Fleetwood Mac star breaks silence over his shock sacking
Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham has broken his silence on his firing from the iconic band, saying his departure was “not my doing or my choice”.
In a surprise announcement in April, the band confirmed that they would tour without the musician, who wrote and sang on some of their biggest hits, including Go Your Own Way and Tusk. Buckingham had been a member of the band since he joined in 1974 with his then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks.
During a set at a campaign fundraiser for Democratic congressional candidate Mike Levin in Los Angeles, Buckingham spoke about his firing for the first time.
“It’s been an interesting time on a lot of levels. For me, personally, probably some of you know that for the last three months I have sadly taken leave of my band of 43 years, Fleetwood Mac,” he said.
“This was not something that was really my doing or my choice. I think what you would say is that there were factions within the band that had lost their perspective.”
He added: “What that did was to harm - and this is the only thing I’m really sad about, the rest of it becomes an opportunity - it harmed the 43-year legacy that we had worked so hard to build.
“That legacy was really about rising above difficulties in order to fulfil one’s higher truth and one’s higher destiny.”
Fleetwood Mac will tour later this year with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ guitarist Mike Campbell and Crowded House frontman Neil Finn.