Fleetwood Mac was already a legend when in 1997 he embarked on a tour of the United States: it was twenty years since the publication of Rumors, and also many years since the breakup between two of the band members. Everything was going according to plan when suddenly, and in the middle of the performance, Stevie Nicks turned, stood in front of his ex, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, and literally spat Silver Springs in his face, the piece in which he settles accounts about the ending. of the couple. More than twenty years later, a Twitter user recognized in 2019 viewing the video of the song up to 29 times a day.
Taylor Jenkins Reid was 13 years old in 1997. Zapping, she came across the video of the concert, The Dance, on MTV and fell in love with Landslide, a piece that the couple performed alone on stage. At one point, the musician approaches the singer “and looked at her as if she were a miracle. It was clear that he was crazy about her, and she was crazy about him. When my mother clarified that they were no longer together at that time, I didn’t I believed it.” Daisy’s seed had just been planted
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And what happens between them is the second part of the Taylor Jenkins Reid experience. Many years after that adolescent encounter with Fleetwood Mac, he discovered a part of the video that he had not seen. It was the interpretation of Silver Springs. “Stevie was acting like a scorned woman, holding the microphone like a weapon, eyes poking holes in Lindsey’s head as she sang that her voice would haunt him. When I decided to write a novel about rock, those were the images I had on my head,” the author explained in an interview with Reese’s Book Club.
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were a sentimental and musical couple when Mick Fleetwood proposed to the latter to join the latter to join the band. The guitarist made a condition that she also enter, and thus the most successful formation of the band was created. The history of Rumours, his second studio album, which has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide, is an example of how a series of catastrophes can lead its authors to a state of grace.
By catastrophes we mean that Nicks and Buckingham had just broken up over his infidelity (and professional jealousy), while the other couple in the group, John and Christine McVie, were divorcing and Mick Fleetwood had just found out that his wife was cheating on him with your sound technician. Working and living together 24 hours a day. All this enlivened by alcohol and drugs, to the point that according to legend they were about to include the camel in the credits.
They all wrote songs and all the broken couples sent messages through them, but none like Nicks and Buckingham, who dedicated Go Your Way to the singer, in which it doesn’t leave her looking good. Nicks answered -among others- with Silver Springs, but that’s where the clearly machismo of the band came in. While Go Your Way was released to great fanfare and became a bestseller, Silver Springs was not included in Rumors to find itself relegated to a B-side on another album. Stevie Nicks never forgave him.
Then came the 1997 concert, and the piece was included in the repertoire. Twenty years later. Blonde hair, black dress, Stevie Nicks began to sing Silver Springs, until her voice began to get harder and harder as she yelled at her ex-lover that she will never be able to forget her even if time passes, “my voice will haunt you like a ghost” .
Stevie Nicks inches while Linsey Buckingham backs off. Her face says it all: surprise, bewilderment, fear. Hers too: anger, rage, revenge. Because she’s forcing him to sing the chorus of her song: “You can never escape the sound of the woman who loves you.” Scared, embarrassed in front of millions of people. Singing in spite of him. Now become a phenomenon on TikTok. Take note, Shakira.
