, she admits their reckless affair likely wouldn’t have happened had they not been under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Shortly after her breakup from Buckingham, Nicks fell for and began having an affair with fellow bandmate, Mick Fleetwood, while Fleetwood Mac was on tour promoting Rumours in 1977.Īt the time, Nicks was dating the Eagles drummer/vocalist Don Henley while Fleetwood was married to model Jenny Boyd. He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that.” Stevie Nicks had an affair with Mick Fleetwood in 1977 Every time those words would come out onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it wasn’t true,” she told Rolling Stone in 1997. “I very much resented him telling the world that ‘packing up, shacking up’ with different men was all I wanted to do. Take Buckingham’s song, “Go Your Own Way,” for instance.Īccording to Nicks, Buckingham painted her as someone who sleeps around in one of the song’s lyrics, which she was particularly insulted by. Though the two remained in the band together after their split, things between them soon became incredibly awkward.Īfter their breakup, Nicks and Buckingham began taking jabs at each other in some of Fleetwood Mac’s most popular songs. RELATED: What Happened to Fleetwood Mac’s Founding Member Peter Green? Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Christine McVie, and Mick Fleetwood| Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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