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Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All

After a heart attack and (another) feud with Stevie Nicks, the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist returns with a new solo album.

Lindsey Buckingham’s self-titled solo album, his first since being ousted from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, is due this month. Credit... Chantal Anderson for The New York Times

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LOS ANGELES — One day in early February 2019, Lindsey Buckingham woke up to a wallop of a surprise: He had just had a heart attack, followed by an emergency triple bypass.

The good news was that he’d had a cardiac event at arguably the best possible time and place, while under anesthesia for a minor medical procedure. (His older brother Greg, an Olympic swimmer, dropped dead from one alone in his backyard in 1990, at 45. A similar fate befell their father at 56.)

Buckingham found out the bad news when he tried to speak and realized he couldn’t raise his voice above a hoarse whisper: Someone had been “a little rough with the breathing tube,” as he put it, and damaged his vocal cords — not just any vocal cords, but those of the onetime Fleetwood Mac yelper responsible for such modern pop standards as “Go Your Own Way,” “Second Hand News” and “Never Going Back Again.” For months, he wasn’t sure if the injury was temporary or permanent. But fortunately, from his serene California living room one Saturday afternoon in August, Buckingham can now recall it all with a full-voiced laugh.

“Somebody in the hospital was going, ‘ Oops! Hope he doesn’t find me! ’”

Buckingham, 71, may be playing a bit on what he knows is his prickly, self-serious reputation — as parodied, however absurdly, by Bill Hader on “Saturday Night Live” — but throughout a series of conversations he was remarkably open and quick with the occasional self-deprecating joke. As he prepares to release “Lindsey Buckingham,” his first solo album in a decade, on Sept. 17, his edges seem to have smoothed a bit in the wake of a series of perspective-shifting events: the bypass and then the pandemic, of course, but also the July 2020 death of the Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green, and Buckingham’s recent separation from Kristen Messner, his wife of 21 years and the mother of his three children.

Then there was the business, three years ago, when he got kicked out of Fleetwood Mac, a beloved group known as much for its timeless song-craft as its intra-band pyrotechnics and power struggles, and then sued his former bandmates .

Many of Buckingham’s solo releases have been pressure valves for when Fleetwood Mac was feeling a little too tense or controlled. After steering the group more left of center with the edgy and eclectic “Tusk” in 1979, the drummer and (in Buckingham’s words) “vibe master” Mick Fleetwood said they would have to reorient in a more commercial direction. Buckingham told him, “OK, well, I guess I’ve got to make some solo albums.”

Buckingham was able to release his first two — the taut “Law and Order” (1981) and the angular “Go Insane” (1984) — while still in the band, but after recording Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 blockbuster “Tango in the Night,” he took a decade-long leave to fulfill himself personally and artistically. (Buckingham’s decision to step away from an environment of excessive drug use and drinking was also, as he put it, “for my own survival.”) He made one of his best albums, “Out of the Cradle” (1992), and met Messner, when she photographed him for another solo project. He returned to the Mac in 1997 for their triumphant Clinton-era victory lap, “The Dance.”

“That guy is one of the best producers on the planet,” said Rob Cavallo, a record industry executive and Grammy-winning producer who’s worked on and off with Buckingham since the mid-90s. “So much of the style and techniques from ‘Rumours’ on, so much of it is him,” he added, referring to one of the most successful and storied albums of all time.

“Lindsey Buckingham,” a blend of California-sunny power-pop and partly cloudy ballads, is perhaps the most straightforward release of his solo career. “I went into it thinking I wanted to make a pop album,” Buckingham said. While he noted that its musical reference points date back to “Rumours,” the subject matter is “family and long-term relationships.” Though he wrote and recorded the album in 2018, long before Messner filed for divorce, he now believes some of the stormiest songs were “a little bit prescient.”

Still, these songs aren’t all emotional turbulence: Buckingham sees them as being about how “joy and pain have to coexist side by side.” Perhaps that, too, is prescient: After a period of separation, he and Messner are once again spending time together, even though he’s not yet sure what the future holds for their relationship.

A similar haze of uncertainty clouds the future of Fleetwood Mac: Even though Buckingham and some of his bandmates are once again on speaking terms, and he admitted he’d “be back like a shot” if they’d have him, his potential return is contingent upon one member in particular.

As he tells it, the latest tensions began simmering in 2017 when he asked to postpone a proposed Fleetwood Mac outing by three months so he could release and promote a solo album: “At least one person in the band” — his eternal ex Stevie Nicks, he clarified — “wasn’t very receptive to that.”

But things boiled over in January 2018 during what Fleetwood Mac fans now simply refer to as “the smirking incident.” At a New York concert where the band was the recipient of the Recording Academy’s annual philanthropic honor, the MusiCares Person of the Year, Nicks was said to have believed that Buckingham was making a face behind her while she gave a heartfelt acceptance speech. “I would doubt very much that I was smirking,” Buckingham said, while also pointing out that band members dancing or exchanging exaggerated glances when Nicks’s stage banter went on for a while was a “running gag” in the Mac.

After decades of cumulative personal conflict, it’s unlikely that any single incident was to blame for Buckingham’s departure, but several days later, he was shocked to receive a call from the band’s manager, Irving Azoff, telling him he’d been fired. He said that Nicks had given her bandmates an ultimatum: Him or me. (The members of Fleetwood Mac declined to be interviewed for this article. In December 2018, he said that he and the band had settled his lawsuit .)

Now that his long-awaited solo album is finished, though, and audiences are (if a little tentatively) ready to rock, Buckingham is eager to get back on the road. His voice is “at 95 percent” following the breathing tube debacle. “A couple of the songs we’ve lowered the keys a little bit, but we’ve been doing that all along anyway, the older we get,” he admitted with a laugh.

He will be playing smaller venues than Fleetwood Mac did in 2018 when they toured without him, but that’s never bothered him much. Using a cinematic analogy, he said he’s always considered his solo work more like that of the indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, as opposed to Fleetwood Mac’s Spielbergian crowd-pleasing. And he will be backed by a group of musicians who have no qualms accepting that the leader of the band is Lindsey Buckingham:

“The camaraderie of it and the shared musical values and the lack of politics that always existed in Fleetwood Mac is what’s so meaningful to me.”

BOTH TIMES WE met, Buckingham wore the exact same thing — a faded black V-neck T-shirt and slim-cut jeans — as though like a rock ’n’ roll Steve Jobs, he long ago selected an optimal outfit and cleared that much more space in his mind for what is still his central concern: music.

He and his family downsized a few years ago from a sprawling Brentwood property just down the street, but he still has the living room of a person who’s been married to an interior designer and recently sold his extensive publishing catalog for many millions of dollars. (“There was this axiom for years and years, ‘Don’t sell your publishing,’” he said. “And I think there may still be some truth to that, but you get to a certain point in your life…”)

Tasteful coffee table books adorned the gleaming slab of marble in front of us, but the house buzzed with domestic life. In the kitchen, Buckingham’s college-age daughter LeeLee and her boyfriend were baking Australian meringues. They brought their two dogs over, which added to the usual trio. As Buckingham and I chatted about his new music, the canine quintet periodically yapped and jawed at one another in the foyer like, well … Fleetwood Mac making “Rumours,” probably.

Raised near Palo Alto, Calif., Buckingham taught himself guitar — and his unique, Scotty Moore -influenced style of fingerpicking — after becoming entranced with Elvis at age 6. By the summer of “Sgt. Pepper’s,” he’d already been experimenting with early home recording devices. His obsessive, solitary interest in music made him something of a round peg in a square town. Few of his peers were interested in the counterculture; competitive aquatics were more their thing.

“I had two older brothers named Jeff and Greg,” he joked, wondering where “Lindsey” came from. “It seems like I should have been Mike or something. Maybe my mother had some intuition that I was going to be weird.”

His sophomore year at Menlo-Atherton High School, a new girl — a junior — who shared some of his musical interests transferred in: Stevie Nicks. She eventually joined Buckingham’s acid-rock band, Fritz, but by the late ’60s they had realized they worked better as a duo, professionally and romantically.

The pair relocated to Los Angeles and began working on material that showcased their tight harmonies and Buckingham’s wailing, knotty guitar playing. But what they thought was their big bang — the 1973 release of their first and only record as a duo — turned out to be more of a whimper. The moment that would actually change their lives forever seemed pretty ordinary at the time. One day Mick Fleetwood, a drummer trying to keep his band together after the departure of its lead guitarist and singer, happened to be testing out the equipment at Sound City Studios. To showcase the sound system’s power, the engineer Keith Olsen played him the screaming solo from Buckingham Nicks’s “Frozen Love.”

Who was this guitarist? Would he be interested in joining Mick’s band? Only if his girlfriend could join too, Buckingham told him.

In the post-Peter Green era, Fleetwood Mac always seemed more like a random group of people stuck together in an elevator than a band — a lanky British giant, a West Coast sorceress, a nervy guitar virtuoso, a serene songbird, some guy who always seemed like he would rather be sailing — which was of course part of its magic. As the members’ romantic relationships sparked and sputtered, their peculiar alchemy and soap-operatic personal lives fueled a stretch of timeless rock albums.

It also meant that, as long as they were in the band together, Buckingham and Nicks were forever bound to re-enact their personal turmoil for audiences night after night after night — like Sisyphus, had he been forced to push that boulder while also chained to his ex. (A particularly searing example comes in the filmed version of “The Dance,” when the band is performing “Silver Springs”: As Nicks belts, “You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman who loves you,” she stares daggers into Buckingham’s eyes — and he gives them right back.) Part of what was surprising about Buckingham’s 2018 firing was that it was often difficult to tell how much of that smoldering, onstage animosity was real, and how much was amplified for the stage.

“Some of that is that we’re aware that that’s part of the appeal and we’re playing off it,” he admitted. “But it’s also real. Who’s to say where the line is, where the show stops and reality starts? We always brought out the voyeur in everyone.”

WHEN WE MET up again, Buckingham escorted me to his home recording studio, in the pool house’s basement. The night before, Buckingham mentioned, some younger neighbors had thrown a raucous party with a D.J., and so the guitarist of one of the more notoriously hard-partying bands in rock history had to knock on their door and ask them to keep it down.

Even if those young neighbors didn’t recognize him, they likely would have known the tunes. More than almost any other band of the ’70s, Fleetwood Mac’s music has maintained an age-defying relevance: “We started seeing two or three generations of people at our shows,” Buckingham said, “and you start realizing that you must be doing something right.” He has also appeared on recent albums by the Killers and Halsey . “He was so easy to work with, we even tried bribing him to be in the band,” the Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. said via email.

Proof of the Mac’s continued popularity came last year, when “Dreams” from 1977 was the soundtrack to a wildly popular TikTok challenge, and re-entered the Billboard charts . Buckingham filmed his own version of the meme , atop a horse, even if he didn’t realize that’s what was happening at the time. “My daughter made me do that,” he said. One day when they were up at their stables, she innocently asked him to pick up some Ocean Spray. TikToks “are like, five seconds or something,” he said with a shudder. “Isn’t the attention span short enough already?”

A few weeks before their viral moment, Buckingham had reached out to Mick Fleetwood in the wake of Green’s death: “We both just adored Peter Green.” The two have begun talking and texting again (“Mick and I are soul mates,” he said), though recent plans to meet face-to-face for the first time in over three years were thwarted when someone in Fleetwood’s circle tested positive for Covid-19.

In an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year, Fleetwood expressed optimism that Buckingham may one day rejoin the band for a proper farewell tour. “Somehow,” Fleetwood said, “I would love the elements that are not healed to be healed.”

Nicks is another matter: Save for a brief email she sent to Buckingham after his bypass, the two haven’t spoken. Buckingham isn’t sure what it would take to get them to hash things out, but he is open to mending fences. “I’ve known Stevie since I was 16, so I would like to think there’s a better way for us to finish up than we finished up,” he said. “Not just for Fleetwood Mac and for the legacy, but just for the two of us.”

Still, he said that after “the 43 years we’d been together” weathering more serious storms, the relatively small disagreements that he believes led to his ouster “dishonored the legacy.”

But aren’t those disagreements also part of the legacy and the emotional authenticity of Fleetwood Mac?

“When you have just one super-creative megastar in a band, that’s pretty hard to handle. In this case, you have five, and three of them who can write and sing their own records,” Cavallo said. “When they’re contained inside of a band, that struggle and competitiveness can create amazing things,” he added. The flip side, though, is that “the emotional part, the drama part, it doesn’t end. It’s not going to end, ever.”

For now, Buckingham may be going solo, but he isn’t alone. What he’s learned from the tumult of the past few years, he said, is simply “to look around a little bit more at everyone else.”

“I think that it comes with the territory when you’re in the business — you tend to be a little self-involved,” he said. “You bring that home with you, whether you realize it or not. And I think I’ve taken that down, I would hope. I guess we’ll see.”

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Lindsey Buckingham Announces Tour Dates, Which Begin Four Days After Fleetwood Mac’s Tour

The 40-plus-year saga of the Lindsey Buckingham -Stevie Nicks incarnation of Fleetwood Mac took another turn today, when Buckingham — who recently parted ways with the band — announced not just a three-disc compilation of his solo material but a tour to support it… which will begin four days after the Fleetwood Mac tour that he didn’t want to be on.

To be fair, according to Nicks, Buckingham said he didn’t want to be on the road for a year, and his tour lasts just two months (and in a deft bit of routing, does not visit any city at the same time as the Mac tour). Buckingham’s tour launches in Portland, OR on Oct. 7 and wraps in Pennsylvania on Dec. 9 (see the full dates below). Fleetwood Mac’s tour begins Oct. 3 in Oklahoma and is scheduled through April.

“This team wanted to get out on the road, and one of the members didn’t want to go out on the road for a year and we just couldn’t agree,” Nicks said in April . “And when you’re in a band it’s a team, I have a solo career and I love my solo career and I’m the boss. But I’m not the boss in this band.”

“It became just a huge impasse,” drummer and cofounder Mick Fleetwood said. “We hit a brick wall where we decided we had to part company.”

Buckingham’s role in the band will be filled by longtime Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and former Crowded House frontman Neil Finn. In January, the group was honored by the Recording Academy’s MusiCares charity during Grammy Week, a concert in which multiple artists covered the band’s songs — and they were inducted by former President Bill Clinton — and then played a brief set that represents their last performance with Buckingham.

Buckingham’s “Solo Anthology” will be released as a 3-disc set on CD and digital, along with a 6-LP vinyl release in November. Studio recordings, live cuts, and alternate versions of songs from solo albums and collaborative works will be featured, including soundtrack cuts from “National Lampoon’s Vacation” and “Time Bomb Town” from Back to the Future,” along with live versions of Mac’s “Tusk” and “Go Your Own Way,” as well as two brand new songs: “Hunger” and “Ride This Road” will debut.

Last summer he released a duet album and toured with Fleetwood Mac singer-keyboardist Christine McVie; the two also played a pair of festival dates with the band.

Tickets for the North American tour go on sale Saturday, Aug. 18. Every ticket purchased online includes a CD or digital copy of the single-disc version of the new Anthology.

US TOUR DATES: Oct 07 – Revolution Hall – Portland, OR Oct 09 – Palace of Fine Arts – San Francisco, CA Oct 12 – Orpheum Theatre – Los Angeles, CA Oct 13 – Spreckels Theatre – San Diego, CA Oct 15 – Boulder Theater – Boulder, CO Oct 17 – Athenaeum Theater – Chicago, IL Oct 18 – Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead – Munhall, PA Oct 19 – Warner Theater – Washington DC Oct 21 – Knight Theater – Charlotte, NC Oct 22 – The Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College – Wilmington, NC* Oct 24 – Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater – Peachtree City, GA Oct 26 – Capitol Theater – Clearwater, FL Oct 27 – Knight Concert Hall – Miami, FL Oct 28 – King Center for the Performing Arts – Melbourne, FL Nov 05 – Paramount Theater – Austin, TX Nov 06 – Majestic Theater – Dallas, TX Nov 08 – Brady Theater – Tulsa, OK Nov 09 – Riverwind Casino – Norman, OK Nov 10 – Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts – Salina, KS Nov 12 – Lyric Fine Arts Theatre – Birmingham, AL Nov 13 – Walker Theatre – Chattanooga, TN Nov 14 – Bijou Theatre – Knoxville, TN Nov 16 – Centre in the Square – Kitchener, ON Nov 17 – Michigan Theater – Ann Arbor, MI Nov 26 – Palace Theatre – North Canton, OH Nov 27 – Riviera Theatre – New Tonowanda, NY Nov 29 – Garde Arts Center – New London, CT* Nov 30 – Appell Center for the Performing Arts – York, PA Dec 01 – Scottish Rite Auditorium – Collingswood, NJ Dec 04 – Town Hall – New York City, NY Dec 05 – The Wilbur Theatre – Boston, MA Dec 06 – Paramount Hudson Valley Theater – Peekskill, NY Dec 08 – Capitol Center – Concord, NH Dec 09 – Sands Event Center – Bethlehem, PA

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The GRAMMY-winning songwriter/guitarist will be releasing a greatest hits album and touring North America this fall in support

The former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham announced today that he will be releasing Solo Anthology: The Best of Lindsey Buckingham this fall, and touring North America in support of the album.

The collection, which will be available Oct. 5 both digitally and as a three-disc set, will include two previously unreleased songs, plus remastered and live versions of Buckingham's hits spanning his career, from his 1981 solo debut album Law And Order to his 2017 duet album with former-bandmate Christine McVie . A special vinyl version will also be available at a later date.

Buckingham began making music with Fleetwood Mac when he and Stevie Nicks joined the band in 1975, helping write many of their hits, including GRAMMY-nominated classic "Go Your Own Way." Fleetwood Mac, along with Buckingham, was honored as the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year , the first ever band to receive the award.

The tour will begin on Oct. 7 in Portland, Ore., with tickets on sale this week. All tickets purchased will include a copy of the new album; to purchase tickets and for more information, visit Buckingham's website .

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He also extended his love and gratitude to his fiancée, Whitney Alford, and shouted out his Top Dawg Entertainment labelmates. Lamar specifically praised Top Dawg's CEO, Anthony Tiffith, for finding and developing raw talent that might not otherwise get the chance to pursue their musical dreams.

"We'd never forget that: Taking these kids out of the projects, out of Compton, and putting them right here on this stage, to be the best that they can be," Lamar — a Compton native himself — continued, leading into an impassioned conclusion spotlighting some of the cornerstone rap albums that came before To Pimp a Butterfly .

"Hip-hop. Ice Cube . This is for hip-hop," he said. "This is for Snoop Dogg , Doggystyle . This is for Illmatic , this is for Nas . We will live forever. Believe that."

To Pimp a Butterfly singles "Alright" and "These Walls" earned Lamar three more GRAMMYs that night, the former winning Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song and the latter taking Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (the song features Bilal , Anna Wise and Thundercat ). He also won Best Music Video for the remix of Taylor Swift 's "Bad Blood." 

Lamar has since won Best Rap Album two more times, taking home the golden gramophone in 2018 for his blockbuster LP DAMN ., and in 2023 for his bold fifth album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers .

Watch Lamar's full acceptance speech above, and check back at GRAMMY.com every Friday for more GRAMMY Rewind episodes. 

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10 Albums On Divorce & Heartache, From Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' To Kelly Clarkson's 'Chemistry'

Divorce albums have been a staple of the music industry for decades. Take a look at some of the most notable musings on a breaking heart, from Kacey Musgraves, Kanye West and more.

Divorce can be complicated, messy, and heartbreaking. But those feelings are prime fodder for songwriting — and it's something that artists of all genres have harnessed for decades.

Writing through the pain can serve many benefits for an artist. Marvin Gaye used Here, My Dear as a way to find closure in the aftermath of his divorce. Adele told Vogue that her recording process gave her somewhere to feel safe while recording 30 , a raw account of the aftermath of her marriage ending. And Kelly Clarkson 's new album, c hemistry, finds her reclaiming herself , while fully taking stock of everything that happened in her marriage, good and bad. 

As fans dive into chemistry , GRAMMY.com has compiled a list of 10 divorce albums from all walks of music. Whether you need to cry, vent, or maybe even laugh, there's a divorce album that has what you need.

Tammy Wynette,  D-I-V-O-R-C-E (1968)

During her life, Tammy Wynette was a prolific country songwriter and singer, releasing numerous albums exploring all aspects of love. She was also deeply familiar with divorce, with five marriages throughout her adulthood.

The most intimate album on the topic is her bluntly titled 1968 project D-I-V-O-R-C-E , which explores how sensitive the topic was to speak about. The title track is a mournful tune about hiding a separation from her children, but also conveys the general difficulty of discussing the topic with anyone. Elsewhere on the album, "Kiss Away" is a longing ballad about wishing for a more tender resolution when words have failed.

Fleetwood Mac,  Rumours (1977)

After recording 10 albums together, Fleetwood Mac were in disarray. During the recording of their eleventh record, the members of the band were going through affairs, divorces, and breakups, even some with each other. Against all odds, they created Rumours — and it became the band's most successful and iconic album.

The spectrum of emotions and sounds on the album is wide. "The Chain" is all fire and bombast, while the laidback acceptance of "Dreams" seeks to find peace in the storm. Fleetwood Mac sorted out their issues and are still going strong to this day, but their heartbreak created something special in Rumours .

Beck,  Sea Change (2002)

Beck has had a prolific career, with 14 studio albums to his name. One of his most affecting is 2002's Sea Change , written in the aftermath of his engagement and nine-year relationship ending.

It's a deeply insular album, even by Beck's standards. Tracks like "Already Dead" are slow and mournful, while standout "It's All In Your Mind" finds him burrowing deep into his own thoughts to parse out how exactly he's feeling with his new life.

Open Mike Eagle, Anime, Trauma, and Divorce (2020)

Divorce isn't a topic that immediately brings laughter, but rapper Open Mike Eagle seemed to find humor in his personal story with his album Anime, Trauma, and Divorce . The album title gives a pretty good rundown of what inspired the project, and Mike's laidback rapping sells how silly the aftermath of pain can be.

"Sweatpants Spiderman" finds him trying to become a functional adult again, and discovering the various ailments of his aging body and thinner wallet that are getting in the way. The fed-up delivery on standout track "Wtf is Self Care" is a hilarious lesson on how learning to be kind to yourself post-breakup is harder than it sounds.

Carly Pearce,  29: Written In Stone (2021)

Heartbreak is a common topic in all genres, but country has some of the most profound narratives of sorrow. Carly Pearce added to that legacy with 29: Written in Stone , her 2021 album centered around her 29th year — a year that included both a marriage and a subsequent divorce.

The emotional whiplash of such a quick change can be felt all over the project, from an upbeat diss track like "Next Girl" to more poignant pieces like the title track, which finds Pearce reflecting on her tumultuous year. Her vulnerability resonated, as single "Never Wanted To Be That Girl" won Pearce her first GRAMMY, and her latest single, "What He Didn't Do," scored the singer her fourth No. 1 at country radio. 

Kanye West,  808s & Heartbreak (2008)

Kanye West 's fourth album 808s & Heartbreak came from a deep well of pain. Besides the end of his relationship, West was also in turmoil from the death of his mother, Donda. The result is one of the bleakest sounding records on this list — but also one of West's most impactful.

808s & Heartbreak is minimalistic, dark, and brooding, with a focus on somber strings and 808 drum loops (hence the album's title). West delivers most of his lyrics in a monotone drone through a thick layer of autotune, a stylistic choice that heightens the sense of loss. Besides being a testament to West's pain, the electronic sound pioneered on 808s & Heartbreak would serve as a foundational inspiration for the next several years of hip-hop.

Toni Braxton & Babyface, Love, Marriage, & Divorce (2014)

Toni Braxton and Babyface are two stalwarts of R&B in their own rights, and in 2014, the pair connected over their shared experiences going through divorce. Their bond sparked Love, Marriage, & Divorce , a GRAMMY-winning album that intended to capture the more universal feelings the life of a relationship conjures up.

Each artist has solo tracks on the record — Babyface wishing the best for his ex on "I Hope That You're Okay" and Braxton sharing her justified anger on "I Wish" and "I'd Rather Be Broke" — but where they shine is on their collaborations. The agonizing "Where Did We Go Wrong?" is heartbreaking, and the album ends with painful what-ifs in the soulful "The D Word."

Adele,  30 (2021)

Divorce is hard no matter the circumstances, but it gets even more complicated when children are involved. That was the reality for Adele , and it served as major inspiration for her fourth album, 30 .

Like every album on this list, there's plenty of sorrow on the record, but what really sets it apart is just how honestly Adele grapples with the guilt of putting her son Angelo through turmoil as well. The album's GRAMMY-winning lead single "Easy On Me" addresses it in relation to her son, and standout track "I Drink Wine" is a full examination of the messy feelings she went through during her divorce.

Kacey Musgraves,  star-crossed (2021)

As many of these albums prove, divorce triggers a hoard of emotions, from anger to sadness to eventual happiness. On star-crossed , Kacey Musgraves goes through it all.

There's the anthemic "breadwinner" about being better on her own, "camera roll" looking back on happier times with sorrow, and "hookup scene" about the confusion of adjusting back to single life. Star-crossed sees Musgraves continue to evolve sonically — incorporating more electronic sounds into her country roots — but ultimately, she comes out the other side at a place of renewed acceptance and growth.

Kelly Clarkson,  chemistry (2023)

Kelly Clarkson 's tenth album chemistry was born out of her 2020 divorce. In true Kelly fashion, she addresses the subject with thoughtful songwriting and a pop-rock vibe fans have adored for 20 years on.  

Chemistry focuses not just on the pain of divorce, but on the tender feelings that many couples still have for each other even after the end. Tracks like "favorite kind of high" mirror the euphoria of love, juxtaposed with ballads like "me," in which Clarkson finds comfort in herself and her inner strength — an inspiring sentiment for anyone who has had their heart broken.

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Remembering Christine McVie Of Fleetwood Mac Through Her GRAMMY Triumphs, From 'Rumours' Onward

Unflashy and undramatic, McVie's contributions to Fleetwood Mac led to some of their greatest contributions to popular song — with two GRAMMY wins to boot.

In an acclaimed career that spanned more than half a century, Christine McVie staked her claim as one of the most potent singer-songwriters of her generation. A beloved original member of the seminal rock group Fleetwood Mac , with whom she sang, wrote and played keyboard, she and her bandmates catapulted to fame in the early ' 70s, scoring GRAMMY gold and influencing generations of musicians.

"As a GRAMMY Award winner and 2018 Person of the Year honoree, the Recording Academy has been honored to celebrate Christine McVie and her work with Fleetwood Mac throughout her legendary career," Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. stated. In an announcement of her death, the remaining members of Fleetwood Mac mourned her passing by saying "She was truly one-of-a-kind, special, and talented beyond measure."

McVie, who passed away Nov. 30 at 79 after a brief illness, may have not been as flashy, or as dramatic, as fellow Fleetwood Mac members Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. But McVie's contributions to the band led to some of their greatest contributions to popular song, with two GRAMMY wins among seven nominations.

The tour de force that is Rumours is one of the most acclaimed and best-selling albums of all time and an inductee into GRAMMY Hall Of Fame. The masterpiece earned McVie her first GRAMMY (for Album of the Year no less) at the 20th Annual Ceremony in 1978, also earning a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Group.

Fleetwood Mac's 11th studio album, Rumours was actually McVie's 7th album with the band after making her name in the English blues scene, rising through the ranks as part of the band Chicken Shack, and even releasing a solo album.

In 1971, McVie joined Fleetwood Mac alongside her then-husband John McVie. The potent combination of the McVies, along with Mick Fleetwood, Buckingham and Nicks, catalyzed and detonated into the stratospheric Rumours .

"It's hard to say (what it was like) because we were looking at it from the inside," McVie said about the iconic album earlier this year.  "We were having a blast and it felt incredible to us that we were writing those songs. That's all I can say about it, really."

McVie's coyness may stem from the fact that prior to its production, Christine and John divorced after eight years of marriage. Meanwhile, Buckingham and Nicks were having a tumultuous relationship themselves. 

McVie is credited as sole songwriter on a handful of instant-classic Rumours tracks, all written during a perilous moment. "I thought I was drying up," explained McVie. "I was practically panicking because every time I sat down at a piano, nothing came out. Then, one day,  I just sat down and wrote in the studio, and the four-and-a-half songs of mine on the album are a result of that."

That includes "Don't Stop," an ironically peppy ode considering the turmoil McVie and her bandmates were grappling with at the time. With lyrics that staunchly proclaim "Yesterday's gone!," the song was reportedly written as a plea from Christine to John to move on from their relationship.

"I dare say, if I hadn't joined Fleetwood Mac, we might still be together. I just think it's impossible to work in the band with your spouse," McVie later said . John, meanwhile, was oblivious to the song's message during its production and early acclaim. He revealed in 2015: "I've been playing it for years and it wasn't until somebody told me, 'Chris wrote that about you.' Oh really?"

John was also equally ignorant to the source inspiration of "You Make Loving Fun" ; McVie told him the joyful song ("Sweet wonderful you/ You make me happy with the things you do") was about her dog. In reality, it was about an affair with the band's lighting designer.

"It was a therapeutic move," McVie later mused of her lyrical penchant for hiding brutal honesty in plain sight. "The only way we could get this stuff out was to say it, and it came out in a way that was difficult. Imagine trying to sing those songs onstage with the people you're singing them about."

When McVie was asked earlier this year what song she written she was most proud of, it was an easy answer: the Rumours track "Songbird."

"For some peculiar reason, I wrote "Songbird" in half an hour; I've never been able to figure out how I did that," she told People . "I woke up in the middle of the night and the song was there in my brain, chords, lyrics, melody, everything. I played it in my bedroom and didn't have anything to tape it on. So I had to stay awake all night so I wouldn't forget it and I came in the next morning to the studio and had (producer) Ken Callait put it on a 2-track. That was how the song ended up being. I don't know where that came from."

McVie's most recent GRAMMY nominations were for her contributions to The Dance, Fleetwood Mac's 1997 live album that featured her stand-outs from Rumours along with the McVie penned-tracks "Say You Love Me" and "Everywhere."

The album earned McVie and the band GRAMMY nominations for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for the Lindsay Buckingham-written "The Chain") and  Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for "Silver Springs," penned by Stevie Nicks). It also landed a nomination for Best Pop Album. It was her final album with the band before a 15-year self-imposed retirement.

In her final years, McVie was a vital member of Fleetwood Mac, including in 2018 when they became the first band honored as MusicCare's Person of the Year.

Speaking to the Recording Academy before the ceremony, Nicks expressed that her initial goal upon joining the group was a humble one: "Christine and I made a pact. We said we will never, ever be treated as a second-class citizen amongst our peers."

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A Guide To Modern Funk For The Dance Floor: L'Imperatrice, Shiro Schwarz, Franc Moody, Say She She & Moniquea

James Brown changed the sound of popular music when he found the power of the one and unleashed the funk with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag." Today, funk lives on in many forms, including these exciting bands from across the world.

It's rare that a genre can be traced back to a single artist or group, but for funk, that was James Brown . The Godfather of Soul coined the phrase and style of playing known as "on the one," where the first downbeat is emphasized, instead of the typical second and fourth beats in pop, soul and other styles. As David Cheal eloquently explains, playing on the one "left space for phrases and riffs, often syncopated around the beat, creating an intricate, interlocking grid which could go on and on." You know a funky bassline when you hear it; its fat chords beg your body to get up and groove.

Brown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been endlessly sampled and covered over the years, along with his other groovy tracks. Of course, many other funk acts followed in the '60s, and the genre thrived in the '70s and '80s as the disco craze came and went, and the originators of hip-hop and house music created new music from funk and disco's strong, flexible bones built for dancing.

Legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins learned the power of the one from playing in Brown's band, and brought it to George Clinton , who created P-funk, an expansive, Afrofuturistic , psychedelic exploration of funk with his various bands and projects, including Parliament-Funkadelic . Both Collins and Clinton remain active and funkin', and have offered their timeless grooves to collabs with younger artists, including Kali Uchis , Silk Sonic , and Omar Apollo; and Kendrick Lamar , Flying Lotus , and Thundercat , respectively.

In the 1980s, electro-funk was born when artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Man Parrish, and Egyptian Lover began making futuristic beats with the Roland TR-808 drum machine — often with robotic vocals distorted through a talk box. A key distinguishing factor of electro-funk is a de-emphasis on vocals, with more phrases than choruses and verses. The sound influenced contemporaneous hip-hop, funk and electronica, along with acts around the globe, while current acts like Chromeo, DJ Stingray, and even Egyptian Lover himself keep electro-funk alive and well.

Today, funk lives in many places, with its heavy bass and syncopated grooves finding way into many nooks and crannies of music. There's nu-disco and boogie funk, nodding back to disco bands with soaring vocals and dance floor-designed instrumentation. G-funk continues to influence Los Angeles hip-hop, with innovative artists like Dam-Funk and Channel Tres bringing the funk and G-funk, into electro territory. Funk and disco-centered '70s revival is definitely having a moment, with acts like Ghost Funk Orchestra and Parcels , while its sparkly sprinklings can be heard in pop from Dua Lipa , Doja Cat , and, in full "Soul Train" character, Silk Sonic . There are also acts making dreamy, atmospheric music with a solid dose of funk, such as Khruangbin ’s global sonic collage.

There are many bands that play heavily with funk, creating lush grooves designed to get you moving. Read on for a taste of five current modern funk and nu-disco artists making band-led uptempo funk built for the dance floor. Be sure to press play on the Spotify playlist above, and check out GRAMMY.com's playlist on Apple Music , Amazon Music and Pandora .

Say She She

Aptly self-described as "discodelic soul," Brooklyn-based seven-piece Say She She make dreamy, operatic funk, led by singer-songwriters Nya Gazelle Brown, Piya Malik and Sabrina Mileo Cunningham. Their '70s girl group-inspired vocal harmonies echo, sooth and enchant as they cover poignant topics with feminist flair.

While they’ve been active in the New York scene for a few years, they’ve gained wider acclaim for the irresistible music they began releasing this year, including their debut album, Prism . Their 2022 debut single "Forget Me Not" is an ode to ground-breaking New York art collective Guerilla Girls, and " Norma " is their protest anthem in response to the news that Roe vs. Wade could be (and was) overturned. The band name is a nod to funk legend Nile Rodgers , from the "Le freak, c'est chi" exclamation in Chic's legendary tune "Le Freak."

Moniquea 's unique voice oozes confidence, yet invites you in to dance with her to the super funky boogie rhythms. The Pasadena, California artist was raised on funk music; her mom was in a cover band that would play classics like Aretha Franklin’ s "Get It Right" and Gladys Knight ’s "Love Overboard." Moniquea released her first boogie funk track at 20 and, in 2011, met local producer XL Middelton — a bonafide purveyor of funk. She's been a star artist on his MoFunk Records ever since, and they've collabed on countless tracks, channeling West Coast energy with a heavy dose of G-funk, sunny lyrics and upbeat, roller disco-ready rhythms.

Her latest release is an upbeat nod to classic West Coast funk, produced by Middleton, and follows her February 2022 groovy, collab-filled album, On Repeat .

Shiro Schwarz

Shiro Schwarz is a Mexico City-based duo, consisting of Pammela Rojas and Rafael Marfil, who helped establish a modern funk scene in the richly creative Mexican metropolis. On "Electrify" — originally released in 2016 on Fat Beats Records and reissued in 2021 by MoFunk — Shiro Schwarz's vocals playfully contrast each other, floating over an insistent, upbeat bassline and an '80s throwback electro-funk rhythm with synth flourishes.

Their music manages to be both nostalgic and futuristic — and impossible to sit still to. 2021 single "Be Kind" is sweet, mellow and groovy, perfect chic lounge funk. Shiro Schwarz’s latest track, the joyfully nostalgic "Hey DJ," is a collab with funkstress Saucy Lady and U-Key.

L'Impératrice

L'Impératrice (the empress in French) are a six-piece Parisian group serving an infectiously joyful blend of French pop, nu-disco, funk and psychedelia. Flore Benguigui's vocals are light and dreamy, yet commanding of your attention, while lyrics have a feminist touch.

During their energetic live sets, L'Impératrice members Charles de Boisseguin and Hagni Gwon (keys), David Gaugué (bass), Achille Trocellier (guitar), and Tom Daveau (drums) deliver extended instrumental jam sessions to expand and connect their music. Gaugué emphasizes the thick funky bass, and Benguigui jumps around the stage while sounding like an angel. L’Impératrice’s latest album, 2021’s Tako Tsubo , is a sunny, playful French disco journey.

Franc Moody

Franc Moody 's bio fittingly describes their music as "a soul funk and cosmic disco sound." The London outfit was birthed by friends Ned Franc and Jon Moody in the early 2010s, when they were living together and throwing parties in North London's warehouse scene. In 2017, the group grew to six members, including singer and multi-instrumentalist Amber-Simone.

Their music feels at home with other electro-pop bands like fellow Londoners Jungle and Aussie act Parcels. While much of it is upbeat and euphoric, Franc Moody also dips into the more chilled, dreamy realm, such as the vibey, sultry title track from their recently released Into the Ether .

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• 2 GRAMMY Rewind: Kendrick Lamar Honors Hip-Hop's Greats While Accepting Best Rap Album GRAMMY For 'To Pimp a Butterfly' In 2016
• 3 10 Albums On Divorce & Heartache, From Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' To Kelly Clarkson's 'Chemistry'
• 4 Remembering Christine McVie Of Fleetwood Mac Through Her GRAMMY Triumphs, From 'Rumours' Onward
• 5 A Guide To Modern Funk For The Dance Floor: L'Imperatrice, Shiro Schwarz, Franc Moody, Say She She & Moniquea

Watch Lindsey Buckingham Play ‘Go Your Own Way’ at First Pandemic-Era Concert

By Andy Greene

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Lindsey Buckingham kicked off his first tour since the start of the pandemic on Wednesday night at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The set mixed songs from his upcoming self-titled album (in stores September 17th) with vintage solo tunes (“Soul Drifter,” “I Must Go”) and, of course, Fleetwood Mac classics like “Big Love,” “Never Going Back Again,” “Second Hand News” and “Tusk.”

Here’s fan-shot video of “Go Your Own Away,” which wrapped up the main set. He encored with “Love Is Here to Stay” from his 2017 collaborative album with Christine McvVie, and the show ended with “Time” from his his new album.

It was also his first public concert since he underwent emergency heart surgery in February 2019. The procedure damaged his vocal cords and there were fears his singing voice would be permanently changed, but the damage seems to have completely worn off.

Earlier this week, Buckingham shared his new single “Scream.” “Many of the songs on this album are about the work and discipline it takes in maintaining a long-term relationship,” he said. “Some of them are more about the discipline and some of them are more about the perks. ‘Scream’ is about the perks. It felt very celebratory and it was also very, very simple and short. To the point. It didn’t evolve into some huge thing. It made its case and got the hell out.”

Buckingham has gigs booked all over America from now until December 20th when his tour wraps up at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. He then heads to heads to Europe in May 2022.

He hasn’t played with Fleetwood Mac since the MusiCares event at Radio City Music Hall on January 26th, 2018. He was fired from the band shortly afterwards, and they replaced him on the road with Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House. Earlier this year, Mick Fleetwood told Rolling Stone he hopes that Buckingham can return one day.

“Somehow, I would love the elements that are not healed to be healed.,” he said. “I love the fantasy that we could cross that bridge and everyone could leave with creative, holistic energy, and everyone could be healed with grace and dignity.”

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Lindsey Buckingham Announces U.S. Tour and First Solo Album in 10 Years

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Lindsey Buckingham has announced his first solo album since 2011’s Seeds We Sow . The new album, called Lindsey Buckingham , is out September 17 via Reprise. Below, listen to the lead single “ I Don’t Mind .”

“‘I Don’t Mind,’ like many of the songs on my new album, is about the challenges couples face in long-term relationships,” Lindsey Buckingham explained in a press release. “Over time, two people inevitably find the need to augment their initial dynamic with one of flexibility, an acceptance of each others’ flaws and a willingness to continually work on issues; it is the essence of a good long term relationship. This song celebrates that spirit and discipline.”

Discussing Lindsey Buckingham , the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist continued:

I wanted to make a pop album, but I also wanted to make stops along the way with songs that resemble art more than pop. As you age, hopefully you keep getting a little more grounded in the craft of what you’re doing. For me, getting older has probably helped to reinforce the innocence and the idealism that hopefully was always there.

Lindsey Buckingham underwent open-heart surgery in 2019. He was supposed to return to touring last year, but the plans were canceled due to the pandemic . Instead, Buckingham will hit the road this September for a U.S. trek. Find the tour poster below.

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“In a heartbeat, absolutely," says Lindsey Buckingham about whether he'd return to Fleetwood Mac to 'close' their story

The guitarist wants to "heal' the rift of the past – but is the band done?

The passing of Christine McVie in 2022 effectively ended Fleetwood Mac for Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood . Understandably, their keyboard player, vocalist and songwriter was simply too integral to consider a future without.

"I think right now, I truly think the line in the sand has been drawn with the loss of Chris," Fleetwood told the Los Angeles Times in 2023. "I’d say we’re done, but then we’ve all said that before. It's sort of unthinkable right now."

Nicks echoed this sentiment later in the same year: "Without her, what is it? You know what I mean? When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to."

For many fans, the idea of the band without Lindsey Buckingham was the same kind of impasse, and yet Fleetwood Mac toured with not one but two guitarists in his place following his 2018 departure. Neil Finn and Mike Campbell stepped into the lineup, with the former taking on Buckingham's vocal role.

Time has a way of changing perspectives though; especially as the period after didn't just see the passing of McVie – who had released a duo album with Buckingham in 2017 –  but the guitarist's own brush with mortality following a heart attack and major surgery. Now he's openly seeking to regroup with Fleetwood, Nicks and bassist John McVie.

Buckingham was a recent guest on Conan O'Brien's excellent Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast, and the episode hasn't even hit streaming services apart from SiriusXM yet. But a preview has dropped an enticing crumb that we're intrigued by.

“In a heartbeat, absolutely,” the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter responded to the host when asked if he would consider rejoining Fleetwood Mac (via Far Out ). “If there’s more to come [from the band], if there’s a way to heal that, that would be great. It would be very appropriate to close on a more circular note.”

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It's hard not to find hope in that, and the idea that the remaining members could end their musical story in a more amicable way. 

“Without pointing any fingers, it was certainly fairly singular in how it was driven," said Buckingham, 74, on his 2018 dismissal. " Others in the band were not happy with what was going on at that point. And I think everyone would have liked to see me remain, but did what they felt they had to do in that moment. And that’s understandable. There’s no fingers to point at anyone, really. That’s rock and roll, right?”

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Lindsey Buckingham, performing in Milwaukee, Wisc., on Sept. 1, 2021, on opening night of his tour

Lindsey Buckingham’s voice sounded great as he opened his solo tour last night (September 1, 2021). The performance, at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater, took place roughly two weeks before the release of his self-titled studio album, which arrives Sept. 17. From several audience clips from the show, there were no signs of any vocal issues that were of concern when Buckingham had open-heart surgery in February 2019.

The 20-song set included such Fleetwood Mac favorites as “Second Hand News,” “Go Your Own Way” and “Big Love.”

Watch some below.

On August 31, Buckingham announced a 2022 European tour, his first ever solo shows in Europe. Tickets for the 2022 tour go on sale to the general public on Sept. 3  here . His 30-date U.S. tour continues into December.

In an interview with EW on Aug. 9, Buckingham talked about a potential reunion. “There have been intimations from Mick [Fleetwood], who I’ve talked to several times, that he wants to try to get the five of us back together. I did not see their last tour. I’m sure it was fine, but I think it was probably very mellow by comparison.

“It’s really going to take Stevie [Nicks] coming to that point of view, and I haven’t spoken to Stevie in a long, long time, so I don’t know where that’s at. It’s certainly something that more than one person who is close to the situation has brought to me.

“I wasn’t happy about how that went down,” he says. “It wasn’t so much that I felt slighted that I didn’t get to do yet another Fleetwood Mac tour, but I thought it really did not respect the legacy that we built, which was all about overcoming adversity.”

Watch Buckingham perform “Second Hand News” on opening night of the tour

Of the new album’s leadoff track, Buckingham says, “‘Scream’… felt very celebratory and it was also very, very simple and short. To the point. It didn’t evolve into some huge thing. It made its case and got the hell out. It just seemed like a good place to start the album, somehow. It’s very upbeat and very optimistic and very positive. It’s a celebration of an aspect of life.

Listen to the delightful “Scream” from the new album

Watch him perform some of the song on the opening night of the tour, Sept. 1 in Milwaukee

As with the seven studio and three live albums he has released as a solo artist, beginning with 1981’s Law and Order , the new project, says a press release, “showcases Buckingham’s instinct for melody and his singular fingerpicking guitar style, reaffirming his status as one of the most inventive and electrifying musicians of his generation.”

He says “On the Wrong Side” is about the peaks and valleys of life on the road with Fleetwood Mac. The song sports one of the album’s most thought-provoking lyrics: “We were young, now we’re old / Who can tell me which is worse?” Buckingham says the song evokes “Go Your Own Way,” in that it’s “not a happy song, subject-matter wise, but it was an ebullient song musically. This was sort of the same idea.”

Listen to “On the Wrong Side,” released on July 22

Watch him perform a portion of the song on Sept. 1

The 2021 U.S. tour marks his first in-person shows since his life-saving open-heart surgery in 2019.

The album was written, produced and recorded by Buckingham at his home studio in Los Angeles.

Listen to “I Don’t Mind” from the upcoming album

Says Buckingham of the meaning of the single, “‘I Don’t Mind,’ like many of the songs on my new album, is about the challenges couples face in long-term relationships.” He continues, in the June 8 announcement, “Over time, two people inevitably find the need to augment their initial dynamic with one of flexibility, an acceptance of each other’s flaws and a willingness to continually work on issues; it is the essence of a good long term relationship. This song celebrates that spirit and discipline.”

[The same day as the announcement of the new album and tour, TMZ reported that Buckingham and his wife of 21 years, Kristen Messner, are heading for a divorce. The couple have three children.]

Related: Our review of a 2018 Buckingham live show

Watch Buckingham close the 2021 tour’s opening night show with another new song, “Time”

Lindsey Buckingham 2021 U.S. Tour  (Tickets are available here  and here )

9/01 – The Pabst Theater – Milwaukee, WI 9/03 – Mystic Lake – Mystic Showroom – Prior Lake, MN 9/04 – Four Winds Casino Resort / Silver Creek Event Center – New Buffalo, MI 9/07 – Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall – Munhall, PA 9/08 – Riviera Theatre – North Tonawanda, NY 9/09 – The Academy of Music – Northampton, MA 9/11 – The Chevalier Theater – Medford, MA 9/12 – The Music Hall – Portsmouth, NH 9/14 – Warner Theatre – Washington, DC 9/16 – The Town Hall – New York, NY 9/18 – Tropicana Casino & Resort – Atlantic City, NJ 9/19 – Santander Performing Arts Center – Reading, PA 9/21 – Knight Theatre – Charlotte, NC 9/22 – Woodruff Arts Center – Symphony Hall – Atlanta, GA 9/24 – Bijou Theatre – Knoxville, TN 9/26 – Ponte Vedra Concert Hall – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 9/27 – Ruth Eckerd Hall – Clearwater, FL 9/29 – King Center for the Performing Arts – Melbourne, FL 9/30 – Parker Playhouse – Fort Lauderdale, FL Dec 02 – The Theatre at Ace Hotel – Los Angeles, CA Dec 03 – Magnolia Performing Arts Center – El Cajon, CA Dec 05 – Fox Tucson Theatre – Tucson, AZ Dec 08 – The Paramount Theatre For the Performing arts – Austin, TX Dec 09 – Majestic Theatre – Dallas, TX Dec 11 – Smart Financial Centre – Sugar Land, TX Dec 13 – Von Braun Center – Mars Music Hall – Huntsville, AL Dec 15 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO Dec 17 – The Criterion – Oklahoma City, OK Dec 18 – Orpheum Theatre – Wichita, KS Dec 20 – Boulder Theater – Boulder, CO

2022 European Tour May 17 – The Helix – Dublin, Ireland May 19 – SEC Armadillo – Glasgow, UK May 21 – Philharmonic Hall – Liverpool, UK May 22 – London Palladium – London, UK May 24 – Capitole – Ghent, Belgium May 25 – La Cigale – Paris, France May 26 – TivoliVredenburg Grote Zaal – Utrecht, Netherlands May 28 – Theater am Potsdamer Platz – Berlin, Germany May 30 – Cirkus – Stockholm, Sweden May 31 – Folketeateret – Oslo, Norway Jun 02 – Heartland Festival – Kværndrup, Denmark

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Lindsey Buckingham Track Listing

1. Scream 2. I Don’t Mind 3. On the Wrong Side 4. Swan Song 5. Blind Love 6. Time 7. Blue Light 8. Power Down 9. Santa Rosa 10. Dancing

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I was at SAP Concert on 11/25/2014 to See Lindsey with Fleetwood Mac as a Great Band that I grew up with on their Music. I know Lindsey and Stevie had some years here in San Jose area. I do like the New Song…. “On the Wrong Side”. I could hear a little of the Fleetwood Sound with I think your Daughter coming in on Vocals.. I hope You do a Reunion Concert or Tour with All the Band.. “Fleetwood Mac” Back Together… Lindsey’s Guitar Sound is Outstanding and Unique to Only Lindsey… I can remember Seated at Side of Stage with the Guitar Rack Displaying the Varied Guitars in Lindsey’s Collection that he Plays with such Feeling!! It was a Great Nite of Fleetwood Mac Music on Display Center Stage… Come Back to San Jose and Do It Again..

Just saw Lindsey in concert last night. Was interested in finding out who was playing with him but there is no mention anywhere on the web of their names or any other information about them. I am assuming that he considers them grunts and of no significance whuch is why they are excluded from any commentary on Lindsay or his tour. Very sad.

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