Lindsey Buckingham has been photographed “back together” in the studio with his ex-Fleetwood Mac colleague Mick Fleetwood.
Buckingham was fired from the band in 2018 after over 40 years in somewhat acrimonious circumstances relating to a disagreement over a tour, to be replaced by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell and Crowded House’s Neil Finn.
Last year, he said that he would rejoin the band “in a heartbeat”, although their future hangs in the balance following the death of longtime member Christine McVie in 2022 at the age of 79.
Now though, evidence that Buckingham and Fleetwood are on good terms has emerged through a photo of the two sharing a music studio together. The producer Carl Falk has written a series of posts on Threads that included the image, confirming that the meeting related to an upcoming solo album by Fleetwood.
Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham are working together againhttps://t.co/k2Rp8uoDld pic.twitter.com/jTjzGILL8b
— FLEETWOOD MAC NEWS (@Nickslive) March 25, 2025
“Slightly unreal moment to sit with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood to play Lindsey the album we have been working on,” Falk said. “And to see his genuine happiness for Mick to finally do his own album and offering to play guitar and to sing on it. Can’t wait to finish this one.”
Another photo from the sessions shows Fleetwood with Adam Granduciel of The War On Drugs, suggesting his involvement with the album.
It all follows comments from earlier this year in which Fleetwood said he wished Buckingham and Stevie Nicks would “pal up a bit more” and “just say everything’s OK”.
Similarly, last year he said: “It’s no secret, it’s no tittle-tattle that there is a brick wall there emotionally. Stevie’s able to speak clearly about how she feels and doesn’t feel, as does Lindsey.”
He continued: “But I’ll say, personally, I would love to see a healing between them – and that doesn’t have to take the shape of a tour, necessarily.”
After Buckingham’s firing in 2018, however, he told People that it was “all Stevie’s doing,” and that she “basically gave the band an ultimatum that either I had to go or she would go.”
For her part, Nicks denied the accusations in a statement, saying: “I did not demand he be fired. Frankly, I fired myself. I proactively removed myself from the band and a situation I considered to be toxic to my well-being. I was done. If the band went on without me, so be it.”
A full Fleetwood Mac reunion currently seems unlikely, as Nicks has said that without the late McVie, “there is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together.”
Nicks has also shared that she thought “there’s no reason” to get the band back together without McVie. “Without Christine, no can do. There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work,” she added.
In other news, it was announced last year that a “fully authorised”, “definitive” Fleetwood Mac documentary to chronicle the history of the legendary band is in the works.
