While there are legions of fans desperately wishing and waiting for an official Fleetwood Mac[1] reunion, it most certainly will not happen at J.K. Rowling’s birthday party. After reports began circulating over the weekend that Stevie Nicks[2], Lindsey Buckingham[3], John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood[4] were set to perform at the Harry Potter author’s upcoming party in November, Rolling Stone confirmed that no such reunion will take place.
“This is categorically false,” a representative for Fleetwood Mac tells Rolling Stone. “It’s not in the realm of true.”
Fleetwood Mac last played together[5] at a benefit concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on November 19, 2019. And after the death of singer-keyboardist[6] Christine McVie in 2022, Nicks made it clear that there was no hope of any possible future reunions. “There is no more Fleetwood Mac now, because when Christine died, Fleetwood Mac died,” Nicks told[7] Rolling Stone[8] in 2024. “We cannot replace her.“
Plus, those who know the history of Fleetwood Mac know it would take more than a birthday party to get the band back together at this point. Fleetwood Mac formed in 1967 and performed with variations of their group until McVie’s death. When McVie stepped away from the band in 1998, the remaining members, Nicks, Fleetwood, John McVie, and Buckingham, carried on as a quartet. McVie returned to the group in 2014,[9] but long-simmering tensions between Nicks and Buckingham boiled over four years later, and the group dismissed Buckingham.[10] They toured in 2018-19 with Mike Campbell and Neil Finn covering his parts.
(Fleetwood made peace with Buckingham in 2021[11], and expressed hopes he could return to the band one day, but Nicks has said that was never going to happen. Nicks and Buckingham did recently reissue[12] their 1973 joint album, Buckingham Nicks.)
The closest thing fans might get to a reunion any time soon will come in the form of a documentary[13], which was announced last year. Filmmaker Frank Marshall is set to helm the authorized feature-length project for Apple.
The film is currently untitled, and a release date has yet to be announced, but the project is set to include new interviews with the f our core surviving members, as well as never-before-seen footage, and new and archival interviews with McVie. The film will find Fleetwood Mac reflecting on their more than five decades together, from their heyday in the Seventies up through the present.
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- ^ Fleetwood Mac (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ Stevie Nicks (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ Lindsey Buckingham (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ Mick Fleetwood (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ last played together (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ singer-keyboardist (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ told (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ Rolling Stone (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ McVie returned to the group in 2014, (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ the group dismissed Buckingham. (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ Fleetwood made peace with Buckingham in 2021 (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ did recently reissue (www.rollingstone.com)
- ^ documentary (www.rollingstone.com)