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Everyone who follows noted 1970s rockers Fleetwood Mac knows the story of the Rumors album. Basically, the entire band was involved in relationships with each other. From Mick Fleetwood to Steve Nicks to Christine McVie to John McVie to Lindsey Buckingham.
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Or at least with Steve Nicks.
In fact, Fleetwood was married to Jenny Boyd for a second time in 1977, and had an affair with Nicks. It all happened at a party, which bands tend to host and/or frequent.
“One night we had a party and everybody was drunk and everybody was gone and it was just me and Mick, and we ended up spending the night together,” Stevie Nicks said, via CheatSheet.com. “And I fell in love with Mick and I think Mick fell in love with me.”
Fleetwood played the drums, Nicks joined Buckingham and Christine McVie as lead vocalists. After the wild party night, Nicks and Fleetwood quickly ended their relationship.
The Love Affair That Almost Broke Up Fleetwood Mac
“Mick and I … talked about what a dumb-a** thing it was that we had done and that, basically, we were not going to break up Fleetwood Mac,” Nicks said. “And we got on the plane, held hands all the way back to Los Angeles, and realized, when we got off that plane, that for all practical purposes it was over. It had its month of glory, which was fantastic and very romantic, and then when we got back to LA it was not romantic any more, it was horrifying. It should never have happened.”
Interestingly, Nicks said the Fleetwood Mac hit Sara is a song she wrote about her affair with Fleetwood.
“Sara was pretty much about Mick. So, he was the ‘great dark wing,’” Nicks told MTV Fanatic in 1998 (via In Her Own Words). “And, ah, it was about everything that was going on at that particular time, too, but he was the, the reason for the, you know, the beginning of it.”
In 1990, Nicks said that “Sara [is my most personal song], it’s about myself, and what all of us in Fleetwood Mac were going through at the time. The true version of that song is 16 minutes long. It’s a saga with many verses people haven’t heard.”
Fleetwood Mac was formed in 1967 in London. Americans Nicks and Buckingham joined the group in 1974 after a couple of defections. This led to the rise in popularity for the band.
