Lindsey Buckingham Says He and Stevie Nicks Are ‘Talking All the Time’ After Years of Tension

Lindsey Buckingham is sharing some insight into his relationship with Stevie Nicks.

In a new interview with E! News, Buckingham, 76, shared how Fleetwood Mac — which includes Nicks, 78, as well as fellow band members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie — has been able to get over past rifts 50 years after the group released its iconic Rumours album.

“Fleetwood Mac has been working on a documentary,” Buckingham told E! News at Variety‘s Power of Young Hollywood event on Thursday, August 6.

“I think the process of making that has been a very circular healing process for all of us,” he added of Apple TV’s upcoming 2027 doc.

When asked if that means future tours for the band, Buckingham was reluctant to speculate, instead telling the outlet that “the most important thing” is the peace the group has achieved.

“Because we had left things in 2019, maybe as far as I was concerned, not in a very good place for all the wrong reasons,” he admitted of the group’s world tour before the pandemic. “No one was happy about it, and all of that has been healed and worked out.”

Part of that healing also included a reconciliation between him and Nicks, who dated from 1972 to 1976. Their romantic relationship came to a tumultuous end while recording Rumours, leading to a years-long feud between the pair.

Now, however, Buckingham said, thanks to the doc, he and Nicks are “talking all the time.”

He and Nicks even released a remastered version of their 1973 studio album Buckingham Nicks — which they released before joining the iconic group — in 2025.

As far as any future collaborations with Nicks are concerned, Buckingham simply said: “Next year should be a pretty interesting year, because I think quite a few things will reveal themselves.”

Speaking about Fleetwood Mac’s legacy, as well as late band member Christine McVie, Buckingham said he felt grateful.

“There are groups that are quite popular in the moment, and maybe 10 years later, everyone’s kind of going, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,'” Buckingham admitted. “Fleetwood Mac was not one of those groups, luckily.”

“I don’t think you really ever know whether you have done your job properly as a band member of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist, without the equation of time,” Buckingham added while reflecting on the impact the band has had on artists around the world. “Because you’ve got to wait for time to intervene and to find out whether younger people are going to take to what you’ve done, and at that point you can say you’ve done your job properly.”