It seems frozen love has thawed. Stevie Nicks And Lindsey Buckingham continued Song Fuze to discuss the making of “Frozen Love” and it appears the duo are back in a relationship.
Exes and bandmates reflected on the track released recently reissued Buckingham Knicksin what appear to be separate interviews. However, Nyx acknowledges throughout his speech that they are friends again. Recalling the moment they met in 1966, while they were attending Menlo-Atherton High School in the Bay Area, Nix said, “Lindsay and I started talking about it last night. It all seems like yesterday to us.”
They describe their origin story, when they attended a youth group party and Nicks backed Buckingham on “California Dreamin'.” But they officially met only a couple of years later, when they joined the Fritz group. They found success opening for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, but producer Keith Olsen told them the duo would achieve greater success.
“Keith was very supportive, but Fritz never got a record deal,” Buckingham says, with Nicks adding that it “terrorized” them. “We liked these guys,” she said. “So we weren't happy about it at all, but we couldn't help it… It was our first super disappointment in the music business.” But she also added that it was bittersweet: “It was an invitation to greatness, and we both knew it.”
Nix says she and Buckingham probably wouldn't have dated if Fritz hadn't been fired. “It brought us together because we just couldn’t understand it,” she said. “And then we fell in love and that was it.”
They bent down to write Buckingham Knicksand started thinking about creating the final track “Frozen Love”. “This song is about two people in love who had a lot of differences and saw the world a little differently, but they had a relationship that felt like a gift,” Nicks said. “I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations – modern romance novels, tragedies. Because no one really likes happy songs. Of course I didn't do it, and neither did Lindsay.
After it was written, Nix gave it to Buckingham to work on. “I don't think she craved my involvement on that level, and I didn't crave her involvement on a production or instrumental level,” he said. “She understood that I was transforming things for her, and I understood that I would have nothing to transform without the wonderful center that she gave me.”
“Our relationship has been up and down, up and down, up and down, difficult but fantastic at the same time,” Nix said. “And what we did was so fantastic that it was worth putting up with trials and tribulations about relationships that are complicated.”
Nicks also joked that the line “Hate gave you me as a lover” was unintentional and that it was originally written as “Fate gave you me as a lover.” “When I hear myself sing that line, it sounds like I'm saying 'hate,'” she said. “So, this is not good. Sorry, Lindsay. I'll call him later.”
Buckingham Knicks was a failure, but it was cool their ticket V Fleetwood Mac. The episode of Song Exploder ends with Buckingham remembering the moment he was in Sound City and heard “Frozen Love” blasting through the studio. “I say, 'What the hell?'” he said. “So I open the door and walk in and I see this tall guy standing there listening to “Frozen Love,” and he’s just rocking out to that song. And I ask, “What’s going on here?” And then the song ends and Keith says, “Oh, Lindsay, this is Mick Fleetwood.”
Last fall, Knicks said Rolling Stone She last spoke to Buckingham at Christina McVie's celebration of life and had never thought about a full-fledged Fleetwood Mac farewell tour. “The only time I talked to Lindsay was there for about three minutes,” she said. “I talked to Lindsay as much as I could. It's not like I didn't give him over 300 million chances.” Hopefully by the 50th anniversary Rumors There will be a reunion in 2027.
