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Fifty years ago this month, Fleetwood Mac released their self-titled 1975 album, which featured two new members: a young couple named Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
As the story goes, the two musicians — who performed as the duo Buckingham Nicks — released their self-titled 1973 album, but it flopped and they were dropped by Polydor. Nicks began working at the Beverly Hills restaurant called Clementine’s, until their Buckingham Nicks producer Keith Olsen played the album for Mick Fleetwood. When Bob Welch left the group, Buckingham and Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on New Year’s Eve 1974. “I said, ‘That’s it, I’m never looking at another price tag,’” she recalled in 2015. “And I meant it.” The rest is history.
Fleetwood Mac, which opens with Buckingham’s “Monday Morning” and features Nicks’ “Rhiannon,” was released on July 11, 1975. In a new Instagram post, Fleetwood reminisced about this moment that changed the band forever, playing the Buckingham Nicks’ closer “Frozen Love” on headphones.
“Woo! Unbelievable!” he said. “The marriage of Stevie and Lindsey, the marriage of coming into Fleetwood Mac when they did, it’s all in the song. It’s in the music that played on for so many years. It’s magic then, it’s magic now. What a thrill, what a thrill. Amen.”
This particular lineup of Fleetwood Mac played their last full concert together in July 2017, though their final performance was technically their brief set at the MusiCares event at Radio City Music Hall in January 2018 — which wasn’t pleasant for the band.
“That’s when he wasn’t very nice to anybody; he wasn’t very nice to Harry Styles,” Nicks said of Buckingham, in her expansive Rolling Stone Interview last fall. “I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.”
The band fired Buckingham shortly after, replacing him with Mike Campbell, the former guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Crowded House’s Neil Finn. The last show of that tour was in November 2019, and Christine McVie died in Nov. 2022. As Nicks told us, she has no plans to reunite the band without her “music soulmate, my best girlfriend.” But as Fleetwood said in his video, the magic of Fleetwood Mac lives on.
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Sabrina Carpenter has secured a restraining order against a man accused of repeatedly trying to gain access to her home.
William Applegate, 31, has been instructed to stay away from the "Espresso" singer for the next five years after allegedly attempting to enter her property on numerous occasions, reportedly more than a dozen times, according to AP. Carpenter's lawyer, Blair Berk, told the court that the pop star was "in fear for her own personal safety and the safety of members of her family" because of Applegate's repeated efforts to reach her Los Angeles residence.
Court documents filed by Carpenter state that Applegate was taken into custody after allegedly assaulting a security guard while approaching the front entrance of her home. When he returned a few days later, the singer successfully obtained a temporary restraining order on May 29.
Applegate acknowledged the incidents involving the property but insisted that Carpenter had wanted him to come to her house. He claimed that he and the singer were involved in a secret military operation that required them to "be together as soon as possible".
He further argued that their meeting was necessary for "national and global security". However, he said he would be "more than willing" to stay away from Carpenter if she personally asked him to do so, alleging that law enforcement and those representing her were preventing direct communication.
In legal papers challenging the restraining order, Applegate alleged that Carpenter attempted to send him a message during her headlining appearance at Coachella by making eye contact with him from the audience. Carpenter, however, described Applegate as "a complete stranger" in her filing and said she has never had any contact with him and has no desire to do so.
Addressing Applegate during the hearing, Judge David L. Wasserman said: "I understand that it's your belief that in order to save the world, you and the petitioner must be together. I expect you to obey the order, not what you think is right, not what you think the military commands you."
In other news, Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter recently unveiled the polished music video for their collaboration "Bring Your Love". The track is set to feature on Madonna's forthcoming album, "Confessions II", which is scheduled for release on July 3.
