Mick Fleetwood ‘Would Like to See Therapeutic Between’ Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham

• Mick Fleetwood mentioned the rift between bandmates Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in a brand new interview with MOJO
• The Fleetwood Mac drummer advised the outlet he’d wish to see “a therapeutic” between the ex-band members
• Nicks and Buckingham, who famously dated within the ’70s, have had a rocky relationship for years

Mick Fleetwood nonetheless has hope for a peaceable Fleetwood Mac decision.

The drummer, 77, addressed the years-long rift between bandmates Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in a brand new interview with MOJO and expressed his want to see them lastly resolve their points.

“It’s no secret, it’s no title-tattle that there’s a brick wall there emotionally,” the musician mentioned of Nicks and Buckingham. “Stevie’s in a position to converse clearly about how she feels and doesn’t really feel, as does Lindsey. However I’ll say, personally, I might like to see a therapeutic between them – and that doesn’t should take the form of a tour, essentially.”

Fleetwood’s feedback come shortly after Nicks, 76, additionally spoke to MOJO about the way forward for their band, which was based again in 1967. Nevertheless, her stance was the exact opposite of the drummer’s, as she seemingly mentioned it’d be unattainable for the group to hold on with out singer, songwriter and keyboardist Christine McVie — who died in 2022.

“With out Christine, no can do,” mentioned the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman. “There isn’t any probability of placing Fleetwood Mac again collectively in any approach. With out her, it simply couldn’t work.”

Nicks additionally appeared to show down the concept of touring with bandmate/ex-boyfriend Buckingham, 74, once more — with whom she’s had a rocky relationship for years and was additionally fired from the band in 2018 — citing “well being issues” following the guitarist’s open coronary heart surgical procedure in 2019. 

“It’s not for me to say, however I’m undecided if Lindsey may do the type of touring that Fleetwood Mac does, the place you exit for a yr and half,” the “Silver Springs” performer added. “It’s so demanding.”

Fleetwood Mac hasn’t been the identical since Buckingham’s 2018 firing or since McVie’s dying. Earlier than she died of a stroke at age 79, the singer advised Rolling Stone in 2022 that her band “type of broke up” after their tour wrapped in 2019.

“It is unattainable to say. We’d get again collectively, however I simply could not say for positive,” McVie mentioned, including that Fleetwood Mac now not exists “as we all know it.”

Following her dying, Nicks and Fleetwood mourned the tragic loss in emotional social media statements. “Just a few hours in the past, I used to be advised that my finest good friend in the entire world because the first day of 1975, had handed away,” Nicks shared in a handwritten notice by way of an X (previously Twitter) put up. “I needed to be in London; I needed to get to London — however we have been advised to attend. So, since Saturday, one tune has been swirling round in my head, time and again and over. I believed I would presumably get to sing it to her, and so, I am singing it to her now. I all the time knew I would want these phrases in the future.”

In his personal Instagram put up, Fleetwood wrote, “This can be a day the place my expensive candy Buddy Christine McVie has taken to flight.. and left us earthbound of us to pay attention with bated breath to the sounds of that ‘tune chook’… reminding every person that love is throughout us to achieve for and contact on this valuable life that’s gifted to us.”

“A part of my coronary heart has flown away right now,” he added. “I’ll miss every little thing about you Christine McVie. Recollections abound.. They fly to me.”