The chemistry is there – that’s what the band was all about in the first place.” “But if Mick and I see each other, there’s nothing wrong. “Mick was a little bit bitter about me leaving,” the famously strong-headed guitarist put it at the time. His next stop was Solo City – and a US Top 10 hit in his own right, Trouble.

He wanted to make art, and Fleetwood Mac was no longer the place for him to do it. It was time for him to go it alone, unbound by such trite demands as hit singles and release deadlines.

If Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks had been the catalyst for Fleetwood Mac’s evolution from has-been British bluesers into Californian soft-rock exemplars – the magic sauce that nurtured the hits and reinvented the Mac’s grizzly old image – it was Buckingham and Nicks who used the early-80s, post- Tusk era to parlay new, more exciting solo careers for themselves.īuckingham had sacrificed himself for Mac’s giant success for long enough, he now decided.

The Behind The Mask Mac, now with guitarists Rick Vito (bottom left) and Billy Burnett (right) (Image credit: Alamy)

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