{"id":482129,"date":"2019-02-12T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=793718"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:52:40","slug":"flashback-lindsey-buckinghams-final-fleetwood-mac-set-before-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-lindsey-buckinghams-final-fleetwood-mac-set-before-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Lindsey Buckingham\u2019s Final Fleetwood Mac Set Before Split"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Late last week, the shocking news arrived that Lindsey Buckingham<\/a> had undergone\u00a0emergency heart surgery<\/a> that caused damage to his vocal cords. \u201cHe is now recuperating at home and each day he is stronger than the last,\u201d his wife Kristen Buckingham said in a statement. \u201cWhile it is unclear if this damage is permanent, we are hopeful it is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The health scare came almost exactly a year after he learned that Fleetwood Mac<\/a> had thrown him out of the band after Stevie Nicks said she could no longer work with him. They replaced him on the road with Crowded House\u2019s Neil Finn and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He sued the band over the termination and they reached a settlement outside of court. \u201cThe past year has been a very stressful and difficult year for our family to say the least,\u201d Kristen said after Buckingham\u2019s heart surgery. \u201cBut despite all this, our gratitude for life trumps all obstacles we have faced at the moment. We feel fortunate he\u2019s alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time that Lindsey Buckingham played with Fleetwood Mac was January 26th, 2018, when they were honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year.<\/a> They played a short set that included \u201cThe Chain,\u201d \u201cLittle Lies,\u201d \u201cTusk,\u201d \u201cGold Dust Woman\u201d and \u201cGo Your Own Way\u201d and things seemed OK from the audience, but there was a behind-the-scenes battle when Buckingham objected to the use of \u201cRhiannon\u201d as their intro music. Nicks was also enraged when he smirked during her long speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe irony is that we have this standing joke that Stevie, when she talks, goes on for a long time,\u201d Buckingham told Rolling Stone<\/em> in October.<\/a> \u201cI may or may not have smirked. But I look over and Christine [McVie] and Mick [Fleetwood] are doing the waltz behind her as a joke.\u201d (Video evidence backs him up on this.)<\/p>\n

Nicks has yet to explain her side of the story in any detail, but the Radio City set remains the last time the classic Rumours<\/em> lineup played together. Here\u2019s video of them doing \u201cThe Chain\u201d from the show with Harry Styles. This audience-shot video was obviously created by a Styles fan since he\u2019s often the only one even visible in the frame and there\u2019s a frenzied scream of \u201cHarry\u2019s on stage with them!\u201d throughout the whole thing, but it\u2019s the best version that\u2019s available on YouTube right now.<\/p>\n

Buckingham has put all of his solo dates on hold as he continues to recover from the heart surgery and the Fleetwood Mac tour is plugging away with dates on the books through late September. What happens after that is anyone\u2019s guess. This health episode may inspire Nicks to make peace with Buckingham and set the stage for a reunion tour a couple of years down the line. And even if his voice was permanently damaged from the surgery, few fans will care just as long as he\u2019s back on that stage where he belongs.<\/p>\n

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Late last week, the shocking news arrived that Lindsey Buckingham had undergone\u00a0emergency heart surgery that caused damage to his vocal cords. \u201cHe is now recuperating at home and each day he is stronger than the last,\u201d his wife Kristen Buckingham said in a statement. \u201cWhile it is unclear if this damage is permanent, we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:56:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}