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Stevie Nicks apparently pushed for Buckingham's termination after he began urging the group to delay a tour so he could go out with his solo band first.

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Ironically, Buckingham's solo career was one of several apparent drivers of his eventual ousting from Fleetwood Mac. 'It's just a trade-off you have to be willing to make in order to do things on your own terms.'

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'I've always done what I've wanted to do, basically, and I think the realization I had to come to was being willing to lose some of the huge audience Fleetwood Mac have in order to pursue that,' he concluded. The synergy of that friction, however, led to something 'more than the sum of its parts' which Buckingham described as a kind of 'gift' to him artistically.ДЇleetwood Mac hasn't made a new studio album since 2003, but because the band members are all capable artists on their own, they've each been able to flourish operating 'smaller machines' under their own names.Д«uckingham has no illusions about competing with Fleetwood Mac these days, but he says he appreciates the freedom his solo career grants him. 'You're either going to follow through with the expectations that are now being imposed on you from the external world, or you try to undermine that and try to remember who you are as a musician, as an artist, and a writer - and why you got into this in the first place.'ДЇleetwood Mac became wildly successful in spite of the fact that the band members didn't 'on paper - belong in the same group together.' The show will mark the first time the rockers play together as a band since. The apparent dichotomy, Buckingham says, forced him to reconcile with the fact that Fleetwood Mac might not be around forever and he would have to be self-sufficient as an artist on some level no matter what.Д«uckingham's self-titled new solo album is available now. AceShowbiz - The new-look Fleetwood Mac have been added to the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival line-up. During a show in Perth, they reached played the Peter Green-era classic 'Man of the World' for the first time since 1969, as well as 'Blue Letter' from 1975s Fleetwood Mac album, which they hadnt done since 1990. ' Rumours was such a huge success commercially that it became more about the subtext, our personal lives, rather than the music.' Fleetwood Mac delighted Australian fans with a concert rarity Sunday night. I think the idea of taking chances, trying to seek things outside your comfort zone, and the aspiration to keep being an artist, came from the time of Rumours and Tusk,' Buckingham told the magazine.

'I think searching for change is engrained in me, but. The Rumours experience was so challenging behind-the-scenes, Buckingham tells Clash, that it forced him to develop the same creative muscles he would later use in his solo career. Lindsey Buckingham says he's understood what life without Fleetwood Mac would be like since making the band's iconic and fraught 1977 hit album Rumours.