{"id":83794,"date":"2025-08-20T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83794\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:41:08","slug":"the-iconic-fleetwood-mac-lyric-stevie-nicks-said-lindsey-buckingham-took-the-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83794\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iconic Fleetwood Mac Lyric Stevie Nicks Said Lindsey Buckingham Took the Wrong Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even musicians as famous and successful as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham<\/a> deal with the all-too-ordinary problem of navigating misunderstandings during romantic rows, as one of the band\u2019s iconic songs, \u201cDreams,\u201d demonstrates. The career-defining track from Rumours was one of many songs on the album that pertained to relationships within the band, including Buckingham and Nicks\u2019 tumultuous breakup.<\/p>\n

For Nicks, \u201cDreams\u201d was a song about acceptance and perseverance. For Buckingham, well, it might have seemed\u2026not about that.<\/p>\n

Stevie Nicks Wrote This Song for Lindsey Buckingham<\/p>\n

Fleetwood Mac\u2019s entire post-1975 discography is an excellent example of transforming real-life scenarios and relationships into classic rock hits<\/a>. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were both prolific writers who contributed nearly all of the songs on the band\u2019s seminal 1977 album Rumours. (The former folk-rock duo\u2019s first album with the band from 1975 was about half of Nicks\u2019 and Buckingham\u2019s compositions.)<\/p>\n

Because Buckingham and Nicks were also going through a tempestuous breakup, many of the songs on Rumours have to do with interpersonal drama: \u201cDreams,\u201d \u201cNever Going Back Again,\u201d \u201cGo Your Own Way,\u201d and \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Know,\u201d to name a few. Some songs ruffled feathers more than others. As Nicks explained in a late 1980s interview<\/a>, \u201cWell, \u2018Dreams\u2019 was written in the midst of Lindsey\u2019s and my breakup. At the end of it, when it says, when the rain washes you clean, you\u2019ll know, was very much meant to mean, \u2018We will be okay. We\u2019ll get through this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicks wrote \u201cDreams\u201d as a confirmation that, yes, she and Buckingham were breaking up. \u201cI understand he doesn\u2019t feel the same way about the way I feel about it. But that is what, in truth, it was written about. No matter what happens to Lindsey and I as a couple, this band will go on. We\u2019ll see it through, and we\u2019ll be all right. He seems to take it a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Track Might\u2019ve Been Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Only Chance at Survival<\/p>\n

Musicians have notoriously touchy egos, and breakups can exacerbate this acute sensitivity. While sharing songs with one another in Fleetwood Mac put Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham at risk of offending one another so badly that the band couldn\u2019t continue, Nicks would later argue that the tracks were the only way the band could survive. \u201cDreams\u201d was a response to Buckingham\u2019s \u201cGo Your Own Way,\u201d<\/a> which accused Nicks of shacking up with other people, much to the songwriter\u2019s chagrin. But as she told the BBC in 1998<\/a>, \u201cAs a songwriter, I have to respect that he\u2019s gonna write about what\u2019s happening to him. And so am I.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI could never say to him, you know, \u2018Back off! Stop writing songs about me.\u2019 That was his life then, and that\u2019s when the best songs are written. It doesn\u2019t really matter who breaks up with who at that point, that\u2019s when everybody writes the best songs. And that\u2019s what happened on Rumours. I mean, maybe we would have killed each other if we hadn\u2019t have been able to write those songs, you know. If we hadn\u2019t have been able to put that energy into the music and rise above it that way, then maybe we would have just gone totally freaked out on each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

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