You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

Lindsay Buckingham is a singer-songwriter, a guitarist and a producer.

In 1974, he joined the band Fleetwood Mac, along with Stevie Nex, his girlfriend at the time.

A few years later, in 1977, Fleetwood Mac released the album, Rumors, which would go on to sell over 40 million copies and become the eighth-highest selling album in history.

In this episode, Lindsay Buckingham breaks down Go Your Own Way, a song that he wrote for that album about his relationship with Stevie Nex.

This is the 150th episode of Song Exploder.

I have some news about what's in store for the future of this podcast, but more on that at the end of this episode, please stick around for that.

First, here's Lindsay Buckingham on Song Exploder.

My name is Lindsay Buckingham.

Stevie and I had done this album called Buckingham Nex, and it had sort of made a little dent, but nothing to speak of.

And one day, we were working on new material, Stevie and I.

It sounds city.

We were in the small studio in the back, and I went into studio A, where Keith Olson, who had worked on both Buckingham Nex and later, would work on the Fleetwood Mac album, the first one.

He was playing a song from Buckingham Nex, Frozen Love.

And here's this guy, Mick Fleetwood, just grooving out to the song.

I said hello and went back to work, and a couple of weeks later, Mick called and said, well, our guitar player Bob Welch is leaving.

Would you like to join Fleetwood Mac?

And I said, well, I'm not sure, but if I do join, you'd have to take my girlfriend to.

And so Stevie and I joined Fleetwood Mac in 74, that first album that we did came out in 75.

And it had actually done very well, much better than anyone could have predicted.

And we had been on the road touring, and we're talking about beginning to prepare for a second album.

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