Editing Lindsey Buckingham (section)

==Music career==
From 1966 to 1971, Buckingham performed [[Psychedelic rock|psychedelic]] and [[folk rock]] with the high school rock band originally named the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band as a bassist and vocalist.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/javierpacheco_qa1.htm|title=Javier Pacheco Question and Answer Session|first=Martin E.|last=Adelson|website=Fleetwoodmac.net|access-date=March 7, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216151826/http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/javierpacheco_qa1.htm| archive-date=February 16, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/fritz.htm|title=Fritz|first=Martin E.|last=Adelson|website=Fleetwoodmac.net |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120105171454/http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/fritz.htm |archive-date= January 5, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Lindsey" /> The band regrouped in 1967 due to band member changes and shortened their name to Fritz.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wxord4AhmksC&pg=PA34 |title=Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac |first= Carol Ann |last=Harris |publisher=A Cappella Books|date= 2009|isbn= 978-1556527906}}</ref> Buckingham invited friend Stevie Nicks to join Fritz as a backing vocalist. Their romantic relationship began after both left Fritz five years later.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fritz|url=http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/fritz.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991011235858/http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/fritz.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 11, 1999|work=The Penguin Biographies|publisher=Martin Adelson and Lisa Adelson|access-date=May 24, 2014}}</ref><!--http://rockalittle.com/article_mojo_dec2003.htm-->

===1973–1974: Buckingham Nicks===
Buckingham and his then-girlfriend [[Stevie Nicks]] recorded seven [[Demo (music)|demos]] in 1972 on a half-inch [[Multitrack recording|4-track]] [[Ampex]] recorder kept at his father's coffee-roasting plant in [[Daly City, California|Daly City]], then drove to Los Angeles to pursue a [[recording contract]].<ref name="BackChain" /><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/music-lindsey-buckingham-two-worlds/366253 |title=Music: Lindsey Buckingham in Two Worlds |quote=When I was about 21 some relative I didn't even know left me something like $10,000, so one of the things I did with that money was go out and buy an old Ampex half-inch 4-track—like the kind they recoded [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt. Pepper]]'s on, I guess. At that time, my dad had this small coffee plant in Daly City [south of San Francisco]—they were coffee roasters—and at night I would go up there with Stevie, and a lot of times just by myself, and work on songs and demos.|last=Jackson |first=Blair |date=February 1, 2011 |journal=[[Mix (magazine)|Mix]]}}</ref> In 1973, [[Polydor Records]] signed the pair. Their studio album, produced by [[Keith Olsen]] and second engineer [[Richard Dashut]], ''[[Buckingham Nicks]]'', was released in September 1973; however, soon after its release Polydor dropped the duo because of poor sales. To help make ends meet, Buckingham toured with [[The Everly Brothers|Don Everly's]] [[Backup band|backing band]], singing [[Phil Everly]]'s parts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/qas/story.html?id=d354a63f-5956-4b0a-9da3-2efbd2879f45 |title=Q&A; with Lindsey Buckingham |access-date=June 14, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905142325/http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/qas/story.html?id=d354a63f-5956-4b0a-9da3-2efbd2879f45 |archive-date=September 5, 2012 }}</ref>

===1975–1980: Fleetwood Mac and mainstream success===
[[File:Lindsey Buckingham 1977.jpg|thumb|Buckingham in 1977]]
While investigating [[Sound City Studios|Sound City recording studio]] in California, [[Mick Fleetwood]] heard the song "Frozen Love" from the ''Buckingham Nicks'' studio album. Impressed, he asked who the guitarist was. By chance, Buckingham and Nicks were also in Sound City recording demos, and Buckingham and Fleetwood were introduced. When [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]] left Fleetwood Mac in December 1974, Fleetwood immediately contacted Buckingham and offered him the vacant guitar slot in his band. Buckingham told Fleetwood that he and Nicks were a team and that he didn't want to work without her. Fleetwood agreed to hire both of them, without an audition. Buckingham and Nicks then began a short tour to promote the ''Buckingham Nicks'' album. The touring band included drummers Bob Aguirre and Gary Hodges (playing simultaneously) and bassist [[Tom Moncrieff]], who later played bass on Nicks' debut solo studio album ''[[Bella Donna (album)|Bella Donna]]'' (1981). When they played in [[Alabama]], the one area where they saw appreciable sales, they told their fans they had joined Fleetwood Mac.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SW31aVVDc_AC&pg=PA81 |pages=80–81 |last=Furman |first=Leah |title=Rumours Exposed: The Unauthorized Biography of Fleetwood Mac |publisher=Citadel Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-8065-2472-6}}</ref>

Fleetwood Mac released their [[Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)|eponymously titled studio album]] in 1975, which reached number one on the American charts. Buckingham contributed two songs to the album, "[[Monday Morning (Fleetwood Mac song)|Monday Morning]]" and "[[I'm So Afraid]]", while also singing lead on "[[Blue Letter]]" and Nicks' song "Crystal". "I'm So Afraid" and "Monday Morning" were intended for the planned follow-up [[Buckingham Nicks]] studio album, but they were instead used with Fleetwood Mac.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fleetwood|first1=Mick|last2=Bozza|first2=Anthony| author-link2 = Anthony Bozza |title=Play On: Now, Then & Fleetwood Mac|date=October 2014|publisher=Little, Brown And Company|location=New York|isbn=978-0-316-40342-9|pages=164, 169}}</ref>

Despite the success of the new line-up's first studio album, it was their second studio album together, ''[[Rumours (album)|Rumours]]'' (1977), that propelled the band to superstar status, becoming one of the best-selling studio albums of all time. Buckingham's "[[Go Your Own Way]]" was the lead single, soaring into the US Top Ten; also on the album were Buckingham's "[[Second Hand News]]" and "[[Never Going Back Again]]". Buckingham also sang co-lead vocal on two of the band's biggest live staples: "[[The Chain]]", written by the entire band, and "[[Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song)|Don't Stop]]", a [[Christine McVie]] number.

After the commercial success of ''Rumours'' (during the making of which Buckingham and Nicks broke up), Buckingham was determined to avoid falling into repeating the same musical pattern. The result was ''[[Tusk (album)|Tusk]]'' (1979), a double studio album that Buckingham primarily directed. Once again, Buckingham wrote the [[lead single]], the [[Tusk (song)|title track]] that peaked at No. 8 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. Buckingham convinced Fleetwood to let his work on their next studio album be more experimental and to be allowed to work on tracks at home before bringing them to the rest of the band in the studio. It produced three hit singles: Lindsey Buckingham's "[[Tusk (song)|Tusk]]" (US No. 8), which featured the [[Spirit of Troy|USC Trojan Marching Band]], Christine McVie's "[[Think About Me]]" (US No. 20), and Stevie Nicks' 6½-minute opus "[[Sara (Fleetwood Mac song)|Sara]]" (US No. 7). "Sara" was cut to 4½ minutes for both the hit single and the first CD-release of the album, but the unedited version has since been restored on the [[Greatest Hits (1988 Fleetwood Mac album)|1988 greatest hits compilation]], the 2004 reissue of ''Tusk''  and Fleetwood Mac's 2002 release of ''[[The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac]]''. Original guitarist [[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]] also took part in the sessions of ''Tusk'', although his playing on the Christine McVie track "Brown Eyes" is not credited on the album.<ref>{{cite book| title=My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac| url=https://archive.org/details/fleetwoodmylifea00fleet| url-access=registration|last=Davis|first=Stephen|year=1991|page=[https://archive.org/details/fleetwoodmylifea00fleet/page/214 214]| publisher=Avon Books| isbn=9780380716166}}</ref>

===1981: Going solo and ''Law and Order''===
During the time he worked on ''Tusk'', Buckingham also produced studio albums for [[Walter Egan]] and [[John Stewart (musician)|John Stewart]] in the late 1970s as well as beginning work on his own solo studio album.

In 1981, Buckingham released his debut solo studio album, ''[[Law and Order (album)|Law and Order]]'', playing nearly every instrument and featuring guest appearances by bandmates Mick Fleetwood and [[Christine McVie]]. The album pursued the quirky, eclectic, often [[lo-fi (music)|lo-fi]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] influences of ''Tusk'' and spawned the single "[[Trouble (Lindsey Buckingham song)|Trouble]]" (inspired by Fleetwood Mac producer [[Richard Dashut]]), which reached No. 9 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and No. 1 in Australia (for three weeks).

===1982: ''Mirage''===
After a large world tour that ended in 1980, Fleetwood Mac took a year-long break before reconvening to record their next studio album ''[[Mirage (Fleetwood Mac album)|Mirage]]'' (1982), a more pop-friendly work that returned the band to the top of the US album chart. However, by this time various members of the band were enjoying success as solo artists (particularly Nicks) and the next Fleetwood Mac album was not released until five years later.

===1983–1986: ''Go Insane'' and other solo projects===
In 1983, he wrote and performed the songs "[[Holiday Road]]" and "Dancin' Across the USA" for the film ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]''. "Holiday Road" was released as a single and reached No. 82 on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'}}s [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]].

In 1984, after ending his 7-year relationship with Carol Ann Harris, he released his second solo studio album, ''[[Go Insane (album)|Go Insane]]''. The title track was a modest hit, reaching No. 23 on the Hot 100. In 2008, he revealed the title track was about his post-breakup relationship with Stevie Nicks; however, Harris claimed in her memoir ''Storms'' that the song was written about her breakup with Buckingham. The last track of the album, "[[D.W. Suite]]", was a tribute to the late [[The Beach Boys|Beach Boys]] drummer [[Dennis Wilson]], a close friend of Fleetwood Mac who was briefly engaged to Christine McVie.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.madnessfades.net/DWSuite.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922054215/http://www.madnessfades.net/DWSuite.htm |archive-date=September 22, 2007 |title=Madness Fades – Lindsey Buckingham, In His Words |date=September 22, 2007 |access-date=February 29, 2012}}</ref> Also that year, Buckingham played guitars and sang harmony vocals on the track "You Can't Make Love" from [[Don Henley]]'s second solo studio album ''[[Building the Perfect Beast]]''.

The next year, Buckingham performed on [[USA for Africa]]'s fundraising single, "[[We Are the World]]". In 1986, he co-wrote "Since You've Gone" for [[Belinda Carlisle]]'s debut solo studio album, ''[[Belinda (Belinda Carlisle album)|Belinda]]''. He did other soundtrack work, including the song "Time Bomb Town" from ''[[Back to the Future]]'' (1985). Buckingham played all of the instruments on the track except drums, which were played by [[Michael Huey (musician)|Michael Huey]].

===1987: ''Tango In the Night'' and departure from Fleetwood Mac===
Buckingham's fifth studio album with Fleetwood Mac, ''[[Tango in the Night]]'', was released in 1987. Buckingham had already released two solo studio albums and had given up much of the material for what would have been his third solo studio album for the project, including "[[Big Love (Fleetwood Mac song)|Big Love]]", "[[Tango in the Night (Fleetwood Mac song)|Tango in the Night]] ", "[[Family Man (Fleetwood Mac song)|Family Man]]", "You and I" and "Caroline". "Big Love", released as the first single from the album, became a top ten hit in the US and the UK.

Propelled by a string of hit singles, ''Tango in the Night'' became the band's biggest studio album since ''Rumours'' a decade earlier. However, following its release, Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac<ref>''Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures with Fleetwood Mac'' by Mick Fleetwood and Stephen Davis, 1990, William Morrow, {{ISBN|978-0688066475}}</ref> largely because of his desire not to tour and the strain he was feeling within the band. "I needed to get some separation from Stevie especially because I don't think I'd ever quite gotten closure on our relationship," he said. "I needed to get on with the next phase of my creative growth and my emotional growth. When you break up with someone and then for the next 10 years you have to be around them and do for them and watch them move away from you, it's not easy."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=439&c=18 |title=The Blue Letter Archives |website=Bla.fleetwoodmac.net |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-date=April 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409030907/http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=439&c=18 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Fleetwood Mac continued without him, and Buckingham was replaced by two guitarists, [[Rick Vito]] and [[Billy Burnette]].

===1988–1992: ''Out of the Cradle''===
Following his departure from Fleetwood Mac in 1987, Buckingham spent much of the next five years in the studio, working on his third solo studio album, ''[[Out of the Cradle]]'', which was released in 1992. Many of the songs deal with his relationship with Nicks and his decision to leave the band. "There were things lingering for years having to do with relationships and the band, hurtful things, that were impossible to deal with until I left. If you were in a relationship and split up, then had to see that person every day for the next 15 years, it might keep you from dealing with some of those things. While we made ''Rumours'' (in 1977) there were two couples breaking up in the band (Buckingham and Nicks, and John and Christine McVie), and we had to say, 'This is an important thing we're doing, so we've got to put this set of feelings on this side of the room and get on with it.' And when you do that long enough you forget that those feelings are even there. On this album, I'm putting all these feelings in the healthiest possible perspective and that, looking at it broadly, is a lot of what the album is dealing with. It's a catharsis, absolutely."<ref>{{cite web|author=Greg Kot |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/06/14/this-mac-is-back/ |title=This Mac Is Back – Page 2 |website=Chicago Tribune |date=June 14, 1992 |access-date=August 18, 2016}}</ref> "[[Wrong (Lindsey Buckingham song)|Wrong]]" was a gentle rebuke of former bandmate Mick Fleetwood's tell-all biography, published in 1990.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Wild|first=David|date=June 25, 1992|title=Lindsey Buckingham: Post-Mac Attack|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lindsey-buckingham-post-mac-attack-191712/|access-date=July 31, 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref> ''Out of the Cradle'' received some favorable reviews but did not achieve the sales levels associated with Fleetwood Mac. However, Buckingham toured throughout 1992–93 for the first time as a solo artist; his band included an army of seven other guitarists (Buckingham himself calls them "the crazy band" on his ''Soundstage'' DVD), each of whom he individually taught the entire two-and-a-half hours of music from the concert (''Lindsey Buckingham: Behind the Music'' documentary for [[VH1]], 2001).

===1993–2004: Return to Fleetwood Mac===
[[File:Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.jpg|thumb|Stevie Nicks and Buckingham on the ''Say You Will'' Tour in 2003]]
In 1993, newly elected president [[Bill Clinton]] asked Fleetwood Mac to come together to perform the song he had chosen for his campaign, the [[Christine McVie]]-penned "[[Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song)|Don't Stop]]", at [[First inauguration of Bill Clinton|his inauguration]] on January 20, 1993. Buckingham agreed to be part of the performance, but the experience was something of a one-off for the band, who were still very much at odds with one another and had no plans to reunite officially.

While assembling material for a planned fourth solo studio album in the mid-1990s, Buckingham contacted Mick Fleetwood for assistance on a song. Their collaboration lasted much longer than anticipated, and the two eventually decided to call upon Stevie Nicks, John and Christine McVie. In 1997, Buckingham and all four of his bandmates from the ''Rumours''-era line-up of Fleetwood Mac went on the road for the first time together since 1982 in a reunion tour titled ''[[The Dance (Fleetwood Mac album)|The Dance]]''. The tour was hugely successful and did much to heal the damage that had been done between Buckingham and his bandmates. However, Christine McVie left the band in 1998 because of her fear of flying and to be with her family in the UK,<ref name="Why McVie quit">{{cite news|title=Stevie Nicks Reveals Why Christine McVie Really Left Fleetwood Mac|url=https://www.yahoo.com/music/stevie-nicks-reveals-why-christine-mcvie-really-103084560931.html|access-date=February 21, 2016|agency=The Insider|publisher=Yahoo|date=November 20, 2014}}</ref> thus making Fleetwood Mac a four-piece band.

A subsequent fourth solo studio album, titled ''[[Gift of Screws]]'', was recorded between 1995 and 2001 and presented to Warner Bros. and Reprise for release. Executives at the label managed to persuade Buckingham to hold the album back and instead take several tracks from ''Gift of Screws'' and use them with Fleetwood Mac. In 2003, the reformed band released the first studio album involving Buckingham and Nicks in 15 years, ''[[Say You Will (album)|Say You Will]]''. Buckingham's song "[[Peacekeeper (Fleetwood Mac song)|Peacekeeper]]" was the first single from the album, and the band went on a world concert tour that lasted almost a year and a half. Seven songs from ''Gift of Screws'' appear on the Fleetwood Mac studio album ''Say You Will'', in substantially the same form as Buckingham had recorded them for his solo release. Bootleg copies of ''Gift of Screws''—taken from an original CD-R presented to Warner Bros and Reprise—are known to exist and have been widely distributed among fans through the use of [[BitTorrent (protocol)|torrent]] sites and other [[peer-to-peer networks]].

===2006–2008: Continuing solo===
On his 57th birthday, October 3, 2006, Buckingham's fourth solo studio album, an acoustic album now titled ''[[Under the Skin (Lindsey Buckingham album)|Under the Skin]]'', was released.  ''Under the Skin'' features Buckingham on almost all instruments, with the exception of two tracks that feature Fleetwood Mac's rhythm section of [[John McVie]] and Mick Fleetwood. The album includes a cover of [[the Rolling Stones]] classic "[[Aftermath (Rolling Stones album)|I Am Waiting]]".  Three days after the album's release, Buckingham embarked on a tour in support of the album that lasted until the end of June 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fmlegacy.com/concertslb2006.html |title=The 2006–2007 Lindsey Shows |publisher=Fmlegacy.com |access-date=February 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225130951/https://www.fmlegacy.com/concertslb2006.html |archive-date=February 25, 2012 }}</ref> A live album and DVD, ''Live at the Bass Performance Hall'', was released documenting the [[Fort Worth, Texas]] show from this tour.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS210678+05-Feb-2008+MW20080205 |title=Reuters Press Release |publisher=Reuters.com |date=February 5, 2008 |access-date=February 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118200107/http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS210678+05-Feb-2008+MW20080205 |archive-date=November 18, 2009}}</ref>

In 2008, the ''[[Gift of Screws]]'' album was finally released, containing three tracks from the originally planned studio album, as well as seven new recordings. Buckingham then commenced a short tour to promote ''Gift of Screws'' in September and October, opening in [[Saratoga, California]] and closing in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/albums/giftofscrews/giftofscrews-tour.html |title=The 2008 Lindsey Shows |publisher=Fleetwoodmac-uk.com |access-date=February 29, 2012}}</ref>

===2009: Unleashed Tour===
Fleetwood Mac toured in 2009, with the first date of the "UNLEASHED" Tour as March 1, 2009, in [[Civic Arena (Pittsburgh)|Mellon Arena]] ([[Pittsburgh]]). Christine McVie was not involved with this project.

===2010–2012: ''Seeds We Sow'' and One Man Show===
On November 3, 2010, Buckingham's website announced that he was working on an untitled studio album with release planned in early 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lindseybuckingham.com/ |title=Home |publisher=Lindsey Buckingham |access-date=February 29, 2012}}</ref> Buckingham had finished recording the studio album, titled ''[[Seeds We Sow]]'' in April, and on April 22, 2011, he filmed a concert for DVD release to support the album.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.yourwaytomusic.com/lindsey-buckingham-new-album-and-live-dvd/ | title=Lindsey Buckingham New Album and Live DVD | work=Your Way to Music | date=June 14, 2011 | access-date=April 27, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624141906/http://www.yourwaytomusic.com/lindsey-buckingham-new-album-and-live-dvd/ | archive-date=June 24, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Seeds We Sow'' was released on September 6, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-buckingham-idUSTRE73B6MB20110412|title=Lindsey Buckingham gearing up for new album, tour|author=Dean Goodman|work=[[Reuters]]|date=April 12, 2011|access-date=December 11, 2011}}</ref> On September 10, Buckingham kicked off the ''Seeds We Sow'' Tour in Reno, Nevada; the tour ended in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 14. Buckingham had planned to conduct his first solo tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in December. However, in early December, Buckingham postponed all UK dates due to his guitarist suffering a back injury.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lindseybuckingham.com/news/53391 |title=UK Tour Dates Postponed |publisher=Lindsey Buckingham |access-date=February 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205222719/http://lindseybuckingham.com/news/53391/ |archive-date=February 5, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The UK dates were subsequently cancelled.[[File:Lindsey Buckingham, 31Jul2012.jpg|thumb|left|Buckingham performing at the Neighborhood Theatre in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], 2012]]
Buckingham began a "solo" (no backing band) tour of the United States on May 3, 2012, in [[Solana Beach, California]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lindseybuckingham.com/news/68161 |title=LINDSEY TAKING HIS SOLO ACT ON THE ROAD STARTING MAY 3 IN SOLANA BEACH, CA |publisher=Lindsey Buckingham |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728184742/http://lindseybuckingham.com/news/68161 |archive-date=July 28, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in November 2012 released a completely solo live album ''[[One Man Show (album)|One Man Show]]'' via digital download at [[iTunes]] that was recorded from a single night in Des Moines, Iowa. ''One Man Show'' was released on Buckingham's own label Buckingham Records LLC.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/stillgoinginsane/albums/onemanshow-album.html |title=Still Going Insane . A Lindsey Buckingham Resource |publisher=Fleetwoodmac-uk.com |date=December 3, 2012 |access-date=February 15, 2013}}</ref>

===2013–2015: Fleetwood Mac EP, world tour and Christine McVie reunion===
The "Live World" tour commenced on April 4, 2013, in Columbus, Ohio. On April 30, the band released their first new studio material since 2003's ''Say You Will'' via digital download on [[iTunes]] with the four-track [[Extended play|EP]] containing three new songs from Buckingham and one new song from the ''[[Buckingham Nicks]]'' sessions ("Without You").
[[File:Fleetwood Mac live in Atlanta 2013.jpg|alt=Buckingham onstage playing guitar toward the camera|thumb|Buckingham performing with Fleetwood Mac in 2013]]Buckingham is credited for three songs on the 2013 release ''[[Hesitation Marks]],'' the eighth studio album of the band [[Nine Inch Nails]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 15, 2022 |title=Nine Inch Nails - Copy Of A |url=https://www.nin.wiki/Copy_Of_A |access-date=May 5, 2022 |website=nin.wiki |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 16, 2019 |title=Nine Inch Nails - In Two |url=https://www.nin.wiki/In_Two |access-date=May 5, 2022 |website=nin.wiki |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 16, 2019 |title=Nine Inch Nails - While I'm Still Here |url=https://www.nin.wiki/While_I%27m_Still_Here |access-date=May 5, 2022 |website=nin.wiki |language=en}}</ref>

On January 11, 2014, Mick Fleetwood announced that Christine McVie was rejoining Fleetwood Mac,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/2014/01/mick-fleetwood-announces-christine.html |title=Mick Fleetwood Announces Christine McVie's return to Fleetwood Mac |publisher=Fleetwood Mac News |date=January 12, 2014 |access-date=February 12, 2014}}</ref> and the news was confirmed on January 13 by the band's primary publicist, Liz Rosenberg. Rosenberg also stated that an official announcement regarding a new album and tour was forthcoming.<ref name="Christine">{{cite magazine|url= https://www.billboard.com/pro/christine-mcvie-rejoins-fleetwood-mac-official/ |title=Christine McVie Rejoins Fleetwood Mac: Official |date=January 13, 2014|access-date=January 9, 2022|magazine=Billboard}}</ref>

[[On with the Show tour|On with the Show]], a 33-city North American Tour opened in [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota on September 30, 2014. A series of May–June 2015 arena dates in the United Kingdom went on sale on November 14, selling out in minutes. Additional dates for the tour were added, extending into November.

In January 2015, Buckingham suggested that the new studio album and the new tour might be Fleetwood Mac's last act and that the band would cease to operate in 2015 or soon afterward. He concluded: "We're going to continue working on the new album, and the solo stuff will take a back seat for a year or two. A beautiful way to wrap up this last act".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/02/lindsey-buckingham-says-fleetwood-mac-to-enter-last-act Fleetwood Mac: new album and tour will be our swansong], ''The Guardian'' (London), January 2, 2015, Retrieved May 19, 2015.</ref> On the other hand, Mick Fleetwood stated that the new studio album could take a few years to complete and that they were waiting for contributions from Stevie Nicks, who had been ambivalent about committing to a new record.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/10/fleetwood-mac-album-may-take-a-couple-of-years-to-finish Fleetwood Mac album may take 'a couple of years' to finish], ''The Guardian'' (London), March 10, 2015, Retrieved May 19, 2015.</ref>

===2016–2017: ''Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie'' and Classic Concerts===
In August 2016, Fleetwood said that while the band has "a huge amount of recorded music", virtually none of it featured Stevie Nicks. Buckingham and Christine McVie, however, had contributed multiple songs to the new project. Fleetwood told Ultimate Classic Rock, "She [McVie] ... wrote up a storm ... She and Lindsey could probably have a mighty strong duet album if they want. In truth, I hope it will come to more than that. There really are dozens of songs. And they're really good. So we'll see."<ref>{{cite web|last1=DeRiso|first1=Nick|title=Fleetwood Mac's New Album Is Apparently Being Held Up by Stevie Nicks|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/fleetwood-mac-stevie-nicks-new-album/|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=August 3, 2016 |access-date=September 5, 2016}}</ref>

[[File:BuckMcVieOhio031117-50 (37650690384).jpg|thumb|right|Buckingham and [[Christine McVie]] performing in 2017]]
Buckingham and Christine McVie announced a collaborative studio album titled ''[[Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie]]'', which also features Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Yoo|first1=Noah|title=Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie Announce New Duets Album|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/70887-fleetwood-macs-lindsay-buckingham-and-christine-mcvie-announce-new-duets-album/|website=Pitchfork|date=January 13, 2017|access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> The album was originally planned as a Fleetwood Mac album. Stevie Nicks did not participate due to her preference for a solo tour with [[the Pretenders]]. ''Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie'' was released on June 9, 2017, and was preceded by the single, "In My World". A 38-date tour began on June 21, 2017, and ended on November 16.<ref name="New Album Details">{{cite magazine|last1=Blistein|first1=Jon|title=Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie Detail New Album|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/fleetwood-macs-lindsey-buckingham-christine-mcvie-detail-new-album-128637/|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=April 11, 2017|access-date=January 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mick Fleetwood: Stevie Nicks Wants To Go Deep On Next Fleetwood Mac Tour|url=http://www.947wls.com/2017/08/29/mick-fleetwood-stevie-nicks-wants-to-go-deep-on-next-fleetwood-mac-tour/|website=94.7 WLS|access-date=August 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831085649/http://www.947wls.com/2017/08/29/mick-fleetwood-stevie-nicks-wants-to-go-deep-on-next-fleetwood-mac-tour/|archive-date=August 31, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2018–present: Firing from Fleetwood Mac, ''Solo Anthology,'' and ''Lindsey Buckingham''===
Following Fleetwood Mac's performance at the [[MusiCares Person of the Year]] in January 2018,<ref name="billboard.com">{{cite magazine | url= https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lindsey-buckingham-fired-from-fleetwood-mac-rolling-stone-8479412/ | title=Lindsey Buckingham on Getting Fired From Fleetwood Mac | magazine=Billboard | date=October 10, 2018 | access-date=January 9, 2022 | author=Rania Aniftos}}</ref> Buckingham was fired from the band.<ref name=fired>{{cite news|last1=Halperin|first1=Shirley|title=Lindsey Buckingham Leaves Fleetwood Mac|url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/lindsey-buckingham-leaves-fleetwood-mac-1202744388/|access-date=April 9, 2018|work=Variety|date=April 9, 2018}}</ref> The reason was said to have been a disagreement about the nature of the tour,<ref name=campbellfinn /> and in particular the question of whether newer or less well-known material would be included, as Buckingham wanted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/why-leaving-fleetwood-mac-may-be-a-smart-move-for-lindsey-buckingham/ar-AAvKBue|title=Why leaving Fleetwood Mac may be a smart move for Lindsey Buckingham|publisher=[[MSN]]|access-date=June 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140022/https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/why-leaving-fleetwood-mac-may-be-a-smart-move-for-lindsey-buckingham/ar-AAvKBue|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:LindsBuckPort071018-69 (30353981097).jpg|thumb|left|Buckingham and his solo band in 2018]]
Mick Fleetwood and the band appeared on ''[[CBS This Morning]]'' on April 25, 2018, and said that Buckingham would not sign off on a tour that the group had been planning for a year and that they had reached a "huge impasse" and "hit a brick wall". When asked if Buckingham had been fired, he said, "Well, we don't use that word because I think it's ugly." He also said that "Lindsey has huge amounts of respect and kudos to what he's done within the ranks of Fleetwood Mac and always will."<ref name="CBSThisMorning">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fleetwood-mac-tour-2018-without-lindsey-buckingham/|title=Fleetwood Mac Reveals Why Lindsey Buckingham was ousted|date=April 25, 2018|website=CBS This Morning}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Uncle LarryB|title=Fleetwood Mac on GMA (OOPS) CBS This Morning – April 2018|date=April 25, 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P4li9i4Tjs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/4P4li9i4Tjs| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=August 3, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In October 2018, Buckingham filed a lawsuit against Fleetwood Mac for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of oral contract, and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, among other charges; the lawsuit was settled in December of the same year.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lindsey-buckingham-sues-fleetwood-mac-over-dismissal-from-band-736063/|title=Lindsey Buckingham Sues Fleetwood Mac Over Dismissal From Band|first=Andy|last=Greene|date=October 11, 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=October 12, 2018}}</ref>

Buckingham stated he learned about the firing after receiving a call from Fleetwood Mac manager [[Irving Azoff]] with a message for Buckingham from Stevie Nicks. Buckingham stated that Azoff told him: "Stevie never wants to be on a stage with you again." According to Azoff, on the evening of MusicCares, just before the band's set, Nicks had taken issue with Buckingham’s outburst over the intro music—the studio recording of Nicks' song "[[Rhiannon (song)|Rhiannon]]"—and the way he had "smirked" during Nicks' thank-you speech. Buckingham conceded that "It wasn't about it being 'Rhiannon'. It just undermined the impact of our entrance. That's me being very specific about the right and wrong way to do something." Days later, Buckingham called Azoff and asked, "Is Stevie leaving the band, or am I getting kicked out?" Azoff told him that he was "getting ousted" from the band after Nicks gave the other band members "an ultimatum: Either [Buckingham] go[es] or she's going to go," to which they decided to fire him.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lindsey-buckingham-fleetwood-mac-firing-733460/|title=Lindsey Buckingham: Life After Fleetwood Mac|first1=David|last1=Fricke |date=October 10, 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=April 26, 2019}}</ref> Former [[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]] guitarist [[Mike Campbell (musician)|Mike Campbell]] and [[Neil Finn]] of [[Crowded House]] were named to replace Buckingham.<ref name="campbellfinn">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fleetwood-mac-fires-lindsey-buckingham-w518925 |title=Fleetwood Mac Fires Lindsey Buckingham |last=Greene |first=Andy |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=April 9, 2018}}</ref><ref name=fired /> Buckingham has stated since that he would be open to rejoining Fleetwood Mac but does not foresee it in the future.

In August 2018, Reprise issued a press release for a new solo anthology ''[[Solo Anthology: The Best of Lindsey Buckingham]]'' that focused on Buckingham's solo career since 1981. The anthology was released on October 5, 2018, followed two days later by a solo tour throughout North America.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://media.rhino.com/press-release/lindsey-buckingham-solo-anthology-and-fall-tour-announced|title=Solo Anthology Press Release|website=Reprise Records|date=October 5, 2018 }}</ref> In 2020, Buckingham collaborated with [[the Killers]] on their studio album ''[[Imploding the Mirage]]'', playing guitar on the first single "[[Caution (The Killers song)|Caution]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/killers-lindsey-buckiningham-song-caution/|title=Hear the Killers' New Song With Lindsey Buckingham, 'Caution'|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=March 12, 2020 }}</ref> In 2021, Buckingham played on a new version of "The Past Is the Past" by [[Brandy Clark]], issued as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of her album ''[[Your Life Is a Record]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/brandy-clark-lindsey-buckingham-the-past-is-the-past-1134021/|title=Brandy Clark Recruits Lindsey Buckingham for Updated 'The Past Is the Past'|website=Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 16, 2021|date=February 26, 2021}}</ref>

On June 8, 2021, Buckingham announced his seventh solo studio album, ''[[Lindsey Buckingham (album)|Lindsey Buckingham]]'', with the single "[[I Don't Mind (Lindsey Buckingham song)|I Don't Mind]]". The second single from the album, "[[On the Wrong Side]]", was released on July 23, 2021. The record was released on September 17, 2021, and his tour to support it started the same month.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Strauss|first=Matthew|title=Lindsey Buckingham Announces U.S. Tour and First Solo Album in 10 Years|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lindsey-buckingham-announces-us-tour-and-first-solo-album-in-10-years/|access-date=June 9, 2021|website=Pitchfork|date=June 8, 2021|language=en-US}}</ref>

Buckingham also guested on [[Halsey (singer)|Halsey]]'s 2021 studio album ''[[If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power]]''. In 2022, Buckingham would again join with the Killers on August 27, 2022, to perform his guitar solo from "Caution" live on stage in Los Angeles with the band, along with a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way". Buckingham along with the Killers were joined with [[Johnny Marr]] of [[the Smiths]] to perform "[[Mr. Brightside]]" together to close out the concert.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spin.com/2022/08/lindsey-buckingham-the-killers-johnny-marr-los-angeles/ |title=Lindsey Buckingham, Johnny Marr Join The Killers In Los Angeles |last=Kohn |first=Daniel |date=August 28, 2022 |website= |publisher=SPIN |access-date=August 28, 2022 }}</ref>