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Stevie Nicks’ success as a musician went hand in hand with romance from the very starting. In the Nineteen Seventies, she shaped a duo known as Buckingham Nicks with former boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, and the pair would finally go on to hitch Fleetwood Mac.
Between 1975 and 2003, Nicks and Fleetwood Mac would put out eight albums. In her subsequent solo profession, she’d even be prolific, releasing eight albums of her very personal between 1981 and 2014. Behind the scenes of a wildly profitable musical profession, Stevie had one exceptionally transient marriage, and a few high-profile romances with fellow musicians.
Ahead of her efficiency throughout the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, airing January 1 on ABC, right here’s the whole lot to know concerning the hitmaker’s marriage and romances.
Lindsey Buckingham
The 75-year-old songstress was famously linked to her bandmate Lindsey, now 74, from 1966-1977. According to the Los Angeles Times, they met as highschool seniors in Palo Alto, and so they each belonged to a pupil band known as Fritz. Lindsey requested Stevie to hitch up, and finally, after the band broke up, they fell right into a romantic relationship. “I’m not sure we would have even become a couple if it wasn’t for us leaving that band. It kind of pushed us together,” she as soon as stated, per Stephen Davis’ biography on the singer, “Gold Dust Woman.”
They moved to Los Angeles within the Nineteen Seventies and shaped Buckingham Nicks, their folk-rock duo. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the incarnation that might work for them, and their success was solely restricted to a single album that merely didn’t carry out.
In the mid-70s, destiny would deal with them higher. The couple joined Fleetwood Mac with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and magic was made. They in the end went their separate methods in 1977, however it wasn’t at all times simple to proceed performing collectively. They generally “shot eye daggers at each other,” per the L.A. Times in 2020, whereas performing to massive crowds.
Stevie as soon as opened up concerning the relationship and why Lindsey noticed her as completely different from different romantic pursuits. “In Lindsey’s mind, all the other women that came after me were all going after rich rock-and-roll star Lindsey,” she recalled to Rolling Stone. “Nobody was looking into the heart I had looked into. Nobody was seeing the guy before he was famous. We knew each other before. That’s what makes us unique to each other.”
The duo reunited in images for the memorial of late bandmate Christine McVie in January of 2023.
Mick Fleetwood
On the heels of the break up, Stevie launched into a short romance with bandmate Mick in 1978. Unfortunately, nonetheless, Mick was nonetheless married to Jenny Boyd on the time. According to Vulture, she later referred to the connection as “The crazy accidental affair.”
She defined, “Never shoulda happened. And we knew it from the beginning … If there’s anything I learned from that relationship, it was, ‘Don’t go after other women’s husbands,’ because it never works out,” she continued. “You are never gonna be the woman if you break up a marriage. You’re just the home-wrecker.”
Don Henley
Stevie subsequent launched into a romance with Eagles drummer Don Henley, now 73. In 1979, Stevie turned pregnant by the vocalist and drummer. Stevie admitted as a lot throughout a 2014 interview with Billboard when requested about Don’s assertion that Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 music “Sara” was written by Stevie about their unborn youngster.
“Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara,” she stated. “But there was another woman in my life named Sara, who shortly after that became Mick’s wife, Sara Fleetwood.” According to her Wikipedia web page, she terminated the being pregnant.
“My mission maybe wasn’t to be a mom and a wife; maybe my particular mission was to write songs to make moms and wives feel better,” she instructed ABC Downtown in 2001.
Robin Anderson
Stevie married Kim Anderson, the husband of her finest good friend Robin Anderson, three months after Robin Died of leukemia in 1983. Two days earlier than Robin’s demise, she’d given start to her son with Kim, and Stevie felt she wanted to boost the kid.
“I went crazy, absolutely crazy when Robin died,” she divulged to Woman’s Own again in 1990. “The only thing I could think of to do was try to take the load off Kim by marrying him and helping raise their son. I think in her heart Robin knew I would go after Kim. I had known her for 20 years and him for five, and I felt this baby belonged to me almost as much as it did to them.”
However, it didn’t take lengthy for her to appreciate it was the flawed factor for each of them, and so they break up after solely three months of marriage. “I was determined to take care of [Robin’s] baby, so I said to Kim, ‘I don’t know, I guess we should just get married.’” she stated of the doomed union. “And so we got married three months after she died, and it was a terrible, terrible mistake. We didn’t get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything.”
Stevie stays near her stepson Matthew after reuniting with him throughout his teenagers, and in keeping with Vulture, she put him via faculty.