Editing Stevie Nicks (section)

=== 1972–1978: ''Buckingham Nicks'' and ''Fleetwood Mac'' ===
After Fritz disbanded in 1972, Nicks and Buckingham continued to write as a duo, recording demo tapes at night in [[Daly City, California|Daly City]], California, on a one-inch, four-track [[Ampex]] tape machine Buckingham kept at the coffee-roasting plant belonging to his father.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nicksfix.com/rs103097.htm |title=Back on the Chain Gang |magazine=Rolling Stone |author=Fred Schruers |date=October 30, 1997 |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714181416/http://nicksfix.com/rs103097.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/music-lindsey-buckingham-two-worlds/366253 |title=Music: Lindsey Buckingham in Two Worlds |last=Jackson |first=Blair |date=February 1, 2011 |journal=[[Mix (magazine)|Mix]] |access-date=August 19, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222082804/http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/music-lindsey-buckingham-two-worlds/366253 |url-status=live }}</ref> They secured a deal with [[Polydor Records]], and the eponymous ''[[Buckingham Nicks]]'' was released in 1973. The album was not a commercial success and Polydor dropped the pair.

With no money coming in from their album, and Buckingham contracting [[mononucleosis]] shortly thereafter, Nicks began working multiple jobs. She waited tables and cleaned producer [[Keith Olsen]]'s house, where Nicks and Buckingham lived for a time before moving in with producer [[Richard Dashut]].<ref name="nicksfix. com">{{cite web |url=http://www.nicksfix.com/behind_the_music.htm |title=Stevie Nicks&nbsp;– Behind the Music |website=Nicksfix.com |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714182105/http://www.nicksfix.com/behind_the_music.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> She soon started using [[cocaine]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=132659&page=1 |title=Stevie Nicks in Her Own Words |publisher=ABC News |author=Cynthia McFadden |date=September 7, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130092902/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=132659&page=1 |archive-date=January 30, 2011 |access-date=September 1, 2014}}</ref> "We were told that it was recreational and that it was not dangerous," Nicks told [[Chris Isaak]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Chris Isaak, Stevie Nicks |date=March 5, 2009 |title=The Chris Isaak Hour |medium=Television |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR0--gXpJEU |access-date=July 26, 2017|time=0:37 |publisher=[[The Biography Channel]]}}</ref>

While living with Dashut, Buckingham landed a guitar role with the [[Everly Brothers]] 1972 tour. Nicks stayed behind working on songwriting herself. During this time, Nicks wrote "[[Rhiannon (song)|Rhiannon]]" after seeing the name in the novel ''Triad'' by [[Mary Bartlet Leader|Mary Leader]]. (Five years later, a fan sent her the [[Mabinogion]] novels of [[Evangeline Walton]] that featured the legendary character Rhiannon, and Nicks later bought the film rights to Walton's work in the hopes of bringing the epic to the screen.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-09-30/stevie-nicks-fleetwood-mac-solo-concert-film |title=The moonlight confessions of Stevie Nicks |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 30, 2020 |access-date=October 8, 2020}}</ref>) She also wrote "[[Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)|Landslide]]", inspired by the scenery of Aspen and her slowly deteriorating relationship with Buckingham.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inherownwords.com/landslide.htm |title=Stevie Nicks on 'Landslide' |publisher=inherownwords.com |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=May 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524052950/http://www.inherownwords.com/landslide.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://performingsongwriter.com/stevie-nicks-landslide/ |title=Stevie Nicks Tells the Story Behind 'Landslide' |date=May 26, 2013 |publisher=performingsongwriter.com |access-date=February 3, 2014 |archive-date=February 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205054639/http://performingsongwriter.com/stevie-nicks-landslide/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In late 1974, Keith Olsen played the Buckingham Nicks track "Frozen Love" for drummer [[Mick Fleetwood]], who had come to [[Sound City Studios|Sound City]] in California in search of a recording studio. Fleetwood remembered Buckingham's guitar work when guitarist [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]] departed to pursue a solo career. On December 31, 1974, Fleetwood called Buckingham, inviting him to join the band. Buckingham refused, insisting that he and Nicks were "a package deal" and that he would not join without her. The group decided that incorporating the pair would improve Fleetwood Mac. The first rehearsals confirmed this feeling, with the harmonies of the newcomers adding a pop accessibility to the band's former style of blues-based rock.

[[File:Stevie Nicks - 1977.jpg|thumb|upright|Nicks in 1977]]
In 1975, Fleetwood Mac achieved worldwide success with the album ''[[Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)|Fleetwood Mac]]''. Nicks's "[[Rhiannon (song)|Rhiannon]]" was voted one of [[The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]] by ''Rolling Stone''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407 |title=500 Greatest Songs of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=December 11, 2003 |access-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-date=March 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314110321/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her live performances of the song throughout the decade began to take on a theatrical intensity which differs from how the song plays on the album. The song built to a climax in which Nicks's vocals were so impassioned that Mick Fleetwood declared, "her 'Rhiannon' in those days was like an exorcism."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rockalittle.com/behind_the_music.htm |title=Stevie Nicks&nbsp;– Behind the Music |access-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-date=March 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310044451/http://rockalittle.com/behind_the_music.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> "Landslide" became another hit from the album, with three million airplays.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/20031104_stevie_nicks_wins_in_a_landslide_at_bmi_country_awards_jeffrey |title=Stevie Nicks Wins in a 'Landslide' at BMI Country Awards; Steele Named Songwriter of the Year |date=November 3, 2002 |access-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-date=July 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729110801/http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/20031104_stevie_nicks_wins_in_a_landslide_at_bmi_country_awards_jeffrey |url-status=live }}</ref>

Becoming aware of her image as a performer, Nicks worked with clothing designer Margi Kent to develop a unique onstage look. Her costumes had a [[bohemian style]] that featured flowing skirts, shawls, and platform boots.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nicksfix.com/latimes8.htm |title=Airy Godmother |work=Los Angeles Times |author=Booth Moore |date=October 23, 1997 |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=May 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509101648/http://www.nicksfix.com/latimes8.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

While Nicks and Buckingham achieved professional success with ''Fleetwood Mac'', their personal relationship was eroding. Nicks ended the relationship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nicksfix.com/interview_chum_may6_2001.htm |title=Stevie Nicks Interview |publisher=CHUM Radio in Toronto |author=Marilyn Dennis |date=May 6, 2001 |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=November 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117023836/http://www.nicksfix.com/interview_chum_may6_2001.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inherownwords.com/lindsey2.htm |title=Stevie Nicks on Lindsey Buckingham |publisher=inherownwords.com |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=May 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524061427/http://www.inherownwords.com/lindsey2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Fleetwood Mac began recording their follow-up album, [[Rumours (album)|''Rumours'']], in early 1976 and continued until late in the year. Also, Nicks and Buckingham sang back-up on [[Warren Zevon]]'s eponymous second album.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timepieces.nl/album/7540/rumours |title=Fleetwood Mac&nbsp;– Rumours |publisher=timepieces.nl |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202122747/http://timepieces.nl/album/7540/rumours |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Rooksby |first=Rikky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YR2oy8rhUTcC&q=rikky%20rooksby%20fleetwood%20mac&pg=PA59 |title=Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Guide to their Music |access-date=June 2, 2010 |edition=2nd |year=2004 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=1-84449-427-6 |page=59 |archive-date=December 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207203731/https://books.google.com/books?id=YR2oy8rhUTcC&q=rikky+rooksby+fleetwood+mac&pg=PA59 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Among Nicks's contributions to ''Rumours'' was "[[Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)|Dreams]]", which became the band's only [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] number-one hit single. Nicks had also written and recorded the song "[[Silver Springs (song)|Silver Springs]]", but it was not included on the album because the early versions of the song ran too long, and the band didn't want too many slow songs on the album. Studio engineer and co-producer [[Ken Caillat]] said that Nicks was very unhappy to find that the band had decided against her song "Silver Springs", which he said was beautifully crafted, and carried some of the band's best guitar work.<ref name=Caillat>{{cite book |last1=Caillat |first1=Ken |last2=Stiefel |first2=Steve |title=Making Rumours the inside story of the classic Fleetwood Mac album |date=2012 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=Hoboken, N.J. |isbn=978-1-118-28286-1 |pages=292–294 |oclc=775898199 }}</ref> "Silver Springs", written about her tumultuous relationship with Buckingham, was released as a B-side of the "[[Go Your Own Way]]" single—Buckingham's equally critical song about Nicks.<ref name="rollingstone.com">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/silver-springs-inside-fleetwood-macs-great-lost-breakup-anthem-201303/|title='Silver Springs': Inside Fleetwood Mac's Great Lost Breakup Anthem|first1=Brittany|last1=Spanos|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=August 17, 2017|access-date=January 10, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106213741/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/silver-springs-inside-fleetwood-macs-great-lost-breakup-anthem-201303/|url-status=live}}</ref> Copies of the single eventually became collectors' items among fans of Fleetwood Mac. "Silver Springs" was included on the four-disc Fleetwood Mac retrospective ''[[25 Years&nbsp;– The Chain]]'' in 1992.<ref name=Furman2003>Furman 2003. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SW31aVVDc_AC&pg=PA203 page 203]</ref>

''Rumours'', Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, was the best-selling album of 1977 and {{as of|2017|lc=y}} had sold over 45 million copies worldwide,<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Runtagh|first=Jordan|date=February 3, 2017|title=Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours': 10 Things You Didn't Know|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/fleetwood-macs-rumours-10-things-you-didnt-know-121876/|access-date=February 17, 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref> making it one of the [[List of best-selling albums|best-selling albums of all time]]. The album remained at number one on the American albums chart for 31 weeks and reached number one in other countries. The album won the [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year]] in 1978. It produced four U.S. [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] top-ten singles, including Nicks's "[[Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)|Dreams]]".

In November 1977, after a New Zealand concert on the ''Rumours'' tour, Nicks and Fleetwood secretly began an affair. Fleetwood was married to [[Jenny Boyd]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://nicksfix.com/rs103097.htm |title=Back on the Chain Gang |magazine=Rolling Stone |author=Fred Schruers |date=October 30, 1997 |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714181416/http://nicksfix.com/rs103097.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/timeline/timeline1970s.html |title=Fleetwood Mac Timeline for the 1970s |website=Fleetwoodmac-uk.com |access-date=June 3, 2010 |archive-date=January 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113053438/http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/timeline/timeline1970s.html |url-status=live }}</ref> "Never in a million years could you have told me that would happen," Nicks has stated. "Everybody was angry because Mick was married to a wonderful girl and had two wonderful children. I was horrified. I loved these people. I loved his family. So, it couldn't possibly work out. And it didn't. I just couldn't."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index_vp.php?id=208&c=18 |title=UnCut Magazine&nbsp;– Five Go Mad |access-date=October 14, 2012 |archive-date=March 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320023836/http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index_vp.php?id=208&c=18 |url-status=live }}</ref> Nicks ended the affair soon after it began. She has stated that had the affair progressed, it "would have been the end of Fleetwood Mac".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/articles/FMart128.html |title=Fleetwood Mac&nbsp;– The Rumour Mill, Classic Rock, June 2003 |date=February 15, 2004 |access-date=January 9, 2011 |archive-date=December 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216000422/http://fleetwoodmac-uk.com/articles/FMart128.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By October 1978, Mick Fleetwood left Boyd for Nicks's friend Sara Recor.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nicksfix.com/article_mojo_dec2003.htm |title=Take it to the Limit |work=Mojo |author=Phil Sutcliffe |date=December 2003 |access-date=June 3, 2010 |archive-date=March 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110321215452/http://nicksfix.com/article_mojo_dec2003.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>