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B: I said, “If you’re going to take me, you gotta take my girlfriend too!” And that, Stevie. Baby. That is loooove. | N: Can I just add to that little story… that for five years previous to that I washed your jeans, sewed moons and stars on them, fringed them, ironed your t-shirts, made the house beautiful, cooked dinner, cleaned the house, was a waitress AND a cleaning lady and ALSO loved you. | (…) | B: I loved you with all my heart, didn’t I? | N: I know. | B: Didn’t I? | N: Yes, you did. | B: And you loved me too. | N: And I did. And that’s why we went together into Fleetwood Mac. | B: That’s right.”

Buckingham Nicks moodboard.

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The first time Mama Cass sees Janis live is iconic.

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Setptember 5, 1982: Fleetwood Mac performs at the ‘US Festival’ in San Bernardino.

“Everybody was smoking a lot of pot and doing other drugs, but that night we were pretty sober, because the audience was so huge and we didn’t want to make a mistake. It was a long set and it was a great set. When we left, Robin and I flew over the festival and I swear to God we felt like the whole audience waved to us. I told the pilot to go slow because we needed to take this in. We believed in the energy from all those people.“ - Stevie Nicks

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what she says: "g*psy"* by fleetwood mac is a really good song

what she means: "g*psy" by fleetwood mac is perhaps one of the most beautiful songs ever written. we, as a planet, do not deserve it. before stevie nicks even sings a note, it is already the most goddamn gorgeous song. the first fifteen seconds alone. everyone will always cite works like "silver springs" and "the chain" for insight to stevie's relationship with lindsey and while those are valid, her clear nostalgia and near-longing for a simpler but meaningful time with him makes the love they genuinely had very evident. they shared a single mattress in a shitty apartment, in a room she would decorate with small trinkets to cheer it up, and this is the place the now-famous musician thinks of. that place, and that time. what must she feel every time she sings it? what must lindsey feel? the "lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice" line to describe love alone, jfc. this isn't even touching on the loss of her friend robin anderson, the other inspiration behind the song, who passed away and was "dancing away from you now" as stevie was writing it. it's heartbreaking, it's evocative, and furthermore--

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if I loved Stevie Nicks more than I already do I’d be Lindsey Buckingham

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day three hundred & sixty one. “The cover of the new ‘Say You Will’ (album) has Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks lying prostrate, facing opposite directions with feet spilling off the top and bottom of the shot, in a visual nod to the iconic final image of Masahiro Shinoda’s 'Double Suicide’. Does it seem pretentious for a band whose biggest radio hit is still the sunny 'Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow’ to draw parallels to the doomed lovers in a classic of Japanese cinema? It shouldn’t because no pop act exemplifies the rock-band-as-suicide-pact so perfectly as Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks must glance across the stage at each other night after night, thinking over their years as lovers, as enemies and as mutually-indifferent playthings of fate, and pondering, with alternate bemusement and fury, the full and terrifying implications of the phrase 'till death do us part’”. Steve Hanna, 2003.

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The ending… it’s so heartbreaking. Appears as if Lindsey’s crying here. This was the night after the infamous Silver Springs performance that ended with Lindsey finishing the song because Stevie was crying. I so want to know what went on in their heads.