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Being in a band like Fleetwood Mac wasn\u2019t exactly a walk in the park for Stevie Nicks<\/a>. <\/p>\n There are plenty of times where things could go awry in any group if they\u2019ve been together for too long, but since 80% of them had been breaking up in the midst of their greatest records, it wasn\u2019t going to be smiles and good times every single time they got up onstage. That kind of tension is something that sticks with you forever, but Nicks could also put her hand up and say that she was far from the best person to be around when she wasn\u2019t getting her way whenever she walked into the studio.<\/p>\n Granted, it was always going to be a little bit difficult trying to work with Lindsey Buckingham, even if they weren\u2019t dating. The guitarist was clearly a genius whenever he worked on some of the band\u2019s tunes, but there was also a vicious side to him that no one got to see. He knew what he wanted and knew how to get it, and he wasn\u2019t about to let a bunch of people stand in his way or suggest that a song should go in a different direction, even if it meant stomping on a few people\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n That kind of behaviour wasn\u2019t exactly the healthiest place to be in, so it was completely understandable that Nicks ultimately made her own record. She didn\u2019t have to deal with him breathing down her neck at every opportunity, and since she had the help of everyone from Jimmy Iovine\u00a0to Tom Petty<\/a>\u00a0to Waddy Watchel, she had a firm basis to translate all of her ideas onto the tape.<\/p>\n But going solo while still being in a band is always a bit of a double-edged sword. Anyone would want their songs out as quickly as possible, but I imagine the other members of Genesis would have felt a bit jaded when they missed out on recording a song like \u2018In the Air Tonight\u2019 when Phil Collins did his own thing. To be fair, Nicks did try to balance things, but Tango in the Night was when she became much too big-headed for her own good.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not like she didn\u2019t have a good reason to be, either. She was coming off of a massive tour for her solo record, and while that did leave her with little time in the studio, her decision to use that time to complain was never going to be a good look. The rest of the band really let her have it when she claimed she was being written out of the record, and in hindsight, Nicks did seem to understand how they felt.<\/p>\n